We conclude a league-by-league look at the biggest surprises of the season’s first two months, plus a recap of Saturday’s action including Kentucky outlasting Louisville, Cal State Fullerton stuns UCLA and UC Riverside’s improbable comeback.
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The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 19, 2019
Let’s give Gonzaga credit while talking about North Carolina’s concerns, because the Tar Heels lost to a really good team. Plus a tough night for the SEC, another tripleheader of action, and the leader of the pack wonders why so few people trust his organization.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Marshall was one of the early darlings of the NCAA Tournament a year ago, but the Thundering Herd have work to do to get back to the standard of last year’s team at the end of the year. Also, a recap of Monday’s light action.
Scanning the Nation Notebook Jan. 19 – On transfers, polls, analysts, Oklahoma, Temple and more
Notes, numbers, and a bunch of grumblings about college basketball in the middle of January, as we touch on some of the hot topics of late, plus players like Trae Young and Nate Grimes and teams like West Virginia, Temple and Pacific… The transfer debate has flared up yet again, […]
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 22, 2017
It’s become almost a yearly occurrence now that Scott Drew’s Baylor squads are underrated heading into a season. The Bears perennially are undersold. They don’t have blueblood status steeped in decades of tradition. They just may not ‘look’ like a top 20 team in a modern game that values guards upon guards and has little use for teams defined by a quirky defense. Maybe it’s just the bad highlighter uniforms. Whatever the reason, it’s an error that needs to be corrected.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, November 9, 2017
We are now on the eve of the regular season, which is just one day away. We move on with Hoopville’s preseason rundown of all 32 NCAA Division I conferences:
2016-17 West Coast Conference Post-Mortem
Gonzaga reached the national championship game, the big highlight of several in a year where much of the West Coast Conference was in some transition.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, November 15, 2016
The toughness that helped Villanova win a national championship a year ago was on display for the country to see, just two games into the Wildcats’ defense of their title.
2015-16 West Coast Conference Post-Mortem
After another season with the same old, same old at the top, the WCC has had an off-season of action that implies the conference appears to be at a crossroads.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 22, 2015
With the release of the Associated Press Top 25 Poll on Monday, Providence is back in the top 10 for the first time in a long, long time-nearly 38 years, to be exact.
