The Friars bounce back in a big way in going from a bad loss to a high-quality win. Plus a notable losing streak continues, big road wins in the ACC and Mountain West, and one school’s dominance in an academic is continuing as expected.
Tag: Pepperdine
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.
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, November 24, 2015
With the Maui Invitational, Kris Dunn, Ben Simmons and a renewal of an old Big 8 rivalry, Monday night saw a number of heavy hitters in action. Incredibly, though, a school that has never been a household name just keeps forcing itself into the national conversation, too.
A game a day for the 2015-16 season: December
Continuing our look at our favorite games for every day of the season, our ultimate dream road trip, if you will. We started on Monday with November, and today we continue with December.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 16, 2015
We are still barely past the halfway mark of this college basketball season, but there’s a question that probably should start getting pondered a little bit: Is Utah a Final Four contender?
Scanning the Nation Notebook – January 14, 2015
Some college basketball thoughts as we approach the middle of January, conference play is in full session and the chase for NCAA Tournament berths starts to pick up steam:
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 16, 2014
In the middle of December the college basketball season grinds to a slow crawl, like one of those heavy coal trains taking its sweet time to cross and leaving you stuck at an intersection for an interminable amount of time. We also have now passed the one-month mark for the season, so it’s a good time to take an early look at some RPI numbers. It’s still early in the season, and especially too early to look at individual team RPI numbers too much yet, but we’re starting to get a drift of the pecking order for conferences.
2013-14 WCC Post-Mortem
The West Coast Conference had a nice year in 2013-14, to be sure. For a time, though, it looked like it would be even more than that.
