There’s a big question at hand: How many bubble teams want to earn their way into the NCAA Tournament field? Plus a coach gets hurt in a skirmish, a heralded player returns to action, a bizarre situation in Northridge, and more coaches are out of a job.
Tag: Pittsburgh
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Following up a Final Four is hard, but one program’s next act gets a big boost. Plus more good action in the competitive SEC, you can just about guarantee one result in the ACC, and a rare bad night for a young star who’s had many good ones.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 12, 2018
Heaven knows there’s too much coach worship in college basketball, an art going back decades in the sport, well before the current best-known media sources. It’s hard not to get caught up in the work Chris Holtmann has done with Ohio State this year.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Can one player make this much difference? When it comes to Oklahoma, that answer seems increasingly more obvious by the minute, as Trae Young is the hottest player in the country.
Texas A&M rolls to Legends Title
Texas A&M was the class of the Legends Classic, but we have notes on all four teams that competed for two nights at the Barclays Center in the early season tournament.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Minnesota and Providence provided one of the best matchups of the young season, something we’ve come to expect from the Gavitt Games, which gets it right better than most conference challenge events.
A game a day for the 2017-18 season: December
Continuing a look at our favorite games for every day of the 2017-18 college basketball season. We started yesterday with November, and today we continue with December:
2016-17 ACC Post-Mortem
If you only look at the preseason expectations of the ACC and the end results, then compare them, you miss the great journey that the conference provided in 2016-17.
Wake Forest, Pitt move on – the numbers
Wake Forest and Pittsburgh advanced in the ACC Tournament’s opening round, and did so in contrasting games.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 12, 2017
Don’t we seem to write this same story every year for Michigan State? And, for that matter, Richmond too?