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Monday, December 23, 2024
Thanksgiving Day traditionally hasn’t been a hotbed for college basketball, but in recent years the sport has had an increasing presence on the day, with the continued proliferation of exempted tournaments. (And that’s not an all bad thing, considering the lackluster quality of the NFL games yesterday…)
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.
An otherwise non-descript non-conference game in mid-November included one of the more tantalizing-and enjoyable-scenes we will see all of this college basketball season.
Not a lot was expected of Radford this year, but the Highlanders stunned Georgetown on Saturday. It’s the latest upset of a blueblood by one of Division I’s smaller schools.
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.
Going into the 2015-16 season, we wanted to highlight what we see as the best game of the day, for every day of the regular season. The games we would go to every day, if we could.
One of the most unsavory parts of the sport, college basketball’s free agency period is starting, as we receive news of transfers daily, sometimes in droves like it has come this week.
This year’s NCAA Tournament has not brought us many true upsets, but it will bring us a Sweet 16 full of history, though.
Friday was pretty much the opposite of Thursday, and almost historic in a very different way, right up to the end. Plus some trendy picks didn’t work out this time around, a Bulldog should be ready for Saturday.
An ACC team that used to be a national power is trying to get back there, and had a good day on Sunday. Plus a busy day for Pac-12 bubble teams, some relief about an Aztec’s health, and Memphis may lose a key player the rest of the way.
