Neither Oakland nor Iona are likely to win the regular season championship in their respective conferences. It also should surprise just about no one if either or both are in the NCAA Tournament a month from now.
Tag: Rutgers
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 4, 2016
Among all the oddities of this college basketball season, when all is said and done there will be few harder to explain than this: a game between Illinois and Rutgers may go down as one of the best and most entertaining games of the entire year.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 19, 2016
On Monday, Oklahoma ascended to the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time in 26 years. The Sooners’ stay there will almost certainly be a short one.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 17, 2015
For all the first month of the 2015-16 season has brought us-the beginnings of a terrific national player of the year race; upstarts like Monmouth and Arkansas-Little Rock seemingly coming from nowhere; coaches suddenly releasing the shackles on offenses-one area where the offerings have seemed a little thin is buzzer-beating finishes.
2014-15 Big Ten Post-Mortem
Seldom does a team enter a season with high expectations and then fulfill predictions of greatness in almost every way possible the way Wisconsin did this year.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 16, 2015
Wednesday night had its share of storylines, but chief among them: overtime. One overtime, two OTs, three, take your pick. The night had them all. There were a total of seven games with extra sessions on Wednesday, a night that was marked by close competition in general.
The Morning Dish – Monday, January 12, 2015
Sunday was not a good day to be a top ten team, especially on the road, as three of them went down and reminded us that nothing in college basketball is guaranteed.
Rutgers, St. John’s victorious at MSG Festival: notes and quotes
The MSG Holiday Festival came and went with one current and one former Big East team coming out on top. We have news and notes from both games in the doubleheader.
The Morning Dish – Monday, December 15, 2014
Penn State’s basketball team is having some success now, with a big win on Sunday. Plus, a career day for a Husky, a scare in Washington and an ACC upset in Raleigh lead the way.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 2, 2014
With November turning to December, we’re on what is easily the quietest month of the college basketball season. There are good reasons for that, of course (final exams) and not so good ones (far, far too many guarantee games).
