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Sunday, December 22, 2024
One of the last games of the weekend ends in dramatic fashion and might lift a long-suffering program back into the NCAA Tournament. Plus another team picks up a big win, a rebuilding team sees a career end early, and some other off-court news that thankfully did not end up worse.
In our latest podcast, we talk about a short stint in the top spot of the polls, some developments in the Mountain West Conference, and more of the ACC before closing with the Big East and Atlantic 10.
San Diego State keeps winning under Steve Fisher, this time in Hawaii, continuing a long journey to success there. Plus the final day of the tournament wraps up.
It’s been a long time since these Huskies have lost so much before the new year, and it continues a trend. Plus a couple of late tournaments continue, and one game was really over at halftime.
In its 34th year, the venerable Maui Invitational is college basketball’s premier in-season tournament, with its three days rightfully earning a reputation as some of the most anticipated of all of the non-conference season.
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.
The Mountain West had been so good for so long, and then a correction happened in 2015-16. Fortunately for the conference, there is reason to believe it is not the start of a downward trend.
The NIT belonged to George Washington, who got better with every game. We have that and more notes coming from last week’s games in New York
The championship game for the 79th annual National Invitation Tournament is set, and it’s a worthy one with two very good teams. How good? Put it this way: if Oklahoma and Syracuse end up playing in the NCAA Tournament final on Monday, their combined win total will be less than that of the two playing in the NIT title game.
With the NCAA Tournament now on recess for a few days, the coaching merry-go-round is starting to spin again. Monday saw several vacancies filled, more created and rumors of still more to possibly come. The biggest moves both came in the Big 12, where TCU hired former Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon and Oklahoma State landed Stephen F. Austin’s Brad Underwood.
