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Sunday, December 22, 2024
So much for any talk about one team possibly going undefeated, and given that their conference is better than some think despite its downward trend, there are teams capable of beating them anyway. Plus no surprises in one big conference, while it was a good day to be a road team in another, and a mild surprise in an academic league opener.
Conference play is here in earnest now, and it couldn’t come soon enough. The ACC, Southern Conference and WCC offered some glimpses of where we’ll see it at its best over the next two months.
On a night with three matchups between the conferences, the ACC had the SEC’s number, especially in Raleigh. Plus the hits keep coming for one conference out west, another west coast team looks better all the time, and a couple of coaches will be under contract a little longer.
The AAC’s unsung quality program, Tulsa has had a great start to December and continued it Thursday against New Orleans. Also, San Francisco continues its early-season roll, Wisconsin rolls and two overtime games on a short schedule.
Gonzaga’s exciting 89-87 victory against Duke in the Maui Invitational final, entertaining as it was, still came down to defense. Plus, recaps of a host of tournament action including Creighton, Bradley and Toledo winning titles.
Notes on the opening night of college basketball, which was essentially for diehards only after being buried by poor decision-making that set the season’s start date on…Election Night? The night did include a few upsets and some individual standouts amidst a mass of buy games.
The one postseason tournament that uses a series is once again going to a deciding game. Plus another tournament’s final is set, future ACC players are in the spotlight in a big high school game, and unsurprising NBA Draft early entrants announce their plans.
It took less than eight minutes for San Francisco to deliver a scorching shooting display that put the Dons in complete control of the first game of this year’s College Basketball Invitational championship series. USF turned the tables on previously red-hot North Texas, getting off to an almost unconscious start […]
As little order as there has been in college basketball this year, an NCAA Tournament Elite Eight that so far includes a 3 seed, two 9 seeds and an 11 seems strangely appropriate. A bizarre season and bizarre NCAA tourney became only moreso Thursday, as lower seeds won three of […]
For those who couldn’t resist all the curling and skiing at the Winter Olympics and watched hoops, it was yet another evening of highly ranked teams going down and streaks getting busted, something that has become the norm this year. The TV window of games that started at 7 p.m. Eastern time alone was enough to wear out the remote control as they came to an end.
