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Thursday, November 21, 2024
The fifth entrant in NCAA Division I’s college basketball postseason debuted on Monday with the first-ever Vegas 16 tournament tipping off. If you’re a history buff, you really should check it out now because…if the event is relying heavily on ticket sales, the odds of there being a second one are not very good.
On paper, New Year’s Eve featured what could’ve been two of the very best games of the year in the Big East. Call it 1-for-2 at the plate, as one ended up being nothing of the sort, but the other delivered in every way.
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…)
The West Coast Conference had a nice year in 2013-14, to be sure. For a time, though, it looked like it would be even more than that.
Holy Cross head coach Ralph Willard was hoping to hear from Siena head coach Fran McCaffery to talk about what happened last week when the two teams met and had an ending that surprised just about everyone there. His preference was, understandably, to keep things in-house on the matter.
Santa Clara retired the No. 34 jersey of the team’s all-time leading scorer, Kurt Rambis, during a ceremony at halftime of the Broncos’ 83-80 win against Belmont. Rambis is an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Lakers, and he becomes the seventh Bronco in team history to have his jersey […]
