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Thursday, November 21, 2024
Boston University won its first Patriot League championship, and the long haul for their coach has the desired result at last. Plus many tournaments get going, one postseason event won’t happen at all, and a coach takes ill during a season-ending loss.
At long last, Texas gets the kind of win they had yet to pick up under Shaka Smart, and not a moment too soon. Plus a Pirate star is out for a bit, a bounceback attempt continues, and some extra sessions were needed on the day.
Experienced but very small, Montana and its terrific backcourt played through a key injury to own the Big Sky for the second straight year
After a quiet Thursday, upsets came into play in a noticeable way on Friday. Plus a couple of top seeds get a push for a while, Buffalo owns a state on the hardwood, and the SEC leads the way in coaching changes.
Recapping the mass of conference tournament games Thursday, as well as the bubble winners and losers, a list that included mostly losers among those truly on the fence.
Returning all five starters, North Dakota leaped from fifth in the Big Sky to first, winning conference regular season and tourney championships that culminated with a first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament appearance.
In a tumultuous few years for the Horizon League, Northern Kentucky has come along at just the right time to provide a bright spot.
The Big Sky was once again competitive, though a couple of familiar faces led the way in 2015-16. Could that change next year, in addition to the conference having more non-conference success?
Small, private, religious-based, and running an athletics department on a modest budget, Valparaiso is precisely the type of school that makes NCAA Division I basketball so much fun.
The teams that have led the way in the Big Sky of late were right there again this season. One of them won both the regular season and conference tournament, and also had a nice time with the post-season awards as well.
