Road teams were the story of the night in college basketball on Wednesday. Now there’s something you don’t say often in this sport at the end of November.
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The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 6, 2016
We continue our preseason quick glance at the conferences by checking in with the MAC, MEAC, MVC and Mountain West.
2015-16 Atlantic 10 Post-Mortem
The Atlantic 10 saw a little bit of everything, but a lot of good things continued in 2015-16 as part of that.
NCAA selection committee must learn from Vanderbilt mistake
The last we saw of Vanderbilt this season is bound to leave a sour taste in the mouths of not just its fans, but virtually everyone who follows college basketball and expected so much of the Commodores this year. Just the same, it should also leave NCAA Tournament selection committee members with a serious case of bitter beer face, too.
One last look at the big bubble
The NCAA Tournament bubble was crowded this season, with a lot of compelling candidates. That, along with how even most teams were, means every team had their chances.
The Morning Dish – Monday, March 14, 2016
The new-look Selection Show wasn’t exactly a hit with viewers on top of the selections themselves. Plus three other tournament fields come out, one conference commissioner isn’t happy, and coaching changes continue.
Bracket impressions: Committee continues puzzling obsession with mediocrity
The Enlightenment Period of NCAA Tournament selection has come and gone. Once again, we are back in the Dark Ages. And the tournament is far more soulless for it.
Selection Sunday morning: One projection of the NCAA Tournament field
Virtually every season as the NCAA Tournament nears, the talk of bracket projections revolves around that season havng a “soft bubble.” It’s often as much of an exaggeration as it is incorrect-you can’t have a soft bubble every year-but this year it’s also not true.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, March 6, 2016
The first two NCAA Tournament bids went out on Saturday, and you can’t blame either coach if they got a little emotional. Plus a full day of tournament action, a coach gets the dreaded “vote of confidence”, and winning was especially hard for one team this year.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 3, 2016
One of the most anticipated possible conference tournament finals of all will not be taking place this year, as the first two days of March are two-for-two in producing the upsets we’ve come to expect this time of year. The latest team to come from seemingly nowhere to make noise is Hartford, a seemingly benign seventh seed in the America East tournament.
