A few days after Eastern Washington and Portland State played a three-overtime game that ended with two players scoring 45 points each and EWU finally winning 130-124, Alabama and South Carolina did their best to wrestle the mantle away for wildest game of the season. On Tuesday, the Crimson Tide […]
Tag: Syracuse
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 2, 2017
The road to the Big 12 regular season title goes through Kansas. Still. Again.
Box score breakdown: North Carolina 85, Syracuse 68
North Carolina beat Syracuse in a game where both offenses were very good. The difference was largely in what the Tar Heels did inside the arc.
Scanning the Nation: Notes from the first weekend of Jan. league play
It was a rather docile first full weekend of January, early in the conference portion of the college basketball season. Here are some quick hit notes from around the country, from A (Arizona) to…well, at least W (Western Illinois):
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 3, 2017
On the second day of 2017, a medium-weight college basketball schedule included quite a few games, though few of the high profile variety. Regardless of the stories developing early in some conferences (the Metro Atlantic and Southland being turned upside down, for example), it can’t be ignored that the biggest […]
The Morning Dish – Monday, January 2, 2017
Sunday capped off a wacky first weekend of conference play, and could be the start of quite a couple of months. Plus a tough loss for an Atlantic 10 team that already lost another player.
Scanning the Nation Notebook – Dec. 14, 2016
Notes from mid-December of the college basketball season.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 6, 2016
There was nothing like a return to comfortable surroundings against a comfortably familiar rival to get Connecticut a win that maybe can get the Huskies’ season back on track. Desperately needing a spark in a season that early on has been defined by injuries, stunning losses and near-losses, the Huskies rallied […]
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Good Wednesday morning. The regular season is near, just two days away. We continue Hoopville’s preseason rundown of all 32 NCAA Division I conferences, with a trip to the South.
Gbinije’s long journey may still have the ending many expected at one time
Michael Gbinije seemingly fulfilled the potential many thought he had, though he traveled a circuitous route to get there. Will it end up in the NBA Draft, or will he have to fight harder to make a roster?