With the NCAA Tournament now on recess for a few days, the coaching merry-go-round is starting to spin again. Monday saw several vacancies filled, more created and rumors of still more to possibly come. The biggest moves both came in the Big 12, where TCU hired former Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon and Oklahoma State landed Stephen F. Austin’s Brad Underwood.
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The Morning Dish – Monday, March 21, 2016
The improbable continues to happen as the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament is in the books. Plus the ACC dominates the Sweet 16, some more coaching news, and no surprise at an early NBA Draft entrant.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 15, 2016
It turns out people do appreciate the National Invitation Tournament after all, far more than universally assumed. All it took was a little postseason saturation-the same thing that college football somehow seems immune to.
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.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 10, 2016
In an ultracompetitive league where four teams finished tied for fourth place, third through eighth were separated by three games and no less than six teams had winning streaks of at least five games in conference play, it’s the team that went 0-9 on the road in conference play and finished ninth overall that is the tournament champion.
The Morning Dish – Friday, December 25, 2015
Merry Christmas! The holidays once belonged to college basketball, and in particular tournament play. Here’s hoping what has gone around comes back around again.
The Morning Dish – Saturday, December 12, 2015
Light nights during the college basketball season offer the opportunity to check in on games and matchups that might slip through the cracks on busier days of the week, such as the series between North Dakota and North Dakota State that has been played nearly 300 times.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 4, 2015
The unbeaten toppled over one-by-one on Saturday. About all you can say about this is: welcome to conference play.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 30, 2014
In a long-running rivalry that has been lopsided of late, San Francisco and St. Mary’s provided a little bit of a stir at the finish of their game Monday night.
Scanning the Nation Notebook – Dec. 24, 2014
On Christmas Eve, we share some weekly thoughts from following the nation in college basketball: