The NCAA Tournament has set its field, and some teams are happy and some are not. Plus a couple of teams changed coaches and one team that’s dancing will be without a key player unless they go far.
Tag: Temple
Fran Dunphy deals with bubble uncertainty for the first time
Temple is firmly on the bubble after losing in the American Athletic Conference Tournament to SMU. It’s the first time in head coach Fran Dunphy’s storied career that his team has been in this situation.
Selection Sunday morning: One projection of NCAA Tournament field
With so many years of “bracketology” and the resulting better understandings of the NCAA Tournament selection process that has come from it, there are many years where predicting the teams in the field is not that much of a mystery, sometimes almost easy even. This year is not one of those years.
The Morning Dish – Friday, March 6, 2015
The nickname will live on, but as far as the team that earned the label for Florida Gulf Coast, it turns out the first we saw of “Dunk City” in the NCAA tournament in 2013 was also the last. At the same time, FGCU’s legacy as a D-I newcomer making it big will live on and could only be added to this March.
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 20, 2015
Sometimes forgotten amidst all the “bubble” talk this time of year is a simple fact: if a team wins enough games, it doesn’t have to worry about being on the bubble.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, February 11, 2015
An undefeated regular season for Kentucky is becoming closer and closer to reality. The Wildcats passed what was quite possibly their toughest test for the rest of the regular season, defeating LSU on Tuesday 71-69. Karl-Anthony Towns scored with 1:28 left to put Kentucky ahead, and the Wildcats survived a […]
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 8, 2015
The 9 p.m. EST block of games Wednesday night-many of them on TV-may go down as one of the uglier two-hour stretches in NCAA Division I college basketball history.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 1, 2015
Happy New Year to all! It wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t pretty. It was maybe the furthest thing from pretty. But Temple picked up another non-conference win on New Year’s Eve that could go a long way towards getting it back to the NCAA Tournament.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Watching Wisconsin this season, one gets the feeling that the Badgers could shut it down right now and cancel the rest of their regular season schedule, get some rest, get a good start on second semester homework, eat some brats on State Street, and then begin playing again in March and still be a favorite to make a Final Four run.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 7, 2014
The independents are dead. Long live the independents. NJIT’s 72-70 win at Michigan will go down as the biggest upset of this season and one of the biggest in a long time. This one is going to remembered for a long, long time.
