As the regular season starts drawing to a close, a few more regular season titles are decided or almost decided. Plus the story in Omaha continues to develop and a Volunteer is likely to miss another game.
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The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 25, 2017
It’s become obvious in recent years that the NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee, commonly known by most as the selection committee for the sport’s tournament field, feels the need to regularly throw out trial balloons under the guise of making the event “better.” Even if those balloons are filled with lead.
The Morning Dish – Friday, December 30, 2016
Like most of the year anyway but especially now at the end of December, this is a time when football traditionally takes center stage in the Southeastern Conference. Thursday also marked the open of the conference season for SEC basketball as well, though, and an entertaining night it was.
The Morning Dish – Friday, December 16, 2016
With so many colleges in the midst of final exams and rightly keeping their schedules short, the highlights were limited in the sport Thursday night. Most of the action took place in the Atlantic and South regions of the country.
Scanning the Nation: Notes from 2015-16 opening weekend
A lot happened on Friday night. Not so much on Saturday, and a little more on Sunday. The season is still very, very young, but here are some quick hit notes looking around the country on the first weekend of the college basketball:
2015-16 SEC Post-Mortem
Though challenged by Texas A&M, Kentucky basically ruled the roost in the SEC, and continues to do so as the conference as a whole is flagging.
The Morning Dish – Friday, March 11, 2016
Coaches such as Jim Valvano, Rollie Massimino and Tom Izzo are among those to make the month of March their personal playground over the years, regularly leading teams on extended runs, regardless of the strength of their teams in the regular season. Few would include Ray Harper on that list, but it has become time that they should.
The Morning Dish – Saturday, March 5, 2016
As conference tournament play picks up, we get reminded quickly of how great March basketball is. Plus one team’s star is done while another team’s complement returns, and more tournament action ahead.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, February 21, 2016
There is no substitute for double round-robin conference schedules where every team plays each other twice, home and away. For those of us who thoroughly enjoy and believe in the double round-robin format, the Atlantic Sun and Northeast Conference have been as good as it gets this year.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Like so many conference foes now, Indiana and Michigan are more acquaintances than consistently fierce rivals, the product of today’s bloated leagues where yearly home-and-homes are no longer a given. Still, their only meeting this year looked juicy on paper, matching one top 25 team and another not far from it.
