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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
We may not be in March just yet, but there’s no better notice that it’s just around the corner than the first college hoops conference tournament tipping off. The Atlantic Sun sat in the pole position for this season, the first of 32 tournaments to get underway Monday night already, nearly two weeks before Selection Sunday.
With the increasing competitiveness of the Southeastern Conference in basketball, it was only a matter of time before coaches who we thought of as successes would instead be marked as failures and become casualties of the league’s improvement. That didn’t make it any less disappointing to see the news on Monday that Andy Kennedy and Mississippi had made what was termed as a mutual decision to part ways.
Could SMU be a program for the long haul, beyond the days of a big-name coach? Plus the absence of a starter isn’t a problem in Fort Worth or Tuscaloosa, the Fighting Irish take another hit to their depth, and a historic loss in the nation’s capital.
One of the Atlantic 10’s consistently good teams of late appears to be rebounding from a tough non-conference schedule. Plus a fundraising site opens for one player, an AD takes a hit to the wallet, and a lawsuit in Arizona.
In our latest podcast, we talk about several big pieces of news away from game play, one of which puts a lot in perspective. We also talk about the lack of dominant teams and how this has shown up in the results, especially this past weekend.
A lot of off-court news led the way on this day, one story standing out much more than the others because of perspective. Plus the scuffling Red Storm have a big loss, a coach will have a few more years, and a couple of surprise results on the evening.
Two teams remind us how conference play is different in a decidedly negative way. Plus road wins were hard to come by but big when they did, a logjam atop the Big 12, and a surprising result in Milwaukee,
Wishing all a very Happy New Year. Hoping you enjoyed the holidays and praying for blessings for all in 2018. New Year’s Day long has belonged to college football, and frankly, that’s as it should be. From this view, there are few better traditions in sport than spending New Year’s […]
There is not a dominant team, but there’s one recent champion who is pretty good. Plus a couple of teams have suspensions, one team hopes to gain someone, and we remember a broadcasting great who has passed.
IPFW, Fort Wayne-by any name, the Mastodons have made their presence known in the state of Indiana the last two years by beating the flagship university of the state.
