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Thursday, November 21, 2024
Saturday was a day characterized in the sports world as being about college football, but if a big college basketball fan fell for that, they missed out on a great day of hoops. While a number of mostly underwhelming college football conference title games were played, college basketball had far […]
Gonzaga is not going away quietly despite heavy personnel losses. Plus the Tar Heels have a little too much, a buzzer-beater ends a long home winning streak, and an ACC team’s depth takes a hit.
Happy Thanksgiving. While the Battle 4 Atlantis has been one of the premier early season tourneys in recent years, this year’s event looked very top-loaded. Thursday proved otherwise.
The first three days of the college basketball season have been largely uneventful, not surprising when schedules are littered with endless guarantee games and schools seemingly have little interest in even playing at all so early in November. Here are some quick-hit notes looking around the country after the first weekend of regular season hoops:
We roll on with a look at our favorite games for every day of the season, our ultimate dream road trip through an entire college basketball year, with a look at January.
Presenting our annual list of what we simply call our list of teams to keep an eye on coming into the season. Some fall in the category of up-and-coming teams or sleeper picks. Some are powers. Some are just teams we enjoy watching. In most cases, we just think these are teams you’re going to be hearing from before the end of this year.
The CAA had a little bit of everything in 2016-17, the first in the post-Tom Yeager era.
We touch on Player of the Year candidates, the wild ACC featuring a still-slumping Virginia team and a really hard-luck Clemson team, an SEC program where the bottom is falling out, the final weekend in the CAA and much more.
One of the last games of the weekend ends in dramatic fashion and might lift a long-suffering program back into the NCAA Tournament. Plus another team picks up a big win, a rebuilding team sees a career end early, and some other off-court news that thankfully did not end up worse.
It’s the end of an era in the CAA, and the conference sent its first commissioner out with a great season.
