We remember a fallen colleague who touched us all in the sports world. Plus a Missouri Valley team keeps winning, and the start of Pac-12 play features an interesting day and ends with a thriller.
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The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 12, 2014
“Anybody can beat anybody” is a cliché. It’s also being proven on a regular basis early in this college basketball season. The upsets keep coming this year, and if there’s one thing we’re learning early this college basketball season, it is that you cannot take anyone lightly. That seems to go especially for NCAA Division I newcomers and transitional members.
2013-14 Pac-12 Post-Mortem
The Pac-12 had a nice season in 2013-14, but is currently a conference with a lot of moving parts
Legends wrapup: Indiana takes the title and a box score analysis
On the second night of the Progressive Legends Classic, UCLA and Indiana came out on top. We take a look inside some of the numbers in both games and an interesting note on the championship game matchup.
A brief look at the numbers in Georgetown’s win over UCLA
A brief breakdown of a few key numbers in Georgetown’s victory over UCLA in the semfinals of the Legends Classic, setting the stage for the Hoyas to battle Indiana.
St. John’s Week: A tempo-free look
St. John’s split their two games the past week. A common thread of the two games was the importance of rebounding, which played a role in both games as it so often does.
Plenty of great action on the menu this weekend
Nearly every top team is on the schedule this weekend, and many of those teams face their stiffest road tests of the season.
North Carolina-Kentucky lives up to the hype
Saturday wasn’t just about football conference championships. It had North Carolina and Kentucky matching up on the hardwood in a game that lived up to its billing, and a few more teams had good wins on Saturday as well.
Syracuse adamantly denies molestation allegations by associate coach
Allegations of sexual abuse have emerged at Syracuse. Despite a natural urge to rush to judgment, the best course of action is to allow the criminal justice experts — Syracuse investigators and attorneys — to do their jobs.
ACC’s hot start could be a harbinger of better times ahead
After being overshadowed by the Big East and others in recent years, the ACC has come out of the gates strong and could rejoin the conversation for national supremacy.
