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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
As bizarre and at times frustrating of a start to the season as it has been for the Big Ten, there shouldn’t be a lot of surprise that it’s taken only two games of conference basketball play for that weirdness to already start showing through in league contests.
A long-time powerhouse had slipped a bit, but looks as good as they have in a while. Plus buzzer-beaters rule the night, including in a popular interconference battle, and a coach thinks it won’t be too long before his players’ long-term status is known.
It’s become almost a yearly occurrence now that Scott Drew’s Baylor squads are underrated heading into a season. The Bears perennially are undersold. They don’t have blueblood status steeped in decades of tradition. They just may not ‘look’ like a top 20 team in a modern game that values guards upon guards and has little use for teams defined by a quirky defense. Maybe it’s just the bad highlighter uniforms. Whatever the reason, it’s an error that needs to be corrected.
For one night at least, the Gavitt Tip-Off Games take center stage and give us a look at a couple of intriguing teams. Plus suspensions for three are still to be determined, the Tar Heels gain one and lose one, and an AD it out immediately.
The season is underway, and already there are some things to think about. They include behavior on the road, a good early sign towards a turnaround, and a tough rivalry loss for an Atlantic 10 contender.
We conclude our look at our favorite games for every day of the season from November through February, our ultimate dream road trip through an entire college basketball season.
We are now on the eve of the regular season, which is just one day away. We move on with Hoopville’s preseason rundown of all 32 NCAA Division I conferences:
Good morning. With just two days remaining before the 2017-18 season commences (at last), we roll on with Hoopville’s preseason briefs on all 32 NCAA Division I conferences: The Mountain West’s slippage continued last year, as a once reliable multi-bid conference (many forget the league put five in the NCAA […]
Continuing a look at our favorite games for every day of the 2017-18 college basketball season. We started yesterday with November, and today we continue with December:
It was a decidedly different year in the Pac-12 from the prior one, but there were some good highlights in the month of March and next season could see a decidedly different look to the standings.
