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Sunday, December 22, 2024
With the NCAA Tournament down to 16 teams now and the number of teams still in their seasons dwindling, coaching news continues to take precedence in the sport’s silly season. Monday included hirings and rumors of near hirings, in many cases proceeding now after the conclusion of teams’ seasons made […]
There have been too many teams this season that have spent as much time in the news for off-court reasons as their play. Arizona was in the news again for the first on Thursday, and very nearly for the second two, and neither for good things.
By its own lofty standards, the Big Ten has had a rather lousy basketball season. It’s hard to have much sympathy for a conference that practically prints money, but one supposes the league deserved a night like Thursday for its troubles this year.
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.
As the calendar turns over, some early conference play has told us a few things about playing at home and with a couple of surprises. Plus more injury news hits the Big Ten, some of it good and some of it not good.
Friday showed us that one team many expected to be a national title contender looks like anything but. Plus the Jayhawks don’t look so vulnerable on the road, a stunner in the Sun Belt, and a conference changes its replay setup.
We may be barely a week into the college basketball season, but it’s not hard to make an argument that a number of teams and conferences just might be already entering the most important 7-10 days in their regular seasons.
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.
In Part 2 of our podcast, we talk about the ACC Tournament and others that have found new homes in light of comments made by a prominent coach that got quite a reaction, then we talk about the NCAA Tournament bubble as that subject begins to dominate conversation for a couple of more days.
In our latest podcast, we look at a couple of big weekend games, then the start of conference tournament play and express hope that teams will be evaluated differently for the NCAA Tournament this time around.
