Notes from around the country as we close out January and get ready to hit the stretch run of the season and the back half of conference play…
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The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 30, 2016
With holiday tournaments past, college basketball hits a docile stretch, a relative lull in the schedule. One filled with guarantee games, light weeks while teams take final exams, made-for-TV games, and more guarantee games.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, November 24, 2016
Wishing a blessed and Happy Thanksgiving to all today. A pair of top 10 ACC teams faced similar opponents on Wednesday, with dramatically different-but ultimately successful-results.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, November 22, 2016
In its 34th year, the venerable Maui Invitational is college basketball’s premier in-season tournament, with its three days rightfully earning a reputation as some of the most anticipated of all of the non-conference season.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 6, 2016
We continue our preseason quick glance at the conferences by checking in with the MAC, MEAC, MVC and Mountain West.
2015-16 Horizon League Post-Mortem
For a year at least, the Horizon League harkened back to some glory years, with a collection of individual talent the conference hasn’t seen in perhaps a long time.
The Morning Dish – Friday, April 8, 2016
No league has sent the college basketball coaching carousel spinning more in the last month than the Horizon League, which is tied with the West Coast Conference for most coaching changes this offseason (so far) with four each.
A final look: The NIT was a Colonial uprising
The NIT belonged to George Washington, who got better with every game. We have that and more notes coming from last week’s games in New York
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, April 5, 2016
A college basketball season like 2015-16 deserved better than the past few rounds of the NCAA Tournament had provided, and Monday night a thoroughly enjoyable year received a fitting sendoff with one of the great Final Four championship games in the sport’s history.
The Morning Dish – Friday, April 1, 2016
Years from now, perhaps the best compliment one will be able to give one of the most talented senior classes in the history of George Washington basketball is that not only did they go out as champions, but they also went out playing their very best.