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Thursday, November 21, 2024
For those who couldn’t resist all the curling and skiing at the Winter Olympics and watched hoops, it was yet another evening of highly ranked teams going down and streaks getting busted, something that has become the norm this year. The TV window of games that started at 7 p.m. Eastern time alone was enough to wear out the remote control as they came to an end.
In a week where it was tough for teams to remain undefeated in conference play, one team made sure that didn’t happen to them in impressive fashion. Plus an injured star’s absence doesn’t hurt one team, a long streak of dominance over one team continues, and a long-time coach will call it a career.
It was hard to guess who was the more desperate team going into the latest incarnation of the Duke/North Carolina rivalry, which resumed Thursday night.
In our latest podcast, we talk about a big sweep in the SEC, look back on the wild Saturday, then talk about a Big Ten showdown and some undefeated teams in conference play.
There just might be a team finally ready to break free of the mass of sameness in the Missouri Valley, as Loyola Chicago took hold of first place at the halfway mark in resounding fashion Wednesday night in a battle for first at Drake.
How does one put this politely? When it comes to exciting nights this college basketball season…one will find better just about every single day of this season than last night. A schedule of 11 games was exceeded in lightness by only how little there was noteworthy about the games. With […]
Another quiet weekend included college football again making for light schedules, plus some underwhelming fields in eight-team tournaments. Here are some quick-hit notes from the third weekend of November and second of the hoops season:
A hometown hero has Providence poised to continue to even greater heights never before seen. Plus more tournament action gets going, and another 20-20 game is in the books but in a losing effort.
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:
Not much changed in the standings this year, though one thing was different: the degree to which the champion dominated and made history in the process. Will much change next year?
