With a light day, as well as a relative lack of questions about this year’s bracket, it allowed some time to let this year’s NCAA Tournament bracket marinate a bit. And here’s a thought: this year’s tourney has a lot of really good first round matchups.
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The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 23, 2017
Another instant classic between two teams that nowadays always seem to give us one. Plus a bigger comeback out west, a fan has something to say to a coach, and many key games in conference races all over.
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 10, 2017
There was a huge conference game played in North Carolina Thursday night, one hyped by big names beforehand. The game was part of a series that has regularly provided drama of late, and once again delivered with spades. Of course we’re talking about the big one in the Big South played Thursday between UNC Asheville and Winthrop,
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Virginia put on another of its performances that is pure Virginia. Kansas put on another of its performances that is pure Kansas. Two of college basketball’s signature programs right now were in vintage form Monday night in winning what were easily the two marquee games of the evening, even if […]
Scanning the Nation January 31, 2017: On Georgia Tech, Akron, New Mexico State and more
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…
The Morning Dish – Saturday, January 14, 2017
A program once among the also-rans in its conference continues to be a consistent contender and winner. Plus the NCAA wants more numbers, another coach goes on the shelf, and an incident in Arizona remains a mystery.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 27, 2016
Fairly hidden from the national conscious in the Mountain Time Zone, Utah is hardly the first place most think of as a hotbed for college basketball. Tobacco Road it is not-in so many ways-but when it comes to consistent quality among its NCAA Division I programs, few can match The […]
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Now the season has arrived. The 2016-17 college basketball season has its first real splash moment of the season in its first signature upset of the year.
2015-16 America East Post-Mortem
America East had a good non-conference run this season and saw four teams reach postseason play, but the conference appears to be stuck in neutral from a competitive standpoint.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 22, 2016
With the NCAA Tournament now on recess for a few days, the coaching merry-go-round is starting to spin again. Monday saw several vacancies filled, more created and rumors of still more to possibly come. The biggest moves both came in the Big 12, where TCU hired former Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon and Oklahoma State landed Stephen F. Austin’s Brad Underwood.