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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
You can go a long time in this college basketball season and not have a better day of games than Tuesday provided, as the day was loaded with power matchups, revivals of rivalries, and just plain good games that were worthy of the national platforms they were provided, even if played at times that were the furthest thing from prime time.
We continue our look at our favorite games for every day of the season, our ultimate dream road trip through an entire college basketball season. We started on Monday with November, continued with December on Tuesday, and today we move into January:
Continuing our look at our favorite games for every day of the season, our ultimate dream road trip, if you will. We started on Monday with November, and today we continue with December.
With opening day now just three days away, we continue our quick glance look at all 32 NCAA Division I conferences with six more today.
Brad Stevens and Shaka Smart once seemed they might be long-tenured at their schools when both were consistently spurning numerous job offers despite repeated opportunities to move on to bigger (paying) things. A couple years later, though, both are gone now to new challenges.
This year’s NCAA Tournament has not brought us many true upsets, but it will bring us a Sweet 16 full of history, though.
When it comes to the lists of the very best teams in March, the current list of usual suspects starts with names like Arizona, Duke, Kentucky, Michigan State. It’s high time another school was added to that elite hierarchy in the sport.
On the scale of chic topics in basketball in general, free throws is near the bottom. But like special teams in the NFL playoffs, you better believe free throws will be important this month.
In the wake of Monday night’s Kansas/Kansas State game, court-storming continued to be a big topic of discussion on Tuesday.
Villanova has re-asserted themselves as the team to beat in the Big East, including with the way they started a key stretch loaded with road games on Wednesday night.
