Few programs have built more of an identity with defense, but make no mistake, though-UW-Green Bay now and for the foreseeable future is going to be known for offense.
Tag: Wisconsin-Green Bay
The Morning Dish – Sunday, February 21, 2016
There is no substitute for double round-robin conference schedules where every team plays each other twice, home and away. For those of us who thoroughly enjoy and believe in the double round-robin format, the Atlantic Sun and Northeast Conference have been as good as it gets this year.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Miami (Fla.) certainly appears to be well past its Dow Jones season of a year ago. This year, the Hurricanes have established themselves as a legitimate top 25 team, and quite likely will continue to be even more than that if they can continue results like their 80-69 win over Duke Monday night.
2014-15 Horizon League Post-Mortem
Rather quietly, Bryce Drew is building a formidable program at Valparaiso, which won a Horizon League title for the third time in four years.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 28, 2014
The Kentucky hype wagon, already rolling along at NASCAR-like speeds, will only gain even more speed after yesterday.
Scanning the Nation Notebook – Dec. 10
Some weekly thoughts, from watching and reading and generally spending too much time following college basketball:
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 9, 2014
A prevailing theme over the last week or so of college basketball games has been resilience. Just when some may have thought they were down and maybe even wanted to count them out on various levels, a number of teams have made some real statements in the past week in their next games following poor performances. We saw it again Monday night as Florida played easily its best game of the year to rout Yale 85-47.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 7, 2014
The independents are dead. Long live the independents. NJIT’s 72-70 win at Michigan will go down as the biggest upset of this season and one of the biggest in a long time. This one is going to remembered for a long, long time.
The Morning Dish – Friday, December 5, 2014
What looked like it should’ve been the game of the night wasn’t much of a game at all. Iowa State sometimes gets on those offensive runs at home when it looks like one of the top five teams in the country, and the Cyclones did it Thursday night in a 95-77 win over Arkansas. A game that looked to have a ton of promise coming in was never really close, and the Razorbacks were tagged with their first loss in seven games.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, November 27, 2014
Happy Thanksgiving to all. One of college basketball’s true Thanksgiving traditions got underway once again last night, as the 37th annual Great Alaska Shootout got underway.
