As far as drama goes, Thursday at the NCAA Tournament was as about as good as it can get. But there’s also a good chance that such games aren’t going anywhere and are going to be the norm this year. And maybe for the foreseeable future.
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Atlantic 10 to Big East: On the conference road (and rails)
A busy Friday included two conference tournaments at two sites for Ray Floriani, and he takes us through it all from start to finish.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 24, 2015
For 39 minutes, Louisville and Georgia Tech was another ugly game this year in a season filled with ugly games. Then, in the final minute, the two teams reminded us of just what fun college basketball can be when it is allowed to be.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 19, 2015
Passionate rivalries. Contrasts in styles. Outstanding players. Coaches with the freedom to coach teams the way they want to, and taking advantage of that in different ways. And, yes, very relevant regular season games. Wednesday night featured the very best of what college basketball has to offer, in so very many ways.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, February 11, 2015
An undefeated regular season for Kentucky is becoming closer and closer to reality. The Wildcats passed what was quite possibly their toughest test for the rest of the regular season, defeating LSU on Tuesday 71-69. Karl-Anthony Towns scored with 1:28 left to put Kentucky ahead, and the Wildcats survived a […]
Scanning the Nation Notebook – February 5, 2015
Some college basketball thoughts from the first week of February, as “bubble” talk becomes increasingly a part of every day of the rest of the regular season:
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 5, 2015
Some greeted the news with surprise, others with cynicism. Either way, when one of college basketball’s signature programs makes the decision to hold itself out of the postseason, the development most certainly qualifies as big news.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 8, 2015
The 9 p.m. EST block of games Wednesday night-many of them on TV-may go down as one of the uglier two-hour stretches in NCAA Division I college basketball history.
The Morning Dish – Friday, November 28, 2014
Hoping all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. The college basketball action was far better than the football games.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, November 25, 2014
By its extremely lofty standards, this year’s Maui Invitational is rather light fare, though still one of the kings of the in-season tournaments. Maui is always a highlight of November and Thanksgiving week, dating back to its emergence in the late 1980s, and the tourney opened yesterday with quarterfinals. The best game of the four was the last one, as old WAC and Mountain West rivals San Diego State and BYU went at it good deep into the night for us on the mainland.
