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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
In our latest podcast, we touch on a couple of news stories related to the FBI investigation and what they may portend, then talk about a few conference races of interest. Ted also gives out his midseason awards before we wrap up and look ahead to the weekend.
The old guard isn’t going quietly or easily this season, as is often the case, and that shows up in a few places. Plus one team that didn’t play well in non-conference is playing much better, while home teams win out west as a talented young player is suspended.
The Maui Invitational is the last great preseason tournament left, and it opened with another terrific set of quarterfinals, even as it was missing something-host Chaminade. Plus more tourney recaps
Road teams ruled the games on tap in the Gavitt Tipoff Games, which has quietly become a nice early season event. Plus no surprise with a couple of SEC home wins, a close call with another SEC team’s flight, and one Blackbird had a really nice night to continue a good start.
On what will be one of the lightest Saturdays of the season, a buzzer-beating shocker in Charlotte stands out. Plus a couple of Mountain West teams lose openers at home, some big individual performances, and wild fires cause one game to be postponed.
Just a few years after realignment changed the Big East immensely, the conference put forth a terrific season all the way around, and looks to be in great shape. A national champion led the way, but there is much more behind them.
Saturday night’s NCAA Tournament national semifinals revealed the two teams that will be playing for the national title Monday night, but it also told us something else: Villanova is the best team of this college basketball season.
Notes, numbers and review from the first weekend of the 2018 NCAA Tournament, including highlights, lowlights, thoughts on television coverage and more.
History of the kind some of us never imagined occurring happened on Friday night. It was shocking in so many ways. Plus injury questions abound heading into the next round, while the next head coach at one school may have more headaches from the outset.
The Big East semifinals were two very different games, even though both saw a double-digit score disparity for some time.
