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Friday, November 22, 2024
It was time for a wild college basketball Saturday, and we sure got one yesterday. A busy and varied schedule was filled with surprises, upsets that maybe weren’t really that big of upsets, as well as near-upsets. There was something for just about everyone, and it had all the feeling of one of those Saturdays in the midst of conference schedules where also rans rise up to topple powers, but at least a month earlier than we usually get them.
Saturday was a day characterized in the sports world as being about college football, but if a big college basketball fan fell for that, they missed out on a great day of hoops. While a number of mostly underwhelming college football conference title games were played, college basketball had far […]
Notes from around college basketball as we close out November and enter the season’s quiet stretch in December:
A long-time powerhouse had slipped a bit, but looks as good as they have in a while. Plus buzzer-beaters rule the night, including in a popular interconference battle, and a coach thinks it won’t be too long before his players’ long-term status is known.
We may be barely a week into the college basketball season, but it’s not hard to make an argument that a number of teams and conferences just might be already entering the most important 7-10 days in their regular seasons.
Continuing a look at our favorite games for every day of the 2017-18 college basketball season. We started yesterday with November, and today we continue with December:
It doesn’t matter how realistic television sets get, or how much fun it might be to follow social media feeds during a sporting event. There is no substitution for being there. And never will be. With that, we present our ultimate road trip for the season if we could have one.
The Big East had another good season in terms of NCAA Tournament bids, but looks top-heavy in more ways than one. Can anyone challenge Villanova? Can old powers St. John’s and Georgetown get going again?
On a night where two champions were crowned, a shocking development came in the women’s tournament. Plus more coaching changes, including a late one, and a conference change could be coming.
For an event that started with a relative thud by its lofty standards, the 79th NCAA Tournament sure has made up some ground as it hits the homestretch, and it will culminate this coming weekend with one of the more fascinating Final Four quartets in some time,
