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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Presenting our annual list of what we simply call our list of teams to keep an eye on coming into the season. Some fall in the category of up-and-coming teams or sleeper picks. Some are powers. Some are just teams we enjoy watching. In most cases, we just think these are teams you’re going to be hearing from before the end of this year.
Despite injuries, Princeton ran through the league without a loss this year, obscuring the fact that the league has a lot of good young talent and may be starting a new up cycle.
Ivy League play has begun in earnest, and we already have a couple of big games in league play. Plus one of a number of games slated for the big day has to move due to a water shortage.
Middle Tennessee State carved out a place in college basketball history in March when it posted one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history by knocking out Michigan State. This year’s Blue Raiders are not the same team as last year’s group, though. They very well might be better.
Like too many events in the ever increasingly (and overly) cluttered landscape of college basketball exempted tournaments, the Tire Pros Invitational has an identity crisis, but it has furnished four solid semifinalists this year.
In our first edition of Talking Hoops with Ted Sarandis, we look at some of the early games and the impressions we can draw, as well as what we can expect over the course of the season.
A lot happened on Friday night. Not so much on Saturday, and a little more on Sunday. The season is still very, very young, but here are some quick hit notes looking around the country on the first weekend of the college basketball:
One team lost a star but won, while the other team got support for their star at just one end of the floor. Plus a few top teams coast at home, one of them very impressively.
Good Wednesday morning. The regular season is near, just two days away. We continue Hoopville’s preseason rundown of all 32 NCAA Division I conferences, with a trip to the South.
In 2015-16, the basketball gods really got one right in the Ivy League. Coming up may be a return to what we’ve seen in other recent years.
