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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Super mega ultra conferences can collect members like teenage boys once accumulated baseball cards. They can even brag about having 10, 11, 12 NCAA Tournament contenders. That will never change this fact: there is no substitute for a double round-robin conference race in college basketball. The Missouri Valley Conference is […]
Tuesday was one of the busier days of the college basketball season, but certainly its longest one with games filling literally almost every minute of the 24 hours.
For a year at least, the Horizon League harkened back to some glory years, with a collection of individual talent the conference hasn’t seen in perhaps a long time.
Conversation about the “bubble” will dominate college basketball for the next 3 1/2 weeks. Though at times it will encroach on being overkill, it’s pretty hard to ignore at the moment, and unfortunately for a number of teams that’s not a good thing.
In truth, USC probably should’ve been being taken seriously even before its 103-101 four-overtime thriller over Arizona yesterday, but you can be sure the Trojans are now.
Polls do matter. A case could be made that the All-America first team is already wrapped up right now. And it’s not at all hard to envision Oklahoma and Kansas playing two or three more times this year, including perhaps again in April.
Rather quietly, Bryce Drew is building a formidable program at Valparaiso, which won a Horizon League title for the third time in four years.
Wisconsin-Green Bay has waited a long time to get back to the level of its NCAA Division I glory years of the 1990’s, but the Phoenix did so in a big way in 2013-14.
Youngstown State is home to a football program with a lot of wins and a basketball program that has struggled for a long time. But the Penguins may be ready to finally turn the corner on the hardwood.
Several Horizon League teams are off to a hot start. Find out who’s looking as Horizon teams get ready to start conference play later this week.
