Returning all five starters, North Dakota leaped from fifth in the Big Sky to first, winning conference regular season and tourney championships that culminated with a first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament appearance.
Month: July 2017
2016-17 American Athletic Conference Post-Mortem
As Wichita State joins the American Athletic Conference, we are seeing which programs are consistently carrying the flag early on, and a couple of surprising programs that are not.
2016-17 Atlantic Sun Post-Mortem
The Atlantic Sun’s signature program, Florida Gulf Coast put together another stout year with regular season and tournament titles and a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
2016-17 Summit League Post-Mortem
The Summit League in 2016-17 did not match what was in many ways a banner season the year before. There would be little arguing as much. Coming off a superb year when the league finished 12th in conference RPI-after rising as high as No. 8 at one point-and put forth […]
2016-17 Patriot League Post-Mortem
Bucknell continues to rule the Patriot League, and that doesn’t seem ready to change very soon.
2016-17 WAC Post-Mortem
If ever there’s a league that deserves to gloat a little bit, it’s the Western Athletic Conference, the once-proud league that has struggled to survive in recent years but fought back with a very nice 2016-17 season.
2016-17 Atlantic 10 Post-Mortem
The Atlantic 10 went somewhat as expected this year in that the top three teams were expected to be there. Things will look a little different on the benches next year, and there may be other places where that is the case as well.
2016-17 OVC Post-Mortem
Belmont again proved why it’s one of the model programs in the country, while Jacksonville State made a surprising rise in the postseason in the Ohio Valley Conference in 2016-17.
