Final notes, numbers, highlights, top games and commentary on the 2018 NCAA Tournament, which graded out solidly by historical standards.
Tag: Final Four
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Add Donte DiVincenzo’s name to the list of Villanova legends after the sophomore came off the bench for a virtuoso performance leading the Wildcats to their second national title in three years.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, April 1, 2018
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.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, April 4, 2017
North Carolina was dominant at times in the 2016-17 season, maybe more so than any other team in the country. That was not the case in the NCAA Tournament, but it was still good enough for the Tar Heels to complete what they couldn’t the year before.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, April 2, 2017
North Carolina will get a chance to finish what it started last year. Gonzaga gets a shot at finishing what it started nearly 20 years ago.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, April 5, 2016
A college basketball season like 2015-16 deserved better than the past few rounds of the NCAA Tournament had provided, and Monday night a thoroughly enjoyable year received a fitting sendoff with one of the great Final Four championship games in the sport’s history.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, April 3, 2016
In so many ways, the NCAA Tournament has consistently, without fail delivered one quality game after another for literally decades, and nowhere has that consistency been more able to be counted on than in the Final Four. All of which makes Saturday’s results more surprising, yet perhaps also indicative of the way this year’s tourney has gone.
Scanning the Nation Notebook: On CFP ratings, injuries, South Carolina and more
Some college basketball thoughts in mid-January, as we start to settle into the grind of conference play for the next 1 1/2 months:
Here’s hoping Wisconsin’s legacy lives on in sport long past this year
The Wisconsin basketball team of the past couple years was one that should be treasured and remembered in the sport for a long time, and maybe even could’ve been one of the sport’s most influential ever.
For Once, College Basketball is Wide Open
So many times, the talk has been of how wide open college basketball is and that the NCAA Tournament is as well. This season, that has truly been the case, and Monday’s unexpected national championship matchup shows that.
