Tag: Lamar

The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 7, 2018

Conference play may be still just getting rolling, but we’ve had more than enough to talk about already, from highly ranked teams going down to upstarts making moves. Here is a potpourri of thoughts from another crazy Saturday-and we’ve just started January: Before Thursday, who ever would’ve thought that the […]

The Morning Dish – Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Frank Martin is a heck of an accomplished coach, as well as one of the true personalities in college basketball these days, and he’s deservingly recognized for both. He also is a coach who sees the big picture, far more than most like him, and for that many who enjoy this sport should be grateful.

Scanning the Nation: Notes from the opening weekend

The first three days of the college basketball season have been largely uneventful, not surprising when schedules are littered with endless guarantee games and schools seemingly have little interest in even playing at all so early in November. Here are some quick-hit notes looking around the country after the first weekend of regular season hoops:

The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 8, 2017

The first Saturday of the new year brought us a rarity in college basketball during conference play: a day with few meaningful upsets of any kind. Nineteen nationally ranked teams played on Saturday. Eighteen of them won. The only one that didn’t (Virginia Tech) was playing on the road against […]