Gonzaga’s exciting 89-87 victory against Duke in the Maui Invitational final, entertaining as it was, still came down to defense. Plus, recaps of a host of tournament action including Creighton, Bradley and Toledo winning titles.
Tag: Arizona State
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Notes on the opening night of college basketball, which was essentially for diehards only after being buried by poor decision-making that set the season’s start date on…Election Night? The night did include a few upsets and some individual standouts amidst a mass of buy games.
2017-18 Pac-12 Post-Mortem
From before the season right to the bitter end, 2017-18 was a season to forget for the Pac-12. It can only get better from here for all of them, or so we think, and it gets really interesting trying to look ahead save for one idea: next season will be better.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 15, 2018
Short bench, poor shooting, young, Syracuse still found a way to come back late to defeat Arizona State in an NCAA Tournament play-in game, another example of a good coaching job by Jim Boeheim this year.
Bracket Impressions: Selection process with misplaced priorities in need of fix
The 2018 NCAA Tournament selections demonstrated once again that the selection committee seems to have lost sight of what should be the most basic, important thing to ask of teams: winning games.
Selection Sunday morning 2018: One projection of the NCAA tourney field
It’s not the case every year, but once again, the term ‘soft bubble’ is perfectly appropriate this year as NCAA tourney selection beckons.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 8, 2018
There’s a big question at hand: How many bubble teams want to earn their way into the NCAA Tournament field? Plus a coach gets hurt in a skirmish, a heralded player returns to action, a bizarre situation in Northridge, and more coaches are out of a job.
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 9, 2018
It was hard to guess who was the more desperate team going into the latest incarnation of the Duke/North Carolina rivalry, which resumed Thursday night.
The Morning Dish – Monday, February 5, 2018
On a light day of action ahead of the Super Bowl, a Pac-12 team gets a key win that gives them a chance to gather some momentum. Plus a suspension in Columbus, Owls start to come around, and no real surprises among the few games on tap.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 26, 2018
By its own lofty standards, the Big Ten has had a rather lousy basketball season. It’s hard to have much sympathy for a conference that practically prints money, but one supposes the league deserved a night like Thursday for its troubles this year.
