As a big day of championship games beckons, bubble teams can’t breathe any easier. Plus another controversy with an ACC player and a couple of concerning injuries for bubble teams don’t help matters.
Tag: Big West
The Morning Dish – Sunday, March 4, 2018
After a few years away-what could even be called a long absence for a program so used to postseason success-Murray State is back in the NCAA Tournament. And it couldn’t be in much more satisfying fashion.
The Morning Dish – Friday, March 2, 2018
It appeared Thursday night was going to offer us yet another instance of a top-ranked team losing this season when Virginia looked on its way to a sure loss at Louisville Thursday night. The Cavaliers trailed by four points, and there was less than one second left on the clock. No problem. All it took was two made free throws, a travel on the baseline by a Cardinals player inbounding the ball, and then a banked in three-pointer at the buzzer.
Scanning the Nation Notebook Jan. 19 – On transfers, polls, analysts, Oklahoma, Temple and more
Notes, numbers, and a bunch of grumblings about college basketball in the middle of January, as we touch on some of the hot topics of late, plus players like Trae Young and Nate Grimes and teams like West Virginia, Temple and Pacific… The transfer debate has flared up yet again, […]
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, November 12, 2017
If Friday’s open of the college basketball season was a celebration (even if an unsatisfying one, with its smorgasbord of lousy guarantee games and non-Division I opponents), then Saturday must’ve been the hangover. At the least, the second day of the season is a reality check. It’s a reminder of not only how poorly college hoops starts its year, but also how a current attempt to address it gets it all wrong.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 5, 2017
We’re a day closer to the start, and look at several more conferences, including one that has been ruled by a powerhouse program for over a decade now. An injury, academic suspensions, an early transfer and internal investigation are all in the news as well.
2016-17 Big West Post-Mortem
Two years after UC Davis nearly parlayed a major turnaround into its first NCAA Division I tourney bid, the Aggies finished the deal this time in the Big West.
The Morning Dish – Friday, April 7, 2017
Thursday brought us a reminder that the best-laid conference moves don’t always work out as expected, sometimes even before a school has made a move.
