There’s a lot of basketball left to play, but the already tight MAAC got a little tighter on Friday night. Plus a Big Ten team takes another hit, a Blue Devil may return, and more comments on officiating draw a response from a league office.
Tag: Illinois State
The Morning Dish – Monday, December 24, 2018
The Missouri Valley Conference had a nice day on Sunday, which can make things a little better late in the non-conference game. Plus another thriller in Las Vegas, and the Cougars run away from a visiting team that didn’t have a good night shooting the ball.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 21, 2018
With two championship games on tap, one was won by a team that needed it and another was not. Plus the tournaments continue with some entertaining games out west, a captain will move on, and another big pickup for a new head coach.
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.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 4, 2018
Continuing our look at every conference before the season, this Sunday we check in on the Patriot League, SEC, Southern, Southland and SWAC. Plus, more exhibition results including close shaves for Colorado, Detroit Mercy, Illinois State and Rider.
2017-18 MVC Post-Mortem
Its top program moved on, but the Missouri Valley Conference persevered like it always does-and in fact came out even stronger, led by Loyola Chicago’s fantastic season.
Redbirds come up just short again at Arch Madness
Illinois State once again made a run but came up just short of the grand prize in the MVC Tournament.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 24, 2017
New Mexico State has been a quality program for a long time. But this year is different.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 17, 2017
It was time for a wild college basketball Saturday, and we sure got one yesterday. A busy and varied schedule was filled with surprises, upsets that maybe weren’t really that big of upsets, as well as near-upsets. There was something for just about everyone, and it had all the feeling of one of those Saturdays in the midst of conference schedules where also rans rise up to topple powers, but at least a month earlier than we usually get them.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 22, 2017
It’s become almost a yearly occurrence now that Scott Drew’s Baylor squads are underrated heading into a season. The Bears perennially are undersold. They don’t have blueblood status steeped in decades of tradition. They just may not ‘look’ like a top 20 team in a modern game that values guards upon guards and has little use for teams defined by a quirky defense. Maybe it’s just the bad highlighter uniforms. Whatever the reason, it’s an error that needs to be corrected.
