Oakland makes the Horizon League race a little more interesting as it winds down. Also, for the second straight Friday, it was a good night to be a road team.
Tag: Kent State
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, December 28, 2016
This morning, when they inevitably think again about the opportunity that got away last night, Minnesota players and coaches will have to remind themselves time and again: it was only one game.
2015-16 MAC Post-Mortem
Depending on how one wants to look at it, the Mid-American Conference in 2015-16 again fit into its seemingly perpetual niche as a good-but-not-great league, or is teetering on a breakthrough. Take your pick.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 27, 2016
If you only saw the first 38 1/2 minutes of the game between Virginia and Wake Forest Tuesday night, you wouldn’t believe the final result. In fact, the same would go if you only saw the first 39 minutes and 45 seconds. It was the Demon Deacons’ night, about to snap a four-game losing streak with a home win over a top 15 team. The Cavaliers were done. And then they weren’t.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 8, 2015
With Monday night being a mostly quiet one on the college basketball schedule, it left us a little more time to think of former Butler center Andrew Smith, as he enters yet another battle. Sad news in the college basketball world was shared Monday morning by Andrew Smith’s wife Sam, […]
Scanning the Nation Notebook – February 27, 2015
Some college basketball thoughts from the end of February, just before we turn the calendar to the most exciting month on the sporting calendar:
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 6, 2015
A young UCLA team continues to grow up, and the Bruins may be hitting a growth spurt at just the right time. Nearly written off just a couple weeks ago, UCLA has responded with three straight wins to jump back into the national conversation.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Surprisingly, we haven’t heard a whole lot about Texas A&M as an NCAA Tournament candidate yet. That should be changing very soon, because the Aggies are leaving us all no choice.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 16, 2014
The second day of the college basketball season was generally a quiet one. Before getting to Saturday’s games, though, a quick look back at a one that went very late and under the radar from Friday:
2013-14 MAC Post-Mortem
No more are the days when, in projecting the best teams in the Mid-American Conference, one could eliminate half the deck before even starting their breakdown.
