Kevin Willard’s good run at Seton Hall of late is continuing with a team that just got another nice win. Plus early conference play continues in the Midwest, a couple of surprises, and a first for a Mountain West team.
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The Morning Dish – Saturday, November 25, 2017
The most telling game of the day had one team pulling out another where they seemed vulnerable and it was one that got away for their opponent. Plus tournament action heats up, with a few surprises as a day off looms for many of them.
Scanning the Nation Notebook for Nov. 20 – Notes from CBB’s 2nd weekend
Another quiet weekend included college football again making for light schedules, plus some underwhelming fields in eight-team tournaments. Here are some quick-hit notes from the third weekend of November and second of the hoops season:
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:
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 – Wednesday, January 25, 2017
It’s become obvious in recent years that the NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee, commonly known by most as the selection committee for the sport’s tournament field, feels the need to regularly throw out trial balloons under the guise of making the event “better.” Even if those balloons are filled with lead.
Twenty teams to keep an eye on in 2016-17
You never know where the next big story may come from in a college basketball season. With that in mind, here are 20 teams to watch entering the 2016-17 season.
2015-16 Big West Post-Mortem
Hawaii was a fortuitous-and wise-addition for the Big West Conference when the school joined in 2012, and it took just a couple years for the league to see a significant payoff.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 29, 2016
North and south, east and west, there were high-level games and fantastic finishes last night. We’ve still got more than a month yet until we get to March-including a Leap Year day-but it felt like a snapshot from the greatest basketball month of the year.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 15, 2016
Thursday night provided a flurry of activity, good games and most notable results, but few games this year have drawn us in more at the end like the Conference USA tilt between UAB and Old Dominion did.
