Thursday night meant one thing: Cincinnati vs. Xavier. The Crosstown Shootout. The best non-conference rivalry in college basketball, and (in this opinion) one of the top three rivalries in the sport right now.
Tag: Louisiana Tech
2015-16 Conference USA Post-Mortem
Conference USA didn’t have a regular season to remember, but made some serious noise in the postseason and tries to carry that into next season.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 29, 2016
The fifth entrant in NCAA Division I’s college basketball postseason debuted on Monday with the first-ever Vegas 16 tournament tipping off. If you’re a history buff, you really should check it out now because…if the event is relying heavily on ticket sales, the odds of there being a second one are not very good.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 8, 2016
Sometimes in college basketball, comebacks happen so fast and so suddenly that it’s literally as if a storm blew through, and a game seemingly in hand suddenly has slipped away. SMU was the victim in such a scenario in its NCAA Tournament loss to UCLA in March; last night, the Mustangs returned the favor.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 25, 2015
The championship game for the 32nd annual Maui Invitational is set, and this year’s matchup looks primed be a dandy like so many other title games in the tourney’s history.
2014-15 Conference USA Post-Mortem
Under coach Jerod Haase, UAB put together a terrific in-season turnaround this year and showed Conference USA what it can be capable of on the national stage.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 24, 2015
With the NCAA Tournament taking a break for a couple days, we have a prime opportunity to check in on the good ol’ National Invitation Tournament, which was in the spotlight Monday night.
The Morning Dish – Friday, March 6, 2015
The nickname will live on, but as far as the team that earned the label for Florida Gulf Coast, it turns out the first we saw of “Dunk City” in the NCAA tournament in 2013 was also the last. At the same time, FGCU’s legacy as a D-I newcomer making it big will live on and could only be added to this March.
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 27, 2015
Normally, the Big South is not leading news items in college basketball, especially at the end of February, when never-ending talk of bubbles and No. 1 seeds dominate the discussion, but no conference in NCAA Division I has had a more competitive league race this year.
The Morning Dish – Friday, February 20, 2015
Sometimes forgotten amidst all the “bubble” talk this time of year is a simple fact: if a team wins enough games, it doesn’t have to worry about being on the bubble.
