Notes, thoughts, numbers and more gibberish about the college basketball landscape post-Super Bowl and with Selection Sunday now just over a month away…
Tag: Loyola (Ill.)
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 8, 2018
St. John’s and St. Bonaventure. What a night it was Wednesday for a pair of Catholic schools in New York on the college basketball scene. Also, if anyone has been lulled into thinking there are three teams this season far and away above everyone else? Wednesday night provided the reality check.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 25, 2018
There just might be a team finally ready to break free of the mass of sameness in the Missouri Valley, as Loyola Chicago took hold of first place at the halfway mark in resounding fashion Wednesday night in a battle for first at Drake.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 10, 2017
Boston College’s 89-84 win over Duke on Saturday was a stunner, rocking the college hoops world in early December as if it was NJIT against Michigan. And yet, in a number of ways, maybe it shouldn’t have been that hard to see coming after all. For one thing, the Blue […]
The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 7, 2017
Mike Hopkins gets his first signature win as a head coach, but a big takeaway is that his team is getting better. Plus a couple of upsets and a few near misses, a game gets canceled, and an Eagle is done for the season.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, November 26, 2017
The Great Alaska Shootout closed out a great run last night. Sadly, it did not get the final round of respects it deserved, but that didn’t stop it from delivering one final thriller for those who enjoyed so many over the years in this long-running event. The 40th and final […]
2016-17 MVC Post-Mortem
Last year was the end of a storied run in the Missouri Valley Conference, and the 2016-17 season was too, as Wichita State concluded a 68-year run in the league.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, January 12, 2017
Don’t we seem to write this same story every year for Michigan State? And, for that matter, Richmond too?
The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 8, 2017
The first Saturday of the new year brought us a rarity in college basketball during conference play: a day with few meaningful upsets of any kind. Nineteen nationally ranked teams played on Saturday. Eighteen of them won. The only one that didn’t (Virginia Tech) was playing on the road against […]
Scanning the Nation Notebook – Dec. 6, 2016
Early season notes on Temple, USC, Loyola (Ill.), Middle Tennessee State and more.
