As a big day of championship games beckons, bubble teams can’t breathe any easier. Plus another controversy with an ACC player and a couple of concerning injuries for bubble teams don’t help matters.
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The Morning Dish – Friday, March 2, 2018
It appeared Thursday night was going to offer us yet another instance of a top-ranked team losing this season when Virginia looked on its way to a sure loss at Louisville Thursday night. The Cavaliers trailed by four points, and there was less than one second left on the clock. No problem. All it took was two made free throws, a travel on the baseline by a Cardinals player inbounding the ball, and then a banked in three-pointer at the buzzer.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 27, 2018
We may not be in March just yet, but there’s no better notice that it’s just around the corner than the first college hoops conference tournament tipping off. The Atlantic Sun sat in the pole position for this season, the first of 32 tournaments to get underway Monday night already, nearly two weeks before Selection Sunday.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Kansas’s run at yet another Big 12 regular season championship is still alive and well. Oklahoma’s run at a seemingly lock NCAA Tournament berth a couple weeks ago may well now be in peril.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 23, 2018
We’re getting closer. It’s still only January yet, but with February just around the corner now, we’re nearing the time where talk about things like bracketology and bubbles can actually pick up in earnest as sample sizes finally reach a representative phase.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Almost as infuriating on Monday as a deserving championship contender being kept from a real shot at a national title solely because of collusion is how so many networks covering college basketball continue to run away from a prime opportunity to do something different on that night.
The Morning Dish – Monday, November 6, 2017
As the exhibition slate winds down, we look ahead to a few more conferences, including an academic league that promises good basketball and an even better race for the top.
The Morning Dish – Friday, March 10, 2017
The subject hasn’t seemed to come up much at all this season, so it’s time to ask: are we on track for a repeat national title game matchup?
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 9, 2017
The Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament opened Thursday in Brooklyn, N.Y., under the guise of another money grab, er, “expanding its ‘brand.’” And while the meat of the event is still to come starting today, the early rounds still featured teams presumably playing for their NCAA Tournament lives. And all of them have lost already.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, February 28, 2017
March Madness is here, and it’s only February. The first NCAA Division I conference tournament opened Monday night, as the Atlantic Sun-always near the top of the alphabetical D-I conference standings listings-also tipped off the tournament season.
