It’s not the case every year, but once again, the term ‘soft bubble’ is perfectly appropriate this year as NCAA tourney selection beckons.
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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 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 – Friday, January 12, 2018
Heaven knows there’s too much coach worship in college basketball, an art going back decades in the sport, well before the current best-known media sources. It’s hard not to get caught up in the work Chris Holtmann has done with Ohio State this year.
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 5, 2017
Wichita State and Cincinnati were poised to be the hottest things going in the American Athletic Conference this year, and both have generally delivered early in the season, if going through minor hiccups. Who else is going to join them at the top? Is it possible it could be…Tulane?
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 31, 2017
Saturday included 14 ranked teams in action, including a trio of games matching two ranked squads. Three ranked teams were knocked off by unranked, and three more very nearly were. Number One went down. In the end, though, the biggest storyline were the undefeated teams. Specifically, the day started with three. By the end there were none.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Bennie Boatwright just may have saved USC’s season over the Christmas holiday, delivering a clutch performance that could turn the Trojans’ campaign around, or at least will keep it from spiraling hopelessly downhill for now.
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 – Friday, November 17, 2017
We may be barely a week into the college basketball season, but it’s not hard to make an argument that a number of teams and conferences just might be already entering the most important 7-10 days in their regular seasons.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Minnesota and Providence provided one of the best matchups of the young season, something we’ve come to expect from the Gavitt Games, which gets it right better than most conference challenge events.
