On a night with five automatic bids handed out, one of them was a shocker to gain a second bid for the league. Plus it wasn’t a good night for higher seeds, and one more coach is out.
Tag: North Dakota State
The Morning Dish – Monday, March 11, 2019
Three more tickets are punched, and all three seemed unlikely in one way or another. Plus a few semifinals are set while others are right behind them, an unexpected outright regular season title, and a couple of Big Ten teams need to stop the bleeding.
The Morning Dish – Monday, November 19, 2018
It was almost a great day for the Big Ten as a few championship games took place. Plus a roundup of tournament action as a few finish up, as well as a few showcases and a couple of scores and stat lines that might jump out at you ahead of a great week loaded with tournament action.
2017-18 Summit League Post-Mortem
South Dakota State’s excellence in the Summit League has taken on historic proportions, with the Jackrabbits on a run rarely seen in the league’s history.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 7, 2018
Conference play may be still just getting rolling, but we’ve had more than enough to talk about already, from highly ranked teams going down to upstarts making moves. Here is a potpourri of thoughts from another crazy Saturday-and we’ve just started January: Before Thursday, who ever would’ve thought that the […]
A game a day for the 2017-18 season: January
We roll on with a look at our favorite games for every day of the season, our ultimate dream road trip through an entire college basketball year, with a look at January.
2016-17 Summit League Post-Mortem
The Summit League in 2016-17 did not match what was in many ways a banner season the year before. There would be little arguing as much. Coming off a superb year when the league finished 12th in conference RPI-after rising as high as No. 8 at one point-and put forth […]
The Morning Dish – Friday, January 20, 2017
It’s almost unthinkable that a Big Ten team can have a 17-2 record and be flying under the radar. Yet that’s exactly what Maryland has done so far this year in building exactly that gaudy record. The anonymity of the Terrapins can be summed up by the observation that Maryland […]
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 – Thursday, December 29, 2016
Remember when Oregon was a heavy favorite in the Pac-12 and a Final Four favorite heading into this season?
