A hometown hero has Providence poised to continue to even greater heights never before seen. Plus more tournament action gets going, and another 20-20 game is in the books but in a losing effort.
Tag: Northern Kentucky
2016-17 Horizon League Post-Mortem
The 2016-17 season continued a run of a bumpy couple of years for the Horizon League, with more than its share of changes and challenges.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, March 8, 2017
In a tumultuous few years for the Horizon League, Northern Kentucky has come along at just the right time to provide a bright spot.
Scanning the Nation: Notes from the first weekend of Jan. league play
It was a rather docile first full weekend of January, early in the conference portion of the college basketball season. Here are some quick hit notes from around the country, from A (Arizona) to…well, at least W (Western Illinois):
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 […]
2015-16 Horizon League Post-Mortem
For a year at least, the Horizon League harkened back to some glory years, with a collection of individual talent the conference hasn’t seen in perhaps a long time.
2014-15 Atlantic Sun Post-Mortem
North Florida became the latest program to blossom in the Atlantic Sun, and the Ospreys, Florida Gulf Coast and USC Upstate gave the league a solid three-team base at the top in 2014-15.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, April 8, 2015
The 2014-15 college basketball season is in the books, but there was still plenty to talk about a day after Monday’s terrific 2015 NCAA Tournament finale between Duke and Wisconsin.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Officially, the NCAA Tournament begins Tuesday night with a pair of games, part of the “First Four” as it is known. Manhattan and Hampton square off first in a tussle between two 16 seeds, followed by Mississippi and BYU in a tilt of 11 seeds. Unofficially, these are still the games that a lot of brackets are going to let you slide on picking, in order to have a little more time to get your picks ready for your office pool or friendly competition with friends.
2013-14 Atlantic Sun Post-Mortem
The Atlantic Sun had a big run in the postseason once again, showing that while the conference doesn’t get a lot of notice during the regular season, its teams can’t be dismissed when March rolls around.
