Tag: OVC

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 – Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Good morning. With just two days remaining before the 2017-18 season commences (at last), we roll on with Hoopville’s preseason briefs on all 32 NCAA Division I conferences: The Mountain West’s slippage continued last year, as a once reliable multi-bid conference (many forget the league put five in the NCAA […]

The Morning Dish – Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Good Tuesday morning. As the regular season is now just three days away, we continue Hoopville’s preseason rundown of all 32  NCAA Division I conferences: The Northeast Conference in recent years is annually one of the most balanced leagues in the country. This year there is a clear favorite, though, […]

The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 3, 2016

One of the most anticipated possible conference tournament finals of all will not be taking place this year, as the first two days of March are two-for-two in producing the upsets we’ve come to expect this time of year. The latest team to come from seemingly nowhere to make noise is Hartford, a seemingly benign seventh seed in the America East tournament.