As the early season tournaments get going, impressions are made, especially the one made by Iowa in New York. Plus a number of other tournaments get going or have later action, and wildfires in California continue to impact games.
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The Morning Dish – Friday, December 15, 2017
It’s been a long time-way too long-since UNC Charlotte made some noise on the national college basketball scene. Pretty much everyone would’ve rather the 49ers made their return in a different way than they did Thursday, though.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 12, 2017
How does one put this politely? When it comes to exciting nights this college basketball season…one will find better just about every single day of this season than last night. A schedule of 11 games was exceeded in lightness by only how little there was noteworthy about the games. With […]
2016-17 American Athletic Conference Post-Mortem
As Wichita State joins the American Athletic Conference, we are seeing which programs are consistently carrying the flag early on, and a couple of surprising programs that are not.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Much the same as the NFL season opening on a Thursday night or Major League Baseball beginning on a Sunday night, the NCAA Tournament beginning with play-in games on a Tuesday night-starting with two 16 seeds against each other-will never feel right. That said, as long as the NCAA continues playing its First Four, then Tuesday night was a pretty good start for a tourney.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, January 4, 2017
One Big 12 team earned a signature win Tuesday night, the kind that may well be a golden ticket right into the NCAA Tournament in March. Another Big 12 team had a chance to do the exact same thing-and missed in excuciating fashion. Texas Tech and Kansas State are two of […]
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 13, 2016
It’s never too early to start picking up quality wins, even when you compete in a conference as tough as the Big East. And there’s no better attention-grabbing win at this time of the non-conference season than to knock off an undefeated team.
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, […]
2015-16 American Athletic Conference Post-Mortem
The American did well to place teams in the NCAA Tournament in 2015-16, but appears to be a conference still seeking a clear identity and a signature program.
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, December 16, 2014
In the middle of December the college basketball season grinds to a slow crawl, like one of those heavy coal trains taking its sweet time to cross and leaving you stuck at an intersection for an interminable amount of time. We also have now passed the one-month mark for the season, so it’s a good time to take an early look at some RPI numbers. It’s still early in the season, and especially too early to look at individual team RPI numbers too much yet, but we’re starting to get a drift of the pecking order for conferences.
