If you only look at the preseason expectations of the ACC and the end results, then compare them, you miss the great journey that the conference provided in 2016-17.
Tag: Wake Forest
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 – Tueday, March 14, 2017
With a light day, as well as a relative lack of questions about this year’s bracket, it allowed some time to let this year’s NCAA Tournament bracket marinate a bit. And here’s a thought: this year’s tourney has a lot of really good first round matchups.
One day on the tournament trail- Barclays to MSG
Wednesday meant a day on the subway between two tournaments in the New York area, first at the Barclays Center and then Madison Square Garden.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 9, 2017
The Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament opened Thursday in Brooklyn, N.Y., under the guise of another money grab, er, “expanding its ‘brand.’” And while the meat of the event is still to come starting today, the early rounds still featured teams presumably playing for their NCAA Tournament lives. And all of them have lost already.
Wake Forest, Pitt move on – the numbers
Wake Forest and Pittsburgh advanced in the ACC Tournament’s opening round, and did so in contrasting games.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, March 2, 2017
There was still doubt even coming into Wednesday night, but you can say it now: Northwestern is going to the NCAA Tournament.
The Morning Dish – Monday, February 27, 2017
As conference tournaments beckon, we get ready for lots of lobbying for teams’ at-large candidacy to the NCAA Tournament and highlight one team that will be much-talked about. Plus a shocker in Orlando and an important result in the Big Ten lead the way.
Scanning the Nation January 24, 2017: On Wake Forest, Tulsa, Bucknell and more
Notes from around college basketball as we are in the late stages of January and endless bubble talk is just around the corner:
Scanning the Nation Notebook – Dec. 14, 2016
Notes from mid-December of the college basketball season.
