0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/26/2015
It’s good on a number of levels that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski notched his 1,000th victory on Sunday, in a non-conference game against St. John’s. The win occurred outside the realm of the ACC. It served as a stand-alone event removed from the league race. The seminal achievement in the history of college basketball could […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/25/2015
Michigan State lost at Nebraska on Saturday. You might not think that’s too big a deal. After all, Michigan State lost at home to the Huskers a season ago, and not only made the NCAA tournament, but gained a No. 4 seed and eventually progressed to the Elite Eight. This is a Tom Izzo team. […]
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A total of 137 games were played on Saturday. What five stories emerged from the pack? Here they are: * 5 – DAVIDSON AND DAYTON AVOID BAD LOSSES There is a difference between a quality win and a bad loss, between making a tangible gain and avoiding a huge step backward. For the Davidson Wildcats […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/24/2015
Showing the maturity of a team beyond its years on the roster, Kansas picked up a huge road win over Texas Saturday. This was a strong bounce-back after falling to Iowa State just a week earlier for its first Big 12 loss. That setback in Ames against the Cyclones exposed some weaknesses and possibly a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/23/2015
We still have five weeks to go until March, and seven weeks until Selection Sunday on March 15. Moving parts will continue to shift across the chessboard. A team in the top 25 of the (meaningless) polls will lose two or three games late in the season and approach the bubble if not crash all […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
After Thursday night’s win over Maryland, Indiana has proven all of the national media wrong through 20 games and has forced its way to a first-place tie with Wisconsin in the Big Ten. In fact, Dan Dakich has been calling for Tom Crean to be the 2015 Coach of the Year favorite due to the […]
Oregon State head coach Wayne Tinkle has done a remarkable job with his roster this season, but if he’s going to make the NCAA tournament, he’ll have to get his team to win on the road, something it manifestly failed to do on Wednesday night against Arizona State.
0 comments by Matt Zemek
This is becoming a special college basketball season for a number of programs that, in recent years, have known nothing other than misery. Teams that have slogged through hopeless seasons over the past half-decade are finally beginning to dig out of a cave and rediscover what it means to live in the light. Two of […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 1/22/2015
When I watch a college basketball game, I’m not one of those people who pays much attention to who is announcing the game, what the scorebug on the TV looks like, or most other aesthetics. However, one thing I do love to see is the different court designs. Perhaps that’s why I hate how the […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/21/2015
After the Big East lost many of the heavy hitters that made the conference so legendary in hoops for the past few decades, it appeared that it could be a while before really competitive basketball returned to the league. However, it is well ahead of schedule. It took just two years to return to a […]
0 comments by Scott on 1/19/2015
Welcome to the winners and losers of the weekend. This is a very scientific post in which the author judiciously decides what teams and players were winners or losers of the weekend. It should be taken very seriously, with the winners being filled with pride, and the losers being filled with shame, but still harboring […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/18/2015
The Arizona Wildcats lost at Oregon State last Sunday night. They played a very ordinary game against the going-nowhere Colorado Buffaloes on Thursday. It’s true that a lot of season remains — two whole months before the NCAA tournament starts — but if you thought Arizona was a Final Four contender, you wouldn’t have known […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
When the NFL playoffs occupy a January Saturday, the number of evening games with ranked teams can typically be counted on one hand. With no more Saturday football, the college basketball season unfurled its first industrial-strength Saturday. Most of the bigger games were blowouts, but that won’t prevent The Student Section from selecting the top […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
Did Saturday’s battle in Ames, Iowa, show a changing of the guard at the top of the Big 12? The answer is not necessarily, but after the Kansas dynasty has claimed 10 straight conference crowns, Iowa State made a statement with its victory over the Jayhawks on Saturday. The past three years, Iowa State is […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/17/2015
While West Virginia typically wins ugly, the Mountaineers proved on Saturday that they can also lose ugly as well. The Texas Longhorns did a great job attacking the back end of the Mountaineer press most of the night and picked up a huge win it absolutely had to have in a game that somehow transcended […]
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Oklahoma ran wild against Oklahoma State… throughout Saturday’s game, and especially on these two dunks late in the Sooners’ blowout win:
