Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball (miracle comebacks sold separately in Iowa City):
Could you feel it Saturday? That was March arriving early. Buzzer beaters, big upsets, thick tension … the best month of the season stole the tip, and The Minutes is perfectly fine with that. If you can ignore the embarrassment at Alabama for a few minutes, the rest of the sport is roaring into March like a lion.
Some things are new and different—Pittsburgh is leading the Atlantic Coast Conference, Youngstown State has won its first division league championship (in the Horizon), Southern Mississippi has won its first outright league title in 22 years (Sun Belt). But a lot of other things feel familiar. Let’s look at the habitual trends happening right on schedule as the regular season reaches its final stage.
