Conference play has finally arrived, along with all of the New Year’s resolutions that people are bound to forget or disregard in the coming weeks. As is the case every year, now is the time when the price of poker goes up across the country.
As always, analyst William Whelan is here to break down the top storylines, dish out the latest analysis, and offer up his hottest of takes on everything college basketball.
The focus of today’s podcast is all about, as Whelan calls them, #RoadDubs. Winning away from home in any sport is tremendously difficult, but no sport offers up its visiting conference foes to the wolves more ruthlessly than college hoops. Come the conference season, it doesn’t matter if you’re playing in Durham or Dayton. As Whelan puts it, beating a bottom feeder on the road might be more difficult than beating Kansas at home, no matter who you are.
So, Whelan throws some props and respect (the hustle) to some of the weekend’s best road wins and offers up a few quick takes about which wins mean what to the teams or conferences involved.
In the Pac-12 it was Arizona, USC, and Colorado who all earned #RoadDubs in hostile terriroty, particularly the Wildcats. In the Big 10, Michigan State, Maryland, Iowa, and Indiana all came away unscathed from a recent test. The race for the SEC has officially gotten interesting, with LSU beating Vanderbilt in Nashville, and both the Big 12 and ACC flashed a few road wins as well.
