11/17 recap

Seton Hall 83, @St Louis 66 - this should last as a signature road win for the resume
@UConn 62, Florida 59 - UF doing legitimate damage to its resume early in the year



quick hitters:
@Arizona 83, New Mexico St 53
@Wisconsin 77, Marquette 61
UCF 67, @Illinois St 65
@Oklahoma St 64, Yale 57

11/16 recap

Tennessee 75, Washington 62 - a notable neutral site win
@LSU 75, Nicholls 65 - Nicholls is frisky!  won at Pitt and hung with LSU and Illinois.  Notable
Vermont 70, @St John's 68 - don't laugh, but Vermont has signature win chances coming up.  This is getting serious

@Old Dominion 76, Northeastern 69 - mid-major road win that caught my eye
Belmont 100, @Boston College 85 - another one
Temple 70, @LaSalle 65
San Francisco 76, @Southern Illinois 60

Buffalo 88, Harvard 76 - MAC favorites > Ivy favorites
USC 76, @Nevada 66

11/15 recap

Gonzaga 79, @Texas A&M 79 - any road win by 30 is a signature win
@Xavier 59, Missouri 56 - this should hold up as a quality win by March
West Virginia 68, @Pitt 53
@Rhode Island 93, Alabama 79
@Nebraska 90, South Dakota St 73 - this is actually a pretty terrible loss given how bad Nebraska is
BYU 72, @Houston 71 - a road win of modest value.  Worth monitoring BYU in the WCC just in case
@Utah 73, Minnesota 69

This actually feels like a light impact day.

11/14 recap

Michigan St 76, @Seton Hall 73 - there's a quality road win.  MSU will be fine.  And Seton Hall will be fine too, although I wonder about their signature win access in the Big East.  Could've really used this as a lynchpin of the resume

Penn St 81, @Georgetown 66
@Richmond 93, Vanderbilt 92 (OT)

@East Tennessee St 61, Winthrop 58 - why it's so brutal as a midmajor.  Playing these kinds of road games all the time.  This shouldn't be a damaging loss, but you know it will be

11/13 recap

@Ohio St 76, Villanova 51 - as you can guess by now, I only put modest stock into big games where the home team holds serve
@VCU 84, LSU 82 - this is another one of those types of games.  Although with the A-10, VCU might've needed this a bit more than LSU

St Joseph's 96, @UConn 87 - here's a result that's mildly curious.  UConn can't really maintain at-large hopes with these kinds of losses

Oklahoma St 73, @Charleston 54 - true road win over the CAA favorites will absolutely carry value in March

@Marquette 65, Purdue 55
@Northwestern 72, Providence 63 - the Gavitt games aren't really providing a lot of intrigue here

11/12 recap

Evansville 67, @Kentucky 64 - uhhhhhhhhhhhh

Check back in 3 months to see what I think of this.  Can't take Evansville seriously as a tourney threat.  Kentucky will be fine long term but it can absolutely cost them the 1 line in March

Oregon 82, Memphis 74 - goes down as a sexy neutral site win for Oregon

status quo games:
@Xavier 63, Missouri 58 (OT)
@Michigan 79, Creighton 69
@Butler 64, Minnesota 56
@Cal 79, UNLV 75 (OT)

Pitt 71, @Robert Morris 57 - hey, any true road win has value
Auburn 70, @South Alabama 69 - and this is why.  Any road win is a quality win now
@Santa Clara 70, Washington St 62 - and this is really why
Miami 79, @UCF 70
Oklahoma 77, Oregon St 69 - neutral site win

moderately interesting mid-major related games:
Coppin St 76, @Loyola(Chi) 72 - the hell happened here?
@Tennessee 82, Murray St 63
@USC 84, South Dakota St 66

11/11 recap

Winthrop 61, @St Mary's 59 - wait, what?  A lot of goodwill from a road win at Wisconsin is gone with this (although if you had a choice of a split, you'd rather have the good win and bad loss, than a normal loss and normal win).

Is Winthrop in play?  Not really.  Schedule doesn't really give them a realistic chance to build a resume, and the Big South isn't good enough to support any kind of candidacy.

DePaul 93, @Iowa 78 - is DePaul finally good?  Probably not, but I don't know how to explain this one.

The rest of the schedule this day is pretty barren.