With less than three weeks until Selection Sunday, here’s how the bracket is shaping up. For reference, the bracket holds 32 automatic bids for conference champions (noted with their conference next to their name), and the remaining 36 are at-large selections. I am evaluating teams on how…
I gave up my MVC vote when I moved back to New York, but that won’t stop me from debating all-conference picks anyway! I picked my teams in order of consideration. For example, the first player on my First Team picks is my Player of…
BY SHANE DAVIES Xavier 62, Butler 57 NEW YORK — In a game they desperately needed to win in order to sit comfortably on Selection Sunday, Xavier overcame a nine-point deficit Thursday deep into the second half to knock off Butler, 62-57. Junior guard Trevon Bluiett…
Every week for the 2016-17 season, The Catch and Shoot will name a Player of the Week, Freshman of the Week, Team of the Week and Game of the Week among the five Division I schools in the Chicago area. Here are the winners for…
In front of a sold-out crowd at Welsh-Ryan Arena, Northwestern used a 20-2 run in the first half to defeat Indiana 68-55. The game started off with the Hoosiers going inside to forward Thomas Bryant, who got Indiana out to a 10-1 lead nearly five…
After defeating Houston Baptist 72-63 on Thursday, Northwestern now won its last 18 games played in the month of December. However, it was not your traditional Wildcat basketball, as the team struggled to score in the first half, going 8-of-30 from the field. The Wildcats went into…
Every week for the 2016-17 season, The Catch and Shoot will name a Player of the Week, Freshman of the Week, Team of the Week and Game of the Week among the five Division I schools in the Chicago area. Here are the winners for…
Every week The Catch and Shoot will name a Player of the Week, Freshman of the Week, Team of the Week and Game of the Week from the five Division I schools in the Chicago area. Here are the winners for the sixth week of the…
The Missouri Valley Conference and Mountain West announced the matchups for their 2016 inter-conference challenge series. Matchups for the event are based on several factors, such as recent achievements, records and RPI rankings. The conferences also factor in how teams are projected to perform in the…
DePaul’s last three games have been against Division I bottom-feeders, but wins are wins. The Blue Demons blew past Chicago State on Saturday for a 96-72 win at Allstate Arena, their third in a row. Freshman wing Eli Cain netted a career-high 20 points while junior guard Billy…
