The Ivy League Continues to Rise, and A Big West Team Falls off the Bubble Completely

It is a very good thing that Friday night was so slow in college basketball, since my Comcast internet connection went down for several evening hours. Barring any upset, there was only one Friday night game, Princeton's neutral-court game against Pacific, might be worth recapping. Let's see if anything else popped up during Friday's schedule.

Duke Pulls Away From UCLA and Two Aspiring Tourney Teams Suffer Shocking Losses

Thursday night was relatively quiet for college basketball. In the conference season, a number of conferences will head up with weekend prep games on Thursday night, but on the one before Christmas, we saw relatively few decent games. Barring any upsets, the only one worthy of much of a mention was going to be Duke and UCLA. So let's take a look at what happened.

And Then There Were Twelve

Traveling all the way from one coast to the other is always a bit of a daunting task for a team in college basketball. Winning a game at the other team's place is even more difficult. That's just what Stanford did on Wednesday night when it took down one of the last unbeaten teams: UConn. We also saw an interesting game with Texas going to UNC. Let's take a look at Wednesday night's action.

College Basketball Loses One More Unbeaten and Other Tuesday Night Drama

We started the night with fourteen unbeaten squads. Four, Wichita State, Pittsburgh, Oregon, and Toledo, were in action. One of the four would not make it through the night. Meanwhile, Florida and Memphis played an absolute war of a game in MSG. Find out about a good Wednesday night of hoops inside.

Monday's NCAA College Basketball Recap: Duke Rolls

Nothing much happened on Monday night, so we'll just have a quick look at the one important game before heading on to previewing Tuesday's action.

College Basketball Calms Down for Finals

Not much happened on Sunday, certainly nothing that would have changed the bracket. Teams won games as they were expected to, letting college basketball fans who are actually in college more time to study for finals. Let's go over the couple of games of note that were played.

Bracket Brief for December 15, 2013

Seed	West (1) Anaheim (Th/Sa)	South (4) Memphis (Th/Sa)	Midwest (2) Indianapolis (Fr/Su)	East (3) New York (Fr/Su)
Site 1 16 8 9	San Diego (Fr/Su) Arizona Char. So./No. Colo. New Mexico Indiana	St. Louis (Fr/Su) Ohio State Stony Brook Kentucky Virginia	Milwaukee (Th/Sa) Wisconsin Elon/Southern Creighton Harvard	Buffalo (Th/Sa) Syracuse North Carolina Central Marquette Michigan
Site 5 12 4 13	Orlando (Th/Sa) Iowa State BYU Connecticut Belmont	San Diego (Fr/Su) Massachusetts Florida State Colorado Toledo	San Antonio (Fr/Su) Kansas Arkansas Wichita State New Mexico St.	Spokane (Th/Sa) UCLA Southern Miss Missouri North Dakota St.
Site 3 14 6 11	Orlando (Th/Sa) Florida Louisiana Lafayette Memphis VCU	Raleigh (Fr/Su) North Carolina Green Bay Saint Louis Xavier/LSU	Spokane (Th/Sa) Oregon UC Santa Barbara Baylor Drexel	Milwaukee (Th/Sa) Michigan State Bucknell Duke Dayton/Arizona St.
Site 7 10 2 15	Raleigh (Fr/Su) St. Mary's Georgetown Pittsburgh Manhattan	San Antonio (Fr/Su) Gonzaga Minnesota Oklahoma State Mercer	St. Louis (Fr/Su) Iowa Clemson Louisville Bryant	Buffalo (Th/Sa) San Diego State Tennessee Villanova Oral Roberts

Note: Through games of December 14, 2013. Teams in italics below represent automatic bids. The rankings at the top of each column are based on the overall seeds of the top four teams, so the winner of the regional with the team seeded #1 overall would meet the winner of the regional with the team seeded #4 overall.