Preview of Huge Saturday for a Slow Friday

Like most Friday nights, we'll spend most of the recap previewing Saturday.

The Pac-12's Opening Night Provides Major Bracket Drama

January 2nd carried the best action of 2014 thus far, as the Pac-12 opened its season. Three games proved to have bracket implications, including a major road win, a major upset, and two bubble teams who happen to be rivals duking it out. The Pac-12 still is not getting much love from computer numbers, but Arizona's resurgence and Oregon's hot start seem to have helped public perception of the recently maligned conference.

College Basketball Opens 2014 in Boring Fashion

I tried, I really tried. I wanted to find a game to go into an in-depth recap on for the January 1 action. But there simply was not a game worthy of an entire paragraph.

Villanova Bounces Back with Major Road Win; UConn Suffers Terrible Loss

Happy New Year everybody! And a happy second half of the college basketball season to you as well. Nearly every game played on New Year's Eve had major bracket implications, so it was hard to narrow down the most important games. We saw two Big Ten bubble teams duking it out, a couple of Big East powers throwing down, and a major upset of one of the American Athletic Conference teams.

Toledo Finally Falls But Hangs Tough at Kansas

We saw tonight another undefeated team go down after Toledo fell at Kansas. The result was not unsurprising, but Toledo proved a lot about itself even in a ten-point loss. Elsewhere, a major Big 12 team fell rather unexpectedly, and two major conference teams battled for RPI points for themselves and their respective conferences.

NCAA College Basketball Naps During the NFL's 17th Week

With Week 17 in the NFL underway, college basketball was smart to not put any marquee games on Sunday. Still, there were a few games of note. Drexel fell further off the bubble, perhaps permanently, and Notre Dame nearly added a dreadful loss to its at-large resume when it needed overtime to take out a mediocre Canisus.

Bracket Brief for December 29, 2013

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

Note: Through games of December 28, 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.