One thing kids these days will never understand is how often we used to have to change light bulbs.

If a coach isn’t allowed to manipulate their lineup to try to achieve a strategic advantage then I’m sorry you don’t really have a team sport insidenu.com/2024/4/11/2412…

Shooting splits in the NCAA Tournament for the last 16 National Champions

A longer missive on Dan Hurley and close games: nitbracketology.com/2024/04/on-dan… (thanks again to Bart T🏀rvik for the data)

Since 2001, Big Ten is 0 for 8 in the finals and the Big East is 8 for 8. Pretty kooky.

Tourney stats (e.g. PASE & PAKE) now updated. Hopefully correct! UConn takes over lead in both PASE (passing Mich. St.) and PAKE (passing UNC) since 2000. barttorvik.com/cgi-bin/ncaat.…

Josh Look at all the teams the big ten teams have ran into in the title game:
1 seed Maryland
1 seed UNC
1 seed Florida
1 seed UNC
1 seed Louisville
1 seed Duke
1 seed Villanova
1 seed UConn

Smith and Loyer will have to be better for Purdue to hang.

Zach Edey doing some excellent just talling so far.

Im in Bloomington Indiana to see William Shatner and I’m not the only one.

That was an exciting free throw. Time for another commercial break.

Purdue with 0 fouls at 6:29 mark of first half. Transformation from a program that fouls all the time to hardly fouling at all has been remarkable.

Some amazing stats about Bo Ryan in this article. Amazing.

Hell yeah

By this logic you should be allowed to tackle the shooter. Idiotic.

The replay on the broadcast was a bad angle. If you’re on Twitter, you’ve now had a chance to see the foul. If you go to bed thinking it was a bad call, you’re dead to me.

Right. You know the coaching in that timeout was “lay her out because they won’t call it.” Usually they don’t and maybe they shouldn’t. But this is not Nam, there are rules.

Look how wide the legs are. Clearly a defensible call.

As I always say, Roll Tide

College basketball was recently derided as unappealingly “flat.”

Enter DJ Burns