He's an Aussie schooled in cricket.
He could be the No. 1 pick in the MLB Draft.
And he thinks far beyond the history he's about to make.
"At the stem of it," Travis Bazzana says, "it's belief."
@TheAthletic
story:
Wisconsin band members confirmed the "No means no" chant was shut down by the Big Ten.
I asked the Big Ten official who addressed the band for the reason why, and was told, "Are we seriously going to argue about this right now?"
He leg-presses 900 pounds. He benches 300-plus. He has a 43.5" vertical and 5.4% body fat.
He never lifted a weight before Arizona and barfed the first time he did.
How To Build A Beast: The Deandre Ayton Story, now
@TheAthleticCBB
.
The last time Duke and UNC lost at home on the same day, Roy Williams was a high school basketball and golf coach and Mike Krzyzewski was literally in the Army.
Jarrett Culver worked out at 11am. Then 2:30pm. Then he practiced at 3:30. Then he made 300 shots late-night.
This is how the player who drove
@TexasTechMBB
to a Final Four went from good to great.
(Also he ate a lot.)
My story for
@TheAthleticCBB
:
Someone truly just asked UMBC’s Jairus Lyles if anyone has been sliding into his DMs since last night.
“Nah, I got a girl,” Lyles said, “so we don’t do that over here.”
In fairness there are cool things to do in this weather. You can take a cup of water outside, throw it in the air, and watch as your frozen hand snaps off and flies into the street while still holding the cup
Iowa was down 25. Iowa is now down by one. If you think that you've never seen anything like it before in the NCAA Tournament, you would be correct, because no team has ever come back from this far down in this event.
Ah yes. Journalism 101 lessons from the guy who was supposed to help me gather quotes at the Final Four...and then just didn't show up for access that day. Good times.
@MartySullivan10
@_COESIGN
The reporter didn't fact check it. Marvin Wilson did. That's my whole point. Shame on Norvell for lying. But, like, the first job of a reporter is to confirm what someone is telling you is true
Why don’t college hoops coaches just always wear the gear they wear at the exempt events? Jay Wright’s hoodie game is strong, for example.
Ditch the suits, men. Embrace comfort. Be the revolution.
LSU coach Kim Mulkey threatened legal action against The Washington Post about a story that she said the newspaper was reporting about her.
Mulkey opened the news conference saying that she was expecting a “hit piece.”
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There were anguished screams. There was dense silence. There was loss on the last Monday.
There was also defiance.
“The message is,” Chris Beard said, “we're not going anywhere."
My
@TheAthleticCBB
story on how
@TexasTechMBB
has been built to get back:
Illinois star Ayo Dosunmu has a broken nose, a source confirmed to The Athletic. He's been fitted for a mask but it's unclear when the potential All-American will return to the floor for the No. 5 Illini, who host Nebraska tonight. Dosunmu suffered the injury at Michigan State.
When I started covering Notre Dame, I needed Jeff Samardzija for a story. He was in the minors. I'd never, ever spoken to him before. Not once.
He called.
"What's up, dude?!? It's Samardzija!"
Today I learned Jeff Samardzija is 34.
I'm old. You're old. Everything is old.
A Dad was taking his daughter to play basketball. She probably got a lot of joy from playing. He surely felt immense joy and pride in watching her play. And then this. How unfair. How unspeakably sad.
Matt Mooney wanted a shot at an NCAA Tournament, so he opted to transfer.
Twelve hours later,
@TexasTechMBB
coaches sat on a broken couch in Vermillion, S.D., with a "need" and a proposal.
My
@TheAthleticCBB
story on a perfect marriage, now turned Elite:
Loyola great Jerry Harkness, a member of the 1963 title team: “We’ve waited 55 years. And it’s a beautiful thing that they went before I went into the ground.”
His house is eight miles away. He's been on campus for eight months. He wasn't even a top 100 recruit.
Now he's a face on billboards, a star of commercials and a topic of draft-board debate.
Blake Wesley is as advertised for
@NDmbb
.
@TheAthletic
story:
Hello,
@AlabamaMBB
fans. This is the story I wrote for
@TheAthleticCBB
after spending a few days with your new coach, Nate Oats.
Odds are your team will play fast and be good.
R.J. Barrett is the consensus No. 1 recruit.
Zion Williamson is the consensus No. 2 recruit.
Cam Reddish is the consensus No. 3 recruit.
They are all going to Duke.
Texas officials confirm there no more public tickets available for Saturday’s game vs. Texas Tech. Remaining seats have been promised to UT students who have “Big Ticket” athletic pass. On Stubhub, prices range from $115-$1,235.
Juwan Howard probably won't be fired for what he did and said Sunday, even if he should be.
But maybe Michigan doesn't let him coach another game until he grows up.
@TheAthletic
column:
This is going to be the most hilarious and impossible NCAA tournament ever.
MODERATOR: “Coach, we’ll begin with an opening statement about the win, and whether or not you think it’ll be a win three or four years from now.”
"It’s something I dreamed about. I didn’t know I could actually live it."
On the bizarrely beautiful basketball ride of
#TexasTech
guard Davide Moretti, from Bologna to Lubbock and back to the Sweet 16, for
@TheAthleticCBB
:
These days, things seem pretty rough.
Then your daughter has travel basketball practice. They pick teams to scrimmage. She's on the team with the girl who's picked last.
And she says she'll sit out, so the girl picked last can play first instead.
And things feel OK again.
Indiana confirms it has fired Archie Miller.
In a statement, athletics director Scott Dolson said "private, philanthropic funding" will take care of all "transition costs and obligations."
In other words, someone stepped up to hand over $10 million to make the change.
Texas Tech beats a No. 1 team for the first time, and I am legally obligated to tweet my
@TheAthleticCBB
story about spending a long weekend with Chris Beard, king of Lubbock and friend of fear.
Hello Michigan fans. It's basketball season!
I saw your team play in the Bahamas. And it is, it seems, good.
🏀 Why it's maybe time to trust Juwan Howard:
🏀 Some left. Those who stayed? Well, they're Battle 4 Atlantis champs:
"I need to make sure these two are good," Jaylen Nowell says. "No matter what."
He lost his father, his Superman, too young. He lost himself. But the
@UW_MBB
star found his way back by finding a purpose.
Why Jaylen Nowell can't stop, now
@TheAthleticCBB
:
"Nothing surprises me with this group."
So, yeah,
@CycloneMBB
is really doing this. A historic beatdown of a rival, a 9-0 record that's more than magic and riding it all as long as it lasts.
@TheAthleticCBB
column from an electric night in Ames:
"This can't be real."
A crash in the middle of the night. Lives lost. A beloved coach's future altered forever. And the burden of
@BadgerMBB
to somehow carry on.
My story for
@TheAthleticCBB
:
Vermont just won at St. John's. First win over a member of the current Big East since the 1920s.
Someone should go to Burlington and have good beer and write a story about John Becker and the Catamounts and why this is no surprise.
Oh, wait. 👇
"Our future," Mark Pope tells the audience, "is almost intoxicatingly exciting."
Beat Gonzaga, soon, becomes Beat Kansas and Beat Baylor. This is
@BYUMBB
and its energized coach preparing for now...and what's next.
My
@TheAthletic
deep dive from Provo:
“That’s just who we are.”
Seems we should’ve known about
@umichbball
. Yes, one guy + good scorers left. But those who stayed, well, they’re Battle 4 Atlantis champions.
My
@TheAthleticCBB
story:
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