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2 months

No amount of brilliant basketball analysis could ever be better than this clip

NBA on TNT

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Chuck’s had it with the Pelicans 💀

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Christian Braun just looked me straight in the eye and called me a bitch

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Coach K screamed at his team to get "one stop, right now" Carolina got two buckets in 10 seconds instead

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2 years

Just to be clear: The only thing preventing Duke-UNC in the Final Four, and the two most annoying days of press availability in Earth history, is the Saint Peter's Peacocks. God help us all

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4 years

You merely adopted the empty stadium. Indiana football was born in it, molded by it

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3 months

One of the worst calls of the season in the most important moment for Samford's season, and possibly in program history. Great job ref

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8 months

I wrote about Bob Knight, my father and the death of an American archetype. This one is free for everybody:

Bob Knight was my dad

On the death of an American archetype

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7 years

Bad news morning. I loved every bit of my eight years at ESPN and will miss it, and so many friends and colleagues there, profoundly.

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2 years

Adonis Arms will start at point guard against Duke for No. 3 seed Texas Tech. It will be another step on one of the most unlikely journeys in recent hoops history -- from JV to juco to DII to DI -- all driven by wild self-belief. My piece on his story:

The unmistakeable, unbreakable resilience of Texas Tech's Adonis Arms

Arms told his juco teammates, "I'm going to play in the NBA." They laughed. But he just might, and he'll definitely play in the Sweet 16.

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

“Illinois fans are pretty annoying, I’m not going to lie.” — Hunter Dickinson

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3 months

Maybe Greg Sankey can get the NCAA to change the tournament rules so the SEC can replace teams that lose in the first round with more, worse, SEC teams

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6 years

Honestly, the best news for Virginia is that this happened in 2018, when something horrifying and unprecedented happens hourly and everyone just sort of moves on

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4 months

Between this, the Crazies throwing stuff and Scheyer apologizing to them, it was a great night for people who hate Duke for being awkward and weird

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4 months

Kyle Filipowski sticks his leg out and trips Harrison Ingram, then pretends to stomp his shoes and walk it off like he's injured

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4 months

Starting to feel bad for Virginia. Yes, sure, it is their fault they can't score, but it's not their fault the selection committee didn't seem to realize this

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3 months

Not often you get a mid-major upset where the mid-major is just obviously the better team for 40 minutes. JMU is that

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2 years

Someone has to explain to me what Jesus Ferreira (or really any US striker) brings that Aaronson or Reyna couldn’t playing in the same areas. I just do not understand this

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7 years

It's important not to be hyperbolic about this ... but Wichita State at a No. 10 seed is history's greatest mistake.

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Eamonn Brennan

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7 months

Sad week at the Brennan house: We said goodbye to my 14 year old lab Layla. I got her when I was 23, living with six friends in Chicago, but she made my wife and I feel like we started a family, and then became the perfect dog for three small kids. What a run. RIP girl.

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Eamonn Brennan

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6 years

Didn’t have time for this right after the game, but: Yesterday Clay Young and Sam Cunliffe said that when they win at Fortnite before a KU game, KU wins too. Tonight, sources close to the program confirmed Young and Cunliffe won a squad game last night.

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Eamonn Brennan

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7 years

I feel like I say this every time Purdue plays a big home game but Mackey Arena is a legitimately terrifying place

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1 year

Last week, The Athletic laid me off. I’m grateful for my time there and gutted it had to end. I’ve thought a lot about it since, and it’s time to finally take this plunge. Presenting Buzzer: Great hoops writing, all year long, made with your support.

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1 year

Whatever happens the rest of the season, IU fans should cherish whatever amount of Trayce Jackson-Davis they have left. Dudes this good do not come around often.

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4 years

They could make the whole thing “Roy talks about Michael Jordan for several hours” and I’d be just as here for it

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4 months

Honestly, what is this dude’s problem

Kyle Tucker

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4 months

Today, I asked Greg Sankey his response to those who’d tell him leave the NCAA Tournament alone. I didn’t get the sense that he’s gonna.

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3 years

Dayton fans are the absolute best

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7 years

Doug Collins' face best described as "dude at music festival who doesn't remember what he took"

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2 years

The other night against Seton Hall, Eddie Lampkin chased down a loose ball to the sideline and then in midgame asked me, the first random person he saw sitting on press row: "You like my energy?!" I told him yes. I do like his energy!

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Eamonn Brennan

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3 years

"So what do you do?" "I'm a philanthropist, primarily." "Oh, wow. What sort of philanthropy?" "Well, I don't really like to talk about my charity work, but the big one lately is I gave Indiana a bunch of money to get rid of their bad basketball coach."

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Eamonn Brennan

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4 years

The best NCAA Tournament game I ever saw: Last year, courtside, for Virginia 80, Purdue 75 -- elevated not only by a buzzer-beater but by one of the greatest performances in defeat by any player EVER. Now @TheAthleticCBB :

The Best NCAA Tournament Game I Ever Saw: What made Virginia-Purdue so great

The 2019 Elite Eight matchup will be remembered for Mamadi Diakite's last-second shot, but don't forget about how great Carsen Edwards was.

www.nytimes.com

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5 years

Hi Internet! My wife and I had a little boy over the weekend. If you’re wondering why you won’t see anything new from me @TheAthleticCBB for a hot minute here, that’s why. Back shortly. See you then!

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10 years

Bill Self entered the press conference, took a sip out of a water bottle. “I was hoping that was vodka.”

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4 years

People like to hate on the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee here and there but at least they don’t just pick the Final Four and assume everyone is cool with it.

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1 year

This is the kind of thing they said at Livia Soprano's wake

CBS Sports College Basketball 🏀

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1 year

"You always knew where you stood with Jim Boeheim." - @JonRothstein

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Eamonn Brennan

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6 years

To the person at Turner who made sure the free throw percentage graphic was titled “Whom To Foul,” a nation of grammar nerds salutes you

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2 years

Say what you want about the First Four -- and I didn't like the change at the time, and still think the 64-team bracket is a perfect artifact blah blah -- but whoever made the call to have it in Dayton is a genius.

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6 years

Tony Bennett was screaming at the refs that Adel couldn't run the baseline. The refs informed Adel with the gesticulation equivalent of an airhorn that he couldn't run the baseline. He ran the baseline.

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2 years

Saw Jaden Ivey levitate and ascend beyond our earthly realm in the second half tonight, that was fun

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1 year

It's the worst thing about upsets like this. Instead of just saying "hey, it's the tournament, crazy shit happens," everyone tries to pretend like Purdue was bad all year

CJ Moore

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1 year

I’m sure there will be columns written about how Purdue choked and Matt Painter cannot win in March, but he’s a freak play away from a Final Four in 2019 and this team overachieved. He’s an excellent coach. Ignore those hot takes.

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2 years

It's very funny to see civilians skip in to enjoy some fun college hoops this month only to watch them react with utter, abject horror at the state of officiating at the college level Welcome, everyone! It's always like this

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Eamonn Brennan

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3 years

The college basketball offseason was sorely in need of a totally insane story. Louisville always has our back.

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2 years

I don’t get when coaches leave jobs for millions more elsewhere, then put out a floral statement thanking everyone from the university, assistant coaches, and the players they just left behind. Then they say they will always be a member of the school’s program and family 🙄

Seth Greenberg

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2 years

I just don’t get when players enter the portal then put out a glossy post thanking everyone from the University, teammates, assistant coaches and head coach. Then say they will alway be a member of the schools program and family. 🙄

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3 years

This is some classic Virginia tonight. Not peak Virginia, and not “hey we’ve got five shooters on the floor now, weee!” Virginia. This is the original recipe.

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7 years

HEY EVERYONE I'm writing about college basketball again and I'm pretty dang excited about it:

Big East Notebook: Butler proves 'it's still Butler'

The most famous moment of Butler’s latest raucous upset — the one that inspired invocations of Stephen Curry, the one tweeted and retweeted who-knows-how-many times, the one every Butler fan in...

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2 years

Kris Murray had 29 and 11 and Seton Hall kept pushing and pushing and really never got close to Iowa, even in its own gym. Hell of a win for Iowa

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1 year

I strongly urge ACC fans giving me a hard time about the league being bad or whatever to watch Marquette-Creighton. You will immediately notice the difference

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6 months

I don’t know what you want from your sixth year senior captain point guard but lots of turnovers and flagrant fouls and attempts to put the ball behind your back on a fast break probably aren’t on the list

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2 years

Xavier is fully determined to burn its season to the ground. Every time someone grabs a fire extinguisher, someone else grabs another can of gas

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Eamonn Brennan

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5 years

The quintessential Virginia basketball moment: Jack Salt sprinted back on a Tech fast break, fouled such that he prevented a make but didn't remotely risk a flagrant foul, and received standing ovation from JPJ. UVa was up 73-51.

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9 years

This day has somehow transcended its previous plane of existence, onto a level that includes cheesy sports movie final shot cliches

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1 year

ESPN showed Coach K telling the fans to be quiet again. Man. Still very funny

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4 years

Wait ... Ohio State (at one point) had all three of the first three picks in the draft and didn't win the national title? Unheard of.

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Eamonn Brennan

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6 years

Poor Virginia. They were as historically good defensively as Villanova was offensively, they went 31-3 and 17-1 in the ACC, that one loss was by one point in overtime, and they're going to be remembered for exactly one thing. The tournament is a mysterious fig.

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1 year

Going to spend the next two weeks talking about how stacked the West Region is only for that goofy Illinois team to win it

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Eamonn Brennan

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8 months

Absolutely incredible moment at the end of UVa-Florida: Tony Bennett screaming across the floor at Cory Alexander for showing the refs an angle on a review that gives the ball back to Florida. "Do your job! Come on man!" Hahahaha

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Eamonn Brennan

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3 years

Illinois going full heel might be my favorite thing about the Big Ten right now. The Illini expect to be *better* than they were last year -- and they expect the rest of the league to hate them for it.

Illinois' message to the rest of the Big Ten? Stay mad

Michigan's Hunter Dickinson leads the anti-Illini contingent in the Big Ten. Brad Underwood is cool with that.

www.nytimes.com

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Eamonn Brennan

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5 years

Massive win for VCU, and not only in terms of cost-benefit nonconference opportunity considerations but also because I get the vague impression most VCU fans no longer care very much for Will Wade

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2 years

Mike Woodson might not have the most up to date ideas on the math behind benching players in foul trouble but man he sure knows how to give confidence to his guys.

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2 years

Becoming increasingly obsessed with Providence. Not in a good way. In a Jake Gyllenhaal in “Zodiac” sort of way. Providence might just become my life now

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Eamonn Brennan

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4 months

Yes, Cal's buyout is the GDP of a small nation, but I still think Kentucky fans have it in them to run him out of town. If anyone can, they can

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Eamonn Brennan

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3 years

It would be one thing if "never beating Purdue" was just a weird statistical quirk in an otherwise successful four-year coaching tenure but, yeah, it's not

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Eamonn Brennan

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4 months

People act like Virginia wants to be this way, when most of its great teams have scored really efficiently. This one ... doesn't, and frustrated Tony Bennett so much this year he got T'd up for (gasp) swearing

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3 years

I leave Twitter for like two hours to write a story and come back to find people apparently arguing about whether Tony Bennett is a good coach, I think this web site is just melting everyone's brains

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7 months

Lol. Gonzaga has whittled UConn’s lead down to 10! Get marginally excited, Seattle crowd! UConn dunk, UConn layup, timeout Gonzaga

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1 year

I like the Big East

Basketball goes first: UConn's national title is more validation for the Big East Way

The Huskies are the third champ from the Big East in the last seven years. UConn rejoined the league in 2020, de-emphasizing football.

www.nytimes.com

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7 years

LSU had Ben Simmons playing against college basketball players and could not manage to make it to a 68-team postseason tournament. I probably think about this like two or three times a week.

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26 days

Continually impressed by the ever more potent ways in which Caitlin Clark, through zero fault of her own, makes people crazy

Christine Brennan

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This will be a focus of my reporting on this story. I can’t tell you how knowledgeable these sources are. Impeccable.

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4 years

It's been like 15 minutes since it happened and I still can not believe Pete Nance got T'd up for saying "gimme that shit" in a college basketball game.

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3 months

I love how Dan Hurley takes a little deep breath and presents himself as a normal human for 30 seconds during halftime interviews. Dude you know the cameras are on you all game right

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3 years

I have to admit it: I still get the hipster’s sick thrill out of knowing that players like Cameron Krutwig are really legitimately good months before everyone on Twitter starts making jokes about his mustache or whatever

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3 months

Connecticut Huskies men's basketball, from coach on down, is approaching never before seen and frankly dangerous levels of Locked In

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Eamonn Brennan

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5 years

The tournament is profoundly weird and crazy things happen therein … but not even getting to the Final Four with three (now official) top 10 picks on the same team, one of whom was Zion Williamson, is not going to look any better in the years to come

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5 years

Bill Self is an underrated comedian. Asked why Dedric Lawson appeared to be frustrated on the bench: "Uh, I don't know. He probably needs to play a little better." I LOL'd

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3 years

Another ACC title for Virginia. No big deal.

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3 years

The Suggs pass was probably the pass of the tournament, and it came after that block

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4 months

You know it's getting serious when you take the multi-view off the big TV and lock in on one game

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1 year

So if I'm getting this straight Duke recruited promising freshmen, improved them collectively for a first season, retained them for a second, and will add more promising young players to the mix this summer. Bold roster-building strategy. Let's see how it plays out

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3 months

Get ready to learn Nick's English Hut buddy

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3 months

NEWS: Florida Atlantic star guard Johnell Davis has entered the transfer portal, source told ESPN.

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1 year

Considering starting an editing service tailored to the needs of college athletes writing their transfer portal farewell posts. For a very reasonable fraction of your NIL earnings, I will ghostwrite your goodbye. “With that being said” will never make a final draft again

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3 years

The Michigan-LSU refs are just having an all around rough night

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Eamonn Brennan

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2 years

Pretty sure I just saw Tony Bennett curse at a ref for the first time.

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2 years

Still the best tournament game I've ever seen live:

The Best NCAA Tournament Game I Ever Saw: What made Virginia-Purdue so great

The 2019 Elite Eight matchup will be remembered for Mamadi Diakite's last-second shot, but don't forget about how great Carsen Edwards was.

www.nytimes.com

CBS Sports

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2 years

Purdue vs. Virginia in the 2019 Elite Eight was as good as March Madness gets. In the end, @UVAMensHoops won an all-time classic.

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2 years

These guys are going to destroy the NCAA Tournament and tell you it's about the "student-athletes"

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3 years

This is completely wild stuff.

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3 years

That hour between games was interminable, let’s never do that again

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6 years

So, yo, my mom went to K-State. I’m happy for K-State. But I watched way too much K-State this season and I feel like they’re basically the Pulis-era Stoke of college basketball and it’s just not my jam at all

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6 years

It's not complicated. When Villanova makes 3s, you have no chance. The end.

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6 years

The only Hall of Fame meme tonight is Jim Nantz saying “me-me” in 2018

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1 year

Whatever UConn would stand to gain from realignment financially, it would lose more culturally, in a way that corrodes the whole reason college sports fans exist. Today's Buzzer:

UConn should stay in the Big East

There's more to college sports than money. No, seriously

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5 years

Overheard in Charlottesville: A UVa fan responding to Jack Salt's technical with "Oh, that's poppycock!" Ha! Why, well said, old sport. Well said indeed.

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3 years

ICYMI: I'm still not over UCLA.

Brennan: Let us never forget UCLA’s massive contribution to one of the greatest NCAA Tournament...

Yes, UCLA lost to Gonzaga. But everything the Bruins did for 45 minutes has to be remembered, not overshadowed by That Shot.

www.nytimes.com

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1 year

I asked @kenpomeroy to help me prove a theory: That neutral court games are happening now more than ever. It's true. And it's really bad for the sport. Today's newsletter, free for everyone: It's time to get games back on campus.

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3 years

Every time I meet a university president, I thank them for their sacrifice.

Brett McMurphy

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3 years

NCAA president Mark Emmert: “Being a university president is the hardest job in America"

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4 years

My three-year-old daughter is playing with the microphone I keep on a tiny tripod for podcasts, etc. She just ran into the room with it, pop filter and all, and told me to say hello. I did. She shouted "SEC FOOTBALL!" and then ran out of the room. Someone send help

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6 years

Just massively stoked to say I’ll be joining up with the stellar group @TheAthleticDC … where you, THIS VERY MOMENT, can subscribe for 30 percent (!) off: Let’s get it.

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2 years

No one does restrained disgust quite like this

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2 years

I never bet on sports, but I might actually open up an account on an app for the sole purpose of betting against Louisville every time they take the floor

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3 years

Sources: I’m also committed to staying in my job and will not pursue the head coaching vacancy at Indiana. I should have a chance to keep writing some decent stuff next season.

Jon Rothstein

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3 years

Sources: Steve Alford is committed to staying at Nevada and will not pursue the head coaching vacancy at Indiana. Wolf Pack should have a chance to win the Mountain West next season.

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9 months

With hindsight it’s pretty funny that the doubt around Woodson coming in was whether he could recruit. Turns out recruiting/retention are what he’s best at

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Mike Woodson. Smooth operator ☎️.

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VCU’s hoops rise goes back a lot longer than you think — and began in a tiny, quietly historic little venue set to be demolished in the spring. On Franklin Street Gym and what it’s meant to the Rams.

An ode to Franklin Street Gym, the tiny, sweaty bandbox where VCU basketball was born

The legendary venue is soon to be demolished but the memories will last forever.

www.nytimes.com

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Eamonn Brennan

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2 years

I’m sorry. That is profoundly funny.

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