Bubble Watch, CINCINNATI LIVES edition! Plus: What Michigan-Duke means for the title race, the actualization of AJ Dybantsa, IU's new GM, Kentucky is fine, Sean Miller defenses, bubble movements, and everything else:
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New Bubble Watch! On the real lesson of the Jerome Tang blowup, the UConn atmosphere discourse, Will Wade's press conference hot streak, drifting SEC teams, and everything else:
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Do you guys remember when Nate Oats tried to gaslight the whole country and blow up the NCAA so he could play a solid rim-running center for five games, anyway new Bubble Watch went up today
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Huge win for Indiana. If I was a Wisconsin fan my head would be on Mars
Unbeaten Miami (Ohio) plays at Marshall today. The Redhawks are both a hugely enjoyable story and apparently designed in a lab to break bracket people's brains (especially in a post-WAB world):
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Hell of a lede to describe the state of college basketball right now from one of my fav writers @eamonnbrennan.bsky.social
Important announcement: The Internet's least sane college basketball column has returned.
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There are Indiana football diehards who stuck it out forever, who deserve tonight more than anyone. But I’d guess there are millions of people like me: once enthusiastic, long since lapsed, now unimaginably all in.
Wrote about winning the sports fan lottery:
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Thank you! Also I agree
The Indiana football high is so potent I'm just letting this Bears situation wash over me. Pure acceptance. I am of the nature to die, etc.
This week's BURP wants to go on the record: The NCAA Tournament is not, in fact, a joke.
(But the CFB discourse is starting to scare us.)
That, seasonal procrastinators, and much more on this week's episode with Tate Frazier:
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Barkley on NIL/portal: "There's no job in the world where you get to be a free agent every year"
I love Chuck but I don't think he knows how most jobs work
Remember when college basketball had "no great teams?" That's over now
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A truly incredible 70 seconds of college basketball commentary
Florida-UConn is small guys making shots and big guys punching each other in the face for every rebound
My Illinois-Alabama analysis:
*extremely loud cackling noises*
Lotta season left blah blah but highly likely Wake Forest just won the Bubble Watch gut-punch loss of the year award
The latest in the Buzzer preview series -- on what should be a really fun edition of the Big Ten, with a handful of new coaches adding yet more more tactical variety -- is here. Offseason finish line in sight!
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Wrote about Bruce Pearl, endearing showman and unstoppable wrecking ball — for better and worse
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I never thought it would happen to me
Indiana football is a source of unironic joy
Wrote about something that hadn't occurred to me until the podcast earlier this week: In the portal era, it's now part of a program's job to connect new players with fans.
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Hello Bluesky, the latest episode of BURP is a fun one -- w/ Ryan Odom! We talk about his journey to UVa, what fans can expect from a program in transition, and how on Earth you build a good roster in one month.
Check it out below or in all the podcast places:
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I competed in College Basketball Jeopardy with the brilliant @eamonnbrennan.bsky.social and @ksweeneycbb.bsky.social. It’s one of the most competitive games of jeopardy I can remember, which means you gotta stick around the whole time youtu.be/Aa6ZzIyRavI
Golf is a profoundly unfulfilling endeavor and one of the best golfers of all time agrees 👍
As someone who used to play golf twice a weekend and got so frustrated after a round he sold his clubs on Craigslist the next day and has refused to play since, I have gained a powerful ally in Scottie Scheffler
Happy @basketunderreview.bsky.social opening day. Would you like to hear @eamonnbrennan.bsky.social and @kenpom.com talk NCAA Tournament expansion? I assume you would. (Presented by Homefield!!!) open.spotify.com/episode/4gSV...
The first episode of the podcast is upon you — talked to Ken Pomeroy about tournament expansion and his secret double life as a touring indie artist of the same name (and much more).
On all the usual podcast places. Give it a spin!
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The best argument I've seen in favor of tournament expansion goes something like "ah, c'mon, it probably won't be that bad." That's not a good reason to do anything!
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