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Pretty exciting to have my name associated with this!

Just in the last 3 years we've had ucsd, gcu, and fau (2x). But the best justification for expansion is the bloat of P5 membership prevents mid major at large bids. Not fair to them.

It can't be A because there would be no viewers. It'll probably be B which is a good compromise. The bottom seeds get a better chance for wins (and revenue) and it also strengthens the 15/16 lines in the round of 64. Maybe not a coincidence that 15/16's have had more success in the 68-team era.

Chatted with Eamonn about some stuff (mostly expansion but also the country folk music scene). Give it a listen! I'm excited about what this group is doing.

With 2 people, it wasn't a roundtable just a table, but nonetheless a fun convo about the merits of expansion, which itself may get tabled for another year.

This is neat. Really looking forward to seeing a lot of thoughtful hoops content in one place.

Table showing McNeese, Middle Tennessee, Southern Miss and Stephen F. Austin are the only four college basketball teams to go from 300+ to 100 or better in the KenPom rankings.

On their latest pod, the Three Man Weave podcast wondered how many teams have jumped from 300+ to top 100 in @kenpom.com ratings. Turns out, only four teams have ever pulled it off.

one of the dumbest things i've ever seen in my life

damn

the thing about social media that truly makes it special is you'll have an account called Dumb Bitch Cooper saying profound things like this and two posts below is a Professor Emil Johnson from an Ivy asking if it would really be so bad we just race segregated all sports

Willie Nelson and Ken Pomeroy make beautiful music for tumultuous times On Cruel Joke, Pomeroy, age 22, sings with an acoustic twang about farms and cowboys. The 92-year-old Nelson's Oh What a Beautiful World is an album of covers of songs by Rodney Crowell.

Yep

Did not expect to see a million words about Utah basketball in my inbox today. Hoping Craig Smith gets another chance to wreck a mid-major league in the Upper Midwest/Badlands region.

The Oakmont road map based on the first 3 rounds. Variance is a decent proxy for which holes are the most interesting. Holes 2/3/4 provide a wide range of scores. Back 9 is a little less fun. The short par-3 13th has had scores of birdie, par or bogey for every player except one.

Definitely nailed the Mike Rice practice plan

lol, that's such a lame re-creation of the actual event

Suddenly becoming nostalgic for the more innocent times of Quite Frankly

He was last seen scamming people on bounce-house rentals
www.yelp.com/biz/jj-jumpe...

(I fear it will take one high-profile missed call late in a game where a coach is out of challenges to cause everyone to panic and demand unlimited reviews again. But for one season, we'll enjoy it.)

Lightning-fast adoption by NCAA standards. We approve.

An inch away from another foul-up-3 insta-loss in the NBA playoffs

I'm surprised how few of those guys are relevant today

Of the top ten on the PGA leaderboard, only Alex Noren is ranked in the kenpom golf ratings, which haven't been updated in over 15 years, but still, don't count him out. web.archive.org/web/20091117...

The most coveted trophy in ball-knowing!

Men’s Basketball Rules Committee proposes changes to enhance the flow of the game - NCAA.org The NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee at its meeting this week in Indianapolis proposed changes to help enhance the flow of the game for the 2025-26 season.

Good news on rules changes for next season:
- Out of bounds calls will only be triggered by coach's challenge
- Points of emphasis related to reigning in bloated game length
- Continuation for shooters that were fouled
- Quarters coming in approximately 2035?
www.ncaa.org/news/2025/5/...

Out of college eligibility, 100-plus basketball players entered the transfer portal anyway

With the help of our buddy Jim Root, we found 137 players out of eligibility in the transfer portal. The story behind why these players are holding on to hope for another year and the court case that could impact some of them. Story with @brendanmarks.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/633...

I'd like to report a foul-up-3 insta-loss.

Ha!

Backfilled my officiating database to 2010. Apropos of nothing, the most games worked since then (16 seasons):
Ayers 1515
Sirmons 1445
Kissinger 1370
High knees 1349
Dorsey 1321
Kimble 1315
Bert Smith 1310
Natili 1308
Valentine 1295
J. Higgins 1287

Touchdown Jesus is actually John Elway

NYK wins 4-1! No take backs.