This was filed at 12,000 words, ultimately ended up at 10,000. It took a surprisingly short 16 hours to put together, and will take you even less time to read through.
Come for Myron Medcalf's expert intel, stay for the tournament ceiling predictions and fun trivia scattered throughout.
To borrow a phrase from Myron Medcalf: March, baby!
Who's up for a dumb fun fact? Most *different* NCAA tourney seeds by coach since 1997:
Mark Few 12 (everything 1-12)
Kelvin Sampson 11 (1-13, missing 9 and 12)
Mick Cronin 11 (1-14, missing 1, 3, and 13)
5 active coaches at 10. McCaffrey can get to 11 if Penn wins the Ivy and avoids a 16.
LMAO PENN
Monday conventional wisdom: Weakest bubble ever.
Saturday: Weakest No. 1 seeds ever.
BID THIEVES ARE AFOOT
March buzzer beaters just hit different.
ONE MORE OVERTIME
ONE MORE OVERTIME
ONE MORE OVERTIME
How about this morning's news that Auburn's bumped off the bracket by Indiana (also, if there's a California bubble team that should do well this week to make it in, I'm rooting, obviously, for Stanford): www.espn.com/mens-college...
Dare I say an action masterpiece?
Women's college basketball has a new source of data. ESPN Analytics now has this, a site with the Net Points player metric that is accurate and granular. It paints a broad analytics picture around teams and players, starting with the Daily Summary:
espnanalytics.com/wcbb-daily-s...
Rude but fair.
The weather is warm again, which means the squirrels are back to attack my front door (why) and my garbage bins (fair), and continue to prove they're menaces to the universe.
This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.
It’s me, an international woman
😩 guess I don't need to sign up for Willow after all, with this performance
I'm NOT a Red Bull fan but I AM an Isack Hadjar fan, so this is devastating.
ferrari sandwichhhhhh (as soon as I post this Russell's going to take the lead, just you watch)
holy shit holy shit holy shit this race start?! #f1
LMAO
Imagine if it goes to triple OT
Oh it's hockey hair time already? Awesome
Sweet crispy Jesus, Arike
The mondo men's Champ Week predictions guide, courtesy the men's college hoops team at ESPN. In my fifth season in the college basketball world, I've finally bought in. March is the best: www.espn.com/mens-college...
the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
Definitely had more faith in WI for this one, but that mostly comes from the low-key trauma SA has put everyone through in every tournament for the past like decade. Time to rethink ha.
So South Africa is doing what now????
