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Maybe one team could lose by 20 and the other team be forced to expel 80% of the roster after the game for gambling or other malfeasances.

Other things we want to see happen include VCU winning the A-10, Memphis winning the AAC, and UC San Diego winning the Big West.

Texas has to win today, and here are other games involving bubble teams. Boldfaced team is the one Texas wants to lose. Indiana/Oregon 11 a.m Marquette/Xavier 1:30 UNC/Wake Forest 1:30 (but both losing would be ideal) Arkansas/Mississippi 12:00 SMU/Clemson 8:30 Boise State/San Diego State 4:30 (again, both losing would be ideal) Nevada/Colorado State 8:00 OU/Kentucky 8:30 UConn/Nova 8:30

Georgia melting down late against OU. Now down 10 with 2:45 left. Too many dumb three attempts over the last 3 minutes.

He's the weakest starter, but he's far and away the best option we have at the five, so it's not his fault we don't have a better player to eat up minutes at his position. I spend a lot of games worried about him going to the bench with fouls and wondering if Onyema and Kent will give us anything.

Shedrick was a rebound and rim protect guy at UVa, but Bennett wanted to go to a 5 who could play perimeter offense, but he really wasn't that good at it, so he stuck Shedrick in at the end and got some good results. Shedrick might have been a decent player had it not been for his shoulder surgeries. Might have been. I think he gets more s*** than he deserves because he has never been truly healthy here, but damn his hands are bad.

De nada. Almost all the other guys who left the NBA and took college gigs were actually fired from their NBA gig. I'm talking Calipari, Hoiberg, Musselman, Kruger here.

Not at all a surprise, but UVa announced within an hour of its loss to Ga Tech today that it would not give the job to Sanchez. I read an article stating the AD has 5 finalists--Odom, Smart, Otz (ain't happening), McCollum, and Bob Richey. If you don't recognize the last name, I am not surprised. He's the Furman coach who beat UVa in the first round a couple of years ago.

Yeah, but Texas is 3-4 in q2 and UNC is 7-0. Texas is -4 in q1-q3. UNC is +2. Both need to win tomorrow, and both should hope OU and Indiana lose soon.

Ohio State just lost to Iowa. Our window just got a little more open.

Texas wins to get back in the conversation. UNC won by 20. WVU lost to NET 90 Colorado. WVU hasn't beaten a top 50 NET team since mid-January. Let's compare resumes. WVU is 6-10 in q1. So is Texas now. WVU is 4-3 in q2. Texas is 3-4. So is one a tournament certainty and the other clearly out? I think not. Things are a lot tighter in bubble land than they may appear.

Cincy lost by 20 to stay firmly out of contention. Arky won by 4 to stay in the tournament and probably avoid the play-in games. UNC is up by 18 midway through the second half against ND.

Pitino left the Knicks to go to Kentucky. He wasn't forced out then, unlike his departure from the Celtics .

How many years have you been saving that one?

Adrian Autry just avoiding being denied the 3 years to get it done rule, as Syracuse managed to not quite blow a 16 point second half lead against Florida State. I guess FSU will go to the NIT, so Hamilton's career isn't quite over yet, but we have to wait at least one more day for a final word on whether Autry gets another year at Syracuse. The funny thing is that while Boh-HEEM had a couple of Sweet Sixteens in his last 8 years at Syracuse, he had a .500 conference record in his last 9 years in the ACC, so it isn't like Autry inherited some kind of juggernaut.

Sad to see him go. I worked an election polling location with his wife a few years back.

UNC has a pretty young team as teams go in the portal era. It could be really good next year if most of the team returns and Wilson joins Denis and Dixon in the incoming class. UNC hasn't had quite the roller coaster that runner-up, miss tournament, Sweet Sixteen, bubble suggests. It wasn't that bad in 2023. It had 20 wins, was in the Pomeroy top 45, and barely missed the tournament. It was Pomeroy 30 and an 8 seed that got on a roll in 2022. That happens sometimes. I know the NCAA tournament didn't have nearly as many teams in the mid-late 70s than it does now, but undefeated National Champ, followed by 16-11 with no post-season and a 5th place finish in a Big Ten that had only 10 teams, followed by a Sweet 16, followed by another 5th place Big Ten team going to the NIT was a four year stretch for a pretty famous coach early in his career.

Tiebreaker was UNC's 1 point loss in Winston-Salem.

I'm not mad at Wake Forest. I'm just astounded that a team that poor is the 4th seed in the ACC tournament. Of course, last year the 3rd seed was Pomeroy 68 Virginia.

As of this morning, the last eight in are Utah State, Baylor (!), Arky, San Diego State, OU, Indiana, tOSU, and Xavier. The first seven out are UNC, Boise State, UC Irvine, Dayton, Texas, Wake Forest, and Colorado State. We'll call Cincy the eighth out for now. Tons of action involving those teams tomorrow, including possible double bubble games between Texas and Vandy, and between OU and Georgia. Cincy, Arky, tOSU, UNC, Baylor, and West Virginia also play tomorrow. Boise State faces SDSU Thursday in a MWC quarterfinal. Xavier plays Marquette Thursday in a Big East quarter.

I think Michigan State might have a complaint if it wins the Big Ten tournament and gets only a 2 seed, but I don't have much problem with Duke getting one of the 1 seeds right now. Auburn, Houston, Michigan State, and Duke are the only teams with at least 7 q1 wins and a 70%+ winning pct in q1 games.

Capel was signed to an extension last spring to keep him in Pittsburgh through 2029-30 season, so I guess he's safe despite Pitt taking a big step backward this year and him having made just one NCAA tournament in 7 years. Unless the Pitt AD decides to drop an overdosed hooker in Capel's hotel room tonight or something.

Pitt guard stepped out while driving baseline with 19.2 seconds left in a tie game. ND shot a runner, missed, got an offensive rebound, fouled on the putback. Refs reviewing to see if clock expired before the shot. Obviously no. ND shooting a pair with 0.5 seconds left. Made first. Missed second. 85 foot heave winds up short. South Carolina would have beaten these guys by 20.

Pitt-Notre Dame is a terrible game. South Carolina would clobber either of these teams. If Pitt wins, it would face UNC in the second round. Wake f'ing Forest got a double bye, showing just how ugh the ACC was this year. It would be Pitt's next opponent if it wins today and tomorrow.