Mr. Show debuted 30 years ago

One of the things I like about Gemini is that, deep down, it's just as lazy as I am

I object to NCAA tourney expansion on biblical grounds

Can't wait for a Final Four like Texas/Indiana Xavier/Wake Forest Indiana/Boise St. North Carolina/SMU

@bfsesq.bsky.social WCCO’s got it

Story + details on the ACC's schedule overhaul, including the new format for how many home-and-homes the league will deploy moving forward.

That’s what it’s all aboot

“Take and eat; this is my body.” - The Ueckarist

Maybe the most obvious F1 I’ve ever seen?

Hepburn and Storr out in the first round. You truly hate to see it.

I somewhat disagree that nothing UNC does in the tournament can justify their inclusion. The flaw in UNC's resumé is their 1-12 record in Quad 1. When I ask why that is so much more important than sterling record in other games, the answer is that it proves they can't beat tourney quality teams.

This one might be getting out of hand.

Happy Selection Monday! Go to KenPom and grab the top six. Don't sweat "top 20 for both offensive and defensive efficiency" or any such overly intricate pretensions. Also now that the committee speaks WAB we no longer need a committee. How Hegelian. johngasaway.com/2025/03/17/r...

Left a bit more "uncertainty" in the TourneyCast simulations this year and the final run yesterday morning left room for some of the madness that came. (The downside was that the model was way under-confident about 1-seeds, but still had the right ones at the top)

Forget UNC. The committee's off-base evaluation of West Virginia is the real disaster. (Free for everyone.) www.eamonnbrennan.com/p/west-virgi...

With the exception of Xavier over WVU, the field was entirely predictable by WAB for at-large selection, right? That is amazing progress, honestly. Now just stop with the injury stuff and we have a good system. (Easy solution: limit the committee to just bracketing the teams that qualify by WAB.)

Whispers: he sleeps in May

Dan Dickau has never had a bobble head. In his day, they were rare curios

"Billy Madison" is as old now as "The Sound of Music" was when "Billy Madison" came out.

Yes the ACC's weak. Still, Duke's current four-game run on offense is extraordinary: 1.42 points per possession. There are teams in the league (e.g., Clemson, Syracuse) that have never scored at this level in a single ACC game.

Xavier, back from the brink

Biggest issue for Michigan right now — by far — is the downturn in three-point shooting. Got the highest volume of clean catch & shoot looks they’ve gotten in weeks and still struggled. Really limits their ceiling. Huge shot from Nimari, obviously, in a game where not much went right.

Highly Dubious T-Rank COY standings

This time of year is often Bart Torvik SZN for a lot of college basketball fans. But this year, the Madison native's data is officially part of the NCAA Tournament selection process. www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

In winning at Purdue 94-84, Wisconsin shot 20-of-22 on its 2s: 90.9 percent. At a minimum it's the best 2-point shooting game by any Big Ten program in the KenPom era. A better question is whether it's the best 2-point effort of any team since 1997. Badgers, I salute you.

Can't complain about kenpom ratings if you lose to Minnesota at home.

Hey, if you were curious how the #Badgers found that No. 33 kid, here's a story I did earlier this season on redshirt freshman walk-on Jack Janicki's bet on himself.

Here comes Tonje

Vlad the Embellisher

Purdue-Michigan and UCLA-Illinois overlapping with both games only viewable on Peacock. Iowa State-UCF and Arizona-Kansas State overlapping with both games only viewable on ESPN+.

With Simulation Saturday™ coming up, Florida may an interesting case for how attuned the committee will be to the gradations within quadrants: Florida is just 3-3 in Quadrant 1, but 8-0 in Q2, with all 8 of those games on the very high end of that bucket:

Sometimes you get a 5 on 4 when a guy gets injured under the basket, sometimes you don’t.

I have written about the Gonzaga Problem (there probably isn't one) and if close game luck is real (yes). Free to read statsbywill.substack.com/p/yes-its-ti...

In conference play, Wisconsin is taking half their shots from three and making 40% of them.

Cater Gilmore Appreciation Club

Badgers move up to 14th on Kenpom

Got home from grocery shopping to watch so many reviews

Chris Fowler about a play wire the snap hit the man in motion instead of getting to the quarterback: “sluggish” and “not how that play was drawn up”

Is there a Curb Your Enthusiasm about running into other dads at the grocery store? Like, I’m here on business—I’m hunting and gathering, not socializing. But I can’t just ignore these guys. Or at least I shouldn’t. Once it gets beyond the nod across the aisle, how do I end this conversation?

Vlad Goldin hitting threes seems sort of unfair.

Two months out from Selection Sunday, we're heading towards having the strongest NCAA Tournament field in modern history. The closest correlations: seasons like 1998-99, 2014-15, 2018-19. "No elite teams?" Try "too many elite teams." ($) statsbywill.substack.com/p/the-2025-n...

Minnesota has about a 5% chance of making the tournament. (The Big Ten Tournament)

Here's an EXCLUSIVE TIP for my beloved BlueSky followers. On the "profile compare" page—where you can see how prior teams with similar efficiency (etc) profiles to your team fared in the tourney—you can go beyond the default "top 10" comparisons by adding "&lim=100" (e.g., for 100) in the URL

Subscribe to the site (obviously) and read the article, but if you just want to watch all of the narrated plays, here you go: youtu.be/DHclQ23febg

In case you were wondering why the women's stats haven't updated for a day: 1) I'm on vacation 2) Idaho attempted 0 free throws against Montana St. yesterday, which created some division-by-0 errors (apparently I've never encountered this before)

- 30 of 60 AP voters had Kansas #1 in the preseason. - 1 of 18 computer ratings had Kansas #1 in the preseason. Never forget.

When “accounting for free throws, the league’s True Shooting Percentage on 2-pointers (58.4 in 2024-25) is significantly higher than on 3-pointers (54.3 percent)” Good read 👇 neilpaine.substack.com/p/nba-teams-...

Noticed that Elon surprisingly has the second tallest "effective height" and found out about this guy

Gonna check out some pro ball tonight