Anne de Whun

BQD-ass game: either NC State turns the ball over before midcourt or they're getting and-ones.

Back in 2002 the NCAA was mad that an insanely electric home atmosphere might have provided too much advantage to the hosting #1 seed, so they concocted a new format where the top 1-seed gets an empty stadium in Albany and the last #1 travels across the country to play at the home of their 2-seed.

mgoblog.com/content/big-... Can anyone remember, have we ever had two muppets in a day?

Nebraska has zero March callus. If that bank went down the world's nicest fanbase might have turned dark indeed.

Hage just went limping to the locker room

This is your MiniTel Stat of the Game. ...of the year. x.com/JaredBerson/...

The Coen Carr This is Sportscenter commercial should be people getting annoyed at the downstairs neighbor slamming into the ceiling.

OSCAR DENIAL

Count Zebaskit

Don't make me have to hit the "they're not going to shoot 80% from three and keep up with dunks" button.

We're in Buffalo shots.

-Rez on the switch to deny a quick 3, cuts off Avila trying to set a screen. -Cadeau navigating multiple picks for the first block. -Gayle poke-away on the drive and the final block. -Nimari poke-away on help. -Tschetter blitz to deny the initial play. ALL. FIVE. GUYS.

That defensive possession: -three steals -two blocks -shot clock violation

Michigan missing like 8 points from point blank looks thus far, but making their threes and taking too many jump hooks when they have a physical mismatch so...even?

I want to complain about the free throws not going down but two of them went like 65% and 70% down, so 55%😡 make your free throws.

Hill said his defense is most like 2023 Michigan, that he saw it researching a new OC who coached against that team and it led him down a rabbit hole. Dollar says this was Jay Johnson, who went from MSU to Wyoming. Plan to pull up that game and see what he used. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXwT...

An excellent summary of these two teams' styles is Georgia had eight free throws and Saint Louis had eight assists in the game's first six minutes.

THIS GUY RIGHT NOW: I should call her

Howard finally missed a contested pullup so Michigan fans can breathe and everybody else can turn the game off.

Count de Basquette

I would die if one basketball announcer would one time act like a 29% shooter hitting 80% on pullup triples is statistically improbable.

Up 8 with a minute before the half, no Cadeau, no Lendebourg: offense gonna be a little interesting.

Michigan STILL hasn't committed a foul.

1. This is awesome. 2. If student radio on BTN-minus hockey broadcasts was this real it might actually be watchable.

Tired: Duke forking around with Siena Wired: Wisconsin getting Wisconsin'd by High Point

Roundtable will be here, and bracket-shaped. Bracketable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNwv...

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This answer isn't cute or original, but I'd endow ~4000 free-to-read nonprofit newspaper/sites (one for every U.S. county+municipalities), plus scholarships, to flood the land with well-paid, highly qualified, independent local investigative reporters.

Text-only edition now available. Not as great for visualizing but great at comparing. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Anyone else ever spend weeks putting together comprehensive, coach-level team sheets on every school in the Tournament then feel too burned out to make a bracket?

Ready, set, EXCEL! mgoblog.com/content/seth...

This is the game I was afraid of at Mackey. Smith and TKR feeling it and unable to miss their 2PJs. Every contact called against Michigan Purdue allowed to do whatever the hell they want. Michigan forgetting how to offense in the 2nd half.

Brian didn't get to a Purdue preview but here are the charts.

Trey Kauffman-Renn picking up a 2nd foul call on his 6th foul is big. Gotta take advantage.

Routine maintenance. A few systems might go offline, nothing to worry about.

Yaxel Lendeborg stamps Michigan’s place in the Big Ten Tournament Championship Game. “Me? But I had like four points!” — Yaxel

🧅🧅🧅

SUCH a grift

...and How did that work out for you?

Anne de Fritereo

I would like to see more offensive actions. You don't have to safe EVERYTHING for the Tourney.

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I've been trying to think of what to call players who are no longer walk-ons because they have 20 more scholarships per team. Then I realized "student athletes" is now available.

I would rather play the Badgers because Illinois is much better at basketball, but Wisconsin basketball is such a grift

I expect we'll be on izzo here. www.youtube.com/live/hBsMygw...

You know, the Big Ten had ample opportunity to react the first time a Notre Dame player intentionally injured a Michigan star this year, and the second time as well. Now they've taken two runs on Ivankovic in two minutes and it's too late.