Very cool: Rivian sends old batteries to Redwood, who hooks them all up via its special sauce, and now the batteries are helping power a Rivian manufacturing plant! Closed loop starting to come into sight ...

$262 for 262 games of Longhorn Road Trip, but I had to cover the processing fee and mess up the amount in the screenshot. Longhornsky, get out there and donate: www.edsbscharitybowl.com

Texas Tech fans must think it's a CFP game

Relegate Austin

Can't wait for that Los Verdes bus caravan to San Angelo

Maybe we could've just put them all on a little speedboat?

I'm moonscrolling

Just thought of Texadelphia for the first time in probably 15 years.

What we're all here for tonight: hearing Beckham and Más talk for twenty minutes.

What a sad little man

I am still laughing at the sequence of Geno cursing and ranting to Holly Rowe (bleep button guy was on break), complaining about Dawn Staley and the refs, followed by a replay of Sarah Strong ripping her own jersey. Just incredible stuff.

Texas took its best big off the floor for Purdue's final possession. If he'd been out there, would Purdue have won? I asked Matt Painter and Sean Miller to take me into their huddles and describe why they did what they did with an Elite Eight trip on the line. Overnight file from San Jose:

Team is back out for pregame stretching and this time he's on the floor

FWIW, I didn't see Pope on the court when the team was getting shots up about an hour before tip.

I thought High Point was dangerously close to getting buried in the first half, but their response has been phenomenal. This game rules

Flynn Clayman has strong football coach energy. Just picture him as a crazy secondary or special teams coach on Tom Herman's staff.

New research from Pew quantifies the extent of the success of YIMBYism in Austin: after a huge run up in prices over the 2010s, the city dramatically liberalized and kicked off a building boom. Now rents are falling. www.pew.org/en/research-...

At this point, @sprotsbot.bsky.social and I are just traveling around the country watching Texas beat NC State in different cities.

We've got Dayton cops posted behind the Texas bench and watching the crowd because Ohio gonna Ohio

Challenges have really ruined the old ref approach of "oops I missed a foul so I'll just give it to that team on the out of bounds instead"

If UMBC finally puts in Air Bud, I think they can come back and win this.

@norlander.bsky.social Startled my fellow passengers on a 5 A.M. flight as I head to Dayton by guffawing when you looked up where the Suez Canal is located. "You absolute dolt!" 😂

Bruce has at least learned to change his target from Miami to SMU 😂

So glad to have Miami in the other First Four matchup and not have a second-straight road game in Dayton. Tougher matchup for sure, but it's exceptionally annoying to be at a tournament game that is 98% fans of the other school (and the tickets should be much cheaper!)

Surprised to see NC State drop into the First Four, and to see a rematch with Texas. Perhaps means that Oklahoma is also in the First Four?

What happened the last time Northern Iowa was in the tournament a decade ago? I have no recollection.

replacing Jay Wright with Bruce fucking Pearl might be the largest downgrade in the history of sports commentary

The NCAA talking up WAB all season might result in Texas as the first team out, because Auburn and SMU are in the two slots ahead of the Horns for that metric.

Bruce Pearl being part of the studio crew for CBS is so, so perfect. You HAVE to leave out Auburn now, simply for the content (and also because fuck Bruce Pearl forever and always)

In other words, the guess here is Miami (Ohio)'s loss nudged one of Texas/SMU/Oklahoma/Auburn out of the field, and Saint Louis' loss bumped someone from the Mizzou/N.C. State/Santa Clara/Miami (Ohio) group to Dayton. Could be Saint Louis that returns to UD Arena for a second time this year, too.

The final tally is going to be one bid snatched in the conference tournaments (MAC) and one team bumped to Dayton because the top seed didn't win (A-10). That's a fairly sedate impact on the edge of the field, all things considered.

Do I want to know why the Utah State students are all wearing blue latex gloves?

I won't often say this, but let's go Aggies

The ol' airball tip-in for the win

Taylor Swift

Saint Louis helps bubble teams avoid a potential bid thief (for now) by coming back from 21 down to survive George Washington in the A-10 quarterfinals.

The Basketball Gods apparently have a pretty ruthless sense of humor: Miami (Ohio) losing today might've cost Auburn an NCAA Tournament bid

Steven Pearl eating a tech down nine at the U4 timeout in a game Auburn desperately needs to win is deeply funny

Still waiting on a bubble team other than Santa Clara to notch a big win. In the first window of the day, NC State lost to Virginia and Mizzou lost to Kentucky. Also worth noting that Miami (OH) is now eligible for the First Four as an at-large, though I'd wager their high WAB gets them a 10 seed.

During one of the opening round games, they showed a player on the baseline waiting for the inbounds play after a TO, and whatever the court was showing had his face lit up like he was a window cleaner in Times Square.

All of the Big 12's potential bid thieves have been cleared out prior to the league quarters. Leaves only seven possible bid-snatching leagues. Could be down to four after tomorrow: ACC (Florida St) A10 Big East Big Ten (Washington/Northwestern/Rutgers) MAC Mountain West SEC (Mississippi/Oklahoma)

Couldn't find the Mountain West quarterfinals on CBS Sports Network so pulled up the conference website's page to find out where to watch and....they have an AI chatbot?

Barring a flurry of bid thieves this weekend, Texas is still probably in the tournament because nearly every other bubble team has also gone one-and-done. But Sean Miller, Swain, and all the returning Longhorns can plan to revisit their favorite Dayton restaurants from last year.

"Texas is only 1-11 when they trail by double digits." Gee, I guess it's hard to dig out of a big hole when you give up a layup every possession.

Just what Texas needs when they are absolute ass: a Tramon Mark fool's gold made 3

This is exactly the kind of performance that every long-time Texas basketball fan was expecting tonight.

Sean Miller needs to blow on the cartridge and start over.

March Madness, baby!

Cincinnati trying their hardest for an epic choke job. Up 8 with 2 mins to go, blow their lead in under 80 seconds, manage to get one stop to avoid losing in regulation, but then waste 22 seconds on their final possession dribbling outside the arc before their coach calls a TO with 0.8 seconds to go

"I murdered a bunch of children and all I got were these skyrocketing oil prices."