Benches cleared at the end of the NCAA basketball game between VCU and the Saint Louis Billikens 😳 (via: ESPN)

Rudy Gobert called bank

Pregame heave ✔️

Anthony Edwards with his left hand over the shot blocking Daniel Gafford

Naz Reid step back triple

Tyus Jones showcasing his offensive rebounding impact

Kel'el Ware 14 points 12 rebounds 16 minutes Pick and Pop 3 ⬇️

Kel'el Ware spamming offensive rebounds

Khris Middleton vs Anthony Edwards

Rudy Gobert with the flagrant foul penalty 1 unnecessary flail contact to the neck area of Bagley.

NAZ REID!!!🤯 Insane behind the back handles into the one hand poster jam 🚨💥 Watch DAL/MIN now on ESPN: www.nba.com/how-to-watch...

Joan Beringer rim protection

Ben Alamar—former NBA analytics executive with the Oklahoma City Thunder and Cleveland Cavaliers, and author of Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers—joins Wharton Moneyball podcast in a recent episode.

The Kia Forte wasn’t set in time, this is an obvious blocking foul

I need you to understand that I think about these car lot inflatable balloon guys every single time I watch KAT hoop.

Former Illini Will Riley and Kasparas Jakucionis at the Indiana - Illinois game today.

Kylan Boswell, who has been out a month with a right hand injury, was able to guard Terrence Shannon Jr all week in practice. TSJ was back in town and impersonated Indiana’s Lamar Wilkerson on the scout team in practice. Kasparas Jakucionis, Will Riley, & Dain Dainja also attended the game today.

The Clark Kellogg dance moves

*Trigger warning for Illini fans* Bruce Pearl with an Illinois logo behind him

The Illini freshmen duo combined for 43 points 13 boards 6 assists 5 stocks Which is funny considering all the talk was Coach Underwood wanted to get old this season and not have to rely on freshmen after the Jakucionis/Riley experience. And here Keaton Wagler and David Mirkovic are best players

Illinois had 17 more field goal attempts than Indiana as they won the possession battle with 11 more offensive rebounds and 6 more steals than the Hoosiers. Indiana 51 Illinois 71

Keaton Wagler goes off the top of the backboard and in. Wagler finishes with 18 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals, 1 block, 0 turnovers in 38 minutes as Illinois takes down Indiana 71 - 51

Let David Mirkovic cook

Illinois freshman David Mirkovic up to 25-points vs Indiana

Late shot clock Lamar Wilkerson

Keaton Wagler goes into his own bench to try to save an offensive rebound

Keaton Wagler late shot clock shot fake, drive right fake to create space, side step left pull up three.

Keaton Wagler has been more aggressive today driving the ball and is 5/9 on 2-pointers.

The Top-9 teams by record from the start of the season to Xmas, and then Top-9 from Xmas to the All-Star Break: substacktools.com/sharex/f-Tnd...

I am once again asking Big Ten refs to chill with the ticky tack fouls on boxouts. I would love data on quantity of boxout fouls called as well as overall % of total fouls being on boxouts for big ten refs. It really sticks out to me this year.

Let David Mirkovic cook I was not expecting Mirkovic to be this good of a three point shooter. He's 38.4% coming into this contest and 3/4 in the first half vs Indiana. 79% free throw shooter

HALF: #illini 38, Indiana 31 #illini freshmen in first half 🔸 David Mirkovic 15 point (6-9 FG), 2 assists, 0 TOs 🔸 Keaton Wagler 11 points (4-8 FG), 2 assists, 0 TOs

Ben Humrichous steal 7-2 Zvonomir Ivisic alley top dunk

The Illinois offense is so surgical Indiana switches so theirs a small on PF David Mirkovic who immediately works to get the ball in the post and draw a double team. Big Z cuts to the basket to pull the weak side defender into the paint opening up a wide open Jake Davis three.

Illini freshman Keaton Wagler with the deflection and block on Lamar Wilkerson. Wagler has been working on his defense and he's starting to get his hands on the ball more in recent games.

Big Ten freshmen to average 17+ points, 4+ assists 4+ rebounds per game Magic Johnson Jalen Rose D"Angelo Russell Dylan Harper Keaton Wagler

Illini Kylan Boswell crashing from the corner for the put back

Keaton Wagler vs Tucker DeVries

With Indiana denying Keaton Wagler the ball, that unlocks his cutting game with Tomislav Ivisic passing the ball. Ivisic was so good at hitting a cutting Will Riley last season.

Deep threes (25-35 feet from basket) account for 20% of Keaton Wagler’s shot diet, and he’s shooting 45.6% (26/67) on them That’s well above the D1 average of 32.1% from that range CBBanlytics.com

You can only pick one for a playoff run this season. Who are you taking?

I've found the bluesky response tree visualizer I wrote a few days ago useful, so I did two things: - gave it a domain: btree.space - started work on a browser extension that gives you access to it right in your feed

Torvik has a nice tool for making graphs on data like this: barttorvik.com/team-maps.ph...

Big Ten net rating in conference games only this season. Men’s Basketball KenPom.com

These are the records that teams need to have to make the play-in or to achieve a top 6 seed with 90% confidence.

Chris Paul led the NBA in Estimated Plus-Minus (EPM) in five seasons. That’s more than any player since 2001. Season EPM is an all-in-one metric that estimates a players overall impact via dunksandthrees.com Here is the most impactful player each season.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver: “Overt behavior like this that prioritizes draft position over winning undermines the foundation of NBA competition and we will respond accordingly to any further actions that compromise the integrity of our games.”