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Furman came out in a 1-3-1, so whatever we had drawn up wasn’t going to work. But a well drilled team knows what to do in that situation. It’s not the first time a team has shown zone for that reason - and I bet if someone did that to the 2024 team, we’d have yelled out “Fire” or whatever the...

23-0 run by St. Louis finally ends. They came within 7 of a UConn.

And outquicked us. We couldn't guard anyone one-on-one. MW was too slow to guard their point guard (Tony Skinn, their current coach), Denham and Rashad couldn't stay with their shooter, Rudy didn't have the foot speed to handle their 6-4 wing, their long-armed PF could score over Hilton and...

Castle ends with 23-7-8 and a key late three to help put it away. Shot 9-19 … would have been .500, but Wemby gave him a 911 pass at the end of the shot clock in the last minute. Clingan ended up 14 and 11 as he rested most of the second half. Spencer had 12 points and 7 assists with one TO...

31 national titles among them, although swap out St. John’s for Furman and it’s still 31.

I maybe was overly pessimistic, but I remember feeling like we had better beat DePaul to be sure we got in. The early season win over Michigan State wasn't all that great by the end of the year (they were ranked No. 2 in the nation when we beat them, but they ended up a 10 seed). Kentucky and at...

Castle with a 30 point triple double (30-11-10) - but missed a tying 3 down 3 in the last minute to Denver.

Or Scottie Haralson. Hit a couple big shots in the 6OT game that, alas, didn't hold up.

I think the biggest one was actually the brain clot that almost killed him. Leaving aside the ensuing laptop scandal and suspension (no way to know if that same scandal happens in a parallel world where he stayed healthy), he would have been an experienced sophomore on that 2006 team that badly...

We rather famously ran big-to-big doubles at Brand (with Freeman) as our core strategy - Voskuhl didn't shut him down alone. Brand averaged 25 and 10 in the NBA at his peak and regularly was over 20 ppg before injuries slowed him down after eight years. I think he'd be ok going up against...

To this day I am convinced that Kevin Ware of Louisville suffered that gruesome broken leg injury because the floor was elevated - and his body instinctively tried too hard to stop on a dime before falling off the edge. No way to prove that of course. But I think a regular floor level floor and...

Sort of annoying that Dylan Darling turned out to be a serviceable player. He was their last add-on, and they would be up a creek completely if they rolled with a Jackson-Sanon-Sellers guard rotation.

This is pretty much the universal tiebreaker in college sports. Sometimes in a sport like volleyball, there will be another layer where they’ll take sets won head to head - so if you won 3-0 and lost 3-2, you’d win the tiebreaker by being better head to head. But point differential in hoops or...

Yeah - it was the NIT Semis. Barros had something like 25 at the half, and DePriest guarded him in the second half and held him to two points on two shots.

Elijah Allen was Ricky Moore's superhero origin story. He took that personally. And if you've never heard of Elijah Allen, be grateful for that.