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Technically you could also say AJ Price. He hadn’t played yet, but had his medical condition and his suspension and was officially a sophomore since he lost a year of eligibility to the latter. If everything had gone according to plan, he’d have probably come off the bench - or maybe started at...

We need to go back to the days of freshmen being ineligible. Lew Alcindor had to wait and turned out fine, largely because he had a year to work on his game and become part of the campus community, by attending sock hops and things.

Too much hoops on the mind. Thought he played for the Providence team that upset us in the BET. Wrong Dickey.

Was trying to think of Emeka’s signature game. One that didn’t have high stakes was his freshman year at Arizona - he finished with something like 18-15-9 and CBS had him for 12 blocks (Arizona stat crew was asleep at the switch). We won something like 104-98 in overtime, so he probably gave up...

Calling it the greatest is an overreach, since he only had 21, but here’s one that’s criminally underrated: Rip vs. Gonzaga. The reason is the context and the in-game circumstances. If you didn’t live it, you’ll never understand the pressure of that game. It is seriously maybe my least...

Perhaps a quibble, since we don’t know for sure - but Newton had the ball in his hands and threaded the needle with the pass to Spencer as KU tried to jump the passing lane. I think he had the opportunity to keep it and go for the hero shot and easily say that the pass wasn’t there. Whatever...

Steph is one I got wrong. And quite happy about it. Around about mid-January, after he had been back for six weeks or so from his injury, I saw the athletic potential, but didn‘t think he’d ever be a good college player. There were games when his jumper looked broke, his decision making wasn‘t...

Compromise with Alex. Works for a boy or a girl.

Thought the Purdue putback (Heide) was even better. In the future I’d like us to stop giving up signature dunks in our national championship wins. Something we can work on.

As much as I hate them, they have the potential to be very good. The one headwind they face is that next year is the last year of COVID seniors and Flagg and the other freshmen will still be 18-19 year olds sometimes battling 22-23 year olds, and not sure that Proctor alone can provide the...

Yeah - that's an old trick from college coaches. They get what they want out there by being "a source close to the situation" Not saying for sure that's what happened here, but whenever I read that "sources say" from a journalist connected, I often speculate that it's straight from the horse's...

Even the third - that team was 14-0 in tournaments, with 11 of the opponents in the top 25. Yeah, the Big East ate our lunch a bit in the regular season, so you could consider it to be a bit lucky that we put it together in March. Having a FF with Butler and VCU in it was a bit lucky too. But...

I just love how the "blue bloods" are all clinging to consolation prizes and nonsense. Kansas on a December win, Duke on a recruiting battle, Kentucky on how big an imaginary celebration might be if they won again. Meanwhile we are raising banners. This century, we have 5 titles and Kentucky...

Unlike Kansas, when we choose our Mt. Rushmore of championships, we have to make some hard choices.

I had a hiccup of angst when we had two possessions where we turned it over against their press and then Hurley turned it over shoving Cam, and it was down to 13, and I started thinking “careful here, this could be a historic collapse.” But nothing materialized. I may be wrong but I don’t...

A statement like that isn’t definitive, the way it might be for an athlete giving a yes or no answer about declaring, where you know what your two options are. A head coaching opportunity could come along in the next few months that was totally unexpected, and he (or they) can - and should -...

Always find myself randomly singing it on days like this.

That quote actually comes from Dickie V in 1995, when we were in the process of beating Syracuse at home to inevitably move up to No. 1 in the country - which would mean both teams would be ranked No. 1 at the same time. It didn’t last long thanks to Kerry Kittles and Eric Eberz.

Definitely tough to handle - he made some really tough shots for a while - other than the up and under, Clingan forced him into contested hooks and he made them. But he wore down for a while when we took control of the game, and then scored 17 points in the last eight minutes when we were kind...

Clingan gave a very mature performance today. His guy scored on him - a lot more than he’s used to. But he took one for the team - made Edey work for his points, and everyone else got to stay at home. Other than the mistake biting on the fake and allowing the up and under for an and one, he...

It’s kind of crazy in hindsight, because realistically our “long suffering“ era was 5 years long. 1990 was a magic carpet ride, and then we slipped backwards in 1991 (an 11 seed that made it to Sweet 16), 1992 (9 seed blown out by Ohio State) and 1993 (NIT). Then the resurgence in 1994 and the...

Purdue is maybe the only team in the country that can watch the game film of our Creighton loss and use the blueprint, so I expect to see a similar scheme (basically Ashworth just trailed Spencer off every screen to take away the three point line and allowed him to get into the paint whenever he...

The thing with Clingan is he has to be ok being scored on once in a while. They may run some good stuff for Edey where he gets position too deep to really challenge him, and knowing when to just let those go Is important. I’m also sort of worried about the second effort plays - a blocked shot...

Ugh. Watched it again. Most frustrating part about that last play is that Aaliyah set a great FIRST screen. Marshall just gets wiped out and has a hard time fighting over it, and Paige comes to the three-point line wide open … if that was the play. But since that was the decoy/misdirection...

I was mad at the call with the replays they showed, but from the primary angle - Edwards moved a lot. A lot. Very undisciplined screen. Easy to say in hindsight, but I feel like we tried to get too cute with lots of misdirection with nine seconds left … and Paige was going to be hemmed in on...

There’s truth to both. The first time Shannon got the ball, he went right at Castle in an iso. Castle shut off his first move, shut off his counter, and then shut off his last resort leaner. Shannon clanged the backboard with his shot. Didn’t really try to isolate him again - he tried to slash...

Anthony Davis was also 1-10 in the national title game. Sophomore Doron Lamb was the guy who stepped up. Yeah, Davis had his usual impact with defense and rebounding - wasn’t like he was useless out there. But he did only have five points. Next year is the last go round of the fifth year COVID...

Would rather see nc state if we get through Alabama obviously. But Burns does give me Dimitri Hill (DaMeat Hook) flashbacks.

as a last resort you can put in a system with Stewart on him and scrambling/doubling for a few possessions. Not very long - but to steal a couple minutes if DC and SJ are in foul trouble - or if you want to extend the rest for Clingan and Johnson is in foul trouble. I don’t think you want to...

I feel like Houston’s strategy was to not run any plays so they could save them all and surprise NC State with them. Backfired.

haha. Too classic.

Hated that guy (til the game was over). Although he lit up Ricky, and Ricky took that personally … making it sort of a superhero origin story.

Cripes. North Carolina got Arizona, Baylor and Alabama as their 2-4. Baylor lost 10 games. Alabama lost 11. Both lost by double digits in the conference tourney. Arizona limped home and lost to a not-even-on-the-bubble Oregon team in the PAC 12. Seems crazy that the worst 1 by a mile has the...

Leaving aside the seed feeling too low, for a team that’s 5 in KenPom, 7 in the NET and 12 in the poll, Alabama is their 16, and the 1 should get the 16. There are lots of reasons to flip - but these are two teams in the same league with identical travel.

How is Alabama a 4 with UNC and Auburn a 4 with us????? Holy s curve failure. Auburn was ranked 7 spots higher before the sec title.