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Carlyle-Rice-Reneau-Ballo-Leal What a weird friggin' lineup.

Bako passed up an open 3 for a terrible drive. Hell -- probably would've missed the 3 anyway.

GOOD3 goes to the bank.

Off a make, dude takes the ball, goes coast-to-coast for an easy layup. Wasn't even touched.

Good for him. His focus this season ... 97% on his radio show; 3% on coaching. He can now put that extra 3% into his crappy radio show!

Hermey the Misfit Elf isn't very strong. He doesn't drive. He isn't very physical. He can't play defense. But man, that kid can shoot.

Damn. The Amish boy and Hermey the Elf are tearing Ruger apart. The Amish boy doing the shooting ice water into his veins gesture is really, really, really annoying.

Just turned on the Toiletmakers at halftime. Since the second 20 minutes started, I must've seen at least 5 rebounds bounce of Rutgers' players hands. Gotta secure the damn ball!

Florida Gulf Coast loses to Queens in the Atlantic Sun tourney. Queens kid tries to throw it down after the buzzer. FGCU's Pat Chambers (formerly of the Ninny Lions) gets snippy and refuses to shake the Queens coach's hand and sorta goes after the kid who tried to dunk -- before an assistant pushes him away. Unless there was some stuff going on during the game, I don't see what got Chambers' panties in such a twist. https://x.com/mid_madness/status/1896798760249991665

Gotta be the Turge!!!

Ducks 81 Hoosiers 71

Yep. I feel the same way. While I think Brownell would be an upgrade over Woody -- nobody would be mentioning him in connection with IU if he weren't from Indiana. If he were from anywhere else, nobody would care.

Um, he wasn't -- for any of those. Which was my point. Nobody would associate his name with IU if he weren't from Indiana.

If jobs at UNC, Kansas, UConn, UCLA, Syracuse, Louisville, Arizona, or maybe Illinois, etc. -- schools that are generally considered better at basketball than football -- opened, would Brad Brownell be considered a candidate? Highly doubtful -- or if so, only because of recency bias (Clemson did make the Elite Eight last year and is having a great season this year). But in 14 seasons at Clemson, Brownell had made four NCAA tourneys. If he weren't from Indiana, his name would never be mentioned in connection with IU.

Groce being posted as a candidate is humorous. But he was responsible for this. Still pisses me off ... Although Crean getting schooled, or Cody and/or Watford falling asleep and getting lost might actually have been more to blame!

That faction would be wrong. There's really nothing enticing about a John Groce candidacy. Or Steve Alford for that matter ...

I don't necessarily have anything against Boston -- mainly because I've never been there -- but I do think Bill Simmons is a smarmy, snarky, annoying little nitwit.

Bracket is ready ... We open at noon Thursday against the Ducks. Then we'll play Southern Cal at noon Friday. Then we'll probably play Maryland at 3 p.m. Saturday. And finally, we'll probably play UCLA at 4:30 p.m. Sunday!

77-57 Hoosiers 13 in a row over Purdump. A 20-point win, but feels as if it could've easily been 35. The PUs are just awful. Still don't understand how they beat PSU.

Toiletmakers fouling down 18 with just over a minute to play. Huh?

CTM is trying to give Bargesser and Meister some run here -- but jeeze, they're just not good. Meister never really progressed and Lexi actually regressed.

Some really foolish turnovers here. Lead down to 10. Gotta clean things up.

CMM picks up No. 4 just 1:30 into the third. Didn't think she fouled, but still ... CTM kept her in too long in the 2nd quarter.