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Green 0 for 3 -- two of his shots didn't even hit the rim. Yikes.

Wesson had a nice block on JuMo, but was out of bounds when the ball came down in his hands. Ref standing right there.

Al misses a wide-open 3. JuMo misses a wide-open 3. Smith nearly breaks the backboard on a wide-open 3. Sheesh -- we're reverting to losing-streak form. The fellas need to just calm down and play.

Yikes -- two TOs from Rob.

TO by Phinisee -- not a good sign ...

Great D by Smith, but damn, he's got to finish!

As of now, Lunardi has LSU has a No. 2 seed. I wonder if the NCAA would drop them down a few notches to send a message. Kinda like it did to us in 2008. We were 25-7 and 14-4 in the B1G, but after we admitted our violations and Sampson resigned/was fired, all the sudden, we're a No. 8 seed? I really think the NCAA screwed us over. I have no doubt that without all that sh-- going down, we're a 4 or 5 that season. For excessive text messages. Not arranging payments for players like LSU and Will Wade did, but for text messages. Text messages.

After he said that, I honestly thought he was gonna add to, it ... something like "No way should they be in the conversation ... or so it would seem. But they are, because of their Quad 1 wins, including sweeping Michigan State, and finally being healthy and playing as well as anybody in the Big Ten these past two weeks." But he didn't. He just left it there. It was such an odd, random IU bashing -- especially in the middle of an ACC game.

The Zags are down by 9 with 1:09 left, St. Mary's has the ball and they're not fouling??? Either they've conceded or they just don't know how to play from behind.

Gonzaga played that game without its leading returning scorer. So the Zags weren't healthy, either.

The No. 1 ranked team, which beat Duke and has just two losses -- both to Top 10 teams -- is overrated? Okey-doke.

I live about 15 minutes from Old Dominion. I went on an ODU board and wrote that Keion Brooks was planning to commit to the Monarchs. Everybody responded, "Who's Keion Brooks?" ...

Just saw that the Maryland coach -- Kerry McCoy -- resigned. What a difference between the ACC and B1G. The Terps finished first or second in the ACC in four of his six seasons. In the B1G, he was 1-35 in duals. Wow! (I hope that one win wasn't against us).

Checking out a few minutes of the CAA final. It's Hofstra (Long Island, N.Y.) vs. Northeastern (Boston) -- in Charleston, S.C. As you can imagine, there's nobody there. I feel really sorry for the CAA. It was one of the best -- if not the best -- mid-majors and many times, was a multi-bid league. The conference tourney always was in Richmond and was a pretty rockin' event. But George Mason, Virginia Commonwealth and Old Dominion got greedy and bailed -- and the CAA is a mere shell of itself. This was the league that sent GMU and VCU to the Final Four (both were at-large teams those years). Kinda sad to see it nowadays.

I've picked us to lose every game in our streak, so I'm not stopping now. I don't want to be responsible for jinxing us. So, regretfully ... Hairless Nuts 72 Hoosiers 66

Again -- your teams would be totally fried by March. They'd be burnt out and have nothing left.

If we went back to 11 teams, I'd be all for it ... But if you were to play 26 conference games, that would give you 5-6 nonconference games. Your teams would be totally fried come March.

I guess everybody is entitled to their opinions -- even if they're just plain wrong. I saw someone on a IU fan site (not this one) suggest the B1G go back to a full home-and-home schedule against everybody. When people pointed out that would be 26 conference games and would be absolutely insane, he stood his ground.

Felicity Huffman just happens to be married to Jerry Lundegaard. He wouldn't take part in any malfeasance, would he? Yer darn tootin!

When Mason, VCU and ODU were all in the CAA, that used to be a really fun tournament. ...But all got greedy and went to "bigger" conferences.

This starts after we're down to 64 teams, correct?

This is interesting stuff ... I would've never realized there were THAT many times teams played each other three times in a season, let alone one having a 2-0 record heading into the third game.

Hardly surprising that his bracket is set up so that if we do get in and win a game, we most would likely face Houston. ... The NCAA LOVES matchups like that. Of course, I'm getting way, way ahead of myself. We have to get in first. And then win a game.