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I know he's gotta pimp the ESPN guy, but Lunardi DOES NOT pick the NCAA field. He's just making a guess.

For the most part, I like Jason Benetti. But this analyst is a doofus.

Joey -- you gotta either let that go or hammer him so he doesn't make it. An and-one is the last thing we need.

Joey, I know you got fouled -- but YOU GOTTA MAKE THAT!!!

C'mon TDJ, get going! Help send your pals Devonte and De'Ron out on a winning note! The fact that we're winning and our best player is scoreless is a small positive. But it also scares the hell out of me.

I think Al got away with one there. He lowered his shoulder ... Man, I just cringe every time he starts driving.

TJD's gonna have to contribute in the second half if we wanna win.

What they should've done on that TJD-Davidson sequence was call a foul on TJD, because he did make contact. But they shoulda come back with a flagrant 1 on Davidson for throwing elbows in retaliation. They totally ignored that part of it. If that's how they're gonna call it, it's apparently OK to elbow a guy after he fouls you.

Why was Devonte on the bench for that final sequence? That makes no sense.

TJD gets elbowed -- and gets the foul. Yeah -- that makes sense.

If Devonte fakes that shot, the defender flies past -- and he has a wide-open 3.

I have no idea what Al was trying to do there.

Man, for a team that wants to play inside-out, we can't hit anything inside today. ... If not for our outside shooters, we'd be getting crushed.

I wonder if Race was told to not shoot any more 3s. ... I've seen him wide open several times right outside the arc and he won't take it. ... He's made a couple from distance -- missed quite a few, too ... But I say if you're wide open like that, shoot. ... Don't want Joey or TJD or De'Ron doing that, but Race has shown the ability to hit those.

These announcers are acting like Lunardi actually will pick the NCAA field ... He's just making his best guess -- and he's not always right.

Obviously, you can't make every shot. But that's a bucket you really wanna see Joey make.

Really hope Devonte continues to play well today. But what we've seen so ar is his career in a nutshell. He gets hot, then doesn't quite know how/when to dial it back.

Great start, Devonte ... But remember, you don't have to do it all.

Final: Maryland 74, PU 62 Up next: Hoosiers vs. Rutgers Hopefully, we'll be playing the Twerps at 6:30 Saturday night.

Was just about to say that PU was hanging tough with Maryland -- then the Twerps go on a 9-2 run to take a 12-point lead. The PUs look as if they're running out of gas.

Bucky 66 Hoosiers 61

PU holds off Michigan State, plays Maryland at noon tomorrow. Next up: Bucky and Rutgers. Winner gets us at about 2:30 tomorrow afternoon.

Wonder where we'd be had we not let the Ohio State, Northwestern and Iowa games slip away. ... Obviously, I have not seen every game this season, but I've seen as many as I can -- but when you look back at our schedule, we have those three games that we lost and should have won. We really don't have any wins in games that we probably should have lost. Would love to think if we beat Rutgers/Wisconsin that we could give the Twerps a run, but I just don't see it happening. They crushed us in College Park and once they made up that 10-point deficit, they more or less controlled us as the game wore on in B-town.

Updated bracket. Wisconsin and Illinois won "play-in" games yesterday. Bucky plays Rutgers this afternoon with the winner playing us tomorrow afternoon.

Brian Butch, according to Wikipedia (which is never wrong!!!) is 6-11. And he was easily an inch taller than Brunk. So Butch is either 7-foot or Brunk is 6-10.