Needed the patience of a Pope yesterday. My least favorite Wordle of all time.

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Year-to-year continuity in players and their minutes is so 2010s.

Why men's college basketball has used halves instead of quarters for 70 years (from Miracles on the Hardwood).

Things you learn when you write a book about Catholic college basketball. The Vatican classified the United States officially as "mission territory" until 1908.

Maybe we've just become more demanding. Ah for 2007, the age of innocence....

That round of 32 was even more chalky than ours. It was taken as proof that "the committee seems to have got it right this time."

SEC's historic Selection Sunday means it "should" win 21 tournament games. Well on the way, one guaranteed W: UK vs. Vols.

Kudos to the Big Ten for already outkicking its coverage. Far cry from 2021's debacle.

Big East alone is done and dusted. Not the best showing.

ACC requires a national title.

Bonus coverage, best and worst defenses for preventing attempts.

St. John's, Houston, and Iowa State clearly above the rest. Won't let you shoot.

At the other extreme Michigan and Creighton show up on both "bad volume" lists, offensive and defensive.

Without question the most tastefully dressed and oldest fan I have ever seen ejected from a game.

Michigan is 9-1 in Big Ten games decided by four points or less.

Full marks to the NBA for trying things.

Things were tried and @teamziller.bsky.social captures last night's real-time reaction of yours truly and son perfectly.

What @kenpom.com said. Me I love hoops, college, pro, international, whatever. But watching an NBA game versus enduring college's 15-minute final "minute" can be day and night. In this one respect occasionally tiresome NBA-only types are bang on. Make them wrong, please.

I chimed in.

On counting versus evaluating in one unwieldy part of hoops.

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Happy Week 6 AP poll to all who celebrate!