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Heck no you’re not the only one— I’m so dang tired of the “Big 10 flops in March” narrative. I hope we end up with a Purdue/Illinois championship.

DePaul is already better.

probably have a long list of suitors but maybe we can kick the tires on this one.

While true— all you heard was how much disrespect they got with the seeds. How they were so under seeded. If that were truly the case, you’d think at least one would have over performed expectations. 10 and 11 seeds win all the time in MM.

Do we have game times yet?

NIL was good in theory but was rolled out too quickly and with no real direction. That’s led to where we are today and it’s too tough to dial something like that back. So now it’ll be about adapting where we are to what probably needs to happen. Someone mentioned contracts and I think that’s a fair way to go with where we are at. Making players sign multi-year contracts and having a penalty for breaking that contract would be fair for all parties. You could still offer one year contracts if you wanted to, but could also off more lucrative multi-year deals to ensure you keep someone around.

For as strong and good as the MW was this year… having 1 team in the S16 and all teams eliminated before E8 isn’t exactly crushing it. Seeing Brad Underwood shirtless and shooting a water gun isn’t something I had in my March Madness bingo card but….

Including some big ones. Ouch for Ben.

My thoughts went here too.

Two numbers stick out to me here… Mast at the stripe and from downtown both have to be above average for guys who played mostly the 5 right? Allick from deep surprised me a lot. Really picked his moments later in the season and was shooting with some confidence.

You can also show them highlights of CJ Wilcher in Jan/early Feb… or JLaw when he went to the bench. For our team especially, starting does not equal “the most” playing time.

Wonder who we could be watching?

Would suck for us.

We haven’t lost any of the core 4 and I honestly felt he was more likely to leave than Rice. Would not have been upset if either stayed though. Hope he can go somewhere and crush it his last year.

CJ Departs.

We’ve now had 3 games lost to weather. Is there a chance we try and add a mid-week somewhere?

Not sure “I’d prefer he move on” is the right phrase you’re looking for here. If he has a chance and wants to explore it by all means he should. No one is planning on him being here next year. However, preferring he not be here is wild.

Hopefully they hit the transfer portal early.

Yes

Would be a national sports story if granted.

Ridiculous!

“Come to a Sweet 16 practice and have a peek” is certainly something we can’t offer.

Losing Rice hurts quite a bit. That’s a tough blow.

There's no date on the practice film, so recent could mean a variety of things. However, he looks pretty good in that film. Shooting, driving, pull-up. There was nothing on the D end that I saw in the film shared. So there is that tid-bit. Maybe this was film from early early in the season?

Weird week in the Big 10. Indiana went 1-2 against an Illinois team that was... not good... coming in. Maryland took 2 of 3 from MSU... but had to have extra innings to capture the two wins.