Chuck Taylor

The term "sleeping giant" gets thrown around, but Minnesota is for sure. Nearly 3 times our population with only 2 D1 programs in the state, and one of them was D2 until a couple years ago. I don't know why they haven't made the next step, but there is a ton of talent in the state and big $$$ in the Twin Cities area with 17 Fortune 500 companies. If everyone gets behind Nico, they'll do very well.

Will Wade has a blank check at NCSt and immediately picked him up. That says a lot about Howard's abilities, no matter how things turned out here.

Seems like he put together a pretty good roster for them.

One of the (many) problems with Lunardi is that you never know what his bracket is supposed to be. A forecast of where everybody ends up? A picture of where they are now? A mix of the two? I prefer Torvik bracketology at this point in the season: https://www.barttorvik.com/tranketology.php It plays out the remainder of the season (based on his ratings) and then ranks the resumes. He shows us 9th out, but we're carrying the weight of the MSU loss in our ranking, which can be overcome. Right now, Torvik has us finishing 16-13 and 9-11 in the BIG, which is setting the bar pretty low.

Is this his contract year? If so, excellent timing!

Torvik has it 1.2. I'm scratching my head too.

I assumed Bo Ryan. I don't miss him.

This is such a great thread @GhostOfJoeMcCray, many thanks for doing it.

Man, Penn State's offense is looking rough, to put it kindly. Surprised to see their offense is 25 in KenPom, higher than their defense.

Amen, brother.

Pitt's in the ACC.

Buzz is a defense-first guy and will probably only use CJ against zones. I agree that he should have stayed here.

Thanks for sharing that. The HHC community is remarkable.

Michelle was, uh, kind of attractive. This line in Creeque Alley is kind of cruel: "... and no one's getting fat except Mama Cass." I wonder how she felt when John Phillips wrote that and she had to sing it. I know she joked about her weight, but it's different when somebody else is joking about it. It didn't bother me when i was a kid because I was more focused on Michelle.

Didn't see it in the notes, but Augustas Marciulionis is the son of former Golden State star Sarunas Marciulionis.