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

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

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Last night straight FG percentage was cited and displayed. It would be good to be accurate about accuracy but TV and the world have spoken. They really don't want eFG. Maybe they'd use points per shot instead (eFG x 2). Let's see. From last year.... johngasaway.com/2024/04/10/b...

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A men's Final Four with nothing but No. 1 seeds raises expectations going forward. Literally, albeit slightly. Three weeks ago the assumption was a top seed should win 3.30 games. That number now rockets all the way up to 3.34.

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Bit of a Duke finish there from Houston.

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You should have to score a point per possession to win the national title. If not, my alma mater wins.

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Kelvin Sampson is not old-school. He turns 70 this year and he happens to share an old-school affect with Izzo (yell at and grab your players). But his deviations from "the book" have advanced the sport and spawned imitators. As influential as any chill and cerebral up-and-comer spouting analytics.

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Duke offense in five tournament games.... First 187 minutes: 1.39 points per possession Final 13: 0.71

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Latest installment in a multi-year series.... The NCAA tournament can be a three-point defense lottery. johngasaway.com/2025/04/04/s...

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Justly celebrated and correctly esteemed Houston commits zero turnovers and plays stellar D at an achingly slow 61 possessions per 40. Back in the day when Virginia and Wisconsin did all of the above the Hoos and Badgers were occasionally yelled at for being slow and boring. Progress!

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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."

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Quite the wild true-crime ride yet bite-sized. Two big thumbs up from our casa. www.imdb.com/title/tt3595...

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Despite all the chalk one rule of predictive thumb's actually in peril. The last 20 men's national champions were ranked in the Week 6 AP poll's top 12. That run comes to an end in 2025 if Houston wins it all. The Cougars were No. 15 in Week 6 and didn't reach the top 12 until January.

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This is the most alphabetically forward-leaning men's Final Four since 1994.

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All-chalk Final Fours every 17 years feels about right. Bring it.

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Chad Baker-Mazara is older than Zion Williamson.

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Wild thing is there's one program with a Final Four banner and just four NCAA tournament wins in its history. bsky.app/profile/norl...

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Men's tournament wins the past seven brackets.... Houston: 18 Duke: 18 Gonzaga: 18 No other program with more than 14.

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Tennessee first half: 0.53 points per possession.

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Duke starts three freshmen. Depending on tomorrow's results the rest of the Final Four will start one or zero. Duke is a throwback.

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Alabama's scoring at a per-possession rate that would make this the Tide's worst game since mid-January.

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Well, yeah. When all the No. 1 seeds made the 2008 Final Four there was that Davidson thing in the Elite Eight. Some player they had. bsky.app/profile/dere...

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First Elite Eight since 2016 with four No. 1 seeds.

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Rules expert Gene Steratore, what do you see on this replay that has nothing to do with rules that we can all see?

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The SEC has already tied the record for most wins by a conference in one tournament.

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Michigan made the Sweet 16 after being outscored in Big Ten play. Tuesday Truths Cinderella. Salute.

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In terms of average age weighted by minutes Auburn's the oldest remaining team by a healthy margin. Since we bid adieu to BYU's Trevin Knell last night Chad Baker-Mazara is the field's elder statesman.

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Full credit to Texas Tech, still standing even though the Raiders' last two opponents hit 43 percent of their threes. Salute.

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Seeing the tournament Ball Conspiracy arise this of all years was interesting.

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In the neighborhood of Illinois vs. Arizona in 2005 Elite Eight, also went to OT. Salute. bsky.app/profile/chri...

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I was watching the wrong game

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Duke and Arizona's stars and leading scorers boil down the strategic alternatives for all these trendy new college GMs nicely as a player born in December 2006 duels with one born in September 2001.

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"Here in Jersey City"?

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That game: 108 possessions. Oh to see such a thing. bsky.app/profile/rjcu...

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This is no time to take your foot off the gas, Coach Oats. There's history at stake. johngasaway.com/2025/03/24/n...

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Despite 36 percent three-point shooting in the round of 32, Ball Debate is back and I am so here for it. Two years ago I asked Wilson, the NCAA, and men's and women's coaches and players about the ball. www.espn.com/mens-college...

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