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The Big Ten chose this. Using good basketball games to help NBC goose subscribership to Peacock (to mangle a bird metaphor) got the league more money in the TV deal.

HEAT THE BUSKERS

I love an experiment. The potential for that route to be the revenue-maximizing path through college basketball has been obvious for anyone following portal season, give it a shot We may not have heard the last of this young man as an Illini prospect.

Obviously it is better to have fewer turnovers than more, and you want to be smart with the ball. But turnovers also to a substantial degree have just a mechanical relationship with how aggressive you are on offense. We will be nowhere near last year's numbers in that regard, no offense that...

So much of what we do is predicated on understanding matchup advantages. When you have the advantage, attack, don't think, GO. I think we're all kind of waiting with baited breath to see what that looks like when we play somebody where our guys aren't just way better man-for-man against any...

It's been a long and winding road getting here, and we definitely hope for Mirk's return to complicate it, but for the first time since his much-ballyhooed big money transfer this is Andrej Stojakovic's team, he's the alpha dog, and is playing very well.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7757472/2026/11/06/protect-college-sports-act-house-midterms/ Will PCSA be a priority in the lame duck session? Hard to say.

The Hawks will beat the Canes, you watch

Very different! Do not do serious running training in basketball shoes! PSA Anyways, this game should be exciting.

3 point contest at halftime, Caitlin Clark vs Peja

Love the effort by Andrej to get off the deck and run the floor like that

In the current NBA you pretty much never just straight sign a star player into open cap space anymore, everything is a sign-and-trade involving draft picks and often multiple teams. I would have a devil of a time explaining to you why, the current CBA is maddeningly complex, but it is the...

Guys it's very important to understanding the Clippers and the situation Wagler finds himself in that because of the NBA's punishment for the Kawhi salary cap scandal, the Clippers do not have the right to their own first round pick this year or next, and via various trades and pick swaps have...

"There are too many speed/skill/puck moving guys on this team" strikes me as a much more plausible explanation of the problem than "needs more time for ever more asset accumulation". The Hawks have three 1sts, two 2nds and two 3rds in the 2027 Draft. After making 11 first round picks in a four...