Foul up three demands equal time for when foul up three does work.
Every game where the president wasn't there was kind of the same.
Brunson is the hero hero ball has been waiting for.
Diagramming crunch-time shots by hero instead of location is close to unavoidable. Be nice to the coach.
Cade Cunningam just duplicated the Ty Jerome 2019 Final Four double-dribble. These refs didn't call it either and the announcers didn't notice. So maybe it is hard to catch.
As is said of faculty politics, social media discourse preferring that 19 and not 21 percent of teams qualify is perhaps so heated because the stakes are so low.
Q: Major-conference teams project to get 79 percent of new bids with expansion. Don't expand.
A: They got 89 percent of at-larges in 2026.
Q: 79 percent is still high.
A: Expanding lowers it from 89 to 79. Expanding more would lower it more.
Q: 79's too high.
A: 89 it is.
Not sure bench points holds water as a stat when an unhappy coach benches two starters in Game 7 as a motivational ploy.
It's standard for elite men's head coaches who dance every year to oppose tournament expansion. That's fine, they're sincere, they count.
Also true this same group *hated* expanding to 64 in the 1980s. Bob Knight wanted to go back to 32.
From March 2025:
johngasaway.substack.com/p/keep-march...
What to make of an expansion sought by few except a strange alliance of rapacious elite conferences and long disadvantaged mid-majors. Well, and me.
johngasaway.substack.com/p/one-whinin...