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They'll be begging Cal to come back in 2-3 years. You hate to see it.

Nobody was beating UConn this year. Everything else was just a formality.

This is wild to me. Arkansas went to back to back Elite 8s in 2021 and 2022, so it's not like they've been wandering in the wilderness for the last 20 years or something. They did go 15 years from their mid-90s heyday to 2021 where they didn't even make a Sweet 16, though. Amazing how...

And that team caught a LOT of breaks to win that title. This year, we had Santi and possibly Aidoo with flu symptoms. Last year, ZZ got hurt. The Sister Jean game (which we almost certainly would've won if Kyle hadn'tve been hurt.) The 2019 heartbreaker to Purdue, the blown call on Turner...

Can someone kindly give me a reader's digest version of what, exactly, went down between Kara Lawson and UT?

Not gonna lie: this one really hurts. I'm pushing 50. I'm not gonna say this is the best UT team I've seen in my lifetime (too young to remember the Ernie and Bernie years) but it's in the top 5, without question. A win today would've meant a very winnable game next weekend. Would we have...

Is it? We lose Friday, this board's gonna be lit up with drive-by Barnes bashers, media narratives about how Barnes just can't get it done in March (and once again lost to a lower seed) will abound. We win, and the curse is broken, second elite 8 in school history, hang a banner, etc. I'm...

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Friday's game is the ultimate crucible for Barnes. His entire career's narrative largely hinges on the outcome - not saying that it's right or fair, but it is what it is.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: this is the first call I'd make if I were Kentucky's AD, and I really hope it doesn't happen, because Donovan would win big there.

I think you gotta ditch CKJH at this point. The standard is the standard.

I love how some of y'all think Mashack is gonna play his own minutes, plus Vescovi's, plus JJJ's, so I guess he's gonna play about 70 minutes a game now somehow?

Everyone who bashes Barnes' NCAA tournament record but who defends Bruce Pearl as god of all coaches: Pearl has gotten out of the 1st weekend exactly one time at Auburn.

an honest question: why, exactly, does everyone get their panties in a wad about what ESPN does or doesn't allegedly think of us? who freakin' cares?

This is as good of a draw as we could have reasonably expected.

I can't find the +/- stats on yesterday's game (nor do I really want to see them), but I would guess, based on nothing but a hunch, that Mashack had the best +/- of anyone on the team yesterday. 21 minutes, 10 points on 4-6 shooting including a made 3, 1-1 from the line, 3 rebounds, 1 assist...