Jim Root
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College hoops @3MW_CBB and @TheAthleticCBB, content for @ActionNetworkHQ / USBWA / [email protected]
Joined April 2015
Officially opening access to the 2025-26 Ongoing Roster Sheet! Live updating file that will include:. -all 364 rosters (the update process there is the "ongoing" part) including arrivals and departures.-transfer portal hub w/ my personal ratings (highly subjective and dubious)
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Ladies and gentlemen, we made it. The start of the NCAA Tournament is exactly one (1) milk gallon expiration away
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An annual tradition - we are exactly one expired milk gallon away from the NCAA Tournament
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We’ve done it, folks: we are officially one expired gallon of milk away from the NCAA Tournament
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Why isn’t the selection committee just 12 bracketologists who live and breathe this stuff instead of people with huge financial incentives to help or screw over certain teams/leagues. Is that a crazy idea.
Whether North Carolina should be in or not is a good debate. Their AD is the chairman of the selection committee but cannot be in the room when the Tar Heels are discussed. But it’s human nature that it doesn’t hurt UNC’s chances when other members of the committee have spent so.
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One of the best defensive possessions you’ll see all year. Marquette wants/needs to score quick, but they just can’t. The Johnnies are everywhere
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“ESPN Plus completely forgetting I’m a paid subscriber” season is back with a vengeance.
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Creighton/Louisville is a perfect “start the tourney 0-1 on picks” game.
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UCLA in the pacific time zone: 17-2.UCLA in the mountain time zone: 1-0.UCLA in central or eastern time zones: 0-5. I respect Mick Cronin digging in on his travel gripes and making a point.
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We all agree it would be completely hilarious if UConn missed the NCAA Tournament, right.
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Duke’s winning margin has dropped in each of its last 4 games: 43, 37, 35, 33. That downward trend is obvious, that’s just math. Team is clearly declining, not playing its best ball as we hit the postseason.
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“I cannot wait to not coach Hunter Dickinson”.
Bill Self: “For the last month, I’ve been thinking about next season to be honest.”.
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Apologies for video quality here, but this was a simply deranged way to force OT
The end of regulation in Southern-Grambling was like listening to a toddler tell a story. Nonlinear, not bound by physical law.
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An annual tradition: we are “one expiring milk gallon” days away from March Madness. Feel it in your bones, friends
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A friend just emailed me this, I had not fully realized it:. Four teams from the 2020 NEC are in the NCAA Tournament: Saint Francis, Mount St. Mary's, Robert Morris, and Bryant.
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Having a hard time caring about Clemson/Alabama since the winner is going to get obliterated.
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If you can't get excited for IUPUI at Chicago State tomorrow, you might not have a pulse. The truest "stoppable force meets movable object" matchup attainable this season
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This is arguably worse than any Grayson Allen trip. Probably suspendable, this is pretty clear and obvious crap.
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If we don’t get an 80-possession, 200-point Kentucky/Illinois game in the NCAA Tournament, I’ll be sad. That’s the perfect 4/5 game on Saturday.
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Sum of KenPom rankings of seeds 1-4, by region:. East: 20.South: 41.Midwest: 43.West: 42. Sum of seeds 1-6:. East: 57.South: 82.Midwest: 107.West: 96. The East is very very good.
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I promise you will never, ever, ever find a worse beat than UC San Diego +3.5. -Up 18 with 11 minutes left.Then. -Down 1 with 2 seconds left.-Foul, Riverside makes 2 FTs, 3-point game.-Inbound pass w/ 1.8 left, Riverside catches it, bafflingly launches a 3, banks it in. What?.
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My Iowa/LSU tweet is that Iowa’s coach looks like the bartender in Ted Lasso
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Just a brutal look after clapping in his face multiple times. F around, find out, etc
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"They're calling it tight" - Joel Klatt. No they have called two mega-obvious PIs when the DB grabbed/tackled the WR.
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The *entire* Big Ten hasn’t won a national title since 2000. The *entire* Pac-12 hasn’t won a title since 1997. The *entire* Big 12 won one title between 1988 and 2021. Those teams get tested plenty. Winning national titles is just hard - it’s boring but that’s all it is.
Part of why Gonzaga hasn’t won a National Championship is because they are rarely put in a position to get a legitimate test from January until March Madness. I do think having that late season competition plays a factor in sharpening a team come March.
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I'm seeing here that Virginia went 13-7 in the superpowered ACC.
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I will die on the hill of wanting to find out draft picks when the commissioner announces them. Don’t care if I’m the last one on the hill for eternity, it’s so boring to watch the TV crew just “soft” announce every guy so that Woj and Shams can brag about their connections.
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I no longer think Houston is going to win the 2026 title.
BREAKING: Houston has landed a commitment from Creighton transfer Pop Isaacs, he told @thefieldof68. The 6-2 junior guard averaged 16.3 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game this past season before having season-ending hip surgery. Isaacs played eight games and had 27
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UT Arlington fired Scott Cross, a UT Arlington alum, after he did this - 72-33 overall, double-digit wins in the league every season. Arlington has had one 20-win season since, while Cross has won 20+ in four straight years at Troy and just made the NCAA Tournament. Good for him
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I can’t even fathom how good a team with both Josh Dix and Owen Freeman on it can be.
Creighton has landed Iowa transfer Josh Dix, source told @TheFieldOf68. The 6-6 junior averaged 14.4 points per game and shot 42 percent from 3.
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I’m all set on ACC/Mountain West matchups for the rest of time.
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KenPom top 50 teams with zero losses by 15+:. Houston.Illinois.UNC.Duke.Gonzaga.Dayton.New Mexico.TCU.FAU.Cincy.SMU.
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Are the Missouri Tigers going to win the national title.
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Rich Paul telling teams not to draft Bronny James is like me telling NASA not to hire me.
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If Mark Pope had never been an HC but been an asst on Cal's staff for 8 years + got promoted as the alum hire, people would probably shrug and be fine w/ this. Instead he had *three* top 20 KenPom teams at BYU and successfully transitioned to the Big 12. I'll take the latter.
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Patriot race is going to be awesome. Look at this beauty, entire league within 2 games of each other
@2ndChancePoints Patriot league this year is comical. Could be a conference race for the ages if Colgate doesn’t pull away. 11-7 could get it done.
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Here's another way to look at this. Conf records vs. other Power 6 leagues:. Big 12: 30-24 (55.6%).Big East: 27-23 (54.0%).SEC: 37-32 (53.6%).ACC: 29-31 (48.3%).Big Ten: 24-26 (48.0%).Pac-12: 13-24 (35.1%). Big boys vs. big boys, the Big 12 was the best.
I caught a lot of crap for saying I thought the Big XII had gamed the system. These aren't baseless claims. I don't think the league is as good as it has been this season. The reason? They haven't played anyone at all during the nonconference, beat the life out of teams ranked.
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I think if you’re Duke, you put Ace Flagg in Cooper’s jersey tomorrow and let him run around like a decoy. Gaslight people into thinking it’s Cooper even though they’re not identical.
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Best teams in the country since January 1st. No subjectivity here
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Absolute nightmare time to be on a flight.
CLEAR. TSA Precheck on Steroids.
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Maybe Louisville having Kenny Payne was the best thing that could have ever happened, because all the donors saw how bad it could be. And now they apparently have a magical infinite money chest . Conwell, McKneely, Wooley is a ridiculous haul.
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I honestly respect the heck out of NC State's administration for not letting a one-time outlier miracle run make them content with the rest of Keatts' results. Could have ended up hanging on for like three more years.
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The Green Bay Phoenix are 0-4 with a -69 point differential since the head coach of the team tweeted about being drunk and pretending to care about his job in December.
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Here it is, bottom of screen. Loved this
Bothwell going to the exact spot on the court where he was laying after losing in the final last year was really cool. Miiiight have stuck with him.
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Who’s the richest person who cares about college basketball? Pay for bubbles, be a legend.
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I have been drive-by egged? While in a suit going to a wedding? 0/5 stars, do not recommend
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Super pumped to hear Hunter Dickinson’s pod about the atmosphere in Crisler for an NIT game.
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You have to love Jeff starting a “Mizzou beat the #1 team” tweet with an insult. That’s commitment.
Missouri has put together one of the worst non-conference schedules in the country to this point, but Dennis Gates and the Tigers just hung on for a huge resume win over Kansas. Big game for former Indiana Hoosier Tamar Bates with 29. Former No. 1 Kansas has now lost 2.
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Is this the worst call of all time? I think it is.
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How can you not be romantic about Caleb Love shooting 2/11 from 3 but one of those makes is a 60-footer at the buzzer to tie the game.
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I cannot wait for Davidson to beat Duke and Hyunjung Lee gets the final Coach K lecture.
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Wouldn’t it be cool if USF and Murray didn’t have to play each other in round 1.
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Just realized the Midwest is Maui all over again - Purdue, Gonzaga, Kansas, Tennessee are 4 of the top 5 seeds.
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I dare someone to review Marquette’s 31 3PA and tell me it was elite defense.
Marquette shot 4-for-31 from 3 tonight. It’s tied for their fewest made 3s in a game all season and it’s their worst 3-point shooting percentage in a game all season.
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Andre Jackson is incredibly cool, folks. Watch the whole thing
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Bummer for Mizzou, but more importantly — we have to, as a society, stop all-capitalizing EDGE. It is not an acronym like DT or DE or ILB or RB or WR . We can be the change.
BREAKING: Missouri True Freshman EDGE Williams Nwaneri plans to enter the Transfer Portal, he tells @on3sports. The 6’6 265 EDGE will have all 4 years of eligibility remaining . Was ranked as a Five-Star Plus+ Recruit in ‘24 (No. 1 EDGE).
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This is so perfect that it’s maddening.
South Dakota State grad transfer and All-Summit League First Team selection Oscar Cluff has committed to Purdue. The 6’11” center started all 30 games played, averaging 17.6 points on 63% FG, 12.3 rebounds (#2 in the country), and 2.8 assists per game. Purdue has landed their
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Why do we profusely thank the Selection Committee chair as though he/the committee saved lives for a week. They built a bracket, something hundreds of us folks do for fun, it's not some insane above and beyond civic duty.
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“Duke could play in the NCAA Tournament if selected as an at-large” . = . “Jim could date a supermodel if one is interested”.
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The team losing at halftime won all 3 games in San Antonio. Never take a lead.
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Hey, I'd really really like Indiana State in my tournament. I hope it happens.
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Damn. Revolutionary thinking here, disrupting the coaching industry.
I could turn the Mizzou basketball program around in 2 years… . Recruiting: They need to lock up the top talent in state & bring in a few out-of-state studs. Development: They need to prove they can help improve players pro stock. Culture: They need to make it cool to be a Tiger.
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Flagg doing the “make every correct play” thing except they’re all super highlight plays.
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I'll put this in the world now for fun: Houston is winning the 2026 title.
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Anyone caught not pressing Purdue in the NCAAT should be investigated for coaching malpractice.
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The worst part of that third Chet foul is that if he just falls down when Williams out of control shoulders him, it’s a foul the other way. Please reward actually playing defense instead of falling.
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The "hold your head up, Andrews - you played your heart out" attitude is dumb. The guy made two egregious game-losing errors. He makes $14 million/year. Everyone should dunk on him, it's deserved, that's part of sports.
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Zero extension of the arm. TWO guys flop. This can’t be a charge, stop rewarding this garbage
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Final update - my cousin has been located in Texas. Huge relief. More to figure out but that’s the most important part . Deleting the previous posts to avoid any confusion. Thank you to everyone who helped spread the word and for your kind words and thoughts. Talk to your people!.
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How high does Mizzou hoops have to be ranked nationally to not be on SEC Network.
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Houston is kind of the elite team hiding in plain sight. The SEC and Duke have gotten a ton of justified love, sort of hogging the headlines, but the Cougars just keep beating very good teams. Losing two OT games in November threw some off the scent. Terrific squad.
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This picture was taken in 1983 somehow.
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Jim Boeheim insisting that his son's very obvious intentional punch was inadvertent is a special kind if ignoring reality usually reseved for folks without a Twitter picture.
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Dennis Gates vs Ben McCollum was Dora the Explorer vs Magellan.
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We’ve been asking the wrong answer about Houston. The better question is: could Kansas win the American? Could they do it on a cold, rainy Tuesday night in Greenville, NC?.
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This whistle on Florida is kinda wild. Queen getting a few star calls.
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Holy AJ Storr hammertime!! An off-hand dunk is just cooler
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Huge bummer to find out that Tylor Perry and Max Abmas are not playing college hoops this season. I assume that must be the case.
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A no-call on that Wrightsell missed lay-up vs. the super late foul on Castle's missed lay-up is a difficult difference to parse.
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The milk I just purchased expires on March 18. That means the NCAA Tournament is “very perishable goods” distance away.
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Count me among those who strongly believes this will be successful.
Sources: Kentucky is targeting BYU coach Mark Pope to be the school’s next coach. A deal is expected to come together in the near future.
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The idea that free throw attempts should just be equal in every game is such a weird basketball notion. Teams play super differently. Purdue plays through a 7’4 monster mismatch who can’t be guarded w/o fouling + scares foes into jumpers. That leads to more FTs than opponents.
Was thinking about Purdue/Bama and how Zach Edey was refereed- so decided to look it up:. In Purdue's 4 biggest games this year: Gonzaga, Tenn, Marquette + Bama - Purdue is +44 in FT margin. Easy to beat the best teams on your schedule - when you're averaging 11 more FT's a game.
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A basketball stat I don’t really understand: points off turnovers. It implies the turnover led directly to the basket, but like, a traveling violation means you get to set your defense. The stat should be “points off live-ball turnovers” right?.
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Think I’ll just sit right here for all of March, please and thank you
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The Maui Invitational starts next Monday. current KenPom tempo rankings for every team in the event:. 303.321.332.340.341.343.353.(plus non-D1 Chaminade). It's going to be a GRIND.
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I don't understand why more teams don't follow the FAU model of "get 7 kick-ass guards who can all shoot and create + 2 beastly centers". I would simply stack my roster that way. Easy peasy.
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24-50 ATS in the tourney since 2005 (1-4 this year, only cover was against Virginia) . Booty conference.
Mountain West hasn’t covered a game that wasn’t against toilet bowl Virginia, for those keeping track.
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Just make sure the NCAA Tournament games are 35 minutes long.
Sources: West Virginia is finalizing a five-year deal to hire Drake’s Darian DeVries as the school’s next men’s basketball coach. DeVries led Drake to the NCAA tournament in three of the past four seasons.
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“If he blocks 100, he blocks 100” is an alarming strategy against Clingan.
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One of the worst charge calls I’ve ever seen. You can’t reward people for just throwing their body near a driver, he’s nowhere near squarely in front or beating him to the spot
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