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Sporting News college hoops columns, Big Ten Network studio analyst, NCAA brackets for FoxSports. NFL, soccer @CoachingforLit Ambassador

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Forty years ago, John Thompson and @GeorgetownHoops won @MarchMadnessMBB . Big John became the first Black coach to lead his team to the title. It doesn't get as much notice as 1966 Texas Western, but so many who've followed owe their opportunities to him.
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Georgetown's John Thompson, the first Black coach to win an NCAA title: He paved it so we had a...

The first black coach to win an NCAA title carried a heavy influence in a time of change.

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@dicklevitating Anyone can sing in the shower. Anyone can read Hamlet. Anyone can kick a ball. Only the elite can do any of these things at a level worthy of the public’s attention. To suggest that one is easier to do than the others is preposterous. Your comparison is ludicrous.
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If you're a Steelers fan and not proud to have Mike Tomlin as your coach, especially after how he handled his interview on ESPN's First Take, I honestly don't know what to tell you.
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Auburn cheerleader advisor is walking past the stands. Somebody tells: roll Tide! She says: What time is your game? 🤣🤣🤣😞
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Those who suggest Matt Painter is anything less than one of the very best coaches in college basketball might as well admit they just tune in for March. There’s been too much of that in the past two days.
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Indiana is so much better with Trey Galloway and Rob Phinesee. One wonders how February would have gone if they'd both been available the entire month.
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Purdue to the Final Four. When people who pretend to know college hoops say a great coach can't do something because it hasn't happened yet, remember Matt Painter on this day. And Jim Calhoun in 99. And Bill Self in 08. And Jay Wright in 09. It's always nonsense.
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The great Jim Nantz is wrapping up his final Final Four. Congratulations to him on three decades of excellence.
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The Steelers will regret this for years.
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I have known Bob Huggins for 30 years, and I’ve covered few better coaches. Perhaps now that he walks with legends like Adolph Rupp and Dean Smith, Huggs will get all the respect he’s earned.
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Bob Huggins' ascent to tie Adolph Rupp in career wins has him walking among legends

Bob Huggins' continued ascent through the career coaching victories list can only help in getting basketball fans to appreciate his greatness.

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Alabama's Nate Oats fails leadership test with failure to discipline Brandon Miller
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Alabama's Nate Oats fails leadership test with failure to discipline Brandon Miller

Nate Oats is not handling the entirety of his job when he helplessly throws up his hands at the behavior of his players away from the court.

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Is this because Terry Bradshaw has four wins and two MVPs?
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Mahomes joins ELITE company with Brady and Montana 🐐
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“Dear NFL: I am sorry my head got in the way of the swinging helmet that was torn off my head.” Yep, he should say this. 👍
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When is Mason Rudolph going to apologize? Everyone will have to but him.
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You can believe it or not, but this is a really good Utah State team Purdue is running out of the gym.
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I’ve loved being a college basketball writer for 35 years. Because this is a world populated by great young men like RayQuan Evans of @FSUHoops — and the fans of @BoilerBall who helped assuage his grief.
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Gesture from Purdue fans to Florida State's grieving RayQuan Evans shows hoops world can be a...

Florida State senior RayQuan Evans carries a condolence card from Purdue's student section everywhere he goes.

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Is it crazy that Deb and I dressed in Easter clothes to attend Mass on our couch? Well, blame me, was my idea. Happy Easter 🐇 everyone!!
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What do Dawn Staley, Kim Mulkey and Sheryl Swoopes have in common? Each is in the @Hoophall . Each also took a shot at @CaitlinClark22 that was unwarranted or false. Why aren't legends of women's hoops on board with a player driving the sport's popularity?
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Iowa's Caitlin Clark is discovering not all the greats of NCAA women's basketball welcome her...

It's strange that the people most involved in women's basketball have been so resistant to the popularity Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark has attracted to the sport.

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Bob Huggins of @WVUhoops never has been the person many portrayed or presumed him to be. As he approaches the company of K, Knight, Boeheim, Calhoun, Roy, I 'visited' each of his stops to hear what he's really like from those who were part of 899 wins.
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As West Virginia's Bob Huggins approaches 900 club, those who know him best explain secrets of his...

Those who have played or worked with Huggins got a view of what drove him to his standing among most successful of all Division I basketball coaches.

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How come nobody pointing out that going to college lifted Coby White by 20 spots?
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Going to college cost Nasir Little at least 10 draft spots.
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The @UNC_Basketball program revealed today Tar Heels radio analyst Eric Montross, a hero of the program's 1993 NCAA championship team, has been diagnosed with cancer and is beginning treatment. Eric is a heck of a guy. Please send prayers or positive thoughts on speedy recovery.
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Women's basketball has been asking -- demanding, in many cases -- more attention and coverage for decades. Now, it's happening because of @CaitlinClark22 of @IowaWBB . Some of the sport's legends seem to be displeased by this. That doesn't make sense.
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Iowa's Caitlin Clark is discovering not all the greats of NCAA women's basketball welcome her...

It's strange that the people most involved in women's basketball have been so resistant to the popularity Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark has attracted to the sport.

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If you’re surprised AB would walk out, you missed 2018.
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I think I just saw the worst foul call — non-charbage division — in 50 years of covering college basketball.
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No salary cap in MLB after all that overwrought angst of the winter, Dodgers sign another superstar. My first love in sports is now the most broken in US. Those of you in big markets, enjoy. The sport is permanently yours, now.
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I do wish the traditional American sports leagues would quit presenting the trophy to team owners and, like in soccer, give it to the men or women who earned it. That trophy should have been handed to Aaron Donald.
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Purdue's Zach Edey is Sporting News' College Basketball Player of the Year @BoilerBall
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Purdue's Zach Edey is Sporting News' College Basketball Player of the Year

He came to Purdue with little experience in basketball but "a burning desire to be great." This year, Zach Edey learned all about what greatness entails as a college player, because he became the...

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For a great moment in the 2023–24 college basketball season, it is going to be hard to top Illinois forward Coleman Hawkins giving the “flop” signal to the adjacent referee while he was sitting on Purdue’s Lance Jones. 😅
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Probably the best Final Four dunk I've ever seen. Grant Nelson, Alabama v. UConn Victim: Donovan Clingan. That's 36 Final Fours, 34 as a journalist. That's a lot of ball.
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Ochai Agbaji is a spectacular player. A very deserving first-team All-American. But my goodness, how does David McCormack not get Most Outstanding Player? Seriously?
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Lions had a chance to wipe out almost a whole 3Q worth of work by Niners merely by kicking a field goal from a makeable distance. You've got to play the game, not just the numbers.
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If Florida State can sign a contract and then get out just because they are unhappy… what’s the point of any contract?
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Just heard a CBB analyst on radio claim when #Gonzaga gets out of WCC play it’s not “battle tested” for @MarchMadnessMBB . Since 2017, Zags has won more NCAAT games than anyone. They are only team with multiple Final Fours. How is this still being peddled as informed analysis?
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People spend more time trying to "fix" college basketball than any sport. Not talking minor adjustments, like change to metric at core of NCAAT selection process. Talking major stuff like six fouls, advance-ball TO, expanding field. The game does not need major repairs. Period.
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I’ve seen a ton of Mason stinks and Duck stinks. What I’ve not seen: Steelers just won an NFL game with Deon Cain, Devlin Hodges, Tevin Jones, Kerith White. Looking forward to the adults returning. 🤷‍♂️
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I stand in awe of the contrition and humility exhibited by LSU athletics in self-imposing a bowl ban when the football team stands 3-5. It’s inspirational, is what it is.
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Seeing the joy in the NC State players' eyes -- ACC Champions. That's why March Madness is perfect as it is. Remeber those pictures. Especially DJ Horne overcome with emotion. What a remarkable achievement, to win four games in four days.
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Even the person who committed the foul says it was a foul, and yet there are complaints because of when it happened. “Let the players decide the game”. They did. One of them committed a foul. It was properly called. His team lost. That’s why there are rules.
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Let's give the great basketball city of Louisville a round of applause for helping Creighton and San Diego State fans deliver pretty much a capacity crowd to the KFC Yum! Center for #MarchMadness #Elite8 game that does not include "bluebloods"
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You're not seeing things. 1. That's Bob Huggins in a sportcoat. 2. That's Huggs at @GoBEARCATS game v UCLA. He was honored as one of three coaches to take UC to Final Four.
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Looks like I’m OK to announce I’ll be joining the remarkable college hoops team @FOXSports as bracket analyst, in addition to my role as senior writer @sportingnews and studio analyst @BigTenNetwork . I’m back with my old teammates @jimjackson419 and @TimBrando ! Can’t wait!
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Third consecutive Sweet 16 for Mick Cronin and UCLA. I remember when so many told me he wasn’t much of a coach. You do not luck your way to a dozen consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.
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One time several years ago, my wife needed an MRI. Doc sent her to Bengals facility, where they sometimes do MRIs for women. Cedric Benson was in the waiting area. “Don’t worry,” he said to her. “Everything will be fine.” That moment of kindness still moves her. 😥RIP, Mr. Benson
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Twenty years ago this week I began my dream job @sportingnews . Can’t thank enough the amazing teammates and bosses I’ve had, but Tom Dienhart pushed for me, John Rawlings took a chance and Benson Taylor has kept us moving. And thanks to those who’ve read. The adventure continues.
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CHARBAGE of the year has to be the call against Keion Brooks down at Vandy. Does a dunk for the ages, defender scrambling to get under him as he leaps, never gets legal, but baseline ref gets to do his ridiculous little dance.
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If you have @netflix , carve out a couple hours and watch @ticktickboom , a terrific movie featuring beautiful music and an amazing performance by Andrew Garfield. A poignant reminder of the amazing talent of Jonathan Larson. Lin-Manuel Miranda's directorial debut does him proud.
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Can you believe a group of intelligent adults charged with administering an athletic competition thought 120 miles was more important than creating the fairest possible event? I can't. #MarchMadness #MichiganState
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March Madness 2019: Selection committee should be embarrassed for mishandling Michigan State

Michigan State was placed in the East Region of the 2019 NCAA Tournament (the region No. 1 overall seed Duke occupies) because of ... 120 miles? The selection committee screwed the Spartans out of...

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Mike Cofer, father of Seminoles forward Phil Cofer, passed away Thursday. Tremendous tribute from Terence Mann.
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This is what being a teammate is about. What an amazing answer.
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You will never in your life — ever ever ever ever — see a worse call in basketball than one that just took away a slam dunk from Amari Bailey. It was maybe worse than the one that baseball ump made that’s been such a thing on Twitter today.
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We have a Twitter winner for the day. Guy tells me that Kareem and Walton were not the two best college players ever, suggest LeBron was better.
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Wait this can’t be true because I keep hearing nonsense about Matt Painter and March.
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Not too shabby 😤 #B1Gstats // #MarchMadness
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Luke Fickell did not promise @GoBearcatsFB wins or championships on the day he was hired to be head coach, only that everyone would be proud of the program. So he kept promises he didn't even make, one reason he is @sportingnews Coach of the Year.
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Luke Fickell's history-making season earns him Sporting News Coach of the Year award

After leading Cincinnati to another undefeated regular season and berth in the College Football Playoff, Luke Fickell won Sporting News Coach of the Year award.

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Juwan Howard of @umichbball had to follow a legend, take over the program late, work during a pandemic, replace seniors at PG and C and do all of that with no background coaching college. Is @sportingnews Coach of the Year a big enough award for all that?
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Michigan's Juwan Howard is Sporting News' 2020-21 Coach of the Year

Juwan Howard is the boss of Big Ten champion Michigan, a presumptive No. 1 NCAA Tournament seed — and Sporting News' 2020-21 College Basketball Coach of the Year.

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Alabama has beaten 4-4 Miami, FCS Mercer, 4-4 Florida, 1-7 Southern Miss, 6-2 Ole Miss, 5-3 Mississippi State, 4-4 Tennessee. And lost to 6-2 Texas A&M. The @CFBPlayoff "committee" checks to make sure it's still spelled A-L-A-B-A-M-A, ranks that team No. 2.
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Good news from one of the best of all college basketball events: the @MauiInv will return to Lahaina Civic center in November 2024. And the field: UConn, North Carolina, Iowa State, Auburn, Dayton, Memphis, Colorado, Michigan State. What an occasion that will be.
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That whole "Big Ten is down" narrative is having a brutal 24 hours.
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Someday, the people who run world soccer will get something right. Until then, we have situations like Sunday, when athletes at the #FIFAWWC can't even get spotlight to themselves.
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USWNT star Megan Rapinoe is correct that Women's World Cup 2019 final shouldn't share spotlight

Sunday will be the biggest day in the history of U.S. soccer. Which is a shame, really. If things were as they should be, though, this would be the biggest weekend in American soccer.

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Le'Veon Bell said he wanted to be a "Steeler for life." He walked away from $70 million, proving that never was his plan. Then again, he never had a plan.
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Le'Veon Bell claimed he loved the Steelers, but he had a funny way of showing it

The Steelers loved Le'Veon Bell to a fault, but despite the running back's words, the feeling evidently was not mutual. Otherwise Bell would be playing under the long-term contract Pittsburgh offered...

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When the transfer portal opened after Selection Sunday, we were told by coaches and analysts how awful that was for college hoops. But four coaches took new jobs less than a day after exiting @MarchMadnessMBB . Why isn’t it OK for both?
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College basketball transfer portal: If coaches can bolt immediately after their season, why can't...

It took less than 24 hours for four different NCAA Tournament coaches to change jobs after their teams lost. But we're still hearing complaints about the transfer portal being opened during March...

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Eric Montross was one of the nicest people I've encountered in this business. Always happy to talk. Always insightful about college basketball and his beloved Tar Heels. Before all of that, he was a great @MarchMadnessMBB champion. Gone at 52 from cancer is just awful news. RIP.
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Ahem: "Pittsburgh Steelers running back."
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NFL running back and Bay Area native Najee Harris threw out the first pitch
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The people who told Chris Livingston to go get selected with the last pick in the #NBADraft -- what the heck were they thinking, anyway? If he returns to Kentucky for 23-24, great chance he becomes a first-round pick. He's got the talent and work ethic. Just needed to develop.
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74,720 attendance at Final Four. Allow me to use this occasion to remind everyone the NCAA Tournament is perfect as it is, 68 teams, no expansion necessary.
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The notion that athletes being on campus when other students aren’t is some revolutionary concept ignores every winter break in the history of college sports.
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Something few seem to be considering: Relative to #COVID19 , it may be safer for college football players to compete this season than to not.
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Jim Harbaugh, Scott Frost have a point: This season, a football field might be the safest place for...

One certainly could argue that football players always would be safest not playing football, but if we’re talking strictly about the pandemic, that might not be the case.

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It's amazing people (who should know better) declare Jack Ham or Bob Cousy couldn't perform in the modern game and assume they couldn't find the way to the weight room, the nutrionist, the skills coach and all the other enormous advantages granted today's athlete. Absurd.
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What Twitter has taught me in recent years: There is a legion of people here who would defend a literal kick to the crown jewels if it happened in the final seconds of a football or basketball game.
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Some analysts continue to insist the @steelers goofed by trading their 2020 first-round pick for @minkfitz_21 . They're wrong, by a mile.
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The Steelers didn't trade away their future — they stole Minkah Fitzpatrick from the Dolphins

The safety is giving Pittsburgh exactly what it wanted when the team traded a first-round pick to Miami.

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Bob Huggins' best call after another DUI arrest is to retire as West Virginia coach and focus on his health
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Bob Huggins' best call was to retire as West Virginia coach -- and now focus on his health

Bob Huggins has been involved in two incidents — just since May — that were significantly embarrassing to West Virginia University. The best conclusion to his career was his immediate retirement.

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Had a full 3 minutes to think about it and punted away the game. Worst decision of Tomlin’s career.
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Kentucky has signed three of the top four prospects in the 2023 recruiting class and there are actually people out there calling for a coaching change. Real people. It’s unfathomable.
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A caller just told Mark Packer on ESPNU radio that he preferred old-style college football, from the 1980s, because it was more innocent. Guy is a Texas A&M alum. That’s right, what could be more innocent than the Southwest Conference of the 1980s? 😳
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I just noticed: I got verified! Only took 12 years and 200,000 tweets.
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Overturning the @NCAA infractions committee postseason ban for @OSUMBB is the right thing to do -- for the Cowboys, for @CadeCunningham_ and for everyone who loves @marchmadness
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Cade Cunningham's decision to stick with OK State makes it essential for NCAA to overturn postsea...

For the sake of justice, it always was important that the members of the NCAA infractions appeals committee remove the one-year ban on postseason play installed earlier this month against the...

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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
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Tonight starts my 25th season covering college hoops for @sportingnews . I've followed the bouncing ball through 42 states representing the SN brand. It's been an honor to work with and for so many distinguished journalists, and I look forward to continuing well into the future.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
6 years
Mackey Arena: the most underrated venue in college hoops.
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Jody Demling
@jdemling
6 years
Deng Adel: "That was one of the top three toughest environments I've ever played in."
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
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That KJ Adams could go to Chicago and play that hard and that focused given the circumstances should demonstrate to everyone what an extraordinary competitor and young man he is. 💪❤️‍🩹
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
5 years
When coaches make bad calls, they are criticized. When sportswriters author columns with which readers disagree, they are criticized. Not allowed to criticize refs for missing obvious calls, though. Who knew?
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
3 years
The group hug that @WVUhoops presented to Bob Huggins should tell you all you need to know about how his players value him.
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As West Virginia's Bob Huggins approaches 900 club, those who know him best explain secrets of his...

Those who have played or worked with Huggins got a view of what drove him to his standing among most successful of all Division I basketball coaches.

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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
2 years
The kid who hid in the woods and read The Sporting News cover to cover to avoid caddying at the local country club starts his 27th season with TSN covering the best sport, college basketball, tonight at The Garden. Don’t wake me from the dream. #ChampionsClassic
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
5 years
Dear NBC: I can’t see the football. I can’t tell which player is which. What are we trying to accomplish here?
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
2 years
RIP to the wonderful Joe B. Hall, who coached 1978 Kentucky to an NCAA championship. In retirement, he became one of UK’s terrific ambassadors, did a radio show with old rival Denny Crum. Just a lovely man. He lived a great, long life.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
2 years
So cool to see Mackey lit like this after what 2020-21 was like #B1GACC
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
4 years
Today is my father’s 95th birthday. He has missed the last 30, but hasn’t left my side in all that time. I wrote this a few years ago, and some of you have read it, but I like to honor him by posting. If yours is still here, DO NOT take it for granted. ❤️
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
1 month
I’m here for all the “ACC beat a Horizon League team in overtime, look how awesome we are” boasts. 😀
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
5 years
KC is in the AFC Championship game with their third-stringer. LA gets a TD 65 first-half yards from guy cut three times in the last year. Yeah, but by all means hold out $15 million in case disgruntled RB decides to show up.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
6 years
At one point I had Svi Mykhailiuk as Midwest MOP, which had to be superseded because of Newman's OT explosion. But still, not All-Tournament? People, come on, HE HELD BAGLEY TO 9 SHOTS.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
3 years
It’s not a playoff. Don’t ever forget that.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
2 years
I was just saying the other day how they'd finally stopped calling these RIDICULOUS hang-on-the-rim techs. I saw at least three in Greenville that were ignored, and I loved it. It's a terrible rule, and the ref who called it should be ashamed.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
2 years
Pickett floats underthrow downfield that allows two defenders into a play that should have been unguarded. INT. Pickett throws two feet over TE's head on a ball that should have gone into sideline. INT. Steelers fans blame receiver for each. Enjoy the honeymoon, No. 8
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
3 months
College hoops goaltend replay rule must go. Wisconsin's Steven Crowl went for layup called a goaltend by ref. Rebound went directly back to him. Woulda had chance to follow for score, butwhistle blew. Bad call, though. At next break, points were taken off the board. What is that?
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
4 years
NCAA declares it will not conduct fall championships. People in my timeline wondering how can SEC, Big 12, ACC possibly play for nothing. People still don't get that NCAA doesn't run FBS football. I honestly don't know how much louder I can say it.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
4 months
The review in Pitt v Duke is embarrassingly long. Honestly bordering on unprofessional.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
5 years
A recent article trashed coach Tony Bennett of @UVAMensHoops after he declined a raise, asking: What do his players get? One thing they get: A hell of a lot better shot at reaching NBA than expected. The stats are remarkable.
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Reaction to Tony Bennett's generosity is another low for discussion around paying college athletes

The conversation about whether college athletes are fairly compensated has reached a new level of inanity.

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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
2 years
Save for the North Carolina fans cheering for alum George Karl's induction, the loudest cheer at the halftime introduction of the @Hoophall class of 2022 was for Bob Huggins. I didn't know he'd be that popular with this crowd. So much has changed since I covered him in late 90s.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
1 year
Denny Crum was one of the great college coaches, and getting to cover his games as beat writer for Memphis and Cincinnati was an honor. Am sorry to hear of his passing. It wasn't just about 80 and 86, it was about everyone from Junior Bridgeman to DeJuan Wheat. He was a legend.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
6 years
LiAngelo Ball was ranked the 226th-best prospect in high school basketball, has not played a minute of NCAA hoops. Can someone explain why anyone would even entertain the notion that he could be taken seriously by the NBA?
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
2 years
Man who has changed jobs every 2.3 years since 2008 has a problem with college students transferring.🙄
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Sporting News College Football
@sn_ncaaf
2 years
Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin laments changes brought on by transfer portal: 'We have free agency in college football'
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
5 years
Every time Zion gets in foul trouble, my pal Dickie V renews his call for a six-foul disqualification. Or an angel gets its wings. One of those two.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
7 years
@JuddLegum @ChrisMuellerPGH Part of me wonders what it's like to be this horrible. Most of me does not.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
2 months
Justin Edwards is why you don’t give up on a talented player just because he’s struggling.
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Michael DeCourcy
@tsnmike
4 years
The @sportingnews college basketball coach of the decade was a difficult choice. But here is the right choice, @UKCoachCalipari of @KentuckyMBB :
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John Calipari: Sporting News college basketball Coach of the Decade

No other coach defined the 2010s like Calipari, nor achieved the same degree of consistent excellence.

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