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The situation at Villanova looks really bleak for Neptune.

Hurley demonstrates many characteristics of a great leader. The part about the title not being as fulfilling as he expected was interesting to me, as I think a lot of great athletes/coaches experience that. It's always tempting to think that validation through achievement is the cure all, but...

Yeah, and it came at a brutal point on the schedule, just three days after a top five showdown with Marquette that got a ton of hype. Plus, the Storrs to Omaha trip is a tough one mid-week when you have classes in session. Not trying to take anything away from Creighton or make it sound like...

Well, they did win that game by 19 points - so 10 or 11 might do. But Creighton is very unique in the way they run their offense, and although Purdue implements some of the same concepts, I don't think it requires nearly the same fluency guarding off the ball. What they run is probably more...

They're basically a better version of Creighton defensively in that they rarely foul and invite mid-range shots. Pretty much your standard analytics approach but to an extreme. Edey typically accomplishes more on that end by doing less - he errs much more on the side of underhelping than...

Hurley's on an all-time roll. Probably would have given him the nod over Sampson given the conference tournament results, but it's a very subjective award that could be interpreted in a number of ways. I don't buy that the sideline antics contribute. He's actually pretty reeled in compared to...

And that might still be understating things given Clingan's gone from about 20 MPG over the first half of the season to 25 MPG over the second half. Not that UConn's the first team ever to scale back on their best guys' minutes for durability/sportsmanship reasons, but I don't recall it ever...

I realize fans' can be superstitious when it comes to reckoning with big picture items at a time like this, so I'm going to my best here not to encroach on hallowed ground. Most of you seem to be on shaky footing with the Basketball Gods already, assuming the reports of a flight to Phoenix...

I get all this, but the guy is only 41. Hurley was pretty much just starting out at that age. Plus, it's not like any of those jobs were all that desirable. It'd be a risk to hire him, but he could also be the next Kyle Shanahan. It's hard to know with these things.

They're definitely not terrible. Northwestern sans two starters might be, though.

You can explain the missed shots that way but not the turnovers. Some of the decision-making has been brutal.

I didn't even realize this. That makes it that much worse. Honestly they shouldn't have gotten in regardless, but now knowing this, it's even more clear that they only got in for being P2.

I think the Big East disrespect narrative is a little overblown at this point, but I'm inclined to agree that he should step down. Even something as simple as "three Big East teams were in the first four out" would have been enough to show a little bit of respect to the conference, but they...

Why would naming the best player in the league POY make them clowns?

Providence, Seton Hall, and St. John's (at least until the last couple weeks) were all mediocre teams that were left out in favor of other mediocre teams that had more political sway. Everyone brings up Virginia and MSU, but the real tell might've been Northwestern. The committee helped skate...

This might get marketed as a pro-football move, but it's really just an admission that the basketball program has no remaining value. I know there's some optimism there now with Frank Martin, but the A-10 is a shell of its former self and they must know it's only going to get worse as the power...

If anyone was on the fence about how to feel, Duke's collective response to the matter should make it easy. This has been a masterclass in living up to stereotypes.

If you want to make the case against court stormings, Duke's big man spraining his ankle is not it. The possibility of a serious injury or a fight breaking out might get me to ban it, but Scheyer whining about it after he designed a play for his seven footer to be as far away from the tunnel as...

So glad I tuned in for the last few minutes. Not sure I've ever seen a go-ahead four point play in the final 30 seconds like that. Washington State was a 13.5-point dog, too.

Ollie's legacy here is a complicated one that certainly leaves room for some bitterness, resentment, and feelings of betrayal. What I've never understood are those who take it farther than that. People are going to disappoint you sometimes. That's life. If Dan Hurley stops recruiting...

I don't know, but it doesn't really change anything about the rest of my post. The program is not going to be competitive with a guy like Holtmann unless the changes start at the top. Perhaps his interest signifies that he expects that to happen, but I'll believe it when I see it. Neither the...

Dan Hurley? Of course not. But he was at a different stage of his career, having already established himself as one of the best young coaches in the country. I'd agree it's pretty unlikely they find someone who meets my criteria. Maybe a Bruce Pearl type of guy, but I doubt his job is in any...

By fail, I mean fail spectacularly. In other words, I think you need to have a big enough personality to absorb being a punchline for a while (because it's better than being irrelevant). Say what you want about Cooley, but he's leaned that role much like Hurley did when he took the UConn job...

Holtmann is a solid coach, but he is not what DePaul needs. That program needs somebody with a dynamic personality, who has some name recognition/experience with major re-builds, and maybe above all, is willing to fail. There is a reason that program has been as bad as it's been for so long...

Sounds like they did him a big favor doing this when they did. Schedule gets much easier the remainder of the season, so hopefully they'll perform well enough to at least get him another assistant job if not the head position.

Playing second fiddle on ESPN is the single worst place to be - just ask hockey fans. You'll be immediate filler content, crammed into the worst imaginable timeslots with the lowest possible production value just like you were in the AAC. I'm the type of dinosaur who will die in front of the...

Nah. If he were trying to do that, he'd have called them "soft" or "lazy" or some other word coaches use when they're speaking to their team through the media. This was more something you'd expect to hear off the record, maybe at a bar after a couple drinks. I'm not sure I've heard a coach...

It's hardly a given in 2024 that someone who washes out of the NBA goes onto have success in Europe. It's a much different game over there, and Bouk doesn't really strike me as a guy who'd excel in that type of setting. Maybe he goes to China, but does he want to? Too bad he doesn't have...

Yes. I think he picked up both techs on the same play. Bad case of hero ball officiating.

I didn't realize you could simply be summoned like this. I was worried you had died.

This is closer to a vintage Pitino team than I think people might realize given that it's his first season. That doesn't mean they're great, but the portal can work wonders for a guy who's probably better at recruiting to a system than developing. Hurley's teams should be better equipped to...

I don't think he did anything wrong, either, but reading between the lines, it seems like Goodman's implying otherwise. Who else could he be referring to when he claims to be defending "someone caught up in it?" At first I thought it might be Cooley, but the more I think about it the less...

I don't think he's a tool. He's the most talented person on Big East Twitter, and and should have been hired by the league a while ago (you can kiss that goodbye now). That said, the last 15-20 minutes of that documentary should not have seen the light of day, and he may wind up being the...

I'm not too familiar with the Field of 68, but if Cooley is upset enough about it, Fanta is really the only person Fox or the Big East would have the power to punish. Again, I don't think it's likely, especially seeing as Fanta seems to have a good relationship with Cooley. He doesn't say...

It started as a fun internet thing. Then Portnoy called it to the attention of his 3 million followers and now all bets are off. The Big East should probably swipe the video now before many more people watch.