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What game are you looking most forward to this season? For me it's the 11/13 game between West Florida and Cleveland State in Huntsville, Alabama.

Assuming the Brewers close this out, 2026 will be the first time since 1986 that the team with the better record wins every playoff series, and just the fifth time it's happened in the division era (1969- ).

How much are power-conference teams paying their 🏀 rosters in 2026? We spent a month talking to 100-plus sources, and we didn't rely on just the coaches for this info. ADs, GMs and even third-party consultants, too. All 80 high-major programs split into seven spending tiers. A CBS Sports exclusive:

So far, across 99 exhibition games, MBB teams have taken 42.5%(!) of their shots from 3, up from 40.8% in 114 games last year.

there should be one more second on the clock?

Duke voted preseason #1 in the H.U.M.A.N. poll kenpom.substack.com/p/blue-by-you

this is good www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybA...

that hit had a launch angle of 49 degrees and exit velocity of 105mph and in the statcast era that has never once resulted in a home run Exit Velocity: 105 MPH, Launch Angle: 49° BA: .037 1B%: 0.0 2B%: 3.7 3B%: 0.0 HR %: 0.0

Here is the best angle to see the Virginia Tech kick did appear to be No Good.

There has to be some genius out there that can definitively figure this out based where the kick landed in the crowd

In my professional opinion, the Protect College Sports Act is bad, actually, and I hope it doesn't pass. www.extrapointsmb.com/p/the-protec...

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The expert (to me at least) has weighed in and has a good explanation for how NBC's "synced" overlay could have gotten unsynced

Great stuff over at @kenpom.com. Coaching résumé pages now include overall record and NCAA Tournament record. Huzzah! Subscribing to Ken's site for $25/year remains the second-best deal in all of basketball media, only surpassed by subscribing to the Eye on CBB Podcast for $0.

Random nonsense, but these are the 23 active coaches who have not had a game against a non-D1 team, ordered by total games coached.

To add to all the Dolly Parton anecdotes being shared, here’s mine: I only met her once, but it was a VERY memorable encounter. She shot me in the head with a gun, killing me instantly

Our Candid Coaches series returns for 2026, and I'm starting it off with the hottest topic in college basketball. Should 2026 seniors be grandfathered into the five-in-five rule and be made eligible next season? Suffice to say, coaches are FIRED UP over this topic. Here's how they voted.

Time to go down the Kevin Maas wormhole

I won over Pringleson www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw3t...

I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of Bonke-heads this season

The latest EOCBB guest for our Summer Shootaround series: @kenpom.com! I tried to get him to reveal Sparty's preseason ranking. At one point in the spring, MSU was No. 2.

First cut of preseason conference ratings. Looking forward to seeing how people categorize the Pac-12. Not on the level of other power leagues but conceivably far ahead of all non-power leagues.

People are saying that was the best game played on American soil since Soccer Bowl '79

legit one of the greatest games in futbol history

France is gonna do this

@kenpom.com is dropping dark mode on us in the middle of July like we aren't all logged in anyway.

Life's a BIH and then you die

Party time in Marrakesh!

I'll know bluesky has made it when someone breaks news like Fairfield going to the CAA here. For now, I suffer.

If you're not watching all the games on Telemundo, you get what you deserve.

Program rankings have been updated. Notable changes: Texas State 215 -> 149 (simply for joining the Pac 12) Memphis 34 -> 42 Miami FL 47 -> 39 Miami OH 180 -> 160 Michigan 🏆 20 -> 13 John Groce is the only coach to willingly take a downgrade kenpom.com/programs.php

peak in-game win probability for Spurs in finals losses: game 1: 94.1% (Q3 6:31) game 2: 90.9% (Q2 11:32) game 4: 98.7% (Q4 9:33) game 5: 97.1% (Q4 7:54) image is game 5 nose dive

Not really interested in the De'Aaron Fox hot takes. More interested in: What should be Fox's confidence be that he'll make the layup in order to go for it? Layup better than free throws, no? Especially for not a great FT shooter.

Another Knicks playoff game, another cardiac-arrest win probability graph (via Dunks and Threes):

storm the court

If Roger Ayers was reffing this game there would be no controversies

Random research: From '97-'25 there were 17 teams that shot better than 60% on 2's (no more than 2 in any season). In '26 there were 8 such teams.

So it remains that a US based team has won the CFL’s Grey Cup more recently than a Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup.

Manute Bol walked so Wemby could run www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ1a...

If you can co-opt the names of defunct conferences that produced multiple Final Four teams, then I'm not sure why the Southland is not rebranding to the Southwest Conference.

Last night, De'Aaron Fox said that as good of a player Wemby is, he's a better person. An overused cliche that has no bounds on absurdity and in this case means Wemby is the best human on the planet. Like, Rick Steves move over.

introduce yourself with five business establishments in radford, virginia that you have not yet the opportunity to visit 1. nobby's kitchen 2. la quinta inn by wyndham radford 3. sharkey's wing & rib joint 4. radford orthopedic center 5. elliott's military surplus and fishing tackle

The Knicks have outscored their opponents by 212 points over that nine-game span. That's the highest such figure in NBA history over any nine-game span, regular season or postseason. The previous mark of 209 points was set by the Bucks from Nov. 28 to Dec. 16, 1973.

In games 1 and 2 of the '99 Finals, the Knicks scored a total of 144 points

Most Points in 1st Quarter of Playoff Game Scoreless in Rest of Game, Last 30 Seasons Paul George 15 Tonight Jason Kidd 14 Apr 2003 Ron Harper 13 Apr 1998 Voshon Lenard 12 May 1997 PG: 0-9 FG after 1Q (others: 0-5 combined)

Last summer @kenpom.com and I talked it over and came to the considered conclusion that we're right. Well, now we'll find out. johngasaway.substack.com/p/ken-pomero...