The best home-court advantages in college basketball per Andy Katz.
Tier 1 (Best of the best): Kansas, Arizona, Duke, Purdue, Rutgers
Tier 2 (Next in line): Kentucky, UNC, Indiana, Creighton, Gonzaga
Tier 3 (On the rise): UConn, Providence, MSU, Iowa State, Arkansas
Tier 4 (Hard to keep them down this far): SDSU, Xavier, New Mexico, Illinois, Wisconsin
Tier 5 (Can’t ignore them): Tennessee, Virginia, TTU, Auburn, Kansas State, Marquette
@stoolpresidente I strongly believe that any baby under 4 years old shouldn’t be allowed to be on flights longer than 2 hours. Took a red eye from Hawaii to Chicago recently and had a screaming baby behind me the entire flight
Only person I see potentially transferring is Newman. I also want Edey to go pro as we need to rip bandaid off and move on. All of the players were way too focused on dumping the ball down low to him versus creating for themselves/others
I'll be interested to see how Painter adjust to a third straight loss to a smaller, quicker mid-major. His teams need to get quicker and more athletic, and mixing in just a teeny weeny bit of zone might help in certain situations.
Illinois is now 18 years removed from appearing in a second weekend in the NCAA Tournament.
(Illinois was a 1 & 4 seed the previous 2 years with R32 exits)
Brad Underwood is now 4-7 in the NCAA Tournament with 0 S16+ Appearances.
h/t @B1GBuckets