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A blog about college basketball, for people who really, really love college basketball. And the NBA Draft! All content via @OnTheShaneTrain.

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lookin at my bracket wednesday vs saturday

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Hello, if you still follow this account, you might be looking for one of two things:

1. College basketball takes, follow @OnTheShaneTrain

2. The Palestra Back Fantasy Shootout! Link below:

https://t.co/smZ9mq16su

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So thank you for following. If you enjoyed my gambling picks, onion truck memes, and other college hoops nonsense, it will all continue at @OnTheShaneTrain.

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If you hoped for content from this account now that the season started, I apologize but it will not be coming.

Follow me at @OnTheShaneTrain where I’ll tweet about hoops all season, including my writing for @ActionNetworkHQ and other outlets (including https://t.co/O3PytF1GOb).

[PalestraBack @PalestraBack]

Writing about hoops on my own blog, and several other site, with a full time job, on top of fatherhood is doable!

A second twitter account is not.

Especially when Twitter is…what it has become.

[Order On The Court ⚖️ @DataMizzou]

Those 5 players have played a combined 12,319 D-I minutes.

A starting rotation of Honor, Grill, Vanover, Carter and Tonje would counter with 13,587 minutes played.

Memphis and Mizzou meet the first week of the season which may represent the most experienced D-I game ever played

[PalestraBack @PalestraBack]

Let’s play “Who Were ND’s 3 Dream Candidates?”

I’ll go Jay Wright, Mark Few aaaaand Brad Stevens.

[Matt Norlander @MattNorlander]

Here were Notre Dame's 10 criteria for the job (before true vetting began). Notre Dame called three Hail-Mary coaches in January, all of whom turned the job down. From there a list of 80 names was built out and screened against this criteria:

[PalestraBack @PalestraBack]

Iowa, WVU, and Tech were the 3 best programs for him. What a journey.

[Joe Tipton @JoeTipton]

NEWS: West Virginia grad transfer Joe Toussaint has committed to Texas Tech, he tells @on3.

https://t.co/Ac9rPo3EAi

[PalestraBack @PalestraBack]

we live in a cursed timeline

[ACC Men's Basketball @accmbb]

𝐀𝐂𝐂/𝐒𝐄𝐂 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄 🏀

Matchups for the 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 ACC/SEC Challenge are set!

📰 https://t.co/OhyRxsmIf6

[PalestraBack @PalestraBack]

keyontae george should be a lottery pick, or else someone is getting a steal

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lol ok Duquesne flex on ‘em

[Duquesne Basketball @DuqMBB]

67 years later…

We are 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 the only university to produce No. 1 picks in back-to-back NBA Drafts.

#GoDukes

[PalestraBack @PalestraBack]

not sure how you pick Jett Howard before Cam Whitmore if you’ve watched both play basketball

[Matt Norlander @MattNorlander]

Eamonn’s been providing enlightening coverage of college hoops for more than a dozen years, and I look forward to continue reading his work.

[Rob Dauster @RobDauster]

UConn-San Diego State drew 14.69 million and everyone said college basketball was officially dead as a sport.

[Kevin Sweeney @CBB_Central]

Lol the shade

[PalestraBack @PalestraBack]

All numbers 0-99 are now legal in college basketball. Feels bad. Boo. Don’t like.

[Matt Norlander @MattNorlander]

News from earlier today: Block/charge rule change is official for next season. That's the big one. Here's the rest. All recently proposed, all became official for next season. How many 69s are we gonna see in college basketball next season?

https://t.co/Kzc3Q4QQlK

[CJ Moore @CJMooreHoops]

I asked Jim Boeheim if he were starting over at a new program, what defense would he play?

"Man-to-man."

A look at why the Syracuse zone has struggled, the challenges of playing it in today's game and a zone that is succeeding in another league: https://t.co/uiSZR3l1yZ

[zach @zach_edey]

RUN IT BACK🔄

[PalestraBack @PalestraBack]

Give it up! Get a job!

[Kevin Sweeney @CBB_Central]

DeAndre Williams, who will turn 27 a month before the 2023-24 college basketball season, exploring an additional year of eligibility.

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and then theres this

https://t.co/PCUzmo0ylx

[Kyle Tucker @KyleTuckerCBB]

With June 1 just hours away, Kentucky appears to be losing a total of nine players from last season, has just five freshmen and two sophomores committed to the roster and in the last two offseasons (to this point) has landed exactly one player (from Illinois State) in the portal.

[PalestraBack @PalestraBack]

The single most important piece of recruiting in modern college basketball is keeping the good players on your own team.

Dusty May led FAU to the Final Four and then brought the entire roster back. Perfectly done.

[Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespn]

Florida Atlantic junior guards Johnell Davis and Alijah Martin - catalysts of the Owls’ 2023 Final Four run - are withdrawing from the NBA Draft and returning to FAU to anchor a preseason Top 5 team under coach Dusty May, Davis and Martin tell ESPN.