Kevin Urquhart

CBB addict 🏀 | Contributor to now defunct BIG EAST Coast Bias | Former HS coach | I live for March bracket pools

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Bumping this @DALLASBRADEN209. Know you’re a busy guy… let me know 🐘

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@DALLASBRADEN209 Dallas, big A’s fan here, I’m going to be at Globe Life on Friday to see the boys — any chance I could catch you before or after and shake your hand? Let me know!

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@DieHardUConn Must have been a little too cold for him

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@KyleTuckerCBB This is epidemic at the high school level. Few coaches have a well defined philosophy, fewer still can articulate it, and precious few can teach it to kids. The best coaches today are the best teachers.

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@ButlerBBHQ I agree and something going under the radar is that he’s bringing in shooters.

- Klafke 42.6% 3’s on 47 att.
- Ellerbee 35.3% (156)
- Anderson 35.8% (106)

I don’t think he’s devaluing offense as much as some think. Pair JJ’s penetration with shooters and you’ve got something.

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@GrandonBarrison Totally agree. I’m not seeing the vision in a high major context.

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2026 Bracket Recap — I should probably call it a postmortem. My worst effort in at least a decade. My biggest mistake was just not knowing what to do with a UM team unlike any team I can ever remember. I can live with that. But I picked up some other learnings along the way.

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@CBKReport The recency bias on this Michigan team is crazy. UConn was down by 4 with 20 second left and two years ago we saw a UConn team that was LEVELS above this year’s team. There are other better teams as well, but start there.

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@HinkleFieldhome That’s a very interesting data point. It’s always significant when a coach wants somebody they coached against.

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We’ve got a classic case of “both are true”:

- Michigan’s play style leads to more fouls/FTs than UConn’s does
- The refs significantly impacted the game in Michigan’s favor with bad calls

Citing season-long foul/FT statistics doesn’t prove the refs weren’t bad last night.

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What happened to flop calls in college basketball? There was a time they were called a lot. I don’t think I saw one this year. Were these taken out of the rule book? This needs to be re-prioritized.

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That’s a disappointing end to the season, in my opinion. It appears that the best team won, but a hard team to get behind. I can’t say enough about how tough UConn is.

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I’ll say this before the championship game kicks off: What makes us so sure Michigan is far superior to UConn? Take St. John’s (who is a uniquely challenging opponent) away and the Huskies are 29-3 with wins over Duke, Ill, Mich St, Florida, and Kansas. Michigan is an analytics darling and their size jumps out at you. But as far as what matters — winning the games in front of you — UConn has just about matched them.

I’m not making a prediction, just an observation. Seeing a lot of “Michigan would win 9 games out of 10 “ takes. Shows how analytics-brained we have all become and often for good reason. But tonight’s game won’t be played on a spreadsheet.

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@JBRBracketology Whether you believe it should have been Auburn, Seton Hall, teams from the MWC/AAC, or whoever else — I think we all can agree, at this point, that the ACC was badly overrepresented

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@morrisoncrying Totally agree. Although what I’d like to see the Astros go back to is this, which is, in my humble opinion, some of the greatest sports branding of all-time.

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@BigSteveUSF Tulsa and Wichita St. were both deserving, in my opinion. Would have preferred them over some of the ACC teams that got in at the bottom, especially.

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Tulsa was my favorite Cinderella candidate. They are worse than USF but their style is more conducive to tournament play and upsets. Still bummed they couldn’t win their conference tourney. Great team. American really should be a 2-3 bid league.

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At what point do you wonder if Arizona might have benefited from their coach being locked in instead of job interviewing and contract negotiating over the last week?

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Ain’t no way people are ALREADY saying UConn is cooked on Monday. Some people can’t learn anything.