CMJ

Dropping football would be crazy, but as I've said before shifting some more money to basketball would be smart. A few hundred thousand goes way further in hoops than on the gridiron.

My only real surprise is it happened before he made the NCAA Tournament. I figured the first time Hodge did so, he'd be gone. This time it was an NIT semi that got Baker the cover to go with someone he knew already.

Before Mark Few got the head job at Gonzaga, he was an assistant there. His boss was Dan Monson who also began as an assistant at Gonzaga. Monson got his start under Dan Fitzgerald...who is the godfather of Gonzaga basketball. Fitzgerald never had the success that Few, or even Monson, did obviously...but he's the one that really got the ball rolling on their way upward to what we think of now. Hire from within if you have the guy.

Some coaches still wear them, but it's only maybe 10-15 percent.

I think we had a pretty bad FT shooting team early in Mac's tenure, but I feel like we've been pretty solid for several years. People always remember games like tonight where we struggle, but we tend to knock them down.

Now that there's replay on all end of game situations, more than likely. Maybe not twenty years ago.

Irvine is no joke. I expect them to beat UAB.

NT 61 ---------- OSU 59 Final

NT 52 ---------- OSU 44 4:30 to go Huge response to the OSU run at us. First Wright with a trey...great defense...and then Massie

NT 43 ---------- OSU 41 7:12 to go It's really getting physical out there right now.

NT 39 ---------- OSU 37 9:51 to go That missed Newell dunk really hurts.

I kind of can't believe Chattanooga ended up coming back from down 16. Gotta give them credit.

NT 38 ---------- OSU 33 11:38 to go Really intense game out there right now...officials letting a lot go. I love the way we're competing.

They're standing a lot.

NT 31 ---------- OSU 27 15:46 to go Their defense is really causing us turnover problems.

NT 27 ---------- OSU 22 Halftime Both teams missed some easy shots, but mostly this is just a defensive slugfest....which favors us.

NT 25 ---------- OSU 20 4:00 to go Keeping our nose ahead. Our defense really up in their face.

NT 20 ---------- OSU 17 7:47 to go Our three point shooting is really good tonight.

NT 15 ---------- OSU 11 11:17 to go Game has settled more into our kinda pace.

NT 11 ---------- OSU 9 15:13 to go A lot of early offense.

I agree, but we can't even average 4K in a season when we won 25+ games.

Bradley loves their basketball.

I would think if Bradley ends up winning, that they'd have a decent amount of fans in Indianapolis. They're a small school, but they have a good basketball tradition. It's only about three hours away and I could see plenty of BU grad even living there.

The Braves look good early on.

I have to be honest, I didn't really expect to get rumors like this about Hodge unless/until he made an NCAA Tournament.