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Breaking news: You're not allowed to play college basketball forever.

One of my favorite live period moments of all time was standing behind Mike Anderson only to notice him playing Bejeweled the entire game.

I've got 24 games in Lubin's career where he played 28+ minutes. His team's records in those games: 7–17, including 2-3 this past year at UNC.

The 18 finalists for the USA Basketball U19 Team: Mikel Brown Jr., Chris Cenac Jr., Christian Collins, Jason Crowe Jr., AJ Dybantsa, Caleb Holt, Daniel Jacobsen, Jasper Johnson, JJ Mandaquit, Morez Johnson Jr., Nik Khamenia, Brandon McCoy Jr., Royce Parham, Koa Peat, Tyrone

12/6 shaping up to be a monster day of college hoops. Duke vs. Michigan State Arizona vs. Auburn Louisville vs. Indiana Illinois vs. Tennessee Iowa State vs. Purdue St. John's vs. Ole Miss Wisconsin vs. Marquette

Same day as all the conference championship football games. Can we not move this slate of games back a week, to 12/13? Why does college basketball schedule itself into so many losing early-season fights for attention?

Has been a big problem in recent years, though tangible improvements coming. Notably: Nov 3: Arizona/Florida Nov 4: Duke/Texas Nov 7: UNC/Kansas Nov 8: Bama/St Johns Nov 11: Kentucky/Louisville, Illinois/Texas Tech Nov 13: Purdue/Bama Nov 15: UConn/BYU Nov 18: Champions Classic

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Big injury news for a guy Michigan State had pegged for a key role. Depth was such a strength for last year's Spartans and looks like much more of a question mark in 2025-26:

A Windy City washout as the Cubs and Sox get the night off, Kaitlin Sharkey on Cary Grove grad Quinn Priester finding his form in Milwaukee, Blackhawks sign Donato, Lake Show sold and Kevin Sweeney talks draft and college hoops with us. Join Josh Frydman and Jarrett Payton at 10:30.

From 5.9 ppg at Colorado as a junior to the green room two years later... player development still matters!

Have had a lot of convos with college coaches about the potential impact of all this frontloaded money. Some worry about players shutting it down early with injuries since checks have already cleared. Will be fascinating.

Good for Wisconsin. It's just wrong to recruit and offer more money to players who are on another team or who have have already committed to another program.

Very, very few 18-year-olds doing stuff like this in high-level college games. Lot of folks are overthinking the Ace Bailey thing.