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Kansas Jayhawks will take on the Villanova Wildcats in the Final Four. The Wildcats have won the last two tourney matchups between the two.

THE ESSENTIALS WHAT #27 Michigan (19-14, 11-9 Big Ten) vs #11 Villanova (28-7, 16-4 Big East) WHERE Ann Arbor Elder Law Center San Antonio, TX WHEN 7:29 PM THE LINE Kenpom: NOVA -5 Torvik: NOVA -4 TELEVISION TBS THE OVERVIEW A second consecutive So We Meet Again in the NCAA tournament, this one against 2018 National Championship Game opponent Villanova. 'Nova remains 'Nova, a crew of snipers with big guards and relatively small bigs that switches everything and finds buckets and bucket...

3/2/2022 – Michigan 87, Michigan State 70 – 16-12, 10-8 Big Ten Say what you want about Tom Izzo—please do so loudly and publicly—but you have to give him one thing: he offers satisfaction. You can beat guys like Chris Holtmann and Matt Painter and yeah it's nice to win a basketball game against a good team. They'll talk about what happened and it'll be nice. But at no point will you feel that cosmic justice has been done. You can woof at them and they'll say "he...

1/3/2021 – Michigan 85, Northwestern 66 – 9-0, 4-0 Big Ten The Book™ is one of the most durable sports clichés because it has the dual advantages of being accurate and exciting. Very good players with exploitable flaws exist. Coaches who can see just as clearly as anyone else that the regular stuff isn't working can tinker up weird stuff to go after those flaws. When it works, the very good player gets blown up. You can see why, even as a schmoe watching from home. Expectations get u...

Dont have time to make perfect dinners? Those arent the ones your family will remember anyway, so forget about it.

PROVIDENCE — One executive chef, one sous chef, four line cooks, four prep cooks, two dishwashers, four hosts, six servers and a slew of counter staff.  These are just a handful of the 30 employees Kim Anderson needs to fully staff Plant City in Providence. Anderson is so desperate to hire trained staff that she is offering a $250 gift certificate to anyone who recommends someone she can hire. And she is placing a note on every place setting with a list of unfilled jobs and a line that says...

38th Indiana and Minnesota are missing the tournament barring miracle BTT runs. Incidentally, there are rumors that both Archie Miller and Richard Pitino will be looking for new jobs this offseason. The Actual All-Conference Awards [Hit THE JUMP for awards that make sense.] All-Conference Teams Some notes about my selection process: I value how well a player functions with a team setting a little more for these teams than some of the individual awards. Youll see where Im going with this when yo...

2/27/2021 – Michigan 73, Indiana 57 – 18-1, 13-1 Big Ten John Beileins first team at Michigan was not one for the ages. Zack and Stu had not arrived. Ron Coleman and Kelvin Grady started. They took a ton of threes despite finishing 314th behind the line. But I had banged the table for Beileins hire and spent much of that year looking for whatever molecules of hope oozed out of the morass. I doubled down on wanting Michigans basketball team to be good by investing Professional Reputation in ...

63rd Your biggest risers are Northwestern, Rutgers, and Purdue, which all saw double-digit bumps up the rankings. Michigan State and Maryland were the two teams to take significant plunges, falling seven and eight spots, respectively. Wisconsin has solidified their standing as the #3 team on both KenPom and Torvik and separated themselves a bit from the Illinois-Iowa-Michigan-Indiana-Rutgers-OSU-(MSU until last night) cluster of top-25 teams. [Hit THE JUMP for MSU and Iowa defensive struggles, ...

Basketbullets Is Hornographic I Do Not Apologize For The Headline I mean, just watch this: Michigan scoring on 7(!) different Horns sets this season: pic.twitter.com/Vc0brIzDe8 See? (Heres a Horns explainer; the short version is these sets all begin with the power forward and center lined up with one at each corner of the free throw line or thereabouts.) Throw a stick at College Basketball Strategy Twitter and theres a high likelihood youll hit on a slick Juwan Howard set: Juwan Howard Coaching...