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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,” Do you know someone interested in joining our team?”  The second pandemic: That’s what som...

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. You'll see where I'm going with this when you get to the centers. That said, offensive production in basketball matters more than defensive ac...

2/27/2021 – Michigan 73, Indiana 57 – 18-1, 13-1 Big Ten John Beilein's 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 Beilein's hire and spent much of that year looking for whatever molecules of hope oozed out of the morass. I doubled down on wanting Michigan's basketball team to be good by investing Professional Reputation in the new head coach, with inevitable results. I had not been and probably will not again be so inv...

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, an impact mid-year transfer to a contender, and new tiers.] First Place Rutgers As we all expected h...

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? (Here's 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 there's a high likelihood you'll hit on a slick Juwan Howard set: Juwan Howard Coaching Wrinkles: Spain PnR Another common set at the NBA Level. Looks very similar to standard top of k...