https://twitter.com/Shane_DNRSports/status/1469833343189594118
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If Radford beats JMU which beat UVA which beat Radfordā¦
We give ourselves a quality win!
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JMU won 79-70
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College hoops pundit pet peeve: the mid-December #1 team that isnāt that good:
Seth Davis, Jeff Goodman, and Gary Parrish all have Baylor as their #1, because Baylor beat a 2-loss team at home. I will admit Baylor looks better than I thought they would, but IMO, that means they might be a top 5-10ish team; not a #1 team.
Says something about the quality of college hoops punditry that they do okay with zero data (preseason), and fine with lots of data (March), but they go berserk with just a little dataā¦ (Or maybe thatās just human nature).
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Memphis ahead of Alabama at the half. That is a remarkably an on-and-off team.
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Yeah, thatāll happen with talented but poorly coached teams. Crazy up and down.
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Itās hard to believe this Alabama team beat the Zags. Swing of outcomes in college basketball is crazy
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We are due. Unless the Providence game was us being due lol
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If anyone is ever so inclined to engage in some legal sports gambling, you could do worse than just to bet Three Man Weaveās November/December best bets. They are 49-41-2 for the season. That more than covers the vig, right?
https://twitter.com/3MW_CBB/status/1471205167588651009?s=20
I basically think that once KenPom catches up to this yearās data (mid-Jan or so?), thereās no advantage to be had.
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If you were betting 100.00 a game you would be 390.00 ahead. Some guys rank their bets and bet higher or lower accordingly. But just straight up betting 100.00 a game you would win 390.00
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Whoa whoa whoa am I being replaced as LRAās No1 prognosticator?
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You didnāt show progress in wooing the gambling donors to pony up for nicer chips, a better sportsbook, etc, to really attract the gamblers of tomorrow. 
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Thereās nothing wrong with hanging at the Golden Nugget in Downtown Vegas, thatās where it gets real.
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Iāve thought this was the case for years. Bennett wants to try our hardest to win every game. Thatās the competitor in him. He gets the most out of the team over the course of the season. He doesnāt give guys playing time to help develop them. He plays guys who will help us win, so you earn your playing time in practice.
By the postseason, we are who we are, thereās no next gear. Sometimes weāve worn ourselves down and we play below our normal level in the postseason. One time our regular season max performance was just enough to win March Madness.
Itās a perfectly fine coaching philosophy. Itās just different than what I perceive Kās philosophy to be. Neither is better or worse than the other. Theyāre just different.
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Not to open too big of a can of worms but even that national title team hit their peak performance in January when Braxton was playing more. Obviously it worked out in the end but if that team played at their January level in the tournament there wouldāve been way less drama involved.
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Winning a national title is hard and weāve been healthy like three times going into the tournament haha
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Do you think thereās any relationship between max effort regular seasons and late season/tournament injuries? Not the Hunter variety, but maybe the Salt/Wilkins injuries.
Yep go look at the 2nd half of both the UNC and Syracuse games in 2019 when Tony benched both Clark and Salt. Team was unstoppable.
No idea why he reverted again back to those guys when the evidence was clear that the top 6 in performance were Ty. Hunter, Guy, Diakite, Key and Huff. And it wasnāt particularly close.
Wilkins had an illness so no. Donāt really remember what happened to Salt. Anderson broke a finger and then had appendicitis. None of the injuries are overuse
The man loves his sides offense and there is no better screener than Salt. But I donāt disagree
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