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MLB teams are 493-2 when leading by 4+ runs entering the 9th inning this season.
The Yankees have both losses.
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Per KenPom, Houston had a 0.4% chance to win when Kansas had the ball and a 6-point lead with 20 seconds remaining in 1st OT.
That makes Houston’s eventual win the most unlikely in any of the 1,487 games between AP Top-25 teams over the last 15 seasons.
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13 of the last 16 national champions have been top-2 seeds.
The exceptions:
2011 UConn
2014 UConn
2023 UConn
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No freshmen played in the national championship game for the first time since 1989.
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The Final Four — Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱
Auburn coach Bruce Pearl: proud Jew & supporter of Israel
Florida coach Todd Golden: Jew & Israeli citizen who played in Haifa
Duke coach Jon Scheyer: Jew & Israeli citizen who played in Tel Aviv
Houston star Emanuel Sharp: Israeli citizen
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(22) Illinois 109, (9) Oregon 77. In Eugene.
The 32-point margin of victory is the largest ever by any team in a road game against an AP Top-10 opponent.
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Purdue beat (6) Gonzaga by 18 points on Friday night and (8) Duke by 19 points today.
They are the 2nd team ever to beat 2 AP Top-10 teams by 18+ points on a neutral site in the same week, joining UCLA in the 1968 Final Four.
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Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr. is the first player with a 30-point game in the Elite 8 and National Semifinals of the same NCAA Tournament since Indiana State’s Larry Bird in 1979.
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Just two perfectly normal wins over the AP Preseason and Postseason Number 1 teams…
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Not normal, at all: Michigan is the first Division I team to win 70% of its conference games but post a negative scoring differential in league play since Northern Iowa in the 1983-84 Association of Mid-Continent Universities (now Summit League).
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BYU’s 96 points in tonight’s win are the most by any visiting team in a game at McKale Center since December 28, 2009, when BYU beat Arizona 99-69, led by 49 from Jimmer Fredette.
That was BYU’s last visit to McKale — Arizona played 258 home games in the interim.
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Wisconsin today in a road win at (7) Purdue.
- 94 points
- 61.5% FG pct
- 3 turnovers
- 1.45 PPP
The Badgers are the only Division I team to shoot 60% from the field and commit 3 or fewer turnovers in a road game over the last 15 seasons.
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1,382
107,040
Alabama 🧵because that was absurd:
Alabama’s 25 3-pointers are not only an NCAA Tournament single game record — only 1 team has ever made more in a win over a Division I opponent (Davidson in 2017 vs Charleston Southern).
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College basketball is the best.
If Loyola were a football team, they’d be playing in the Idaho Potato Bowl.
Instead, they’re 4 games away from a national title. And they’re good enough to do it.
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Iowa State just finished its 30th and final game of 2021. Here are their results this calendar year:
Under Steve Prohm:
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
(0-18)
Under T.J. Otzelberger:
W
W
W
W
W
W
W
W
W
W
W
W
(12-0)
That is nuts.
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Iowa State held Houston to 41 points, the fewest a team has allowed in a win over AP Number 1 since…
Iowa State beat Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas, 39-37, on Jan. 14, 1957 in Ames.
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Wisconsin’s John Tonje is the first player with a 30-point game in 3 wins over AP Top-10 teams in a single season since UConn’s Kemba Walker in 2010-11.
- 41 in a win over (9) Arizona in November
- 32 in a win at (7) Purdue in February
- 32 in a win vs (7) Michigan State today
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Juan Soto has the same amount of 460-foot home runs at Citi Field in the last 3 days (2) as the Mets have hit there in the history of the stadium (since 2009).
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Nestor Cortes Jr. and Jordan Montgomery are the 1st pair of starting pitchers in Yankees history with 11+ strikeouts each in consecutive games.
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In today’s men’s basketball AP Poll, the 1,214th all-time edition:
Baylor, Texas, Houston and Texas Tech are the first quartet of schools from a single state ever to be ranked in the Top-10 of the same poll.
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Only 2 Big Ten players over the last decade have scored 20+ points in 7 straight games, and they were in the same building last night:
- Iowa’s Keegan Murray (last 7 games)
- Iowa’s Luka Garza (19 in a row)
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Two equally astonishing takeaways from today’s AP Poll:
- Only 1 ACC team received a vote (Duke) for the first time over the last 40 years
- Somebody apparently voted Georgia into the Top-5 instead of Gonzaga, and as a result, 5-8 Georgia is your “30th-ranked” team.
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If you think you’re having a bad day, at least you’re not Mychal Givens.
He gave up 0 earned runs in today’s Mets-Cubs doubleheader and was the losing pitcher in both games anyway.
That’s gotta be an all-time first.
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UConn’s Tristen Newton tonight:
- 20 points
- 7 assists
- 5 rebounds
- 0 turnovers
He’s the first player with 20 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 0 turnovers in a National Championship game since seeding began in 1979.
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Loyola Chicago head coach Drew Valentine (30 years old) is the youngest head coach to lead his team to an AP Top-25 ranking since Todd Bozeman did it at California in November 1993.
Bozeman, then 29 years old, had a sophomore named Jason Kidd as his point guard.
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Tonight in Los Angeles:
Caleb Love: 0-9 from 3, 5-18 from field
RJ Davis: 0-9 from 3, 4-20 from field
It’s the first time any 2 players have shot 0-9 or worse from 3 on the same day in NCAA Tournament history.
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Kansas State tonight went 1-19 (5.3%) from 3 and beat (13) Arizona.
It’s the lowest 3-point % by any team in a win over a ranked opponent in 9 years.
Arizona shot 2-22 (9.1%) from 3.
It’s the first D-I game since 2022 in which both teams shot under 10% from the 3-point line.
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Loyola Chicago today shot…
- 27% from the field
- 29% from 3
- 30% from the foul line
The first team ever to shoot 30% or worse from all 3 levels in an NCAA Tournament game.
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After tonight, UConn’s Cam Spencer’s numbers on the season:
- 14.9 PPG
- 50% from the field
- 46% from 3
- 92% from the line
- 3.1 A/TO
He’s on pace to be the first player in Division I history to shoot 50-40-90 and post a 3 to 1 assist to turnover ratio in a single season.
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A game with 0 ramifications just produced an all-time individual performance:
Fresno State’s Jemarl Baker Jr. today in a win over Chicago State:
- 43 points
- 13-14 FG (93%)
- 10-11 3-pt FG (91%)
The first player ever with 40 points, 10 3s, and 90% shooting in a D-I game.
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286,176
The Dodgers have won 174 games in a row when they score 10+ runs.
The Cubs have lost 3 games in a row when they score 10+ runs.
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🚨 🚨MAJOR UPSET ALERT
Eastern Illinois by 9 over Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye as a 31.5-point underdog.
That’s the largest spread upset in a Division I men’s basketball game this century.
Not UMBC over UVA, not SFA over Duke. Eastern Illinois over Iowa.
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Texas Tech’s JT Toppin tonight in a 2-OT win over Arizona State:
- 41 points
- 15 rebounds
- 3 steals
- 2 blocks
- 17-22 FG (77.3%)
He’s the only Division I player with at least 40 points, 15 rebounds, and multiple steals and blocks in a single game over the last 30 years.
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Lowest field goal percentage by an AP Top-5 team in any game in the last 10 seasons (out of 1,712 games):
Lowest: (1) Tennessee at Florida on Jan. 7, 2025: 21.4%
2nd-lowest:(5) Florida at Tennessee, today: 24.5%
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Indiana State is 31-6 headed to the NIT Final Four.
No team has won 32 games in a season in which it did not play in the NCAA Tournament since the Tournament field grew to 16 teams in 1951.
They’ll be playing for the record of the most wins ever by a non-tournament team.
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Michigan’s Danny Wolf tonight:
- 20 points
- 7 rebounds
- 5 assists
- 5 blocks
- 3 steals
The first Division I player with at least 20 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 blocks, and 3 steals in a regulation game in 8 years.
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🚨A 5x5 game!!
Syracuse’s Maliq Brown!!
- 11 points
- 9 rebounds
- 5 assists
- 6 blocks
- 5 steals
One of the rarest feats in college basketball — it’s just the 3rd 5x5 game across D-I in the last 15 seasons!!
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Purdue's Zach Edey is 2 wins from becoming the most accomplished 4-year player in Men's D-I history...that's an opinion -- I normally don't express those here. IMO as of now: 1. Laettner 2. Hansbrough 3. Edey.
In sticking more within my MO, a thread of historic Edey stats. 🧵
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Iowa is the first team in Big Ten history to have one player make 10 3s (Jordan Bohannon) and another player score 30 points (Keegan Murray) in a single game.
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After today, the Orioles are 0-7 when Anthony Santander hits multiple home runs in a game.
No player in MLB history has had a longer losing streak in multi-HR games.
The Orioles are now 0-6 when Anthony Santander hits multiple HR in a game -- Santander is the only player in MLB history to lose the first 6 multi-HR games of his career.
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This year’s Purdue team is the only Division I team over the last decade to score 80+ points on 50% FG shooting and 35% 3-pt shooting in each of their first 7 games of a season.
They’re actually yet to shoot under 39% from 3 in a game.
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Texas Tech held Texas to 10 points in the paint today.
Chris Beard has coached 229 Division I games — that’s the fewest paint points his team has scored in any of them.
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Auburn’s Johni Broome in today’s win over Georgia:
- 31 points
- 14 rebounds
- 4 assists
No other player has reached those totals vs a Division I team this season.
Ben Simmons is the only other SEC player with that many points, rebounds, and assists in a game this century.
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106,581
Marquette went 4-31 (12.9%) from 3 tonight.
It’s the 1,331st time this season a Division I team has attempted 30+ 3s in a game.
Only 1 of those teams shot a lower percentage than Marquette.
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Texas Tech head coach Mark Adams, at 65 years old, is the oldest coach ever to reach the Top-10 in the AP Poll for the first time in his career.
Previous-oldest: Kansas’ Phog Allen in 1950 (younger 65).
The AP Poll began in 1949.
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Gonzaga is the 4th program ever to reach 6 straight Sweet 16s.
They join UCLA, Duke, and North Carolina.
Gonzaga has won 25 games in a row by 10 or more points.
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Gonzaga and Arizona will be 1 seeds.
Mark Few and Tommy Lloyd will be the first men ever to share a bench one season, and both lead a team to a 1 seed the next season.
That’s pretty cool.
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If Antoine Davis scores 26 points on Thursday night at Youngstown State, he will break Pete Maravich’s D-I points record that has stood since Jan. 31, 1970.
If Antoine Davis scores 2,721 points on Thursday night, he’ll overtake Maravich for the career points per game record.
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Illinois’ 94 points tonight are the most a visiting team has ever scored in a regulation game at Indiana’s Assembly Hall, which opened in 1971-72.
The 25-point margin of victory is the 2nd-largest by a visitor.
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Kentucky is just the 2nd team to shoot 65+ percent from the field and 60% from 3 against a Division I opponent this season.
UMBC did it against American.
Kentucky did it against the 2nd-ranked defense in the country.
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Alabama tonight at Texas:
- 103 points
- 61.8% from the field
- 58.6% from 3
- 90% from the line
They’re the only Division I team to score 100 points on 60-55-90 shooting in a road win over the last 15 seasons.
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30,668
Top-6 in this AP Poll, the 1,231st edition:
1. Baylor
2. Gonzaga
3. UCLA
4. Auburn
5. USC
6. Arizona
It’s the first time ever that none of the top-6 teams in the poll are from the eastern time zone.
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Kansas State’s Markquis Nowell has 68 points and 23 assists in his last 2 games, both road wins over Top-20 teams.
65+ points and 20+ assists in a 2-game span, last 10 seasons:
- Markquis Nowell
- Ja Morant
- Trae Young
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You will not score in the paint against Texas Tech.
Last 7 games:
- Gonzaga: 16 paint points (season-low)
- Eastern Washington: 4 (season-low)
- Alabama St: 8 (season-low)
- Iowa St: 6 (season-low)
- Kansas: 18 (season-low)
- Baylor: 22 (season-low)
- OK State: 20 (season-low)
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Baylor has won 12 of its last 13 games vs AP Top-10 opponents, tied for the best 13-game stretch vs Top-10 teams in Division I history.
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Complete list of pairs of Division I teammates with 28+ points each in a win this season:
Terrence Shannon Jr. and Marcus Domask for Illinois on Dec. 5 vs FAU.
Terrence Shannon Jr. and Quincy Guerrier for Illinois today vs Missouri.
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Auburn’s Jabari Smith is currently averaging 17.3 points per game on 45% 3-point shooting and 85% free throw shooting.
The full list of D-I freshman frontcourt players over the last 25 years to average 17 PPG on 40% 3-pt (min. 5 attempts PG) and 80% FT:
- Kevin Durant
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Last year’s Final Four teams are:
18-2 (Baylor)
17-2 (Houston)
16-2 (Gonzaga)
15-2 (UCLA)
It’s the first time EVER that each Final Four team won at least 15 of their first 17 games the next season.
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Mississippi State is the first Division I team in the last 15 years, and the first SEC team since Alabama in 1949-50, to allow 55 or fewer points in each of their first 9 games of a season.
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Duke scored 1.50 points per possession today vs Baylor, the highest PPP posted by any team in an NCAA Tournament game since the 2016 National Semifinals, when Villanova scored 1.52 PPP in a 95-51 win over Oklahoma.
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Nebraska is the first team to overcome a 20-point deficit to win a Big Ten road game in 7 years.
Last time it happened: February 17, 2018—Michigan State came back from a 27-point deficit to win at Northwestern.
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Kansas’ 34-point loss to BYU tonight is the largest loss ever by a preseason AP Number 1 team.
The AP has put out a preseason poll every season since 1961-62.
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16,758
West Virginia did not miss a field goal attempt in the final 9 and a half minutes tonight.
They went a perfect 10-10 over that span.
Texas Tech is the first team over the last decade to only turn it over twice, score 85 points, and still lose.
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Baylor just finished its final game of 2021.
They went 32-2 with a national title this year.
Since the NCAA Tournament expanded in 1985, only 3 teams have had a year with a national championship and only 2 losses:
- Baylor in 2021
- Kentucky in 1996
- Duke in 1992
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Minnesota scored 1.48 points per possession tonight at Illinois…and lost.
Entering tonight, the record posted over the last 15 seasons by teams scoring that many points per possession in Division I games:
310-1 (.997)
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164,863
42 of Creighton’s 52 field goal attempts tonight were 3s. That’s 81% of their shots.
That’s the 2nd-highest 3-point attempt rate by any Division I team in any game over the last 15 seasons…out of more than 75,000 games.
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79,309
Jesse Winker and Nick Castellanos are the first pair of teammates to each hit .350 through 45 games since Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada did it for the Yankees in 2007.
The league batting average that year was .268 — this year, it’s .237.
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🚨🐉UAB’s Yaxel Lendeborg!!!
One of the great stat lines in the history of the sport:
- 30 points
- 20 rebounds
- 8 assists
- 5 steals
- 4 blocks
He’s the only Division I player this century with at least 30 points, 20 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 steals, and 4 blocks in a game.
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UNC’s Brady Manek’s 2 games in this NCAA Tournament:
- 28 points on 67% FG (5-10 from 3)
- 26 points on 62% FG (4-8 from 3)
He’s the first player to score 25 points on 60% shooting in each of his first 2 NCAA Tournament games for a school in the 3-point era (since 1987).
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Alabama freshman Brandon Miller is on pace for more than 650 points, 275 rebounds and 110 3-pointers this season.
The only player in D-I history to hit all 3 marks in a season was Duke’s Shane Battier in the 2000-01 season which saw him win the Wooden Award & Final Four MOP.
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Over Alex Barcello’s last 45 games, he’s 90-175 (51.4%) on 3s.
No other player with that many attempts over that span is within 5 percent of him.
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Houston’s LJ Cryer is the first player with 25 points and 6 3-pointers in a Final Four game since Bobby Hurley in 1992.
J’Wan Roberts is the first player with 10 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 stocks in a Final Four game since Grant Hill in 1994.
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BYU’s 29 turnovers tonight are the most by any team in a win over an AP Top-25 team in the last 15 years.
BYU turned it over on 34% of its possessions — its highest rate in any game in the last 15 years — but still won in Ames.
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Duke’s Jared McCain is the first freshman with 30 points and 0 turnovers in an NCAA Tournament game since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
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JAMES MADISON!!
- Won 79-76 at (4) Michigan State in OT on Monday.
- Won 113-108 at Kent State, which won 28 games last year, in 2-OT tonight.
The Dukes are the only Division I team in the last 30 years to open up a season with back-to-back road, overtime wins!
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38,994
Mark Sears, Aden Holloway, and Chris Youngblood are the first trio of Division I teammates each with 5 3s in a game in 4 years.
The last to do it? John Petty, Jahvon Quinerly, and Joshua Primo for Alabama vs LSU in 2021.
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400
52,083
Christian Braun and Ochai Agbaji have clinched averages of at least 20 PPG this month.
Last time a pair of Kansas teammates each averaged 20 per game in a calendar month?
Raef LaFrentz and Paul Pierce in December of 1997.
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Oregon State is the first Division I team in the 21st century to play a 50+ minute game, not make a single 3-pointer, and still win!
70-63 over Cal Poly in 2 OT!!
SICKOS Game of the Year!!! @SickosCBB
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There have been 3 individual performances of at least 20 points, 15 rebounds, and 5 assists in a Division I game this season.
Auburn’s Johni Broome has all of them (vs Memphis, UNC, and today vs Ohio State).
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UConn in 21 non-conference games since the start of last season:
- 21-0
- All 21 wins by double digits
- 15 wins by 20+
- Trailed for a total of 53 seconds in the 2nd halves of those games
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Creighton’s Jamiya Neal in today’s win over Louisville:
- 29 points
- 12 rebounds
- 6 assists
- 11-16 FG (68.8%)
He’s the first player with 25 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 assists on 65% shooting in an NCAA Tournament game since Marquette’s Dwyane Wade in the 2003 Elite Eight.
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18,725
Last 4 players to average 20 points and 10 rebounds in the NCAA Tournament en route to the Elite 8:
- Justin Smith (2021)
- Derrick Williams (2011)
- Blake Griffin (2009)
- Kevin Love (2008)
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Baylor is the first defending national champion to win each of its first 10 games of the season by 8 or more since UNLV did so in 1990-91.
Baylor has played 40 games since the start of last season and won 35 of them by 8 or more points.
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Blake Corum is the first FBS player to average 8+ yards per carry and score 8+ touchdowns in his team’s first 3 games since Lamar Jackson in 2016.
First FBS running back to do it in more than 15 years.
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Iowa State’s Tamin Lipsey’s last 10 games:
17 pts, 3 stl
22 pts, 3 stl
18 pts, 3 stl
10 pts, 3 stl
15 pts, 4 stl
11 pts, 4 stl
19 pts, 8 stl
19 pts, 3 stl
16 pts, 4 stl
16 pts, 4 stl
He’s the only D-I player in the last 15 years with 10+ points & 3+ steals in 10 straight games.
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BYU is the first team in the last 15 seasons to start 6-0, all against Division I opponents, while making at least 10 3-pointers in each game.
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Illinois’ Marcus Domask (3) and Terrence Shannon Jr. (4) are the 1st pair of Power 6 teammates with 3 30-point games each in a season since Duke’s RJ Barrett and Zion Williamson in 2018-19.
They’re the 1st pair of Big Ten teammates to do it this century & 1st Illini to do it.
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Murray State alumni (Cameron Payne and Ja Morant) have scored 129 more points than the alumni of any Big Ten school in these NBA playoffs.
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Purdue’s Zach Edey is the first Division I player over the last decade to post at least 80 points, 50 rebounds, and 10 blocked shots in his first 4 games of a season.
If he can stay on the floor for 30 minutes a game this season, his numbers will be unreal…
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Marquette’s Tyler Kolek is the first player with 15 assists and no turnovers in a Big East game over the last 30 years.
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Michigan’s Danny Wolf tonight vs USC:
- 21 points
- 13 rebounds
- 7 assists
- 6 blocks
- 2 steals
He’s the first Division I player with at least 20 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, and 6 blocks in a game since Oakland’s Keith Benson in 2010.
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Santa Clara’s Brandin Podziemski is the 1st player in school history and 1st WCC player over the last decade to score at least 30 points in each of the first 2 games of a season.
He’s the 4th D-I player over the last decade to average 30 points & 10 boards in the first 2 games.
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UConn shot 26-32 (81.2%) from 2-point range tonight in its win over Northwestern.
That is the highest 2-point field goal percentage by any team in any game in NCAA Tournament history.
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Oklahoma’s Jeremiah Fears is the first freshman with 30 points in a non-conference win over an AP Top-25 team since Duke’s RJ Barrett had 33 in a win over Kentucky in the 2018 Champions Classic.
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Seesaw Alert!!
- Wake Forest trailed Elon by 21 tonight (36-15)
- Wake Forest beat Elon by 23 tonight
It’s the ONLY Division I game over the last 15 years in which a team trailed by 20 and still won by 20.
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Kentucky’s Antonio Reeves this season…20 PPG on:
- 61% shooting at the rim
- 50% from mid-range
- 44% from 3
In the last 10 D-I seasons, the only other player to shoot 60% at the rim, 50% from mid-range & 40% from 3 (min. 50 each) was Jalen Brunson in his Wooden Award season.
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Arizona’s Kerr Kriisa is the first Division I player over the last 10 seasons to have a triple-double and 7 3-pointers in a single game.
- 21 points
- 10 rebounds
- 10 assists
- 7 3-pointers
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Purdue’s Zach Edey is having a ridiculous year…a quick thread:
He’s 3rd in D-I in points per game (22.1) and 3rd in rebounds per game (13.0).
3 players in the last 20 seasons have finished in the Top-5 in both:
2018-19 Mike Daum
2007-08 Michael Beasley
2006-07 Kevin Durant
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Gonzaga has 7 wins over KenPom’s current Top-25 teams, the most of any team in Division I.
Gonzaga and Illinois are the only teams that have beaten 5 different teams among KenPom’s current Top-25.
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