Andrew Dreibelbis

High Point went 30-4, hasn't lost since mid-January - and wouldn't have sniffed an at large bid Miami (OH) went undefeated in the regular season, finished 31-1 and ended up in Dayton We REALLY need to re-evaluate how we go about selecting at-large teams for the NCAA Tournament

@vindesigns2013 @500Indy1911 @TylerWong65 I want to see TK talking to Nolan Siegel and Ricardo Juncos asking Sting Ray how many more cars he’s going to tear up. 🫣

@500Indy1911 @TylerWong65 I think Scotty Mac would be good. Will Power, Pato of course and I think Josef

12 episodes!!! I’m sold ya know I can never get enough Indycar content

@RobDauster @SethDavisHoops Rob, that might be the absolute worst phrase in all of sports.

@SethDavisHoops If you ain’t cheatin you ain’t tryin Seth.

In this interview on the Selection Show, chair Keith Gill indicated that the committee's belief that BJ Edwards would be available for the NCAA Tournament tipped the balance to make SMU the last team selected. The Mustangs lost four of their last five games while Edwards was injured. SMU told the committee and the public that Edwards would be available for the NCAA Tournament. Now we learn that he will not play tonight vs. Miami (Ohio). I understand that injuries and availability can be an inexact science, so we should not be quick to assign motives. But it is highly unusual for an injury to have this much consequence on selection, only to have the information prove to be incorrect. There needs to be a full accounting as to what happened and why, and how much the information that SMU provided to the committee was a factor in this decision. It goes directly to the integrity of the process. I hope this question will be further addressed and clarified in the coming days. In the meantime, I hope we get a great game!

@tnoieNDI As much as some fans would like to see Shrewsberry go to Butler, the problem is who might actually be interested in coming to ND if he leaves. Does Ingelsby, long rumored to replace Brey whenever he left, move the needle and has he done enough at Delaware?

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@CBB_Central @ByPatForde Yeah, this isn’t needed.

This is what a new “First 12” would look like, based on NCAA seed list, First Four Out, and WAB. Mid-major AQs get pushed down, and still no room for Belmont, New Mexico, Yale, etc. And Akron, South Florida, McNeese likely would’ve missed w/o autobid: si.com/college-basket…

The common refrain these days is that an expanded NCAA tournament would help get mid-majors in. But @SInow built a new 76-team bracket, and the results are ugly. The new Last Four In? Oklahoma State, Virginia Tech, Cal… and 17-16 Arizona State: si.com/college-basket…

@BallStateWBB I'd like an explanation. UC Irvine, Quinnipiac, and Chattanooga also tied for 1st in their conferences and got automatic bids.

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@wbitwbb Please explain how Ball State was not an automatic qualifier. UC Irvine, Quinnipiac, and Chattanooga also tied for 1st in their conference and got in.

13 teams automatically qualified for the 2026 WBIT #ElevateTheGame x #WBIT2026

@wbitwbb No Ball State? What a joke.

Meet the 32-team field for the 2026 WBIT #ElevateTheGame x #WBIT2026

@marshallpruett It seems like happy Josef is bad, do you know of anything that has changed or that he has maybe personally changed to get himself back to the Josef of old? Last year was obviously difficult on track but it sure seemed like there was more to it than that.

Going to be a short week for me with an early flight to Sebring on Tuesday, so let's do the call for questions now--pose them below and I'll get to as many as I can.

@dn_sports @BallStateWBB Did we turn down an NIT bid?

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@WomensNIT Ball State should've been an automatic qualifier, did they turn down a bid?

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@marshallpruett @indy44 That seems a bit harsh.

Change to the finishing order after the checkered flag with FRO dropped from P6 to the bottom of the running order after passing Malukas on the last-lap restart before the restart line.

@SethDavisHoops Miami should be safely in, not put into the Dayton play-in games.

Is it just me or does there seem to be way more bubble consensus in Bracketville this year? Last In: Miami Ohio Texas SMU First out: Oklahoma Auburn San Diego State Amirite?

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends. A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets. Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses. The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits. A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days. Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive. The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away. The investing angle nobody talks about. Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in. Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies. The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates. Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try. (a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

Some of you on here have never been a coach before. Do you understand how insanely difficult it is to win all the games you’re supposed to win on your schedule? Just getting the team amped up and prepared for each game is a task in itself.

@chrisfallica I don’t think that’s a reason to punish them, though, and it shouldn’t be a reason to give bigger schools another chance. You can only play who’s on your schedule. We also know Miami tried an no one would agree to play them.

Would Miami OH be the first at large ever not to play a ranked team during the regular season? Almost have to be, right? Wonder if anyone has a database to cross reference and confirm.

@ByPatForde They should not be in the First Four, they should be solidly in, but I have no faith in the system so I'm sure they will be. Then, if they lose, the committee can say we put them in and they played close to home but still lost.

And a column on why the Miami Redhawks are Redlocks come tomorrow: bit.ly/4b9rRIU

Nineteen more tournament games today. None of them will be as good as this one last night: bit.ly/4shyNdi

@tsnmike They are very effective in ensuring that middling high majors remain ranked higher than high mid-majors. 🤷‍♂️ The SEC, in particular, has gotten very good at making sure the metrics favor them in both basketball and football. It's not because their teams are that much better.

@ADrewD That's why the resume metrics exist. They're very effective.

I’ve said this many times. I believe the .500 concept was my idea. I wrote about it nearly 40 years ago. It was the worst basketball idea I ever had. Not all leagues are the same; 8-10 in one league could be better than 11-7 in another. That’s why it’s not a rule and shouldn’t be

@SaraJGamelli @Ballislife This isn't enough, lets just go ahead and start the strike right now.

A source with knowledge tells @ballislife the WNBA's latest proposal includes: Salary cap: Year 1 increased from $5.75M to $6.2M Average salary: Year 1 increased from $530,000 to $570,000--> Would go up to $850,000 by 2031 Max salary: > $1.3M in Year 1, increasing to $2M over the life of the deal