Brian Denu

@theblockspot It wouldn’t. They were a Top 12 team heading my guy.

If Illinois wins the National Championship… where would it rank all-time in surprising teams to win it all in Men’s College Basketball?

@RaphealDavis3 Every state needs a shot clock. However, you might as well go out and guard the ball if your state doesn’t yet.

This is NOT basketball. Indiana High School Basketball needs a shot clock in the worst way. Stuff like this doesn’t prepare guys for the next level. Can’t understand how people continue to defend stuff like this. It’s bad for the game.

@theblockspot Lots of people had them…and the seas parted where they only played one tough opponent on the way to the Final Four.

Illinois legitimately might have been the most overlooked 3-seed in March Madness history. Absolutely NOBODY had Illinois getting to the Final Four. World going to have to pay attention now.

@TomOatesWSJ Wisconsin absolutely could have competed with anyone this year…which is why people are rightfully disappointed in losing to High Point in the first game of the tournament.

Four Big 10 teams in NCAA Elite 8 & #Wisconsin beat all four. Indeed, it was 5-2 vs. Michigan, Illinois, Purdue, Iowa. Yet, some are pushing narrative that the program isn’t competitive with the nation’s best after it again failed to make the second weekend. Facts say otherwise.

@JordanLoppnow Can’t overlook Tucker trying to destroy the program as a coach.

My Wisconsin Badgers MBB Mount Rushmore: Michael Finley -1st player in program history to score 2,000 points Frank Kaminsky -2015 National Player of the Year John Kotz -Led the program to its only National Championship in 1941 Alando Tucker -Program's all-time leading scorer

@JoRy_MaMa @itsAntWright I think Purdue is more like MSU than Michigan or Illinois.

@itsAntWright Only because of whom they are playing. But B1G teams seem to do just fine against AZ in the Elite 8 from what I recall.

Purdue not getting enough respect

@stoolpresidente Illinois is better than UConn

This tournament is wide open. It wouldn’t shock me to see any of these 4 teams cut down the nets in Indy Michigan Arizona UConn Duke I don’t think UConn is as good as the other 3 but you can’t ignore the Huskies in the tourney. They are everything Sweet 16 Tommy thinks he is.

@alrou94 @SenTedCruz Vermont won the National Championship 2 years ago and Marshall won it 5 years ago. NIL isn’t the issue in American college soccer.

@SenTedCruz College soccer has lost some of its appeal, because the big teams have started taking the best players from the smaller teams every season, and the stories of surprises (“Cinderella”) have disappeared.

College sports are losing what made them special. Cinderella runs don’t last when the biggest programs raid mid-majors' rosters each season. Congress has to fix the legal mess here before college sports as we know it turns into a pumpkin. sports.yahoo.com/mens-college-b…

@aakopel @CoachForGov It takes many 5 years to graduate college. This includes redshirt years as one of the 5 in 5.

@CoachForGov Play for 5 years? Why not 7? Or 10? Or maybe just make it the 4 it’s supposed to be?

The transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and you get 1 transfer. After that, if you transfer again, you sit out a year. This will fix 80% of the issues in NIL today.

@JimPolzinWSJ Wasn’t there some recruiting questions with some guys in the past?

“How am I perceived? I’m not loved, put it that way.” My profile on retiring Madison Memorial coach Steve Collins, who helped build a Big Eight also-ran into a powerhouse. #tracking-source=mp-homepage" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">madison.com/sports/high-sc…

@KirkMccaffrey69 @ConnerHaleSprts @TomSlic08693047 @T_Oglesby22 Fickle was a terrible hire. Greg Gard has been fine. You just don’t like facts. 3-4 quality wins this year and that’s your ceiling hahahaha.

@BeloitSoccer @ConnerHaleSprts @TomSlic08693047 @T_Oglesby22 Im sorry McCollum is everything you wanted Fickell and GG to be :/

@BeloitSoccer @KirkMccaffrey69 @TomSlic08693047 @T_Oglesby22 Nebraska, OSU, UCLA

@B1047vegas @JordanLoppnow At the end of the day, it’s not as much public vs. private as much as it is economically advantageous communities. People in Whitefish Bay can provide more opportunities for their children than a lot of other communities can. Club teams, private training, etc.

@JordanLoppnow If they were a private school everyone would be in an uproar; I’m taking a wild guess that if you have kids, who like sports, and they wanna win. That’s the school you’re looking at. And that’s school choice. But if this was WB Dominican doing the winning, it’s “recruiting” 🙄

Whitefish Bay won five WIAA team state titles this year, and the academic school year is not over yet: Boys Soccer Girls Swim & Dive Boys Swim & Dive Girls Basketball Boys Basketball

@JordanLoppnow Money talks

@EDemirNBA @onballcreator Please dive deeper into that for us. They were brutal this year.

@onballcreator Marquette And they'll be very good next year

Schools where pretty much nobody is gonna transfer out of this summer: Miami Iowa Houston Arizona UConn Iowa state Gonzaga Purdue Texas Tech Vanderbilt Nebraska Michigan Michigan State

@KirkMccaffrey69 @ConnerHaleSprts @TomSlic08693047 @T_Oglesby22 Please list the quality wins Iowa had this year before Florida…

@BeloitSoccer @ConnerHaleSprts @TomSlic08693047 @T_Oglesby22 Great call, Brian! You got this man🤭🤣

Just putting this up here. No reason.

@davidullsperge @TravisBOUND That’s a perfect example? Right now each school has a Varsity and JV1 team (4 teams) and combined there will be a Varsity, JV1 and JV2 (3 teams). That seems like less opportunity and playing time to me.

@TravisBOUND Combining and having more students, at face value, may look like losing opportunities, but I have always argued that it will actually add opportunities and playing time. A perfect example is now having the ability to have a JV1 and JV2 team instead of just JV2

This will be very interesting to follow on just how this works out. - How will coaching roles be determined? - What will the name/mascot/colors be? - What conference will they end up in long-term? Currently they're in the Glacier Trails, but with the new school having a combined enrollment of 1700-1800, that's not a good fit against Kewaskum, Kettle Moraine Lutheran, & others who are under 1000. North Shore? - How successful will the new singular school be in athletics? - How many players will transfer due to increased competition and loss of opportunities? - Certainly understand why they are doing it, but it will roughly cut in half the number of playing and roster opportunities for student-athletes in the West Bend district.

@OttovonSothen @finleykuehl I’m not sure I would be “afraid” running back Winter, AB, Rapp and Garlock. Room for all four to grow this off-season.

@finleykuehl Im afraid Wisconsin will run back the same front court if all 4 pieces stay. I agree though Evans would be great, the Badgers need an athletic player that can score inside and defend well.

Kwame Evans Jr. has pretty much every trait I’ve been wishing Wisconsin’s forwards had in the last couple seasons. He’s athletic, he rebounds, he defends, he’s got size… hope we call about him

@ConnerHaleSprts @TomSlic08693047 @T_Oglesby22 NIL sucks at Iowa. The facilities suck at Iowa. They really were average during the regular season and Stirtz is gone. I’m not sure this is exactly anyone’s dream job, whether they grew up in Iowa City or not.

@TomSlic08693047 @T_Oglesby22 McCollum is a known winner and very successful even at smaller schools, I think his goal is to consistently make Iowa a great basketball program without having to leave for Kansas or North Carolina. Those jobs already seem to have people in line if there’s a change in staff.

@JGJr9 @NealDriscoll So which of the 11 players is below your Top 10 and a huge drop off?

@NealDriscoll There’s a big drop from the top 10 on that list, to the rest IMO. Phins need to hope someone ahead of them does something stupid.

The beauty of the Dolphins having pick 11 is that only ten players can be drafted before they are on the clock. Fernando Mendoza Jeremiyah Love Carnell Tate Sonny Styles David Bailey Arvell Reese These six players will almost certainly go before Miami meaning one of the following will be there. Francis Mauigoa Caleb Downs Rueben Bain Mansoor Delane Vega Ioane Jermod McCoy Makai Lemon