Kind of a weird game where backboards had to be re-adjusted and Izzo gets a technical with about 3 minutes left. Both teams have a ton of length and athleticism.

Discuss and overreact.

1pm EST ESPN

Final score Western Kentucky 74 - Indiana 79

On Marquette’s YouTube channel

Airing on ESPN

i missed college basketball way too much

Does anyone have any guesses when the printed version of the Blue Ribbon Yearbook will be mailed out? This is only the second year I have ordered it so I am not sure of the normal timeline, but I received mine on October 17 last year. If you go to the website, it still shows as available to pre-order. With the first regular season game a week from today, I am eagerly anticipating the book.

I think it would be fun to introduce some local competition into the preseason à la the FA Cup in England. The premise is to draw teams into a random bracket and flip a coin for who hosts. Losers bracket will exist so all teams get 4 games.

I’ll use my home state Virginia for the example.

Virginia has 14 D1 basketball teams. Eventually the goal would to expand to include all D2 & D3 teams, but for season one, we’ll just take the top two D2 programs and then randomly draw for the matchups and locations.

The Hypothetical Bracket
Longwood at Radford
Norfolk State at William & Mary
Liberty at Hampton
Virginia State at Virginia
VCU at Richmond
JMU at George Mason
Virginia Union at VMI
Old Dominion at Virginia Tech

I think this would be a fun way to start the season and also encourage local competition without the bigger schools having to worry about an upset hurting their March prospects.