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What do you do with BYU?

The Vanderbilt Problem, part one

Christmas 2023: Vacation of Blog

Show Me My Opponent, 2023-24: Tarleton State

Game preview: Alabama/Arizona has potential to be the most entertaining battle of 2023

An explanation of why Houston's Ja'Vier Francis is my favorite defensive player in the NCAA

Week 7 Watchlist: Seven Scattered Thoughts and/or Swans

Show Me My Opponent, 2023-24: NC State

The interesting, subtle way in which Utah defeated BYU

Show Me My Opponent, 2023-24: Georgia Southern

Week 6 Watchlist: I Guess It's Somethin' in My Brain

Show Me My Opponent, 2023-24: #20 Illinois

Week 5.5 Watchlist: Saturday/Sunday

Show Me My Opponent, 2023-24: George Mason

Week 5 Watchlist: Buildings Look Small and I Am Supersized

The least consequential teams of the first month of the 2023-24 season

Show Me My Opponent, 2023-24: North Carolina

Six reasons for Colorado State's spectacular November

Week 4 Watchlist: I Can Almost Remember Their Funny Faces

Show Me My Opponent, 2023 Maui Invitational: #1 Kansas

Show Me My Opponent, 2023 Maui Invitational: #2 Purdue

Show Me My Opponent, 2023 Maui Invitational: Syracuse

2023 Maui Invitational preview

Subscriber Ask Me Anything, November 2023

Game preview: Furman-Liberty is the tactical *and* shot-making battle of the week

2023-24 preseason tournament previews: odds and predictions for all November tournaments

Show Me My Opponent, 2023-24: Wofford

Week 2 Watchlist (Monday-Thursday): Don't Leave Me in the Lost and Found

Show Me My Opponent, 2023-24: Wisconsin

Game preview: The Space Bowl, featuring Indiana State and Alabama

The anatomy of the James Madison/Michigan State upset

Five* non-D1 basketball programs to pay attention to in 2023-24

Show Me My Opponent, 2023-24: Tennessee Tech

Week 1 Watchlist: With All My Calculations, Everything Looks So Clear

51 predictions for the 2023-24 college basketball season

2023-24 Tennessee basketball preview: expectations and predictions

2023-24 Tennessee basketball preview: nine burning questions

2023-24 Tennessee basketball preview: schedule analysis

2023-24 Tennessee basketball preview: frontcourt

2023-24 Tennessee basketball preview: backcourt

2023-24 men's college basketball national preview: lists, observations, and my Top 25 teams

2023-24 college basketball conference previews: Big 12

2023-24 college basketball conference previews: SEC

2023-24 college basketball conference previews: Big Ten

2023-24 college basketball conference previews: Big East

2023-24 college basketball conference previews: Pac-12

2023-24 college basketball conference previews: ACC

2023-24 college basketball previews: Mountain West

2023-24 college basketball previews: West Coast Conference

2023-24 college basketball previews: AAC

2023-24 college basketball previews, part 5: Missouri Valley, Conference USA, Atlantic 10

2023-24 college basketball conference previews, part 4: #17 (SoCon) through #13 (WAC)

2023-24 college basketball conference previews, part 3: #21 (Big Sky) through #18 (Atlantic Sun)

2023-24 college basketball conference previews, part 1: #26 (MAAC) through #22 (Big South)

2023-24 college basketball conference previews, part 1: #32 (NEC) through #27 (Patriot)

2023-24 College Basketball: Parallax

This newsletter's schedule and plan for the 2023-24 basketball season

September Round-Up: A bunch of article ideas that didn't get made

August mailbag: a battle for the galaxy, Tennessee's best lineup, Taylor Swift album rankings

Notes, player grades, and video for Tennessee's 2023 tour of Italy

It Always Was, Is, and Always Will Be About the Money

DNP

The Big Six schedule awards

Neutral-site games: a problem for everyone but the players

A few more college basketball series that should exist

Subscriber questions answered, June 2023

Subscriber AMA, June 2023

The Cat Quandary

How often does the Mario double jump happen?

An emergency discussion of Tennessee's 2023-24 basketball roster

A better college basketball scheduling plan, Vol. 2: Challenge Week

What Went Right: Yale

A better college basketball scheduling plan, vol. 1: bringing back BracketBusters

What Went Wrong: Loyola Chicago

Mailbags by Will, vol. 1: Giving me the keys is a mistake

The six most entertaining players in the transfer portal

What Went Right: Northwestern State

What Went Wrong: Louisville

What Went Right: Southern Miss

Office hours, April 2023

The People Mover

TITLE GAME PREVIEW: (4) UConn vs. (5) San Diego State

2023 Final Four preview: (5) San Diego State vs. (9) Florida Atlantic

2023 Final Four preview: (4) UConn vs. (5) Miami

The good and bad of the Stats by Will Preseason Predictions

The 2023 NCAA Tournament has deleted turnovers from its hard drive

The Point Is There Ain't No Point

Elite Eight NCAA Tournament preview, Sunday

Elite 8 NCAA Tournament preview, Saturday

Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament preview, Friday

The August Loss

2023 Sweet Sixteen preview, Thursday

Show Me My Opponent, Sweet Sixteen: (9) Florida Atlantic

The sound of the 2023 NCAA Tournament: CLANK

Burnley Ball

Saturday NCAA Tournament preview, Round of 32

Show Me My Opponent, 2023 NCAA Tournament: (5) Duke

Friday NCAA Tournament preview

Show Me My Opponent, 2023 NCAA Tournament: (13) Louisiana-Lafayette

Thursday NCAA Tournament preview

The best (and worst) value picks by round for the 2023 NCAA Tournament

How Will's Vibes would pick the 2023 NCAA Tournament

How stats and history would pick the 2023 NCAA Tournament

Help! I've Fallen Into the Black Pit of Negative Expectations and I Can't Get Up

A Selection Sunday guide for everyone else

A Selection Sunday rooting guide for Tennessee fans

Show Me My SEC Tournament Opponent, 2022-23: Missouri

Show Me My SEC Tournament Opponent, 2022-23: Mississippi

Figuring out what to do with 2023's batch of Extreme Teams

NCAA Weekly, 15.1: One final pre-Selection Sunday update shows a historically tight field

Conference tournament previews, part 2

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: Auburn (#2)

How Tennessee can function without Zakai Zeigler

NCAA Weekly, 14.1: The biggest story of the 2022-23 season? Shot volume

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: Arkansas

Conference tournament previews, week 1

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: South Carolina (#2)

NCAA Weekly, 13.2: What's the most important month of the season? Answer: not February

NCAA Weekly, Vol. 13.1: What makes a champion?

Show Me My Opponent: Texas A&M

Somewhere in the Desert There's a Forest

NCAA Weekly, Vol. 12.3: Yes, we're still tracking for a wild March

NCAA Weekly, Vol. 12.2: Three teams keeping mid-range jumpers alive

NCAA Weekly, Vol. 12.1: Finding the teams that match previous over/underperformers in March

BREAKING: Local Man Discovers Passion Is Inextricably Linked to Mental Burnout

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: Vanderbilt (#2)

Inarticulate Yelling

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: Auburn (#1)

Office hours, February 2022

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: Florida

NCAA Weekly, Vol. 11: We're still heading for a wide-open March

I Remember How the Darkness Doubled, I Recall Lightning Struck Itself

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: Texas

NCAA Weekly, Vol. 10.1: Jump on a bandwagon, have a little fun

SEC Weekly, Vol. 4: The zones will continue until morale improves

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: Georgia

Enter the Mind Palace: 2022-23 Tennessee vs. All The Other Tennessees

Crayon Angels Under the Crayon Sun

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: LSU

SEC Weekly, Vol. 3: The 2022-23 SEC's doppelgangers

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: Mississippi State (#2)

NCAA Weekly, Vol. 9.1: Yes, the 2022-23 college basketball field is unusually weak

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: Kentucky (#1)

SEC Weekly, Vol. 2: Explaining Florida, the analytics darling (of sorts)

NCAA Weekly, Vol. 8.2: How the 2023 NCAA Tournament's locations matter for this year's field

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: Vanderbilt (#1)

NCAA Weekly, Vol. 8.1: Two polar-opposite approaches, two similar results

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: South Carolina (#1)

SEC Weekly, Vol. 1: Re-evaluating the league as we enter 2023

Show Me My Opponent, 2022-23: Mississippi State #1

What We Talk About When We Talk About Basketball Statistics: A Glossary