Jon Joseph

CBS Sports looks at FanDuel's 2026 Big Ten Wins Total. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-ten-win-totals-2026-odds-predictions-picks-each-team/

A Sweet 16 ranking from SBNation - https://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/1107507/sweet-16-teams-march-madness?ueid=66c3ca35924fb3254520a3f8fe2aa9ce&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SB%20Nation%20Daily%20Update%202026-03-23&utm_term=

Bleacher Reports Tourney Winners and Losers includes Kentucky's $22 million roster on the L side. Winners and Losers of the Men's 2026 NCAA Tournament Sund...The 2026 men's NCAA tournament field has now been whittled from 68 teams down to the Sweet 16.

FYI - Andy Staples, who walked on at Florida and is well-versed in It Just Means More stuff, recommends the following win total bets - OVER - Georgia 9.5, Kentucky 4.5, Oklahoma 7.5, Ole Miss 7.5, but only if Trinidad Chambliss is eligible, so stay away from the Rebels. UNDER - Vanderbilt 6.5 In Andy's opinion, the other SEC teams are too close to call, including Texas 9.5, Texas A&M 9.5, Alabama 8.5, and LSU 7.5. This will be Kiffin's toughest SEC slate. PO teams Alabama, Texas A+M, and Ole Miss are on the schedule, and LSU also plays Texas, and is on the road at Auburn and Tennessee. The last two games in the regular season see the Tigers on the road at Tennessee and Arkansas. Dabo and Clemson will be looking for revenge in Kiffin's opening game. Will QB Sam Leavitt be healthy after last season's foot injury? The word is that Kiffin really wanted UW's Demond Williams and settled for Leavitt. Off the Wall - When USC Athletic Director Jen Cohen was the AD at Washington, she hired Kalen DeBoer. If Riley does not get the Trojans to the playoffs and Bama wins 9 or fewer games, could we see DeBoer in LA?

Cornhuskers were this close to being shucked. 🤪 On3WATCH: Fred Hoiberg reacts to Tyler Tanner's near half-co....

On3, courtesy of ESPN, ranks the Sweet 16 - So far, I think B12 Iowa State has been more impressive than Arizona. I also wonder if Arizona has the size to match up with the Wolverines. A Midwest Regional final of Michigan vs. Iowa State could produce the tournament champion. On32026 March Madness: ESPN ranks all remaining Sweet 16 tea....

It's a B1G Tournament - https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2026/03/23/march-madness-winners-losers-sweet-16-ncaa-tournament/89278154007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=usatbaseline&utm_term=hero&utm_

The Sweet 16 - Thursday, March 26th 11 Texas vs 2 Purdue - 7 PM/ 4 PM - CBS - San Jose B1G vs SEC. Texas could be the best 11-seed in NCAA Tournament history. 9 Iowa vs 4 Nebraska - 7:30 PM/ 4:30 PM - TBS - Houston As was the case with Alabama vs. Oklahoma in the CFB playoff, with many teams from the same conference in the field, there will be teams from the same conference matching up. It so happens that the Hawkeyes and the Huskers are permanent football opponents and have a terrific rivalry. 4 Arkansas vs 1 Arizona - 9:45 PM/ 6:45 PM - CBS - San Jose 3 Illinois vs 2 Houston - 10:05 PM/ 7:05 PM - TBS - Houston Home cooking for the Houston Cougars. Friday, March 27th 5 Saint John's vs 1 Duke - 7 PM/ 4 PM - CBS - Washington, DC 1 Michigan vs 4 Alabama - 7:35 PM/ 4:35 PM - TBS - Chicago One sure bet: more fans will be wearing Blue than Crimson. The second B1G vs SEC match-up. 3 Michigan State vs 2 U Conn - 9:45 PM/ 6:45 PM - CBS - DC Hats off to coach Tom Izzo, coaching in his 17th Sweet 16. A 10 PM tip-off. It's not about the money, it's about the student-athletes, right? 🤑 6 Tennessee vs 2 Iowa State 10 PM/ 7 PM - TBS - Chicago ENJOY!

UCLA battled, but UConn was just too tough. Especially without the Bruins' top scorer and rebounder, Biladeau, not able to go. Six B1G teams in the Sweet 16 is a B1G conference record.

Well, tough loss, but consider the location and the competition. Graves and crew are bringing women's CBB back. South Carolina lost in Austin. An excellent and well-coached Longhorns team is odds-on to win it all. But UCLA may be Bruin-up another idea.

You don't need a Hawk's Eye to see that the B1G is coming through. See you later, Gator. Iowa 73 - Florida 72 - In Tampa, Florida. 😍 6th B1G team to advance to the Sweet 16. Come on, UCLA!

What the Pac-10 needed was a litigator with Mike Witty's experience and moxie, and not the firm of Bend, Over, and Smile.

Purdue comes through! The U is Tournament MIA. Purdue 79 - Miami 69 Five of seven B1G teams advance to the Sweet 16, with a chance for two more B1G teams to go to the Sweet 16. How Sweet it is! 👍👌😍

Thanks, Mike. Your analysis is solid, based on the forum to which the breakaway Pac schools subjected themselves. The Pac-10 should have gone to bankruptcy court and filed Chapter 7 liquidation. Bankruptcy court is a court of equity. The fact that two member schools argued they had the right to manage the conference's affairs would not have overcome 10 schools filing for bankruptcy. I have the same beef with the House settlement. Why enter into a settlement when you know the majority of the schools that settled will ignore the terms of the settlement, and every time you have tried to unilaterally tried to limit player compensation, you lost? File Chapter 11. The House settlement enriched the plaintiff's attorneys and did nothing for the good of the game. It simply kept a neutered NCAA in authority. The marketplace left Oregon State and Washington State behind, two schools that for decades benefited from the success of other conference members' media clout and tournament wins. Benefited while spending less money on athletics than the majority of the conference. As Charles notes above, the post-breakup behavior of Oregon State and Washington State has been the height of hypocrisy. Much of the Pac-10 money went toward breaking up the Mountain West, to what purpose? CFB now has a Group of 6 instead of a Group of 5. The Pac-12 reaped the whirlwind of pathetic, unfocused management, and the two-member schools whose leaders helped enable the mismanagement, the two with the least market power were left behind by Fox, ESPN, CBS and NBC. Oregon was supposed to hang in for a speculative streaming deal, perhaps backed up by CW? That would have been financial negligence, per se.

A Tourney update from CBS Sports - https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/march-madness-scores-winners-losers-duke-michigan-texas-a-m/