Jon Joseph

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/

Thanks for the correction, I can't believe I made a missed State? 😁 How could I have forgotten that the um, er, ah, Aggies have taken Gonzo's place as the bouncing ball leader of the Pac? Unfortunately (🤣), the Tourney dinero earned by the Logan Utes will stay with a conference that the Pac Men are suing. Perhaps justice is served?🤑

The B1G goes 4 for 4 on the day. 3 Illinois 76 - 11 VCU 55 4 Nebraska 74 - 5 Vanderbilt 72 - Nice to get a win over the SEC tournament runner-up. With the Michigan and Michigan State wins earlier today, 25% of the Sweet 16 is B1G. Tomorrow's B1G games: Noon/ 9 AM - 2 Purdue vs 7 Miami in St. Louis, MO. - CBS - 7 PM/ 4 PM - 9 Iowa vs 1 Florida in Tampa, Florida - TBS 8:45 PM/ 5:45 PM - 7 UCLA vs 2 UConn in Philadelphia, PA. - TNT Purdue is a -7.5 favorite. Florida and UConn are odds-on to win. Both the Gators and the UConn Huskies will have far more fans in the stands. UCLA big man Tyler Bilodeau, who sat out the first game with an injury, is expected to suit up for the game against the Gators. Look for Purdue to come through, and maybe we'll see a B1G upset or two. 🙃

The Pac 8 + Gonzo kiss the tournament Goodbye. 🤪 No. 3 Gonzaga 68 - No. 11 Texas 74

Tomorrow, Sunday, March 22nd, No. 8 Oregon vs. No. 1 Texas - 3 PM Pacific - ESPN

Michigan (makes no miss) State, after Michigan takes down Saint Louie, Sparty takes care of Louis(ville) - Michigan State 77 - Louisville 69

Michigan meets Saint Louie in Buffalo and leaves the Billikens feeling Blue - Michigan 95 - Saint Louis U 72

If things do not go well vs the Longhorns, head to 6th Street and help keep Austin weird - 🤪 https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/womens-basketball/2026/03/20/oregon-ducks-womens-basketball-virginia-tech-first-round-ncaa-tournament/89246332007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=ema

Don't you just hate it when someone rubs it in - 🦆😍❤️ https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/baseball/2026/03/20/oregon-ducks-baseball-vs-northwestern-live-score-updates-analysis/89237490007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SM

The boys from Troy 2nd Round Picks - I'm hoping the Cornhuskers make the pick of Vandy look bad https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/trojans/mens-basketball/2026/03/21/micah-huff-second-round-picks-big-ten-ncaa-tournament/89241971007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_medi

The B1G goes 3-0 today: 9 Iowa 67 - 8 Clemson 61, 7 UCLA 75 - 10 UCF 71 2 Purdue 104 - 15 Queens 71 In the 1st round, the B1G goes 7-2 SATURDAY GAMES - 1 Michigan vs 9 Saint Louis - Noon/ 9 AM 3 Michigan State vs 6 Louisville - 2:45 PM/ 11:45 AM 3 Illinois vs 11 VCU - 7:50/ 4:50 PM 4 Nebraska vs 5 Vanderbilt - 8:45/5:45 PM While I'm making an IPA run, someone please fluff up my couch potato, er, pillow.

Hats off to the Oregon Women's basketball team. OREGON 70 - Virginia Tech 60. The next game against Texas in Austin, Texas, may be more difficult. 🙃