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The Valley's loss is the Big 12's gain as DeVries cashes in.

Dominoes are starting to fall as Dusty May will take the Michigan job.

Ahahahahaha. Say what you will about the NIL rowrbazzle, but this is amazing.

Spoiler: they accidentally learned "Boomer Sooner" but no one noticed the difference. I love that the Idaho band has a banjo player. There's "on brand" and then there's that.

What happened, BYU?

Oh.

Meanwhile, in SLC:

There's "going out on a high note" and then there's what Dambrot has accomplished, 30 years after practically getting black-balled from DI hoops. What a way to go.

"将軍が来る日が来ると思ったのに!"

Relevant to @Dolfan in NYC's interests: Columbia are dancing for the first time. 2-bid Ivy. Amazing.

In Indianapolis of all places.

And all other tournaments as well. Now I want to see the NIT invite them and go through the motions of setting up a game, only to dramatically announce to the crowd that they've decided not to show up and award a walkover. Spare a thought for Indiana State and Robbie Avila (AKA Cream Abdul Jabbar/Larry Nerd). Highest NET ranking of any school ever left out of the Dance at 29.

THANK YOU. I was worried the tennis knuckleheads would just have them all killed, so this was a pleasant surprise.

The crazy thing to me is that the show's already sold out... they're playing with house money and yet they're announcing WWE talent, plural. That's nuts, and makes me want to see who else they're going to play ball with going forward.

MY TESTICLES ARE THE CUBAN ASSASSINS YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID

The A10 tournament is an absolute bloodbath as all four top seeds (Richmond, Loyola-Chicago, Dayton and UMass) went down in flames yesterday after getting byes for the first two rounds. Dayton losing is particularly huge for the bubble teams because they just fucked someone over... it's gonna be a long weekend for Pitt, Colorado, Indiana State etc.

Boynton beached. YEEEEAAAAHHHHH.

Kayla Ard is a better woman that all of us. I know we like to make with the jokes about coaches getting fired in the locker room or on the airport tarmac after a bad loss, but that's seriously horrible.

The spreadsheet in the following tweet lays it out better than I ever could. On the women's side, tiny Presbyterian College is dancing for the first time after winning the Big South tourney as a #5 seed, dumping top seed High Point on their home court in the process. Take off you (Blue) Hosers.

Crunching the numbers - Stetson has been DI since 1972, making them the longest consecutively "tenured" school outside the handful of 1938 originals (Army, Citadel, William & Mary) never to go dancing until now. Of the other schools still eligible as of today, UNH and Denver have actually been playing for longer but that's with lower-tier stints breaking up the longevity.

It should be a solid week of talk no matter what. Both schools should - SHOULD be in.

Dana Ford has been FE'd at Missouri State.

Mike Davis is unsurprisingly out at Detroit Mercy. 1-31-and-done.