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You might have noticed that I wrote a basketball-related post last week, but I’m actually trying to separate my obsessing about sports from ... well, real stuff. So I posted this year’s bracket at Turrible, which is intended to be my online man cave. Of sorts. Anyway, don’t assume that I posted it elsewhere because, [...]

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Bracketological breakdown, 2010 edition, volume 1!

by Doug LeMoine on 16 March 2010

Geek alert! I’m talking basketball. It’s March, and the madness of the season has overtaken me. Thus, I won’t be offended if you are about to click back to Twitter, or your RSS reader. I’ll start by not wasting anyone’s time complaining about this year’s tournament pairings. That path is well-traveled.1 And well it should [...]

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Basketball / It’s bracket time

by Doug LeMoine on 19 March 2008

You probably can’t tell, but I’ve been worrying over my picks for the last couple of days. My patented approach = tossed out the window I’ve filled out 20+ brackets in my life, and each year I take basically the same tack: At least one #1 seed goes down relatively early; every Big 12 team [...]

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Basketball / Jayhawks, predictions, bracketometry

by Doug LeMoine on 18 March 2008

Man, this year is going to be good, not only because the teams are good, but because there are good stories out there. I tell myself that I don’t care about storylines, but at some point, I absorb them. I repeat them. They become part of my conversations. All the extraneous detail from those player [...]

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Pre-post-season thoughts / Containing Kevin Durant

by Doug LeMoine on 5 March 2007

In a previous post, I suggested that the Kansas defense must “contain” Kevin Durant, thereby implying that Kevin Durant could, in fact, be contained. I said: “he’s going to get 10  –  15 points no matter what you do,” and anything in excess of that was a matter of the opposing team’s defense shutting him down. Against [...]

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