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Sadly, conversation around the award has been dominated by racial insinuations, hard feelings and bad-faith arguments. The contenders deserve better.

The Lobos beat Rick’s Iona team on Dec. 18.
On Dec. 18, New Mexico defeated Iona 82–74 in Albuquerque. The Lobos moved to 11–0 at the time and their coach, Richard Pitino, defeated his father—Hall of Fame Gaels coach Rick Pitino.
The two teams are all set for another matchup in the 2023–24 season. However, Rick won’t be a part of it after reportedly accepting the vacant St. John’s head coaching job Monday afternoon.
Taking his father’s new gig in stride, Richard had some fun with the news on Twitter shortly after it broke.

From the “what else is he going to say” department comes a quote from new Carolina Panthers head coach Frank Reich. Speaking for the first time since the team traded for the #1 pick in the NFL Draft, Reich said he isn’t ruling out any player at number one, including Alabama’s Bryce Young.
Of course that’s what he’s going to say. Can you imagine if he sat up there and said, “We’re taking CJ Stroud.” Or, “We’re definitely not taking Bryce Young.” That would be a story.
Yet, here I am writing about it anyway. So, I guess it’s a story either way.

Alabama and Houston, the last No. 1 seeds standing, have the best odds to win the national championship heading into the Sweet 16.
During an opening weekend that saw other title contenders fall victim to the madness of March, No. 1 Alabama flexed its dominance and now enters the Sweet 16 as the favorite to win the national championship.
Right behind the Crimson Tide is No. 1 Houston, which entered the NCAA Tournament with the best odds to cut down the nets, just ahead of Alabama at the time. The Crimson Tide and Cougars are the last No.

As the college basketball season comes to a close, it’s tournament time. Not only is March Madness underway for both the men and women, as are the D-II, D-III, NIT, CBI and NAIA Tournaments.
For the athletes, not only does tournament season mean travel, it also means swag. The extent of that swag, though, varies by level of play.
Here is an example of what the men received at March Madness in 2021:

Here’s the welcome-to-Indy team swag starter set teams are getting from the NCAA upon arrival.

Antoine Davis has ended his pursuit of “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s NCAA scoring record. While it looked like Davis’ college career was over when the College Basketball Invitational did not extend an invitation to the Titans, he held out hope until Monday that he would get another chance to play, possibly in an inaugural College Hoops Postseason 8. The CBI, which started Saturday, posted pictures on its Twitter account of Maravich and Davis shortly after Detroit Mercy lost at Youngstown State and had talks with the school about a potential invitation.

Roger Goodell and NFL owners are expected to finalize a multi-year contract extension for the commissioner at next week’s owners meetings in Phoenix, league sources told ESPN.

Why the Packers have the leverage, and why this will wrap up sooner than later.
As noted here many times before, including the night Jordan Love was drafted, the Packers’ transition away from Aaron Rodgers has stark parallels to the team’s transition away from Brett Favre 15 years ago. In both cases, a first-round quarterback apprenticed behind a Hall of Fame quarterback for three long years before Green Bay decided to hand the keys to the franchise over to the younger player and trade the older player to the Jets.

The 64-year-old has served in his current role since 2006.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is expected to receive a multiyear contract extension at next week’s NFL owners meetings in Phoenix, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Monday.
Schefter’s sources told him that the extension will be worth three years. Two of Goodell’s previous contracts were for three years as well.
Goodell took over the commissioner role in 2006, replacing Paul Tagliabue. Since then, his extensions came in ’09, ’12 and ’17.

Hallelujah. The greatest development in St. John’s University’s basketball since the Lou Carnesecca days commenced on Monday when the Johnnies hired Rick Pitino to be their next head coach.
As a St. John’s alumnus, I almost cried when the news broke. I spent roughly $120,000 to go to St. John’s and I could care less about Pitino’s sketchy past.

Source: Rick Pitino has agreed in principle to be the next head coach of St. John’s.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) March 20, 2023

In fact, Pitino can use some of my OutKick salary to lure recruits to St.