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Happy Thanksgiving to all! No better day to gorge yourself, and for you men out there (you know what I'm talking about), get to that favorite spot on your couch, loosen up those pants to let your belly breathe, and then feast on college hoops (or that other sport) as the tryptophan kicks in...

Stanford now favored by 2.5. Saint Louis favored over Santa Clara by 1.5. Kinda’ sounds like it’s anyone’s tournament. Let’s go win a championship, earn a trophy. That would be a step forward for the program, albeit a small one.

Agree. Right now Michigan, Michigan State, and Purdue all look capable of ending the drought, and Illinois, UCLA and perhaps Indiana could join that group. Michigan’s talent is off the charts, Sparty has a great mix of experience, youth & toughness, and Purdue is simply Purdue with Smith, Loyer...

Mountain West appears down, as well. Anything more than 2 would surprise me, and I’m not sold on San Diego State.

Tommie Talk & the Torvik (T-Rank) Rankings St. Thomas (5-3, 3-5 ATS) moves down one spot to #145. The Tommies are off until Saturday when they host Division III Lawrence University (Appleton, WI). The Vikings are 5-0. Tuesday Reach the Summit Results #307 Oral Roberts 91, #140 Kennesaw State 83...

Condensed version for the next few days; need a little breather. Tommie Talk & the Torvik (T-Rank) Rankings St. Thomas (5-3, 3-5 ATS) moves up two spots to #144. Monday Reach the Summit Results Arizona 103, Denver 73 Lindenwood 80, Kansas City 67 Florida Gulf Coast 93, Oral Roberts 88...

WCC.

Automatic qualifiers in multiple-bid conferences (noted with an *) hold the best conference record or, in the event of a tie, best Bart Torvik T-Rank (noted in parentheses). FIELD OF 68 PROJECTION (11/24/25) America East (1): Vermont (210) American (1): USF (60) ACC (6): *Duke (1), Louisville...

ROAD TO SELECTION SUNDAY, MN -- Week 4 of the college hoops season welcomes 7 new teams to our Field of 68 projection, including a pair from the ACC (Clemson & SMU), an addition (Butler) to the now 5-bid Big East, and a new automatic qualifier in the Summit League (South Dakota State), which...

Still waiting for Carter to break out a bit. It’ll happen, hopefully soon. Dobbs leadership and point of attack offense/defense & Barnstable’s scorers mentality also feel like things they’re really missing. But that was last season (have to remind myself). Tommies still have plenty of nice...

Tommie Talk & the Torvik (T-Rank) Rankings St. Thomas (4-3, 2-5 ATS) drops 12 spots to #148 after a surprising loss to Cal State Fullerton in Game 2 of the Portland Invitational. All four teams in the round-robin invitational are 1-1 through the first two days. UST still can win the championship...

Gopher fall to San Francisco, 77-65. Ouch. That's a 50-50 Ball opportunity lost.

Tommie Talk & the Torvik (T-Rank) Rankings St. Thomas (4-2, 2-4 ATS) drops 4 spots in the rankings to #136 despite a thrilling come-from-behind win over previously undefeated Northern Colorado, capped by Nolan Minessale's 3-point buzzer-beater from beyond halfcourt. Friday Reach the Summit...

Mine, too! Sign of a good team, when you don't play well, but you stay in the fight, hang around, and still able to finish at the end. Now build on that, and hopefully Bjerke gets it going from 3 soon. It's so strange to see him struggling to make 3s.

Future Gopher foe Stanford loses at home to new WCC member Seattle.

Ball don’t lie. Justice was served. Horrible foul call that preceded Minessale’s heroics that allowed UNC to make 2 FTs for the lead. Shooter kicked his leg out sideways to make contact with Herro and the ref fell for it. Would’ve been a tough way to lose.

Tommie Talk & the Torvik (T-Rank) Rankings St. Thomas (3-2, 2-3 ATS) stays #132 in the rankings. The Tommies are favored by 3.5 points tonight over undefeated #180 Northern Colorado (3-0) in their first game at the 4-team round-robin Portland Invitational. Thursday Reach the Summit Recaps...

That was the other scenario I considered for rewarding the double winners, automatically among the top 32. I would actually prefer that, but just figured there’s zero chance the major schools would allow any mid- or low-majors to receive that perk.

Thanks for the catch. I added it.

Thanks, appreciate your thoughts. I would argue they already added playing more interesting exhibition games, so that ship has sailed as far as starting earlier. Skip exhibition/preseason games (like college football does) & just make those 2 games real ones.