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College basketball has many of the same challenges as football, and some that are even tougher. Rodger Sherman joins Alex and Richard for a state of the union on CBB and a compare-contrast of how the dynamics we’ve observed in football are showing up in hoops. In this episode, you’ll find:

* 7:46: The story of Miami (Ohio), a mid-major basketball team whose undefeated regular season has resulted in an awfully CFB-like discourse about whether they should miss the NCAA tournament

* 17:08: The widening gap between the high-major conferences and everyone else, quantified in real time by Rodger

* 27:33: Why continuity problems appear to be worse in CBB

* 41:32: Is that thing actually happening where the House settlement results in basketball-only schools having an advantage?

* 45:06: We probably shouldn’t actually worry that much about a small number of recent pros returning to the college game

* 1:00:27: Rodger prepares us for March Madness

Produced by Anthony Vito.

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