I interviewed Lawrence Grobel for my podcast in October. He did Knight’s Playboy interview (March 2001) a couple of months after IU fired him, much of it in Knight’s car on a day trip from Bloomington to Akron to watch his son work practice.

His book has Knight banging the steering wheel with his fist and telling him to get out and hitchhike home. When they picked up Don Donoher in Dayton, Knight told him Larry had asked “a question too far.” In 2001 Larry told the AP that Knight also grabbed him by the wrists and went for his tape recorders until Donoher stepped in. The whole interview is reprinted with his margin notes in The Art of the Interview (2004).

Full conversation, starting at the Knight story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH_UavsH3hw&t=2127s

gg birds! NU not off to a good start 😭 I'm not one for analysis so I don't have any thoughts, but I'd love to hear from others if y'all have something.

Jake Hall 22 points (team high), Chris Howell had 9 boards, and Uriah Tenette had 14 points, 5 assists and 2 steals.

Big Ten +

They somehow did it without making a field goal in the final three and a half minutes.

Hoping for some more detailed analysis of it...

Any sickos watching

The game is on big ten plus

Arizona spent 77.64% of its season playing with a lead. Air Force spent 80.52% playing from behind.

These charts cover the entire 2025–26 season, including conference tournaments, postseason games, and overtime. Percentages use total game-clock time.

SOS is Bart Torvik’s full-season strength-of-schedule rank: 1 = toughest.

The rankings cover 364 teams with complete play-by-play. Delaware State is excluded because one game’s play-by-play was unavailable (Sorry Hornets fans!).

Big performances from Rodney Rice and Alijah Arenas! Treysen Eaglestaff leads the way for UCSD with game-high 29.
https://usctrojans.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary;team=away

Stanford has an eye-watering 46 FTA and 19 turnovers. Julius Price shows up for the Card with 26, Anthony Batson Jr. comes off the bench with 16 in a game where there were a lot of different rotations being experimented on. Cardinal were notably without highly-touted Yale transfer Nick Townsend, who maybe would have helped with the poor rebounding on the night. Townsend was in street clothes but was highly engaged on the bench, no injury has been reported. Neck and neck throughout the whole game, a lot to work on but also a lot to love against a tourney team last year

Aggies played without Mason Falslev. St Mary’s largest lead was 3 and they trailed for the last 25 minutes. Leading scorers were Freshman Kingston Tosi (USU) with 22 and Sophmore Mantas Juzenas (SMC) with 24

Boise State was up by 21 points earlier in the game against their Big 10 opponent.

The background is I am switching the statistics source for my efficiency model from ESPN to USA Today and I noticed the results were different because a few games had different box scores.

Both ESPN and USA Today agree that UNLV won 61-55. But let's look at the rebounding statistics.

ESPN says UNLV had 36 boards, 15 offensive. Utah had 30, 5 offensive.

USA Today says UNLV had 34 boards, 9 offensive, and has the same for Utah with 30 and 5.

Maybe another source will resolve the matter? Nope. KenPom (subscription required) says UNLV had only 31 rebounds, 9 offensive, and Utah had only 29 rebounds, 5 offensive.

FWIW, UNLV and Utah both agree with the USA Today numbers.

Sports-Reference doesn't have box scores going back that far and I can't figure out how to access historical data from ncaa.com.

There are discrepancies with some other stats as well. What's the deal? Are ESPN and KenPom acting like old-fashioned cartographers making up geographic features to figure out whom is using their data?