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[Marc-Gregor Campredon]

Quarantine #content. Need me some nerf guns:

DRC says he's bored outside and this seems like a good way to make him less bored. Trauma!

Why all the sports got canceled. A (likely) demonstration of what going forward with the Big Ten Tournament would have led to:

It was the hottest ticket in the state for high school basketball. Four great teams. An electric atmosphere was guaranteed for the night of March 6 at Lawrence Central, where 2,800 fans would pack the gym for the sectional semifinals.

But early on that Friday afternoon, the calls started coming in to Lawrence Central.

It was revealed by state officials at 11 a.m. that the first person in Indiana had tested positive for coronavirus at Community Health North, four miles from the school.

“We started getting calls,” Lawrence Central athletic director Ryan Banas said, “wondering if we were still going to play.”

The games were played that night — and the following night — just like they were in 63 other venues around the state. Fans at Lawrence Central that week for Sectional 10 were treated to a basketball bonanza of incredible games and individual performances.

But on that night of March 6, there were five people in the gym who later died after testing positive for coronavirus. There’s no way to know if they contracted it at Lawrence Central. But families are left to mourn.

Might be the last things to come back, too.

[After THE JUMP: They can still have an NFL draft, though.]

alas [Bryan Fuller]

Sponsor Note. Let's say you've cloned a hundred duck-sized horses and want people to fight them. That sounds like something with a lot of legal complications. Is cloning… within the city… that ain't legal either? What happens if someone gets hurt? When someone gets hurt, more like it. It's a tough balance between the incredible appeal of finding out whether you can beat 100 duck-sized horses in a fight and the potential to be sued into the ground.

Well, have I got the guy for you.

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Richard Hoeg knows this stuff, backwards and forwards. He's a business lawyer from the law factory who can tell you whether or not you should proceed with your idea. (Even if he says no you clearly should.) He'll get you set up with a legal framework to cope with the inevitable disasters if you decide to proceed (which you clearly will). And insofar as anyone can be protected from the law while running a business that is essentially cockfighting between miniaturized charismatic megafauna and humans, you will be.

What other lawyer can say that?

SNACKS! Sometimes there's a thing that gets put in your twitter feed 20 times and every time you click on it. This is one of those things:

Jackson State was super efficient at feeding Snacks shots; he got four up in his two minutes. This led to a Kenpom glitch: Snacks finishes his career with 82% usage and, uh, took 137% of JSU shots when he was on the floor?

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A legendary Kenpom page.

You may remember Snacks from the quintessential Tacko Fall reaction video:

Someone's gotta hire the play by play guy. Anyone who can exclaim "SNACKS" like that needs to be doing the NCAA tournament.

[After THE JUMP: distressing times at Arkansas-Pine Bluff.]

Patterson is comfortable in this style of O [Bryan Fuller]

Coach twitter is interested. I cannot tell you how encouraging it is that multiple plays from Michigan's spring game have been interesting enough for the clip-it-and-describe-it wing of coaching twitter to post.

This did not happen that much the last couple years. James Light would post stuff about the run game; guys who aren't local didn't have much interest. And the things that have popped out of the spring clips have been plays on which guys are put in conflict while Michigan runs a tightly integrated set of plays that all look like each other.

A program milestone. Women's lacrosse made its first tournament ever as the #8 overall seed:

No. 8 seed Michigan earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament for the first postseason appearance in program history after going 15-3 overall, including a 4-2 mark in conference play. The Wolverines will play the winner of Jacksonville vs. Mercer on Friday, May 10 in Ann Arbor, Mich.

A time has not yet been established. How they got there.

[After THE JUMP: insane ways to change the NBA!]