g league vs ncaa: fight

Premature but okay. Joe Lunardi's bracketology is in the way (way) too early phase but yeah okay I'll mention this:

The other 1s are Gonzaga, UCLA, and Kansas. I think way too much is being made of UCLA's tournament run, especially given the possibility Johnny "Contested Twos" Juzang stays in the draft. Other Big Ten teams in this projection: Ohio State (2-seed), Purdue(2), Maryland(3), MSU(5), Illinois(6), Indiana(7), and Iowa(11). Northwestern(!?!?!?) is listed as the first team out, Wisconsin second team out.

The previous sentence makes me doubt the usefulness of linking this at all.

I am skeptical this happened. Dennis Dodd recently asserted on a podcast that Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell turned down an eight year, 68 million dollar contract from the Detroit Lions this offseason. This seems unlikely for one main reason: this is an entirely sensible thing to do if you are the Detroit Lions, and the Lions never do anything sensible. (On the other hand, failing to hire Matt Campbell and turning to some other guy named Campbell, who seems a little deranged, does seem like a Lions thing to do.)

If that did actually happen and Campbell didn't take the job that is a major indicator he's aiming for a terminal college job instead of the NFL. Michigan may be in the market for a coach after this season.

[After THE JUMP: Ol' Murderface returns to the column]

The Prompt:

Isaiah Todd’s decision came down to money: a G League team was able to offer over the table, the kind of scratch even schools that bag can't cobble together. If that’s how it’s gonna be, how would this affect college basketball?

Matt EM: Talked to my spectrum guy—looks like G League deals are now going in excess of 200k annually. Essentially it looks like the wheels are in motion for college athletics to cease in its current form or all the top 50 or so kids will go G league or overseas. 75k is one one thing, but 200-300k is no longer chump change.

It looks like the CBB product is going to be one big melting pot of mid major basketball at some point unless things change soon. The product is declining every year.

Anthony Ciatti: I figured this would happen once they got the G League to a place where it was developing players. It makes too much sense to be able to develop your players the way you want and the additional expense seems to be worth it. I have wondered if they will ever try to go to academy system and start at 16 instead of 18.

Matt EM: Word is Jalen Green is getting close to 500k for G League. If that's the new standard, CBB is effectively over.

Seth: Or CBB could just pay the guys that much. Because they are a larger operation with more fans and more money.

[After THE JUMP: What happens to college basketball if the Dooks can't Dook?]

Quarantine #content. Need me some nerf guns:

Omg he wasn’t ready pic.twitter.com/Bn6LT0nfVD

— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) April 20, 2020

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.]