Quote of the Day
“I’ve been at the top. I feel like I’ve been at the bottom—you just got to react the same regardless of what it is. I know I’m going to have a good game again. I know I’m going to have a bad game again. I got to ride the wave, get to the next one and get through it. I jokingly say all the time you only remember your last game.”
Broncos QB Bo Nix

Tuesday’s quiz
Who was the Broncos’ QB, the last time they made the playoffs?

Monday’s quiz
In the movie Last Vegas, Mary Steenburgen plays the lounge singer who winds up hooking up with Michael Douglas at the end of the movie.

Sunday’s quiz
2010 was the last time Alabama lost 3+ football games in a season; ESPN’s Greg McElroy was Alabama’s QB that year.

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Tuesday’s Den: Early season college basketball trends​

— Memphis 99, UConn 97, OT
Tigers led by 13 with 4:00 left in game, but it went to OT.
Memphis was 29-40 on foul line, UConn 19-24
Memphis was 12-22 on arc, UConn 14-30
Six of the eight players Memphis used are seniors.

— Modern college basketball- Memphis’ roster is mostly transfers:
PJ Haggerty- six games at TCU, 30 games at Tulsa
Tyrese Hunter- 35 games at Iowa State, 71 games at Texas
Dain Dainja- 3 games at Baylor, 71 games at Illinois.
Colby Rogers- 47 games at Cal Poly, 28 games at Siena, 33 games at Wichita
PJ Carter- 11 games at Campbell, a year at a junior college, 30 games at UTSA
Nicholas Jourdain- 74 games at Temple.
Moussa Cisse- 29 games at Memphis, 61 games at Oklahoma State, 26 games at Ole Miss, now he is back in Memphis.
Memphis is #6 in country in experience, #319 in continuity. An older team that figures to get better as they play together more.

— PJ Haggerty took 298 foul shots for Tulsa last year, 2nd most in country (Zach Edey, 436).

College basketball trends (these records are all against the spread, thru Sunday)……..
I’ll list the leagues as ranked on Kenpom.com

— SEC
23-16 ATS as a favorite, 7-7 as underdog, 9-6 on neutral courts

— Big X
16-29 ATS as a favorite, 7-9 as underdog, 4-11 on neutral courts

— Big 18
29-35 ATS as a favorite, 8-6 as underdog, 4-3 on neutral courts

— Big East
14-18 ATS as a favorite, 6-2 as underdog, 6-2 on neutral courts

— ACC
20-21 ATS as a favorite, 11-12 as underdog, 7-8 on neutral courts

— Mountain West
14-13 ATS as a favorite, 7-8 as underdog, 2-3 on neutral courts

— Famous birthdays, November 26
Jan Stenerud, 82
Art Shell, 78
Richie Hebner, 77
Roger Wehrli, 77
Harry Carson, 71
Bob Walk, 68
Mike Moore, 65
Harold Reynolds, 64
Chuck Finley, 62
Mario Elie, 61
Shawn Kemp, 55
Cal Raleigh, 28

— Atlantic 15
15-18 ATS as a favorite, 5-13 as underdog, 5-10 on neutral courts

— West Coast
16-16 ATS as a favorite, 9-12 as underdog, 3-3 on neutral courts

— American
16-16 ATS as a favorite, 9-11 as underdog, 4-11 on neutral courts

— Conference USA
10-5 ATS as a favorite, 16-9 as underdog, 7-2 on neutral courts

— Missouri Valley
15-13 ATS as a favorite, 16-11 as underdog, 8-4 on neutral courts

— WAC
3-15 ATS as a favorite, 7-12 as underdog, 1-1 on neutral courts

— Big West
13-11 ATS as a favorite, 20-13 as underdog, 5-1 on neutral courts
It is still very early in the college basketball season; everyone is still learning which teams have how much and that includes the coaches.