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Led by Bruce Pearl, Auburn Is Exemplary of This Strange, Scandalous College Basketball Season

Hi, I’m Andy. If you read about college football here at SI.com, you’ve read my Punt, Pass and Pork column. One week a year, I dedicate that column to college basketball and call it Buckets, Brackets and Brisket. With Dan Greene out for a brief recharge, I’m filling in with this year’s version. It’ll look slightly different than Dan’s column, but fortunately Dan left me with an interesting week to dissect.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — As news broke Saturday afternoon that Arizona’s Sean Miller wouldn’t coach at Oregon Saturday night following an ESPN report that the FBI had Miller on tape discussing a potential $100,000 payment involving current Wildcats star Deandre Ayton, another head coach who had an assistant arrested by the FBI in September was preparing for a game he would coach.