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Forde Minutes: Blooming Big Men, Hot Seats and the Shift Westward

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball (golden goose burial plot sold separately at Louisville):

LOW POST MAULER BALL IS NOT DEAD

Chet Holmgren may be the 7-footer of the future, in terms of skill set and all-court ability. But the present still has room for a large number of really good teams that are led by big men who play big, hunkering down near the basket and doing their work in the paint far more than the perimeter.

In a world full of jump shooters, Mauler Ball lives in 2022.