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Forde Minutes: Powerhouses Back in Business, First Wave of Conference Tourneys and More

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball, where any Coronavirus-inspired talk of holding March Madness without fans is prematurely alarmist:

HERE COME THE REGULARS

What, did you really think we’d have a March without the following teams getting their stuff together and coming into the money month looking dangerous?

Kentucky (1). Winners of eight in a row and 12 of 13, making the usual transformation from early-season dysfunction to stretch-run dominance. Sometime after Christmas, Kentucky gets it together just about every season—but this year it looked shakier than most early on.