Daily Bullets: Previewing Bedlam

Hoops

Here’s the Markel dunk in three photos. (PFB)

Good Bedlam breakdown, the great news for us is that Marcus won’t have two games like that in a row. (NewsOK)

Here’s video of the Markel dunk. (PFB)

Ford on Smart: “He takes a lot of punches. I know that everybody thinks that he does this and he does that, (but) he is getting hit. I’ve watched tape and I’ve sent it (to the league office). We all understand that everybody’s game plan is to take him out. I don’t think there was any cheap (play by West Virginia). I don’t think they intentionally tried to do anything but it’s a physical game. I think sometimes when you’re his size, some people think this and that they don’t give him the benefit of the doubt sometimes. You hope it’s black and white; if it’s a foul, call it. I hate to comment. I don’t know what happened.” (Scout)

Nash had one of Saturday’s 10 game-changing performances. (ESPN)

Markel made Deadspin…for good reasons. (Deadspin)

I think one issue with the Smart stuff is that people can’t tell half the time when he’s legitimately getting hit anymore. (NewsOK)

Baylor is Bayloring pretty hard. (CBS Sports)

Ford on Nash: “Le’Bryan gave us some good, high-percentage shots and some nice and-1’s. That’s the best way for him to get (three points).” (O’Colly)

Some of the best photos from Saturday’s game against West Virginia. (Flickr)

How great were these Michigan State uniforms? (Yahoo)

How do you guys feel about Ford downplaying Bedlam? I think I’m in favor of what he said, though I could see why folks would be upset. (NewsOK)

10 thoughts on Saturday’s game. (PFB)

Nash on his day: “I was thinking about rebounding, I wasn’t thinking about scoring. My scoring just came. Losing (Kamari) Murphy, he’s a team-rebounding guy, so I was really thinking about rebounding playing with four guards out there.” Also, Bob Huggins compares Eron Harris to Marcus Smart. (okstate)

I already hate Ryan Spangler. (NewsOK)

On Friday OKC Dave and I compared Markel to former Big 12 stars. (PFB)

So OSU was putting scouts in the rafters at GIA until they started complaining and now it should be all better? OK. (NewsOK)

Football

This on college football’s five factors is so good. Must read for college football fans. (Football Study Hall)

Jameis is 2/1 to win the Heisman again in 2014. Where are Walsh’s odds? (CBS Sports)

ESPN has Bedlam as the No. 1 Big 12 game of 2013. (ESPN)

Wow, Jay Cutler and Dan Bailey are the only NFL players signed thru 2020. Via Chance Meek. (Grantland)

Former Stanford commit flips to OSU. (247)

The four most memorable plays of the 2013 season. (NewsOK)

Caleb Lavey as the 17th-best player of 2013. (ESPN)

Other

Survey results Part III. (PFB)

Fun Q&A with Andrea Riley. (O’Colly)

Quite a comeback by the OSU girls on Sunday. Fell to Baylor in OT, though. (Big 12 Sports)

How old is Andrew Luck? (Big Lead)

This on how to measure great tennis players is a pretty fantastic post. (Deadspin)

Jeff Pearlman apologized to Erin Andrews. (Big Lead)

I ranked the 20 books I read in 2013. (Medium)

Why you should get off Facebook and start blogging. (Kinteic Bear)

Ezra Klein is headed to Vox Media. Wrote a really interesting post about the context of news. (Verge)

CS Lewis on duty. (Brain Pickings)

More NFL bad lip reading.

Highlights from Saturday.

Ford presser.

Haha, this is awesome.