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Matt Norlander
@MattNorlander
Sr. writer/analyst/podcast host, @CBSSports. Guitar player, wannabe drummer, avid skier, skittish golfer. Also: bsky.app/profile/norlan…
Connecticut.
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Mar 22, 2025
    McNeese manager Amir “Aura” Khan now has a customized Under Armour jumpsuit. Company reps flew into Providence last night. I’m told he has 12 NIL deals, all totaling well into the six figures. Buffalo Wild Wings, TickPick and TurboTax are the three biggest. Nothing like March.
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Mar 4, 2020
    Here’s the best thing you’ll see tonight. Vermont senior Josh Speidel gets the first start of his career and the first points of his career. Speidel was a highly touted UVM recruit before a car accident in high school left him in a coma. Incredible story in Burlington.
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Apr 28, 2025
    Today in college basketball: The head coach of Illinois is posting AI-rendered images of himself in Balkan Cold War-era aesthetic after he landed a fifth commitment from player whose last name ends in "ic."
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    Brad Underwood
    Illinois Men's Basketball
    @CoachUnderwood
    Apr 28, 2025
    #NewProfilePic
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Apr 3, 2022
    K just approached Armando Bacot before going to media availability and said, “I hope you’re OK, man. You were my player of the year.”
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Mar 24, 2019
    Before he headed to the bus, Ja Morant went back out into the arena to give his shoes to a young boy.
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Mar 27, 2022
    In the Final Four, Duke will face either A) Saint Peter’s, setting up the greatest symbolic representation of David vs. Goliath in sports history, or B) North Carolina for the first time in NCAAT history—with K’s retirement in the balance. How is this our universe. Phenomenal.
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Mar 25, 2022
    The moment it was over for Texas Tech 😜
    Viral Hoops
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Nov 16, 2022
    Don’t know what sport this is but I’m riveted.
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Mar 18, 2025
    Woke up this morning to discover my 9-year-old filled out a bracket without me even asking if he wanted to do it. I’m so proud I might burst.
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Dec 18, 2024
    Phenomenal: Longtime friends Greg Kampe and Tom Izzo are wearing identical Grinch sweaters for their game against each other tonight. THIS RULES COLLEGE HOOPS IS THE BEST
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    Matt Norlander
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    Mar 30, 2025
    Here are the 10 best KenPom teams ever (ratings date back to '96-97). Four of them are playing Saturday in San Antonio. Maybe the most loaded Final Four ever? This is downright ridiculous. A combined 135-16.
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Jun 14, 2019
    Tony Bennett guarding Nick Nurse — in 1989. Both men coached their teams to championships 30 years later, barely two months apart. The universe can be freaking incredible sometimes.
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Feb 12, 2024
    Photo by Tim Nwachukwu, Getty Images
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    Matt Norlander
    @MattNorlander
    Apr 6, 2025
    Never seen anything like this after a national semifinal
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