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Forde Minutes: After Rash of Upsets, Is the Contender Pool Expanding?

Plus, the most important Coach K teams, picks for the first wave of men’s conference tournaments and more.

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in men’s college basketball (court storming sold separately, after a weekend of upsets):

FATAL FLAWS REVEALED? OR JUST A FORESEEABLE TRAP WEEKEND?

Saturday produced unprecedented carnage among the putative national title contenders, with the top six teams in the men’s AP poll and seven of the top 10 all losing. Part of this was scheduling happenstance—the losers were all playing quality opponents on the road.