💬 Quoted… “He’s really like a basketball genius.”

• UConn’s national title-winning men’s basketball team apparently had a secret weapon: Luke Murray, the son of legendary comedian and actor Bill Murray. He serves as the team’s assistant coach and, maybe unsurprisingly given his father’s background, has garnered quite a reputation for watching film – “from some obscure corner of the basketball world,” per the WSJ – which, in turn, has positively impacted the team’s offense. The season before Murray was hired in 2020-21, UConn’s offense was the 27th-most efficient in the nation, according to college basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy. Now, it’s at the top – in more ways than one.

🎭 Stat of the Day: 24 years and 12 seasons = how long the pretty, pretty good HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm, which released its last episode ever on Sunday, was on the air. Fare thee well, Larry David, you relatable grouch🫡.

🤔 Did You Know?... Four of the top five ranked air forces in the world belong to the US, with each branch of the military – Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines – ranking.

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