Troy State’s astonishing season is still the college basketball scoring standard

Jordan Bell has played one season and has one championship. And now he might hold the title for most confident NBA player, too. The Warriors big man made a big block in the closing minutes of Friday night’s summer league win over the Clippers. After the swat, cameras caught Bell looking toward the crowd with a call-me gesture — and at one couple in particular. Utah’s Donovan Mitchell, a star immediately in his first year last season, was sitting with his girlfriend, Déja Lighty, taking in the game. Bell apparently was talking with them, the implication being he was making a public move on Mitchell’s girlfriend. Bold! According to those involved, though, this isn’t what exactly transpired — and

Of course the most rigid, risk-averse group in all of sports went with the safe move and put Oklahoma in the playoff, rather than going with a better choice in Georgia.