{"id":95475,"date":"2026-03-31T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=95475"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:08:19","slug":"the-ten-3-31-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=95475","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 3\/31\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_81160\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81160\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81160\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/THE-TEN-NEW-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/THE-TEN-NEW-.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/THE-TEN-NEW--400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/THE-TEN-NEW--70x53.jpg 70w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/THE-TEN-NEW--768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/THE-TEN-NEW--150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-81160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The TEN<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(\u201cThe TEN\u201d is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in \u201cThe TEN\u201d)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1\u2014\u201cDamn we got a Lakers insider here.\u201d\u2014MVS commentator, The Watcher<\/p>\n<p>2\u2014On this day in 1975, UCLA\u2019s John Wooden coached and won his last game, 92-85 over Kentucky, for his tenth NCAA title. In the 51 years since, the Bruins have won one men\u2019s title. (See Jim Harrick-1995. Note: In November, 1996\u2014Harrick was fired for buying Cameron Dollar and Charles O\u2019Bannon dinner.)<\/p>\n<p>3\u2014LeBron James &amp; Austin Reaves combined for 40 points and 21 assists to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 120-101 victory over the Washington Wizards on Monday night. Playing without the suspended Luca Doncic, the Lakers improved to 49-26, and have won 15 of their 17 games.<\/p>\n<p>4\u2014&nbsp;&#8220;I mean, I know what he&#8217;s striving for. We&#8217;ll just see where it goes from there.\u201d\u2014Chiefs HC Andy Reid on Patrick Mahomes&#8217; recovery timeline.<\/p>\n<p>5\u2014\u201cThe secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.\u201d Knute Rockne<\/p>\n<p>6\u2014\u201cThe fastest way to expose yourself as a casual? Call (Jon) Scheyer a choker. Coach K- 6 yrs, Bill Self-15 yrs, Roy Williams-17 yrs, John Wooden- 16 yrs, Jay Wright- 22 yrs, Tom Izzo- 17yrs, John Calipari-20 yrs, John Thompson-12 yrs.\u201d\u2014Duke Alum\/ESPN Analyst, Jay Williams on the time it took legendary HCs to win an NCAA title.<\/p>\n<p>7\u2014On this day in 1931 legendary football player and coach Knute Rockne died in a plane crash in Kansas at the age of 43.<\/p>\n<p>8\u2014\u201cSurely there&#8217;s somebody in Jaden Ivey&#8217;s life who can get him some help. No family members or his agent or lawyer can get him off social media and into a place he can work through these issues?\u201d\u2014Jason McIntyre on Ivey, who was released by the Chicago Bulls for saying the LGBTQ\/Pride Month was unrighteous.<\/p>\n<p>9\u2014The Dodgers lost their first game of season on Monday night to Cleveland, 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>10\u2014&#8221;We don&#8217;t become you. You become us.\u201d\u2014Purdue Basketball HC, Matt Painter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(\u201cThe TEN\u201d is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in \u201cThe TEN\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95476,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95475\/revisions\/95476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}