From Eamonn Brennan: “I could be wrong — maybe this has been around forever and I just haven’t noticed it — but the hottest new coaching phrase of the season seems to be some variation of the following: “I don’t play politics.” Every time a bubble team gets a big win the coach of that bubble team is asked to assess his team’s tourney chances in the wake of the victory. Coaches have always responded to this question with an artful dodge, but the new hotness appears to be an active assertion of the coach’s own unwillingness to campaign…”