2020-21 College Basketball thread

Because I'm feeling frisky after my Northwestern-over-Maryland pick, I'm going to predict the following:
Trump University of Lynchburg wins the A Sun tourney, gets a No. 12 seed, gets paired with No. 5 Virginia and beats them by a dozen.
You know CBS/NCAA is dying to make this pairing and to get rid of the Cavaliers ASAP. Pitting them against a coach who knows Bennett's system as well as anybody is a solid way to make it happen.

 

Michigan clinched the Big 10 tonight. First time I think I've watched a whole 2020-21 Michigan State game. Yikes. This MSU team looks and plays like a Tom Izzo team if you kept most of the effort and subtracted the offense like the Monstars did from the NBA guys in Space Jam. For example, I can't remember the last time I've heard the shot clock buzzer this many times in a single college basketball game.

 

He gone.

 

Announcer just compared Loyola’s Cameron Krutwig to John Candy in Planes, Trains & Automobiles. I was thinking maybe Paul Blart’s love child. Either way, he’s getting it done for the Ramblers.

 

This sounds like the President pulled rank. As he has the right to do. Maybe because the blowback was louder than anticipated?

 

Using the word plantation. Dude.

 

"Reservation" would have been nearly as bad.

 

I thought the same thing.
Just incredibly stupid.
If he just substitutes "boat" or "plane" or virtually anything else, he's OK. But to say what he said when he knows that one of his assistants is a leader in a burgeoning black coaches movement is remarkably myopic.

 

Liberty going to the front of the line on a technicality feels extremely on brand somehow.

Liberty punches early ticket as final foe ineligible

 

Why did the conference allow a transitioning team to play for a bid it can’t receive?

 

Falwell is looking forward to watching.

 

Two of them. Bellarmine is in its first year since coming from D-II and actually finished as conference runner-up. Otherwise it would have been a 7-team tournament, which isn’t ideal but hardly the end of the world.