2020-21 College Basketball thread

The loss to East Carolina is largely brought up as a joke from my end. Yes, ECU is still garbage – outside of Jaylen Gardner, they're awful – but the road is annually littered with really good teams that have a really baffling loss on their resume at some point. Obviously, Gonzaga has none and some teams manage to avoid that pothole, but these potholes don't doom every team.

 

Michigan got blown off the floor by Minnesota. It's a long season. Stuff happens.

 

Pretty much. Once is not a massive cause for concern.

 

My second year of covering Liberty, they were 6-21 with four of those wins coming against non-DIs. They hosted a 24-5 Winthrop team in the last week of the regular season and beat them, which was the first time I saw the Gregg Marshall purple face in all of its glory. The next week, Winthrop beat them by 42 in the 1-8 game in the conference tournament. Shit happens.

 

Not sure what happened with Alabama, but apparently after the loss to Houston, Oregon State returned to the team hotel and was told to get packed and be ready to leave in two hours on a 1:15 a.m. charter to Eugene. They got home at about 4 a.m.

Thanks for playing. I hope they got some parting gifts at least.

OTOH, they hadn't been home since March 9. So they can crash all day today instead of traveling.

 

Maybe, but Suggs can be unreal. Top 5 pick in the NBA draft.

 

East Tennessee State's coach just resigned. If you'll recall, ETSU knelt for the national anthem earlier this year sending the Tennessee legislature scurrying to try to ban such practices at state schools in the future. Connect the dots ...

 

Wow. Internal promotions are never sexy and they always start down a strike, but what do you think is going on here? Did he really give up a head coaching job under the fear that he and he alone would have a prohibitive disadvantage because of the Trumpist legislature? Or did they whack him when he dared object? I could see virtually anything as the cause, but I have no clue.

 

More likely that he was pushed than that he jumped.

 

If that's the case -- and I suspect it is given the fact that he was an internal promotion -- aren't they going to have a tough time attracting a decent successor? It's ETSU, which means no hire is going to wow people with name recognition, but this is one odd situation.

 

Those people suck out loud. Shay took over when Steve Forbes left for Winston-Salem to take over at Wake Forest. Shay has been the head coach for one whole season, but has been at the school since 2015.

If ETSU wants to get this political, then let it join the far-right religious institutions and just get out of the NCAA. Or something like this because this is pure BS.

 

ETSU can be an attractive job within an underrated conference. But I have no doubt they were getting massive booster blowback. The Tri-Cities were Republican way before Republican was cool, all the way back to the Civil War.