2020-21 College Basketball thread

Weird.
My home edition says "Banked".

 

I’m in the IE and get an early edition. They must have liked “banked “ better and changed it. It’s “banked “ on the online version, too.
Maybe they saw the SCNG head and wanted to be different.

 

Priceless Banksy


Is that too vague?

 

That is a great call. Excited, but he let you know exactly what happened, from the moment JJ missed the first shot. Tracy Murray doesn't step on the winning basket call either.

The GU call, Adam Morrison is all on top of the p x p guy and both go Russ Hodges.

 

Was trying to remember how long he did the state tourney. I remember him from this one for the El-Amin call but also it was the first year my hometown made it to state so got to hear Dick call their games too. I don't think he was on it much longer.

 

I live in MN but am not a Twins fan. He does have a great voice for the job.

 

I sometimes hear or read from fans at my alma mater, and other schools, say "If Gonzaga can do it, why can't we?"

Well, it's taken a perfect storm to make Gonzaga.

It has no football program to compete with for athletic department resources. It's the only D1 school in an isolated metro area (almost 600,000), so it has the total attention of the community. It has no pro competition. It plays in a relatively weak league. The other in-state or nearby D1 programs (Washington, WSU, Eastern Washington, Seattle U, Idaho) have not been consistently good. And even when GU is "down" and not a national title contender, it can finish first or second in the WCC and get an NCAA berth because there's not the league-wide strength to knock them down to third, fourth or fifth and into the NIT.

Biggest of all, it found a great coach, who - unlike 99.9% of coaches in a similar situation - did not leave GU for the first big-money P5 job and thus disrupt the continuity of the program. That can't be emphasized enough. And now, instead of getting transfers and diamonds in the rough, it's attracting top-shelf recruits on its own merits, from outside of the PNW.

Few has done a wonderful job that no other non-P6 program has been able to match, or may ever be able to match. Traditional powers like Houston, Cincinnati and Temple, up-and-down. Even schools from a P6 league, like Butler, Xavier, Georgetown, Villanova, Carolina, Oklahoma, Duke, Virginia, Kentucky, UCLA, Michigan State, Michigan etc., have had ups and downs during the 20+ years GU has been a national force.

I'm probably overlooking someone, but Kansas might be the only program to match GU's success over the past 20 years and they've done some shady things to manage that.

It's not a stretch to think we will never see another Gonzaga.

 

On the ESPN app yesterday: the Clemson spring game. This gap between haves and have-nots is not closing.

 

VCU has the potential to be Gonzaga-esque but probably won't ever get to the level where they're regularly getting top-four seeds in the tournament. The A-10 is a touch deeper than the West Coast and there way more schools on a like level regionally to compete with. But they do have the no football/community support thing going here.

 

This is a great question, though. Where does Suggs’ shot rank on the list of longest buzzer-beaters in tournament history? Maybe third?
1) US Reed
2) Paul Jesperson of Northern Iowa few years ago (half court )

Any others ?