Running 2022-23 NCAA Basketball Thread

A question for the Hoosiers out there.

I graduated from IU in 1984, the year the Colts moved, and have been back to Bloomington only once. Prior to the Colts moving the sports that dominated fan interest was college basketball. The Pacers were an afterthought.

Currently how much interest is there in IU basketball in the Indianapolis area. I would guess the Colts are on top. Is there more interest in the Pacers or college basketball?

There were also Friday night high school basketball games shown on the independent television station in Indianapolis and when the state basketball tournaments brackets were announced there was a bracket analysis show. Does that kind of interest still exist in high school ball?

 

Welp, Emoni Bates is pleading down to a misdemeanor and will be back on the team at Eastern Michigan ... That said, he stunk of pot, told the officer there wasn't a gun in the car, then said there was and to go ahead and handcuff him. Here's hoping he learns from this escapade.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...sion-eastern-michigan-basketball/69560865007/

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...d-to-eastern-michigan-basketball/69561129007/

 

These dumb fucks are determined to cripple if not kill the golden goose.

https://www.courier-journal.com/sto...y-for-ncaa-tournaments-to-expand/69557483007/

 

This way everybody gets to go to the tournament and coaches don't get fired so often, right?

Baylor's Drew wants 128 teams in NCAA tourney

 

Equity rulz

 

First Cal moves the Blue-White game to Pikeville to raise money for flood relief and then does this. Damnit, don’t make me like him.

 

I think I’m gonna have to like him.

 

Good for him, nice move.

bet he could write a check for more than game would raise and he’d never miss a nickel. OTOH, it’s possible he did write that check and not tell anyone. And now I’ll give him the benefit of that doubt.

 

Some of the responses on Twitter are why I hate Twitter.

 

The overwhelming responses Were positive and congratulatory

 

Goodbye, friends.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/24/jim-nantz-to-call-final-ncaa-tournament-with-ian-eagle-as-successor/

Eagle will do a good job. I have no particular sense of what Nantz is angling for here, showing up, not doing the games, but ambling down there for the trophy, etc.

63 with a 6 and 8-year-old.