Running 2022-23 NCAA Basketball Thread

Turn those 3s into 2s, and Davis trails by almost 600 points. Give him 200 more shot attempts, and maybe he'll make 85 and trail by 400-430 points.

Give him as many free throws as Maravich shot, and he'll close the gap to about 180-200 points.

 

It can both be truth that Maravich was much better than Davis, and that Maravich played in a way (or was allowed to play in a way) that drastically altered his stats in a way that won't really be challenged in modern, conventional basketball. Like, look up any guy we'd think of as a gunner in the past 25 years - Iverson, Marbury, Monta Ellis, whoever - and they're probably pretty far behind Maravich's shots per game. Its pretty much the extreme example of what happens when a coach's son has the offense built around him and the eternal green light.

 

That many shots . . . in a no-shot-clock environment seems unreal.

Wonder what the average possession time for LSU was back then compared to the rest of college basketball.

 

Jimmer Fredette was basically the platonic ideal of "This dude is his team's entire offense." He averaged more than twice as many shots per game as the next-shootingest guy on the BYU roster. Maravich, in turn, averaged nearly twice as many shots per game for his career as Jimmer did at his most prolific.

 

Like LeBron, Rick Pitino raises all boats:

 

To be slightly fair to Iona, they've been a decent small conference program for the past decade or so. Tim Cluess' offense-heavy teams would usually get exposed in the NCAA tournament (1-6 record), but he won 20+ games there eight years in a row, before stepping down for health reasons. Its one of the better jobs below the mid-major level, and probably better than some of the mid-majors with constrained resources (La Salle and Fordham in the A-10 come to mind).

 

The Northeast Conference is the worst non-HBCU conference in Division I. You absolutely have to turn that upset into a better gig. Kudos.

 

Didn't take him long to ditch those kids.

 

You never know. In this era of seemingly unrestricted transfer policies and limitless eligibility, he might be able to take all three of his best players to their third college in as many years.

 

No way the good players are staying at FDU after that run. They'll absolutely try to get out. Loyalty is dead across the board in this sport. It's just the new reality.

 

LSU wasn't even the highest-scoring team in the SEC that season. Basketball was fun back then, not the plodding BS we so often see today.

1969-70 Men's Southeastern Conference Season Summary | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

 

Yup. Saint Peter's' top 12 players last season at KenPom all had eligibility remaining, and seven of them left. And only one went to Seton Hall w/Holloway (granted, KC Ndefo was the best player on the '21-22 Peacocks). Doug Edert made a lateral at best basketball move to Bryant (which is a borderline renegade program so he surely got a ton of money, NIL and otherwise) and scored in double figures in four games after scoring in double figures in 15 games last season. What was the point?