Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

This is the worst Gonzaga team in over a decade. They just lost to Santa Clara to break a 26-game winning streak over the Broncos.

Must have been Steve Nash showing up ... as ESPN pointed out about 659 times.

 

2 points short of being the most lopsided loss in UCLA history.
How long before Cronin starts looking for an escape hatch?

 

Maybe Herb Sendek can still coach. Don't tell too many idiots at my alma mater ...

 

Your women's boxscore of the night: SMU beats Memphis in double OT and finishes with four players because they had five foul out. Memphis also had five foul out and they combined to shoot 142 free throws

There were 75 combined fouls, the most in NCAA history. The record broke 70 combined fouls from Oklahoma vs. Kentucky on Nov. 28, 2014.

Women's Basketball vs Memphis on 1/11/2024 - Box Score - SMU Athletics

 

Looks like they combined for 142 FG attempts and 98 free throws.

 

0-4 in Q1 games, with three chances left to get one: at Rupp, and on a season-ending roadie to San Fran and St. Mary's. They're going to need to get one of those and avoid bad losses to get in.

 

Kind of a weird flex given all the talk about bringing positive attention to the women's game ...

https://x.com/ByCoryDiaz/status/1745650636103070015?s=20

Then again, maybe Kim Mulkey is just a pussycat.

 

If not for basketball, she would be cooking hog jowls and using an outhouse.

 

You say that like those are bad things.

 

Mulkey has concerns about the future of the program.

 

Robert Morris wins tonight on a crazy 3-pointer at the buzzer. Can't link it but the highlight is on ESPN.com, go to scores and then Horizon League dropdown.