Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

So confusing anymore. Is that Moorhead, Mankato, St. Cloud, Crookston, Marshall ...

 

I'm rooting for UConn with 50.1 percent of my college hoops fandom. Illinois gets the other 0 percent, now and always.

 

The Mules and Jennies.

 

Mankato. The Mavericks. They still don't like Screaming Eagles jokes, which is really too bad.

There is a Minnesota State Moorhead (which is in the same league and which the Mavericks men beat in the first or second round). It's our style to refer to them with their three names in Division II but because the Mavericks have hockey and the Dragons don't, Minnesota State is OK there.

The other Minnesota State system schools in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference are St. Cloud State, Winona State, Bemidji State and Southwest Minnesota State (in Marshall).

Crookston is actually a branch campus of the U itself, so they're Minnesota Crookston (no hyphen), just like Minnesota Duluth.

 

Two things:

1) Kim Mulkey is an asshole.

2) Kim Mulkey is absolutely right about that LA Times piece, which is an absolute steaming load. UCLA is "America's sweethearts" and "milk and cookies", while LSU's players are "dirty debutantes" and "seemingly hell bent on dividing (women's basketball)"?

Are you fucking kidding me? I assume the Times wouldn't allow him to use the word he wanted to use to describe the LSU players.

 

100 percent, PC. Complete bullshit, and the fact that an editor (what's that?) didn't kill that story is an embarrassment.

Now I need to go take a chemical shower for agreeing with Mulkey.

 

Underdog hometown team in “good vs. evil” matchup is the sort of hacky bullshit you get out of your system the first year at the Podunk Press (and yeah, I’ve got that strike on my record.) I’m frankly astonished that flies at the LAT, even in the editing-free era.

 

I gave up my 30 year LA Times subscription 6 months ago, but the fact that they are addressing a game that is actually happening this week is a feather in the LA Times sports' cap...

 

Who is beating UConn? I’d like to see them play Purdue just to see Edey face Clingan, but I don’t think even Purdue is giving them much of a game the way they’re playing now. Holy shit.

 

There isn’t a soul left in this field capable of beating UConn.

 

JINX!