2024-25 College Basketball Thread

We're going to have to deal with the fact that Liberty has the best men's basketball team in Virginia this year, which is annoying. Tech and UVA both stink. VCU is probably better than both. Liberty 7-1 after winning the Paradise Jam, beating Kansas State and McNeese.

 

After all the wholesale membership changes, C-USA somehow managed to keep its status as an extra-feisty one-bid league. Liberty and Louisiana Tech are both top 100 teams in KenPom and two more members are in the top 125. Only UTEP and Florida International fall below 200.

 

My level of college basketball awareness is a shadow of what it once was, for a multitude of reasons. Is it just generally understood that Dan Hurley is a stark raving lunatic and complete asshole and that he gets away with it because he wins? What he did yesterday was embarrassing.

 

He wins, and he graduates players, who seem to like him. He's going to coach you hard and push you to be your best possible version. He was this way at URI too, and pushed for things like a bigger media section (IIRC) so that he could invite more scouts for European and smaller leagues in to see his guys.

 

That all makes sense - thanks. I have a general awareness of him and his track record and wasn't under the impression that he was the kind of guy he appeared to be yesterday, and am willing to believe that a single episode might not be a completely accurate reflection of him.