2024-25 College Basketball Thread

I guess the benefit of school in Westwood is not having to settle for fat little girlfriends.

One thing to rip your guys in public when you have tried everything else behind the scenes. You can play that card about once every other season. But to puff yourself up as a coaching god in the same press conference? He’ll be lucky if they don’t lay down like mules.

But hey, three more doubleheaders back East leaves plenty of time for bonding. Enjoy that Maryland-Rutgers double coming this weekend!

 

If you're looking for a COVID throwback, VCU-Fordham will be played tonight without fans because Richmond has been without running water since Monday afternoon. (Mine miraculously returned this morning so I could at least shower, but most in the city still don't have it.) I thought they might postpone it until tomorrow since Fordham is staying on the road for a Saturday game at Davidson, but this tells me they think the problem won't be resolved by then. We're still on a boil water alert until Friday, at least. It's been a week here, man.

 

Unfair advantage for Fordham, used to playing in empty gyms.

 

Mizzou won its first SEC game in 669 days last night.

 

I’m surprised the water isn’t national news, but wildfires and a crazy guy about to be president kinda makes page one hard to crack.

 

GMU-UR women's game under the same protocol.

 

That’s should be a fun postgame and bus ride when nobody gets to shower.

 

Fouled out in overtime, so he’s not feeling too good himself.

 

It made the Washington Post because general assembly is starting next week. It's also a minor inconvenience (though you wouldn't believe it reading the Richmond subreddit, which has gone off the deep end this week) compared to what's happening in California. Being without running water for a few days sucks, but nobody's losing their houses/possessions over it. Really tough spot for Richmond's restaurants, though, most of which have had to close during a week that traditionally isn't easy to begin with.

 

A major city in the USA without clean drinking water for a week and no water at all for a handful of days, to me is national news because of the ease or small thing that happened to cause it. Slower news day, maybe.

Now, if this has happened elsewhere in a handful locations, then, obviously, it’s less news worthy.

 

OK I’ll admit I chuckled a little.