2024-25 College Basketball Thread

Ends his career with 8 games played, 9 minutes played, 0-for-3 from the field. Mark Titus ended up with 9 career points.

 

I figure one of that trio will get on board with boosting the roster now that pay to play is legal. My hunch is the Wolfpack faithful will arrive first.

 

This year's winner of the Josh Pastner Human Victory Cigar Award.

 

UNC, Duke and Louisville will have NIL cash. Always. SMU's hedge fund bros can buy players if they care enough about basketball.
For the rest, it's a great unknown.
Virginia is an interesting case. They more than filled the void left by Maryland with the best stretch of consistent national relevance of anybody other than Duke and UNC in league history. But it was built on a system that was clearly incompatible with unregulated transfer frequency and player compensation. The system program is toast. Your system is how much cash you are willing and able to fork over to players. Where do they fit? We'll know by who demonstrates interest in the job.
Wake Forest, Georgia Tech and BC have been unranked in the AP poll for 15 years.
Never count on NC State for consistent contribution. They show up on the radar and disappear like a comet.
Stanford and Cal? Great schools, but do they want to dive into the muck as much as others do?
Perhaps Clemson and FSU can concentrate on these things now that their coup attempt has failed.

 

A friend of mine who is pretty tuned into important people at both VCU and UVA told me Odom to Charlottesville is a formality. He's always considered it a dream job. Odom's VCU team this year is built on outside shooting, light "havoc" in terms of full-court pressure, and athleticism. I can't see him going an hour up the road and trying to run the pack line.

 

So we can lock in Virginia at VCU in November 2026?

 

Probably. Penn State still needs to visit as well.

 

No. The pack line defense did great things for the program, but nobody wants to see that style of play. Fans could tolerate it as long as it was producing results -- how it did so, I'll never quite understand -- but the time has come to cut the cord and try to win a more conventional way.

 

I wonder if that was part of the ACC's thought process: give them a financially feasible out in a few years. This thing isn't great for anybody. Stanford's AD even got whacked, apparently.

 

The SEC-ACC "challenge"

 

The Under Armor warmup shirts for the postseason reading “Doubt Us” don’t pack the punch intended when being worn by 10-21 Coastal Carolina in a 12 vs 13 Sun Belt opener.

 

I sense a meme coming on.