2024-25 College Basketball Thread

Today's fun in NET rankings:

No. 6 Alabama beats No. 2 Auburn and neither one moves.

And I'm sure this changes assuming Michigan State beats Michigan today but Sparty got jumped by Maryland despite having a three game better conference record, a two-game better overall record and is 11-4 in Quad 1 games to the Terps 7-6 mark

 

One difference is basketball doesn’t have a night off from games to wedge in the show regularly.

 

The NET is somewhere just north of ESPN “analytics” as a useful metric, but the NCAA can’t be bothered to use a blend of better ones (KenPom, Torvik, Evan Maya spring to mind). Still the committee doesn’t go straight down the NET list to pick teams.

1 vs 6 is probably a fair assessment of where Aubie and Bama sit right now. I could be talked into Duke as overall No. 1 if the Tigers face plant again in Nashville. And I truly believe Alabama is a little bit better than Tennessee, last weekend notwithstanding. Wins over Auburn and Houston away from home should count for a ton.

 

So Missouri State should be calling the airports then.

 

I must be getting old. That was stupid.

 

I was about to try to 'gotcha!' with wrestling, but damn, Arizona State won the team title in 1988!

 

If the conference hadn't broken up, they might have been able to add one in hockey. ASU is building a powerhouse program.

I remember one year the Pac-10 won 14 NCAA titles.

 

If Alabama can make shots, I don’t see anything but a clear path to the Final Four.
An Alabama/Michigan State Elite 8 game could be fun. 40 minutes of who is going to outrun the other.
CBS will have a blast of Fears v Sears.

 

In East Lansing, they're staging a game Brian Ellerbe would be proud of.

 

You mean Southwest Missouri State University?

 

14 consecutive wins now for High Point, including coming back from 15 down to win the conference championship today. Twelve of those wins by double digits.

They knew.

 

Whereupon Sparty, which was headed for a 100+ point nuclear blowout at halftime, hit the skids in the second half and won't even make 80.