2024-25 College Basketball Thread

East-West University tried to schedule a game against North-South University, but neither team wanted to play on the road, and no neutral site exists in this dimension.

 

Centerville (in a number of states) begs to differ.

 

Not to mention Middletown.

 

Bama finally back in that grab-it-and-go groove. Five treys before the first media timeout against Illinois.

 

I love watching them play.
Get it out of the net and run like mad to the other end.
When they’re hitting shots, they’re very very hard to beat.

 

Illinois ain’t built for this life. Holy shit.

 

Speaking of long seasons, Virginia Tech blowing a 10-point halftime lead and losing at home by 10 to Jacksonville is a pretty bad look.

 

Geno Auriemma gets win number 1,217, becoming the winningest college coach ever.

I know people hate on him, but I covered one UConn game several years ago, and Geno was nothing but gracious after a rare Huskies loss.

UConn's Geno Auriemma Becomes All-Time Winningest College Basketball Coach

 

I was glad to see VanDerveer hold the record when she retired, but Geno is going to put the thing out of reach. I don't think any of the top 10 active leaders are within 350 and none are under 60.

 

Geno took what Pat Summit, Jody Conradt, VanDerveer and others built from the ground up and then did it better than anybody — ever.

Say what you will about Geno, it was amazing to see how many former players came back to celebrate the occasion. He’s done something right.

SVP’s “interview” with him was slurpy and softballs, but Geno came off really well in it, I thought.

 

There’s blowing games and then whatever St John’s just did

 

Boston College had a conference game in which they scored their first basket in the last 2 minutes of the first half. I believe the football and basketball team didn't have a conference win that school year. Oh, how I enjoyed BC sucking. And I still do. I hate that school with a fiery passion.