2012-13 College Basketball Running Cordial Discussion

Crean needs to get Oladipo 20-25 shots a game. He's the guy. Let him be the guy to put the pressure on the defense and have everyone else be ready for the pass when Oladipo gets double-teamed. He's wasted otherwise.

And Craft was beautiful last night.

 

Stealing that.

 

We could very well end this regular season with the champions of the Big 12, Big East, Big Ten and Pac-12 having losses to TCU, South Florida, Penn State and Cal Poly.


EDITED TO ADD: I forgot about the ACC and Florida Gulf Coast.

 

I just found out Peyton Siva is from Seattle; In a related story, the Pac-12 has become just a terrible basketball conference. Players like him used to stay on the west coast. In 2007-08, you could make a stating lineup of Pac-10 lottery picks (Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook, OJ Mayo, Brook Lopez and Jerryd Bayless). Three teams -- Washington State, UCLA and Stanford -- spent time in the Top 10 and made the Sweet 16. Since then...

- The league has produced all of five lottery picks.
- Other than Arizona (2009, 2011) and Washington (2010), nobody has made the Sweet 16.
- Nobody has even been seeded higher than fourth in the NCAA's.
- In both 2009-10 and last season, only two Pac-12 teams made Big Dance. This from a conference that used to send between 4 and 6 teams.

What the heck happened out west?

 

It's all cyclical, but your'e right in that the Pac-10 (12) sucks.

 

Didn't they have a coach once who would not have celebrated a shared title?

Is anyone else underwhelmed by Zeller? Sure, he is a good player, but POY?

 

With Zeller, you just don't have the feeling that a guy that big is on the court.

Craft is always beautiful. Small-town Ohio throwback with all the positive, on-court attributes you expect from that kind of kid.

 

Craft was very impressive last night. He had about 2-3 fgs with the clock winding down that was probably the difference.

 

Zeller's not angry yet. Crean should bring in someone like Moses Malone this summer to toughen up the kid.

 

Zeller and the Angry 84 inches

 

Zeller will be playing in Vegas for an NBA team this summer.

 

Sure, but where does he fall in the draft? Top 10? Top 20? Second round?