2024-25 College Basketball Thread

Excellent point. I think you'll see some serious parallel bars stuff here.
That's going to be the hardest part of the process for the committee, which really doesn't have many hard calls in selecting the at-large entrants with 37 of them available. As someone else has pointed out, the committee chair often says these days that the field was chosen on Saturday afternoon or evening and the final 24 hours are easy.

 

J Ville State and MTSU tied at 68 with a minute left. Both teams were fouled. Both teams missed both free throws.

 

Holy crap, time running down and down 2, and MTSU just dribbles and doesn't get a shot off. Can't remember seeing that before.

 

The second-round rule has been off the books a while now. I think that started in the super-sized Big East era.

 

If they let North Carolina pass after this shellacking then rename it the WWE and shut the whole tournament down. Nobody would have listed this team as First Anything Out if it was named Boston College.

 

Way to take advantage of the POY being out, UNC.

 

Jon Kontract demands equal billing!

 

Chapel Hill will bring back Hubert Davis for next season, but it's now a question of when -- not if -- he gets fired.

This game was a culmination of all that has gradually gone askew with the program -- which was masked by a fluke deep run in 2022 which is all that prevents the program from having 3 of four years being a bubble team or out of the tourney entirely. A roster that most coaches would kill to have which plays without sustained effort -- and without much individual improvement over the course of the year. A team prone to slow starts all year long, reflecting an absence of preparation. An offense that too frequently consists of four players watching the fifth dribble.

And the ACC is in such a precarious spot in so many reasons that a teetering UNC-CH program actually harms the entire conference. The conference needs its hoops tentpoles -- and all due respect to NCSU and UVa, but these are UNC-CH, Duke, Louisville and Syracuse -- to be sturdy. U of L has shown how quickly the right coach can marshal a turnaround. But 'Cuse and UNC-CH are suffering from slow bleeds. And no one has picked up the slack for the fades of Miami, FSU, UVa and Notre Dame, among others.

 

Arkansas was the 9 seed in the SEC and only lost by 3 to No. 8 Ole Miss, but they scream bubble to me. I have a hard time thinking they or several double-digit SEC seeds will make the field. No. 13 upset advancer Texas might earn their way to a ball ticket. So if I were playing spades, I'd bid nine for the SEC.

 

All well and good but who do you take instead? I do agree Oklahoma isn’t getting the call.

Also, Carolina creeping back into it late.

 

And they blew the game-tying free throw on a lane violation.

That's apt for a team that seemed to fail consistently at all the little things.

 

Not just that, a lane violation going backwards.