2024-25 College Basketball Thread

He'd have gotten a triple double but nobody could hit the shot to give him the last two assists. Yax played in eleven games in high school.

 

What of the Big West?
UC San Diego is in the title game at 29-4. UC Irvine (27-5) is bidding to join them. I don't really think the committee will have the stones to take both, but isn't that a discussion worth having if the Anteaters prevail over Cal Poly in the semis?

 

Should get in but the loser probably gets screwed.

 

Scheyer is an obvious exception but Duke is essentially a subsidiary of USA Basketball, so the flow of talent into the program is basically on autopilot at this point.

Part of the problem at Syracuse and UNC-CH was letting the legendary coach have sway over the choice of successor. At Chapel Hill, Roy Williams continues to pop up and defend Hubert Davis as the best choice to run the program. Davis acquiescing to hire a GM and being a genial fellow -- unlike Matt Doherty in the early 2000s -- probably bought him another season, but that won't fix his tactical shortcomings or the fact that players rarely tend to appreciably improve under his coaching.

If he were coaching at, say, Wake Forest, he'd go 11-21.

Chapel Hill will have to bite the bullet and go outside the "family" when it moves on, because no one in its orbit is qualified to take over. If it stays in its tree, it's settling for a coach like Wes Miller, who has underwhelmed at Cincinnati, and then it really will become Indiana 2.0.

 

Wes Miller would be a DISASTER. A spoiled rich kid trust fund baby with personality to match.

 

And then he turned himself about.

 

Hold on. In his third update of the past four hours -- or so it seems -- Lunardi now says Texas is out.
He also has three teams earning AQ status from the Big 12: Baylor, Houston and Kansas. That would be something. (This is 1: 55 am Saturday. By now, they may have changed it.)
Another improbability: Two AQs out of the Mountain West. Boise State and Utah State are both listed with that designation.

 

He was supposed to be at St. John's. He left when they canned Anderson

 

That’s the first of the semis. Final is Sunday.

 

I was watching some random mid-major game this week, I think it was a Big Sky semi final. The pbp was talking about how it was a one bid league. The color guy, some old coot, said that the best thing about being a one bid league was that they didn't have to mention Joe Lunardi. It was awesome.

 

Joe Cravens, who became a minor legend on Reddit this week. Wish I could have stayed up to hear him describe a natural scorer as someone who “can put the brown thing in the round thing.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/s/iJFPBAPoQ3

Also found out he had the most underrated ejection in sports history.

 

Someone got ahold of Wikipedia for a minute.