2024-25 College Basketball Thread

[I Should Coco]

I like a potential Pac-12 reunion matchup in Seattle of Oregon vs. Arizona.

 

[HanSenSE]

Must be one of those unwritten rules that Duke starts on Tobacco Road.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Yaxel Lendeborg with 23/13/4/2/2 (and no turnovers) today against North Texas. That's his fifth straight AAC tournament double double, and his 22nd double double on the season, a UAB record.

Memphis tomorrow for the 'ship. Not holding my breath, Memphis is way more talented and deep.

I got pretty much what I expected. UAB up 3 at the half, a seesaw 2 to 4 point lead most of the 2nd half till about 6 minutes, then Memphis pulled away. UAB looked gashed.

Haggerty is a very legitimate conference PoY and we've had no answer for Dainja all season. He gets the ball, then patiently works to his spot and scores. We have no one who can stop him consistently. I thought that when Penny Hardaway sacked his entire coaching staff in the preseason that Memphis would crater. Instead he has done a masterful coaching job. I think Mike Davis was a big help as a bench coach as well. Hats off to Memphis, much as I hate them.

Talented team, as good as Kennedy has had at UAB, and they Pished the season away early in the non-con, leaving them to win the conference tourney or stay home.

Home it is.

 

[Hermes]

Robert Morris getting to play in Cleveland as a 15 is kinda funny.

 

[Della9250]

I really thought with that two seed in Lexington they would send St. John's there and set up a potential 2-3 with kentucky

 

[HanSenSE]

UCLA-Utah State. Old Pac-12, meet future Pac-?

 

[Batman]

Two potential SEC vs. SEC match ups so far, with Vandy vs. Alabama and Texas vs. Kentucky.

 

[Della9250]

The big 10 tournament meant absolutely nothing

 

[Hermes]

UNC's athletic director heading the committee that selected UNC over IU sitting in Carmel, Indiana, is incredible.

"Uh, I am not going to talk about that. Here is a black man as a meat shield to take the heat for it."

The NCAA is AMAZING. And then Jay Wright says, "Great answer!"

This could be an SNL skit.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

UNC's athletic director heading the committee that selected UNC over IU sitting in Carmel, Indiana, is incredible.

"Uh, I am not going to talk about that. Here is a black man as a meat shield to take the heat for it."

The NCAA is AMAZING. And then Jay Wright says, "Great answer!"

This could be an SNL skit.

Please don't get me started on Bubba. I like my Chapel Hill brethren too much on this board to finish that ... though I so badly want to.

Duke at the ESA? That place has been a house of horrors for the Blue Devils.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Must be one of those unwritten rules that Duke starts on Tobacco Road.

CBS demands it.

Texas/UNC in the field is a joke. Boise had more wins (24-21), a higher net (44-52), eliminated SDSU from the MWC tourney and made the finals but SDSU gets in instead?

Louisville as an 8 getting to play at Lexington, Oregon as a 5 getting Seattle. Way too favorable.

VCU is much better than an 11 seed.

Tough road ahead for the WCC. GU in the dreaded 8-9 game with the winner getting Houston, St. Mary's gets Alabama in the second round.

Akron winning the MAC disqualified itself from playing in Cleveland, where it would have been a natural, because it played three times in that arena (I think).

UCSD is the 12 over 5 pick this year. Don't sleep on High Point, either, especially against perennial choker Purdue.

And (you knew it was coming), no way should 13 of the 37 at-large teams be from the same league. I could be wrong but I believe the tournament will prove otherwise.

With all my favorite teams toast, I am all-in on Wofford.

The best tournament was in 2021, when all the games were in Indianapolis, and virtually everyone played at a true neutral site.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I'm curious to see if some small-ish schools with affluent alumni bases decide they could make some noise in basketball. W&M doesn't strike me as a likely candidate, but other schools with similar profiles might be.

I know one small, private school in the 804 with a $3.5-billion endowment that easily could do it if it wanted to. But it's content to keep a mediocre coach because he graduates players, doesn't make waves and projects a fine positive image.