2024-25 College Basketball Thread

They got the Kentucky Bend on the floor graphic at Rupp Arena! Geography nerds rejoice.

 

Feast week has been banger after banger, especially Maui. Bama just escaped Houston and now Duke and KU going at it.

 

Duke-Kansas in Vegas has been worth it. Hutchinson got tossed for kicking a Duke player while both were lying on the floor ... triggering Fran Fraschilla to remind people of Christian Laettner's foot on Aminu Timberlake's chest in 1992.

 

Bama’s game went to overtime. Very high defensive intensity both ways, but hard to enjoy because Pat Adams and company went full-on ref show in regulation and then let it turn into roller derby. Two Houston starters fouled out on what looked like Tide players slipping and traveling.

 

Houston and Tennessee, more than most, have to adjust to how officials call the game. Slick Rick and Kelvin Sampson will both play bully ball if they can get away with it.

Figured Nate Oats would find a way to match.

 

I have incredible respect for the way the Cougars defend. They jump passing lanes the way you and I breathe air. It took one of Bama’s best efforts on defense and on the glass to match them.

But the officials bent over both teams multiple times. The timing just worked out to be particularly brutal for Houston.

 

Know how he's guilty? He didn't show any emotion at the announcement of his ejection. No surprise. No anger. Nothing.

 

Very confusing watching a Duke game where the other team has the super unlikable white dude.

 

I think that fucker from Rock Bridge has played six years at Kansas.

 

West Virginia, predicted to be the closest thing the Big 12 has to a weak spot, is taking Gonzaga down to the wire.

 

And winning.

 

UConn finished eighth at the Maui Invitational.