Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

I have read a couple of stories about this, and none of them has said exactly how many healthy scholarship players they have. I'm wondering if it's that virus that never existed but from which Trump saved us by coming up with the vaccine. Another possibility: The coach is a jerk and the players are refusing to play for him but can't say so.

 

According to the Fort Worth newspaper, TCU had a few players get injured during a practice this week and that brought them down to six scholarship players. I doubt it's grades since classes at TCU started this week. I also doubt it's a mutiny because TCU just hired a new coach.

 

They had nine healthy players that played in Saturday's game.

They announced one of the girls got hurt since then in practice and needs season-ending surgery.

So I guess at most they have eight healthy, pending these other practice injuries.

I also don't want to hear abou healthy "scholarship players" because you got 15 at your disposal. Nine of them aren't injured. They may be "injured" or redshirting but that's a you problem not an availbility problem. Play the walkons if needed.

 

Detroit (none of that Detroit Mercy nonsense) lost in 2OT @ Robert Morris tonight.

 

And VMI lost by 40 at home to Furman. Jeez.

 

He needs to learn. The ACC's "reprimand" is a joke. Supposedly, Kevin Keatts and Co. got on him about it immediately after the game.

The game was ... interesting. Keatts got tossed in the first half. Watched the postgame presser online. Keatts was fully expecting to get T'd up because he was on the floor – the official, IMO and in the opinion of at least some others who don't wear red, whiffed on the call – but he also seems to be bucking for the Dick Paparo/Karl Hess ACC showboat official slot and quickly tossed Keatts, skipping the "enough" speech during the proceedings.

Six technical fouls. Two player ejections in addition to Keatts. And DJ Horne doing his, um, thing.

Between him and Dave Doeren – telling Steve Smith to kiss him where it stinks and calling Mack Brown's players "pieces of sh_t" in their postgame celebration in the locker room – are not exactly covering the alma mater in glory. While I understand that not everyone is going to perfect, it needs to be just a little better than this.

 

Question for anyone here who knows CBB rules:

Last night late in the UCLA-ASU game, an ASU player was handed the ball to inbound on the sideline at about midcourt, near the UCLA bench. UCLA coach Mick Cronin was standing about five feet onto the court, about five feet from him. If the ASU player simply did a two-handed chest pass directly at Cronin and hit him, what's the call for a coach making contact with a live ball while he's on the court?

Technical foul, shots and possession? Might have been a smart move by the ASU player. Coaches are on the court way to much, someone should truck one of them.

 

It has gotten out of hand in college. I am pretty sure it is a T, but they never do anything about it. I don't really ever see warnings.

 

As I've ranted on numerous occasions, it's up to opposing coaches and players to force the issue: when clowns like Mulkey and Izzo wander out 15 feet on the court during game action, just bulldoze 'em. Line 'em up and dumptruck 'em.

Let that happen just once in a nationally televised game, next morning it would be made an officiating point of emphasis: coaches stay off the court, as specified in the rules.

 

Pitino is the worst at peacocking himself on the court of play. He likes to show off his expensive suits, I think.

We used to yell at him all the time: "Get off the fucking court, Pitino!" He heard it, too. Still kept strutting, though.