2021-22 College Basketball Thread

[tapintoamerica]

Looking forward to that one tonight. I thought Mike put together a really good non-conference schedule. Every P5 is going to have some tomato cans on the schedule, but going on the road and playing someone like Navy will be very beneficial down the road. Memphis in the Preseason NIT and either Xavier or Iowa State after. Maryland away in the ACC-B1G Challenge. Dayton away and St. Bonaventure on a neutral floor. That's a schedule for a team that believes it will be in the NCAA Tournament and is sick of getting slotted in the 8-9-10 seed range. Perform well against that schedule and show out in the ACC, and you're looking at a 4 or 5.

I love the phrase "tomato can." I know it was first used in boxing, but I have no idea why. And I don't care. I think it's great.

 

[Neutral Corner]

The context was that the promoter arranged things so that his contender had won a dozen fights in a row, but they were matches against fighters with poor or diminished skills who were as easy to knock over as tomato cans.

 

[Scout]

Sisters of the Poor
Daughters of the Weak

State plays at Tech on Saturday and follows that up with the Sisters of the Poor on Tuesday and the Daughters of the Weak on Thursday. Both games next week will be at home.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Brown is shooting 60% from the floor and leading UNC 57-52 early in the 2nd half.

 

[Hermes]

Every time I flip through Pitt and WVU, there's a turnover and three guys clawing at each other on the floor.

 

[Songbird]

Brown is shooting 60% from the floor and leading UNC 57-52 early in the 2nd half.

Curiosity about Brown ...

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.[7]

At its foundation, Brown was the first college in North America to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation.[8] The university is home to the oldest applied mathematics program in the United States, the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League, and the third-oldest medical program in New England.[a][9][10][11] The university was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters and doctoral studies in 1887.[8] In 1969, Brown adopted its Open Curriculum after a period of student lobbying. The new curriculum eliminated mandatory "general education" distribution requirements, made students "the architects of their own syllabus" and allowed them to take any course for a grade of satisfactory (Pass) or no-credit (Fail) which is unrecorded on external transcripts.[12][13] In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university.

Admission is among the most selective in the United States; in 2021, the university reported an acceptance rate of 5.4%.[14]​

 

[TigerVols]

UCLA 6
Villanova 4

12:40 left in first half.

And people complain about women's hoops.

 

[Hermes]

UCLA 6
Villanova 4

12:40 left in first half.

And people complain about women's hoops.

You're never going to believe what happened next!

The odds of a team getting to 86 points after that start…

 

[DanOregon]

Seriously Lunardi, it's November...

NCAA Bracketology -- Projecting the 2022 March Madness men's field

 

[Sam Mills 51]

UCLA 6
Villanova 4

12:40 left in first half.

And people complain about women's hoops.

Those griping about women's basketball are idiots and/or have zero concept about the way to play the game.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Seriously Lunardi, it's November...

NCAA Bracketology -- Projecting the 2022 March Madness men's field

The WWL takes itself too seriously? Why, I never ….

 

[BTExpress]

Those griping about women's basketball are idiots and/or have zero concept about the way to play the game.

Then again . . .

You have to pay attention to the Lady Vols' defense on the driving Vanderbilt player at the end of the clip to really appreciate the sequence.

The "0-0" score complements the package (although it is early in the game).

https://ifunny.co/video/F1vYqDAS6