2024-25 College Basketball Thread

Retired_Scribe · Friday at 1:48 PM

This was about a former college bkb coach so I'll post this here.
Did you hear that ESPN's $100 Million Man has swallowed his foot twice in the last two days.
First, in his hissy fit with the Billion Dollar King James, Stephen A. said James didn't attend Kobe's funeral. Wrong, Hot Air Breath.
The next day, Mr. Loud Blabbermouth said that former Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson was dead. (You got a problem with dead people, Stephen A.)
Between Pat McAfee and Stephen A. Smith, Disney is investing hundreds of millions in two guys who talk before they think (not that I think they think.)

WATCH: Stephen A. Smith issues apology over wrongly declaring Arkansas great Nolan Richardson dead on TV

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dixiehack · Friday at 1:48 PM

Alabama was also 10-15 inside the arc. And if you took every one of those baskets away they still win. (A little disingenuous because going inside also produced most of the free throw attempts)

dixiehack · Friday at 1:50 PM

All this said I would not mind if the arc stayed a true arc the width of the court (and thus eliminated the sweet spot for corner 3s).

sgreenwell · Friday at 2:05 PM

re: Playing style, I think the NCAA having 350+ teams helps with the variety of play much more than the NBA. Yeah, layups-and-3s is just as effective in college, but you can still have a Purdue team with Edey make the national championship game. The gulf between "best player" and "worst player" in most games is more narrow, and you don't have to optimize just to be competitive. 3PAs are going to remain high because more guys can shoot them better, but there's still plenty of room for post play.

dixiehack · Friday at 4:15 PM

If women's college basketball had been a thing in the 60s this day session could have been the ACC tournament semifinals. As is North Carolina opened on an 11-0 run and has done jack shirt since then against Duke.

Batman · Friday at 4:18 PM

I'd venture to say that most college coaches, if given the choice, would be happy to let their opponent shoot 51 3-pointers because most teams are not going to make 25 of them every night.
Alabama is a good team and was on fire. It happens from time to time. There's just as good a chance that they come out against Duke and go 8-for-30 from 3-point range and lose by 10.

dixiehack · Friday at 4:31 PM

Again, Alabama shot 38 combined 3-pointers in the first two rounds. The volume is dictated by the other team's defense. It just so happened BYU had the worst possible approach.

"BYU with their personnel, we knew that once they started going under (ball screens), they always collapse. They kind of have to," Oats said. "They got away with it against some teams that don't space like we do. But I told these guys going in, if you move the ball, our offense is designed to beat a defense like this."

What Alabama's coach said about defeating BYU

HanSenSE · Friday at 4:35 PM

dixiehack said:
If women's college basketball had been a thing in the 60s this day session could have been the ACC tournament semifinals. As is North Carolina opened on an 11-0 run and has done jack shirt since then against Duke.

In the 60s, it would have been 6-on-6. But Duke losing is a good thing.

dixiehack · Friday at 4:38 PM

Blue Devils win 47-38. Maybe they should have gone 6-on-6.

BurnsWhenIPee · Friday at 4:51 PM

I loved me some 6-on-6 girls' basketball.

tapintoamerica · Friday at 5:00 PM

Twirling Time said:
Hogs were up 16 with 10:23 to go.

13 with 4:44 left. They briefly had the ball up 6 with 1:15 to go.

dixiehack · Friday at 5:01 PM

As a tactician, Calipari is an excellent recruiter.

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