2024-25 College Basketball Thread

[micropolitan guy]

Texas is a total fraud. It's best OOC wins are over Syracuse and NCSU, the dregs of a bad ACC. It went 6-12 in league play. It's a joke that it's even on the bubble.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

There's going to be so many delicious power four teams getting their decks blown off in the first round.

 

[da man]

What a terrible call on that Okpara foul.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Summarizing curiosities in the Lunardi bracket, which is still up there more than two hours after being posted:
* Colorado State appears twice. As I understand it, being in two places at once is difficult.
* The Missouri Valley Conference is not represented. Apparently Drake has work to do.
* Three teams are mentioned as AQs from the Mountain West: Colorado State, Colorado State and Utah State. The Aggies were bounced decisively by Colorado State last night. Maybe the 11-point margin explains why the Rams get two bids. Their A team will go to Denver and the B team to Wichita.
* The Big 12 will produce three AQs: Houston, Kansas and Baylor.
* The Big Ten does not have an AQ.

 

[da man]

I was watching some random mid-major game this week, I think it was a Big Sky semi final. The pbp was talking about how it was a one bid league. The color guy, some old coot, said that the best thing about being a one bid league was that they didn't have to mention Joe Lunardi. It was awesome.

Except he just mentioned him.

 

[da man]

Vols might just have put themselves in position to earn a No. 1 seed tomorrow.

 

[TigerVols]

Vols might just have put themselves in position to earn a No. 1 seed tomorrow.

They have completely forgotten that it's March.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Vols might just have put themselves in position to earn a No. 1 seed tomorrow.

Bet the no. 16 then!

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Summarizing curiosities in the Lunardi bracket, which is still up there more than two hours after being posted:
* Colorado State appears twice. As I understand it, being in two places at once is difficult.
* The Missouri Valley Conference is not represented. Apparently Drake has work to do.
* Three teams are mentioned as AQs from the Mountain West: Colorado State, Colorado State and Utah State. The Aggies were bounced decisively by Colorado State last night. Maybe the 11-point margin explains why the Rams get two bids. Their A team will go to Denver and the B team to Wichita.
* The Big 12 will produce three AQs: Houston, Kansas and Baylor.
* The Big Ten does not have an AQ.

I've heard from reliable people that Lunardi is a really good guy who started doing this for fun and stumbled into an American dream goldmine. So I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that this is just a matter of ESPN being ESPN and squeezing the content machine dry. Do we really forking need projected fields multiple times per day? That said, this disastrous bracket and the Big Sky comment are funny as ship.

 

[BTExpress]

Bet the no. 16 then!

That hurts.

 

[tapintoamerica]

I've heard from reliable people that Lunardi is a really good guy who started doing this for fun and stumbled into an American dream goldmine. So I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that this is just a matter of ESPN being ESPN and squeezing the content machine dry. Do we really forking need projected fields multiple times per day? That said, this disastrous bracket and the Big Sky comment are funny as ship.

Update: Drake restored to the fold, replacing the second Colorado State reference, which had presumably replaced Drake.
Kansas still listed as an AQ.

 

[dixiehack]

If Florida decides it wants to win a national championship and not go into its once a month mode where it plays with its food, the Gators will win and there isn't a darn thing Cooper Flagg, Johni Broome or anyone else is doing about it.