2024-25 College Basketball Thread

[MileHigh]

Yeah, sure looks that way.

 

[Batman]

Juju just blew out her knee

Yep. Been a while since we've seen one that obvious.

 

[Batman]

Is it too soon to wonder if that's a "The Russian is cut!" moment for Mississippi State?

EDIT: It's 28-8 at the end of the first quarter, so it's more of a "Drago tossing the ref aside to keep pummeling the shirt out of Apollo" moment.

 

[Batman]

Another USC player just got fouled hard and bounced her head off the floor. Trojans are going to pay for this win in blood, it looks like.

 

[MileHigh]

And the foul, rightly, was not upgraded.

 

[Della9250]

Thanks for the update usc. We knew she wasn't returning

 

[MileHigh]

Yeah. Just say she's out the rest of the tournament. Gottlieb with coach-speak gobbledygook.

 

[Retired_Scribe]

Juju just blew out her knee

Yeah. I watched the replay on Elon's Shirt Site. She planted her right foot like she was going up but her knee buckled and was bent inward. Looked gruesome. Might be more than one ligament torn.

 

[Batman]

Cue up the "Stop! He's already dead!" meme for Mississippi State.
Sheesh. Mississippi State is a perfectly competent SEC team and it is getting absolutely jackhammered. Just shows the huge gulf that still exists between the mid-carders and the main eventers in women's basketball.

 

[Cosmo]

Just saw the Watkins injury. Egads.

 

[Bubbler]

Now that there's over the table money involved, limiting transfers like that would be instant lawsuit, and the NCAA would take yet another L before the Supremes. The only way such limits can be legally enforced is if college athletes get a union and there's a CBA.

As I've said already, if schools are writing commitments into their post-House settlement agreements with college athletes that have some level of binding behavior, they're morons.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Is Hurley the absolute worst human being in all of sports today?

I realize he wasn't the one who threw down the "ruin your life" threat, but I can't imagine he disapproved of it.

This and the contempt Hurley is getting on this thread is starting to border on the insane (like Hurley!).

As long as Rick Pitino is in the Big East, Hurley is not even in the ballpark of the worst human being in his own league, never mind all of sports. heck he might not even medal in his own league. Greg McDermott got suspended for declaring his players had to stay on the plantation. Sean Miller was investigated by the FBI, sat by as his Black ass't coach took the fall and then got a life preserver from Xavier, whom he immediately threw overboard the second a real national title contender came calling.

He's not even close to the worst human being in his own sport. Chris forking Beard, a job jumper who makes Pitino look loyal, is getting gushing longform written about him after beating the ever-loving shirt out of his fiancee a few years ago.

Two years after losing the Texas job, Chris Beard finds his place at Ole Miss

The university and the city of Oxford have welcomed the coach as he rebuilds the men's basketball team.

www.espn.com

Bruce Pearl and John Calipari are so dirty they've left the NCAA no choice but to punish them and their programs. For crying out loud, New Mexico State shut its season down a few years ago b/c of hazing within the program, and their coach, Greg Heiar has gotten two JUCO gigs since then.

heck, you could argue Hurley is the most sane and above-board great coach UConn's ever had! Jim Calhoun did much worse and got busted by the NCAA mulitple times and his thanks to Patrick Sellers for taking the fall was going to the governor and asking him to make sure Donyell Marshall got the Central CT gig over Sellers a few years back (Marshall flamed out and Sellers eventually got it).

Hurley is truly batshirt insane and I don't doubt his career will end with a rageful on-court incident someday. But he hasn't been busted for beating his wife and he hasn't gotten into NCAA trouble and he climbed to the pinnacle of his profession from high school and low D-I ball. And at least he's got some self-awareness about himself and understands how foolish he looks--even if he's bullshirtting about it. Most other lunatic coaches aren't offering that.