2024-25 College Basketball Thread

[dixiehack]

Perhaps more confounding than the Zags' high standing in KenPom overall: why Auburn is only 17th in non-conference SoS. I know that when you take every non-con opponent into consideration, you can grasp the numerical reasoning for why they're 17th. But they've played four of the non-SEC teams in the overall top 10. Hard to do more than that.

More than anything it likely points to how little difference there truly is in maybe the top 30 or so in schedule strength and it being better to consider it within broad ranges instead of microscopic detail.

If you asked me what the difference is between them and Bama (nine places higher in noncon SOS) I would ashume it is the quality of opponent in guarantee games. Nate Oats brings in teams like South Dakota State and McNeese and Arkansas State that have a bit more meat on the bone compared to their peer schools. Auburn has a few games that leaned a little more in the cupcake direction such as Monmouth and Georgia State. Even Vermont and Richmond are down a good bit from recent history.

Again, a distinction so small as to be virtually meaningless. The Tigers faced a plenty rugged schedule before the calendar flipped.

 

[Cosmo]

If you're VCU, you absolutely cannot take a Q4 non-conference loss, which is what they did before Thanksgiving when they inexplicably blew a neutral-site game against a very bad Seton Hall team, one that got romped by DePaul last night and is now 6-16. I think VCU has an outside chance of an at-large if it sweeps its last nine games and wins the A-10 regular season, but there are still three Q4 landmines to navigate there (La Salle and UMash at home, UR away). They have to win at Dayton on Friday to have any hopes because they're void of a Q1 win at this point. Though Dayton barely qualifies, sitting at 73, and they may drop out of the top 75 with a loss, making that a Q2 win for the Rams if they got it.

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

As the years go by, I really think the Quad system kind of sucks.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Leonard Hamilton to step down after this season after 23 years at Florida State. Remarkably, he began the job at 54 years old but exits at 31 years old.

https://www.tallahashee.com/story/s...coach-resigning-at-end-of-season/75472702007/

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Leonard Hamilton to step down after this season after 23 years at Florida State. Remarkably, he began the job at 54 years old but exits at 31 years old.

https://www.tallahashee.com/story/s...coach-resigning-at-end-of-season/75472702007/

Hamilton to retire after a fourth straight ACC loss when it became clear that FSU was not going to give him another extension.

 

[dixiehack]

Florida State will gave basketball coaches a long leash if they show any signs of a pulse. Hamilton did take the Seminoles to March Madness until his seventh season. In his first season they only finished as high as 5th in the ACC once. And now he's missed the last three tournaments.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I'm sure the whole lawsuit thing didn't help either. Well, the good news is the state university can finally hire a creepy white guy to go along with the serial sexual harasher over in Gainesville.

 

[tapintoamerica]

I'm sure the whole lawsuit thing didn't help either. Well, the good news is the state university can finally hire a creepy white guy to go along with the serial sexual harasher over in Gainesville.

They really don't care if they suck for the next several years. They'd rather lose and complain about how woke and unfair the ACC is.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

They really don't care if they suck for the next several years. They'd rather lose and complain about how woke and unfair the ACC is.

Gonna be great when they get left behind as the big three poach the best of the ACC and they're forced to figure out a scheduling alliance with the CAA.

 

[dixiehack]

I mean, everyone told him "Don't quit your day job."

 

[SixToe]

He's just stealing money from them, right? Geez.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Hamilton to retire after a fourth straight ACC loss when it became clear that FSU was not going to give him another extension.

Man, I WISH there was a rule that you could automatically fire a coach after a fourth straight ACC loss.