2024-25 College Basketball Thread

[TheSportsPredictor]

Biggest upset of the men's tournament is gonna be from the two-time defending champ.

 

[ChrisLong]

What sounds better for SEC publicists?
The eight SEC teams in the tournament all won their first-round games!!!
or ...
SEC teams went 8-6 in the first round.
I think the former.

But, I can't believe we're still talking about who should or shouldn't be in by the last half of the second round.

 

[I Should Coco]

It's only the first weekend of the tournament — way too early to decide which conference(s) have exceeded expectations.

If the SEC ends up with half of the Elite 8 and/or the Final Four, that's a successful tournament IMHO. (Florida probably needs to pick it up for either of those to happen).

The B1G won its first 10 games this weekend, but let's see if any of its teams make it to the Final Four.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Helluva UConn-Florida game.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Florida survives but between all the fouling, reviews and subs the final 30 seconds took about 10 minutes. A dribbling player launches himself into a retreating defender and being awarded free throws. Almost impossible to watch.

And Florida winning saves my bracket but it's hard to cheer for a scumbag like Golden.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Not for anyone who had the under.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Not for anyone who had the under.

Winners win, champions cover!!!!

 

[Batman]

And the Jackrabbits' next opponent? UConn. On the Huskies' home floor. Are we ever going to see neutral courts in the first two rounds in the women's tournament in the post-Caitlin Clark era?

Didn't they try that at some point? Maybe in the mid-2000s? It flopped hard, IIRC.

 

[Batman]

Florida survives but between all the fouling, reviews and subs the final 30 seconds took about 10 minutes. A dribbling player launches himself into a retreating defender and being awarded free throws. Almost impossible to watch.

And Florida winning saves my bracket but it's hard to cheer for a scumbag like Golden.

You also had the UConn guy bear-hugging the Florida player and flopping to the ground in an attempt to draw a foul. UConn did get called for the foul, but couldn't that have been an intentional foul?

 

[dixiehack]

Didn't they try that at some point? Maybe in the mid-2000s? It flopped hard, IIRC.

2003-14. It did indeed lead to sparse attendance.

The women's tournament gets 16 teams at neutral sites, or twice as many as baseball and softball. Home floors to start the tournament are not the end of the world. If interest grows big enough some day they can revisit.

 

[Matt1735]

Biggest upset of the men's tournament is gonna be from the two-time defending champ.

Or NOT!

 

[micropolitan guy]

You also had the UConn guy bear-hugging the Florida player and flopping to the ground in an attempt to draw a foul. UConn did get called for the foul, but couldn't that have been an intentional foul?

Yes, and no time ticked off the clock. Should be an automatic five-second runoff for a deliberate off-the-ball foul in the final minute.