2024-25 College Basketball Thread

[Chef2]

Alabama just went 25-51 from 3 against BYU.
Now do it against Duke.

 

[dixiehack]

It moved.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

It took two extra games but that's what I was expecting from a Kevin Willard-coached team when he had two feet out the door.

 

[Retired_Scribe]

Did anyone notice that both CBS and TNT telecasts of the first games tonight were glitchy? Not a smooth effort from the technical to the crews to the studio.
Way to step up your game, networks.

 

[BTExpress]

At least the scorebug was fine.

 

[Chef2]

It took two extra games but that's what I was expecting from a Kevin Willard-coached team when he had two feet out the door.

Is he taking Villanova?

 

[Retired_Scribe]

At least the scorebug was fine.

I forget which 2nd round game my wife and I were watching but the scorebug on the telecast went haywire on the outside and started spinning a score update until it reached 200-something, then reset.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Alabama was just three 3FG short of tying the NCAA record for any game. Troy made 28 (on a record-setting 74 attempts) vs. George Mason, coached by Paul Westhead, on 11/10/1994.

 

[dixiehack]

Did anyone notice that both CBS and TNT telecasts of the first games tonight were glitchy? Not a smooth effort from the technical to the crews to the studio.
Way to step up your game, networks.

I'm on YouTube TV so I just thought it was half of Birmingham trying to stream at the same time. Usually notice it more on football Saturdays.

 

[DanOregon]

The Round of 16 always seems to be the worst round of the entire tournament. Maybe a coach who pulls a couple upsets has already accepted a new job on the down low, maybe the players get overwhelmed by the attention, but mostly teams just get badly matched playing well above their level

 

[dixiehack]

Cooper Flagg doing his thing. 18 in a half after the buzzer 3.

 

[Retired_Scribe]

So, at this point of the tournament, the Sweet 16, the officials working the game are "supposed" to be as good as the teams that won two games to get there.
But Bama-BYU, Fla-Md, and Duke-Arizona all had spectacular blunders by these venerated zebras. Sheesh.