2024-25 College Basketball Thread

[Retired_Scribe]

Ms. SixToe enjoys watching sportsball games but doesn't have any idea about strateegery.

Watching Duke, though, she remarked about how well they seemed to shift, get open and play defense.

If it's obvious enough and strong enough to get through to a non-engaged fan, that's IMO pretty good. They're fun to watch.

Maluach, the 7-foot-2 freshman, is sometimes overlooked. His wingspan and his foot work are impressive. He can guard perimeter guys 20 feet from the basket (and not foul) and then recover to protect the rim.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Scheyer's first three seasons:
First: Lost in NCAA second round.
Second: Lost in NCAA regional final.
Third: Final Four.

Flip that upside-down to track Hubert Davis's career track.

 

[I Should Coco]

Maluach, the 7-foot-2 freshman, is sometimes overlooked. His wingspan and his foot work are impressive. He can guard perimeter guys 20 feet from the basket (and not foul) and then recover to protect the rim.

At least half his baskets are dunks, created when another Duke player beats their man off the dribble and the guy guarding Maluach has to help.

 

[swingline]

Tennessee looks like the Not Ready For Prime Time players.

 

[Retired_Scribe]

Kenny Smith at halftime of Tenn-Houston blowing bullshirt smoke about Vols guards - like Ziegler - attacking their man one-on-one. Meanwhile, video plays Ziegler beating his defender and getting shot blocked at the rim. What a load o' crap.

 

[Retired_Scribe]

Tennessee can't possibly come back and win this... can they?

 

[DanOregon]

I realize the sites are locked in years in advance. But I imagine the police escorts in Spokane are more plentiful after last year's incident in Coer d'Alene. No way they were able to stash all eight teams in Spokane (which has a white supremacist issue of its own).

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/07/1249735486/man-admits-racial-harassment-of-utah-womens-ncaa-basketball-team

 

[Scout]

Maluach, the 7-foot-2 freshman, is sometimes overlooked. His wingspan and his foot work are impressive. He can guard perimeter guys 20 feet from the basket (and not foul) and then recover to protect the rim.

He gets the players, but then he puts them to good use. All the length, recovery and team play is astounding.

That team last night beats almost every college team I've ever watched play. That's how good they were last night.

Now, can they have a bad game in a week? Sure.

But last night? Holy shirt.

 

[Batman]

Tennessee can't possibly come back and win this... can they?

Nope.
The door was cracked open for them for a few minutes, but they just couldn't hit the shots they needed to in order to make that last big push.

 

[poindexter]

Kenny Smith at halftime of Tenn-Houston blowing bullshirt smoke about Vols guards - like Ziegler - attacking their man one-on-one. Meanwhile, video plays Ziegler beating his defender and getting shot blocked at the rim. What a load o' crap.

That was pretty funny.

 

[poindexter]

I've seen hostages held in dungeons with a gun pointed directly at their heads speak better than these refs into a microphone.

 

[HanSenSE]

I realize the sites are locked in years in advance. But I imagine the police escorts in Spokane are more plentiful after last year's incident in Coer d'Alene. No way they were able to stash all eight teams in Spokane (which has a white supremacist issue of its own).

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/07/1249735486/man-admits-racial-harassment-of-utah-womens-ncaa-basketball-team

The question I have is: That happened, yet the NCAA goes back. MLB moved faster taking the All-Star Game from Atlanta a few years back.