2024-25 College Basketball Thread

[I Should Coco]

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.

If I recall, part of the problem last year was Spokane also had a huge AAU volleyball tournament in town the same weekend, forcing some teams to stay in North Idaho. Maybe that wasn't the case this year.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

Zeigler exposed like Mateen Cleaves if he didn't have Mo Pete

 

[tapintoamerica]

I'm pleased that no conference will have a majority of the Final Four. If anybody gets three like the Big East did in 1985, it'll feel more like a conference tournament than the national showcase it's supposed to be.

 

[HanSenSE]

Good: UCLA women Final Four bound.
Better; Kim isn't.

 

[I Should Coco]

Both the men's and women's Final Fours might be pure chalk … although with Watkins' injury, UConn could crash the party on the women's side. But they're not exactly an underdog.

 

[DanOregon]

I miss sports writing like this. Insightful, a touch of flair and context that really sparkles throughout.

Houston smothers Vols, punches Final Four ticket

Houston showed Tennessee and the SEC that the Big 12 can still play the role of bully in the Cougars' dominating 69-50 win over the Vols on Sunday.

www.espn.com

 

[tapintoamerica]

I miss sports writing like this. Insightful, a touch of flair and context that really sparkles throughout.

Houston smothers Vols, punches Final Four ticket

Houston showed Tennessee and the SEC that the Big 12 can still play the role of bully in the Cougars' dominating 69-50 win over the Vols on Sunday.

www.espn.com

Very solid. Except for the part where he says the SEC put "four schools in every regional final," which is impossible.

 

[HanSenSE]

Very solid. Except for the part where he says the SEC put "four schools in every regional final," which is impossible.

I know what he's trying to say, but the copy desk failed him ... if the WWL has one.

 

[tapintoamerica]

I know what he's trying to say, but the copy desk failed him ... if the WWL has one.

Absolutely.

 

[MileHigh]

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

They're at least mixing it up the next three years.

2026: Sacramento and Fort Worth
2027: Las Vegas and Philadelphia
2028: Portland and Washington

 

[micropolitan guy]

Will this be the first Final Four featuring two coaches who earned Show-Cause Orders for serial cheating?

 

[MileHigh]

Good line by Ian Eagle: "It will be all chalk on the River Walk."

Auburn-Florida go first on Saturday.