2024-25 College Basketball Thread

[2muchcoffeeman]

So does that mean the selection committee won the ESPN bracket challenge?

How dare you?! How dare you, sir, credit the selection committee for doing its job correctly?

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Sparty had chance after chance at the end.

Their shooting woes finally caught up with them. But Izzo reestablished the program this season. Starman benches about Kenyon Martin being hurt in 2000, but Izzo might have two national titles if Kalin Lucas doesn't rip his Achilles a decade later

 

[MileHigh]

Go home, Kim. You're drunk. Again.

 

[SixToe]

What a miserable, insecure witch.

 

[Retired_Scribe]

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

Great point, sir. I think there's some Tobacco Road trash talkin' about that happenin' right now.

 

[Retired_Scribe]

Kim Mulkey is a female dog disguised as a women's basketball coach.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

There can be no winner. A peeping tom and a Trumpist on the sidelines. Ugh.

We are at a point where Duke might actually be the least unlikable team (though I don't really care anymore about Sampson's show cause). A national title for Scheyer in year no. 3 makes Coach K a FRAUD!!!! Or at least proves he wasn't some sage whisperer (just a stone-cold cheater who was better at covering it up than everyone else).

 

[micropolitan guy]

Yes, but the rest of the Elite Eight was three No. 2 seeds and a No. 3. Only one team in the round of 16 was below a 6. Only three teams below a 10 won a game in the main draw. And accordingly people act like this month was the basketball equivalent of Superman IV.

Again, the very best teams are fairly easy to seed, and they did a good job. The toughest job the committee has is the final 6-8 at-large teams. That's where all the hubbub was, and where many believed they failed.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Again, the very best teams are fairly easy to seed, and they did a good job. The toughest job the committee has is the final 6-8 at-large teams. That's where all the hubbub was, and where many believed they failed.

And honestly, how often are the final at-large selections really controversial anymore? This year's UNC inclusion was obviously cause for inquiry, but there aren't that many tough calls with the field at 68 instead of 65.

 

[micropolitan guy]

And honestly, how often are the final at-large selections really controversial anymore? This year's UNC inclusion was obviously cause for inquiry, but there aren't that many tough calls with the field at 68 instead of 65.

It is easier, yes. UNC, Texas, Xavier and Oklahoma were all controversial and probably took spots away from more-deserving teams.

 

[I Should Coco]

We are at a point where Duke might actually be the least unlikable team (though I don't really care anymore about Sampson's show cause). A national title for Scheyer in year no. 3 makes Coach K a FRAUD!!!! Or at least proves he wasn't some sage whisperer (just a stone-cold cheater who was better at covering it up than everyone else).

I wouldn't mind seeing Houston win it all, either — I like the way they play, and they were able to win by outscoring Gonzaga, then clamping down on Purdue and Tennessee.

The Duke-Houston semifinal should be a great game.

 

[DanOregon]

So does that mean the selection committee won the ESPN bracket challenge?

I don't think so. I auto-filled one of my brackets by mistake. Straight chalk all the way through. "Won" 97.4 percent of avb. points Rank? 674K and my max points wouldn't even top the current leader on ESPN's bracket pool.

The real question is if its still "March Madness" when teams with the highest NIL budgets regularly roll through the tournament? And if it IS NIL money that is behind the surge in SEC basketball, where the heck is the BiG 10?