Running 2022-23 NCAA Basketball Thread

[LanceyHoward]

A question for the Hoosiers out there.

I graduated from IU in 1984, the year the Colts moved, and have been back to Bloomington only once. Prior to the Colts moving the sports that dominated fan interest was college basketball. The Pacers were an afterthought.

Currently how much interest is there in IU basketball in the Indianapolis area. I would guess the Colts are on top. Is there more interest in the Pacers or college basketball?

There were also Friday night high school basketball games shown on the independent television station in Indianapolis and when the state basketball tournaments brackets were announced there was a bracket analysis show. Does that kind of interest still exist in high school ball?

 

[playthrough]

A question for the Hoosiers out there.

I graduated from IU in 1984, the year the Colts moved, and have been back to Bloomington only once. Prior to the Colts moving the sports that dominated fan interest was college basketball. The Pacers were an afterthought.

Currently how much interest is there in IU basketball in the Indianapolis area. I would guess the Colts are on top. Is there more interest in the Pacers or college basketball?

There were also Friday night high school basketball games shown on the independent television station in Indianapolis and when the state basketball tournaments brackets were announced there was a bracket analysis show. Does that kind of interest still exist in high school ball?

I'm in Indianapolis, an IU grad and basketball season ticket holder. There's plenty of IU interest here, especially with Woodson and rumblings that year could be pretty darned good with Jackson-Davis coming back. Pacers had the worst attendance in the NBA last year and are an afterthought again. Colts are still king but of course it's different now that they're wandering in the QB wilderness.

I can't really speak for high school basketball, I'm not a native and my daughter's high school isn't very good so I have no rooting interests that would educate me. But there are plenty of older fans still bitching about clash basketball, 25 years later.

 

[WolvEagle]

Welp, Emoni Bates is pleading down to a misdemeanor and will be back on the team at Eastern Michigan ... That said, he stunk of pot, told the officer there wasn't a gun in the car, then said there was and to go ahead and handcuff him. Here's hoping he learns from this escapade.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...sion-eastern-michigan-basketball/69560865007/

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...d-to-eastern-michigan-basketball/69561129007/

 

[dixiehack]

These dumb forks are determined to cripple if not kill the golden goose.

https://www.courier-journal.com/sto...y-for-ncaa-tournaments-to-expand/69557483007/

 

[Neutral Corner]

This way everybody gets to go to the tournament and coaches don't get fired so often, right?

Baylor's Drew wants 128 teams in NCAA tourney

 

[heyabbott]

This way everybody gets to go to the tournament and coaches don't get fired so often, right?

Baylor's Drew wants 128 teams in NCAA tourney

Equity rulz

 

[dixiehack]

First Cal moves the Blue-White game to Pikeville to raise money for flood relief and then does this. Damnit, don't make me like him.

 

[FileNotFound]

First Cal moves the Blue-White game to Pikeville to raise money for flood relief and then does this. Damnit, don't make me like him.

I think I'm gonna have to like him.

 

[heyabbott]

First Cal moves the Blue-White game to Pikeville to raise money for flood relief and then does this. Damnit, don't make me like him.

Good for him, nice move.

bet he could write a check for more than game would raise and he'd never miss a nickel. OTOH, it's possible he did write that check and not tell anyone. And now I'll give him the benefit of that doubt.

 

[Chef2]

Good for him, nice move.

bet he could write a check for more than game would raise and he'd never miss a nickel. OTOH, it's possible he did write that check and not tell anyone. And now I'll give him the benefit of that doubt.

Some of the responses on Twitter are why I hate Twitter.

 

[heyabbott]

Some of the responses on Twitter are why I hate Twitter.

The overwhelming responses Were positive and congratulatory

 

[Alma]

Goodbye, friends.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/24/jim-nantz-to-call-final-ncaa-tournament-with-ian-eagle-as-successor/

Eagle will do a good job. I have no particular sense of what Nantz is angling for here, showing up, not doing the games, but ambling down there for the trophy, etc.

63 with a 6 and 8-year-old.