NCAA Basketball Thread 2024-2025
Quick OP here just to get us up and running
Things to watch for this year:
1. Can UConn 3-peat? Hurley won back to back championships with Clingan, Tristen Newton, and company. Can he make it a third with only one returning starter?
2. Who will be this years national player of the year? Zach Edey was the best player I've seen play college basketball in my lifetime. People throw the term generational talent around alot and Edey was truly a generational talent winning back to back national player of the year awards. But, now he's gone. So who can win the award?
- the 5th year guards in Mark Sears(Alabama) and RJ Davis(UNC) are a good spot to start. Both elite shooters and engines of an offense, they should lead two really good teams.
- the 5th year centers in Hunter Dickinson(Kansas) and Ryan Kallbrenner(Creighton) are also viable options. They'll be the anchors to what should be two really good teams.
- The phenoms: Cooper Flagg(Duke), Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper(Rutgers), VJ Edgecombe(Baylor), and Tre Johnson(Texas) lead a loaded freshman class.
3. Who are the contenders?
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Lettuce college basketball
Insert meme of Arkansas, Kentucky, and Louisville debating on who has the best coach, with Rick Pitino standing above all of them. Can't help but wonder what he would have done if he turned down the Celtics job.
Since Drake's doing pretty well, it occurred to me to look at first-round sites, just in case.
One's in Denver. One time!
I mean, it's being overly presumptuous to think they're in, but first in the Valley so far.
at the half
trouble down on The Plains
ESPN2
Never a doubt. Florida now the only team in history to beat two #1 teams in the same season.
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don't fact check me, bro
Never a doubt. Florida now the only team in history to beat two #1 teams in the same season.
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don't fact check me, bro
I was curious. Looks like the last time that happened was...
2 seasons ago with Alabama. Funny enough they also lost twice as #1 that season. Then Arkansas that season before that. Not seeing anything before that until 98 when UNC beat Duke twice.
it looked like a couple of Clempson's fans got a couple of cheap shots off against dook's bench after the whistle
Clemson now w 5 straights wins over AP top 5 ranked teams
