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?
Spoiler
Lettuce college basketball
The guy from ESPN isn’t a good coach?
awesome synergy last night on TNT's Inside the NBA as, for the very first time, a cbb recruit revealed his school of choice live on the program
lol Kenny 'The Jet' Smith was proud and hyped
very cool moment for Caleb Wilson and his family
That was mega cringe. The recruiting crystal ballers have been saying he'd make a decision any day now for the last three months and he rolls it into that? Is he gonna follow Hubert Davis to FAU?
Not loving my bet on unc making the tourney
This team just doesn’t have it, or really, have anything.
Wake / Duke broadcast on ESPN is interesting. The camera is zoomed out like it's a mile away and there's a weird green tint to the broadcast like they're using a colorist's filter from The Matrix. Last game from there against UNC had one of the worst audio feeds I've ever heard.
total implosion by KU during the regulation end game
Oh my God Kansas what are you doing
Hahaha that was nuts.
Haven't seen Kansas miss this many Free Throws since they got Trey Burke'd
wtf
i clicked off the KU game after HOU fouled Harris, Jr. in OT
just now seeing a tweet KU lost
fk i hate missing epic finishes live. when will i learn?
at the half
a rock fight has broken out on The Plains
Auburn/Tennessee game was brutal to watch. Neither team could generate open shots and neither team could make tough shots. But one way or the other, Auburn never seems to lose.
Holy wow @ end of Iowa St / Arizona.
Holy **** Big 12 after dark
RIP to any ISU +2.5 betters
at the half
another foggy result at The Phog?
ESPN+
lol UCF guy was shooting
b.s. if they don't say so
PPP: points per possession
TO%: turnover %
OR%: offensive rebound %
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the bottom two are two of the Four Factors of basketball
This Austin kid could make change off the top of the Jumbotron.
UNC lost again. Hate to see it man. At least Michigan is back and final 4 bound.
Oh god...
Calipari's Razorbacks aren't ranked...
I so wish I had gotten home sooner to post that UK was winning straight up. Not that anybody would have played along. I bet them with the points, to win outright, and half way thru the second half up 10 I checked the line expecting it to be unbettable, and they were only -240, so hammered them again. Sick. You just don't give UK 2/1 in games with NBA players all over the court, and well, that means you don't give them 3 or 4 to 1 either. Their sleep losses don't even count against their ability to play with anybody. That is proven. I only saw a few minutes of the second half then couldn't stand to see the inevitable(?) hairy comeback. Sounds like it indeed got hairy.
