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
at the half
Coug on Coug violence. Houston won't be losing to a #16 seed
where's the Madness
so fkg boring
Also getting some Clempsoning right now. But yeah, very boring start.
at the half
Hornets sting themselves w an awful run to end the half
Will Wade magic so far
Dumars U. Let's go.
ACC! ACC! ACC!
McNeese is going to beat Purdue by double digits
Clemson has 13 points at half LOL
lol. Michigan ml tonight is the LOCK of the tournament. Don't care what Vegas says. A Michigan team that finished 2nd out of 18 teams for the regular season title in the 2nd toughest conference in the land + wins the Big Ten tournament is not losing to a school I've never heard of. Not happening. Ever.
ILP guarantee locked and loaded
This was the ACC's 3rd best offense all season
Gonzaga looking like the world beaters they were supposed to be all year
18 points in 25 minutes of game time. I don't even know how that's possible
Power rankings were right about Gonzaga. Hopefully zags Houston is the first game Saturday.
Let's be thankful SMU didn't get in. They would've gotten blasted for sure. UNC appears to be legit, but no idea how they could lose 7 times in ACC play.
McNeese up 21 on 41% 2pt and 21% 3pt is something else.
UNC rounded into form late. They are one of the 2 legit teams in that conference. Just took forever to get there.
Yah kinda. Mostly their schedule was just front loaded then they rolled off a bunch of wins when they played 0 KenPom top 70. The SDSU win is nice, but even they're like 50 KenPom.
Hoping they beat Old Piss, but wouldn't be too surprised if they lose by 10+ there.
