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
So there we are with you stuck on your enjoyment of the experience. The factor that is taking players out of the game is enhancing viewer experience. So why not with Brady going out of the game for some ticky tack stuff? There just is no defense other than trying to keep the game from getting too rough, and that can be circumvented.
In the NFL people can be ejected (albeit a much higher bar), in baseball you can be ejected for simply arguing with calls, and in soccer you can get two bookable offenses (including persistent fouling) and you're then gone.
It's an element of a lot of sports. I don't think that the threat of the stars no longer being in the game takes away from my enjoyment. In fact in soccer in particular for example a fullback getting an early booking against a tricky winger adds to it.
lol let's change all the rules in the name of "purity" so that nobody enjoys watching it any more but it's pure for "the sport"
And now Richmond is fouled out on a blatant no foul.
I hope they ban every ref in this game from ever touching a court again. Just ****int stupid
In the NFL people can be ejected (albeit a much higher bar), in baseball you can be ejected for simply arguing with calls, and in soccer you can get two bookable offenses (including persistent fouling) and you're then gone.
It's an element of a lot of sports. I don't think that the threat of the stars no longer being in the game takes away from my enjoyment. In fact in soccer in particular for example a fullback getting an early booking against a tricky winger adds to it.
And so you are intentionally conflating unsportsmanlike conduct with fouls and penalties in your ridiculous argument.
And so you are intentionally conflating unsportsmanlike conduct with fouls and penalties in your ridiculous argument.
Yes you definitely don't get booked for fouls in soccer and targeting isn't a foul in NCAAF etc.
And a technical for arguing with a ref in basketball doesn't count towards your 5
So there is the savage St. Johns rally on cue. The star player eliminated on bullshyt on cue. Listen to your papa.
Has any team ever missed 20+ layups in a game?
That's classic both teams 2-19 from 3, Pitino and Calipari teams.
so stupid St. John's
Impressive shooting display
just an absolute rock fight
a billion missed layups, a billion fouls, a ton of missed FTs, dudes diving on the ground, blocks off the backboard, just a wild cluster****
This game was so similar to the Calipari/Pitino game in the Final Four, Anthony Davis nearly unbeatable title team. Pitino made the furious rally, got to a tie, then couldn't get there. Then he titled the next year.
So carrying St. Johns at 42/1 to title, in this game I bet:
Ark + 8.5
Ark live game + 5.5
Ark live game +2.5
Ark live game - 2
Ark +270
Ark live game + 174
Ark live game - 125
Sec sec!
29.3 eFG%
who could've seen this coming?
just an absolute rock fight
a billion missed layups, a billion fouls, a ton of missed FTs, dudes diving on the ground, blocks off the backboard, just a wild cluster****
And the two teams shooting 10% and 9% from 3: 2-19 and 2-22. Brick city. Pitino will stalk 3 point shooters in the portal.
and this is when the B1G begins to drop like flies
