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
Holy hell that Denver Jones finish
I will reiterate that this Houston program freaking rules
First loser of tourney: Creighton +9. 7-1.
nice half for the Cougs
You're overlooking an important fact. Michigan owns the SEC in football and basketball. That's why I'm rooting for Auburn over Creighton. I want the easy win.
How could you ever be wrong with this sort of deep analysis?
Michigan won't be easy. You have enough size to avoid getting punked by Broome, which is key.
Roberts making mincemeat of the Zags
Has Matt painter at Purdue ever won NCAA game as underdog?
Mormons are so dirty
On Wisconsin!!!
finish off these frauds Wisky
Damn. Seeing the Wisconsin girl crying cheered me up tho.
Terrible last play but Wisconsin showed heart almost winning a game where byu sun ran 38 minutes
You blew it Wisconsin!
BYU tried their absolute hardest to throw another game away / no show in a completely ridiculous fashion. Big beef to the rescue at the end.
ffs it is obv HOU's ball
sick of this ****
Glolnzaga
and Few falls four S16s short of Dean
Were like 0-4 on competent last possessions
Both Wichita games were those which the higher seed was in control almost the whole time, but the lower seed would creep up enough to make it interesting.
Houston looked really good. Tech good inside guys, but I think they're one guard short against the Coogs.
So many ******ed techs today by the players, refs, and coaches(+asst coaches). That completely changed games.
1 seed rolling continues in the first two games tomorrow.
