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
How the **** is ucla shaking tenn's hands after they just played full court press with 10 seconds left in game?
Karaban cost himself some money coming back to Uconn. Should have cashed in when he had the chance
UConn not scared
Ok this is officially the worst tournament ever
We almost got one good game
A side of onions!
Amazing that you can pick the FT shooter while also not running any time off the clock by fouling before the inbound. It's 2025 for ****'s sake.
God I hate all this Duke bandwagon crap. "Can Baylor stay close?" over and over from the analysts. "Is Duke gonna UConn the field this year?" No they aren't going to obliterate the field and yes Baylor can play with them, lead them, and beat them. I never laid anything like I did on Duke to make the Sweet 16, but not because it's a shew in.
Duke is up against a team with a great coach, knows how to win, has a recent title, and is faster than Duke.
Five seasons of double/double average for Omier. Wowser. Gotta be first ever??
BELIEVE IN BAYLOR
ffs
1.54 ppp
77.5 eFG%
BBN in cruise control against a mighty mighty mighty mighty B1G opponent
I guess I will go my entire natural life without anyone being able to explain me wtf “x-factor” means. Stupid term imo
Gaels ghana disappear like the Zags did
