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
It's one of the greatest locks in the history of sports. Last time I saw a spread this ridiculous was in college football 2023. Oregon was a 10 pt favorite over Washington on a neutral field in the Pac 12 championship game. Washington had already beat them in the regular season. That game was a 50-50 game at best for Oregon. The 10 pt spread was an insult to humanity. Almost predictably Washington beat them again. That was the dumbest spread I've seen in 46 years of my life. Auburn -9.5 i
Interestingly, when Oregon was a 7 point favorite over Ohio State in the national championship game, I flipped it around and laid 13.5 on Ohio State, and got something like 7/1 on the bet. The Buckeyes crushed them even in spite of a 5-0 turnover deficit.
When Ohio State was a 7 point favorite over the Gators in the national championship game, I laid 9.5 on the Gators and got something like 5/1. Gators crushed.
Both of those were two of the worst lines in the history of sports betting, imo. And they were the last game of the year when all the data was in.
Mechanical under bets in both Lucas Oil games
Wild that Tennessee could have had Aidoo and or Awaka on this squad
Cats taken behind the woodshed that half
MSU getting waxed. Yhtsi. Michigan is the Big Ten's only hope.
Kentucky might have the dumbest offense I've ever seen. They're literally getting pushed off the point of attack with this gimmick zoom action where every pass is an adventure.
holy **** that dunk
lol at that TO
Ole miss covers!
Wow I tried to parlay Ole Miss first half with Mich St. money line, but I misclicked to Ole Miss first half +2 with Mich St. first half money line. Frig. That pissed me off so I slammed Mich State for the win. Every misclick for life is a loser, right?
Kentucky might have the dumbest offense I've ever seen. They're literally getting pushed off the point of attack with this gimmick zoom action where every pass is an adventure.
I think they were #4 in the country points scored. I think it's that old Master Rick Barnes solved for it the third time around.
I think they were #4 in the country points scored. I think it's that old Master Rick Barnes solved for it the third time around.
Multiple teams solved it. Face guard out to half court and push them off their line. It turns every simple pass and hand-off into a challenge and they have no answer for it. I've posted about it several times throughout the season.
Damn Michigan is really gonna do it
It's raining [strike]men[/strike] bricks.
Auburn absolutely can not get out of their own way.
We got two sweats.
