NCAA Basketball Thread 2024-2025

Wow thanks a lot for this explanation. I totally understand. Much appreciated

It'll be interesting to see if there is more of a coaching emphasis next season on cutting down the TO%. Cadeau is a useful piece but doesn't raise either the floor or the ceiling that much. Need bigs.

I think EC can excel if he has the right pieces around him. But he doesn’t do a great job of making those around him better. Which is a handicap for a pass first PG who isn’t much of a scorer.

His inconsistency would really tilt me.

He was great at getting to the hole and finishing, but he seldom did it outside of spurts here and there. One of the most annoying things he’d do is pass up a shot going at the rim to another player in the same area. It resulted in a turnover more often than not. I was constantly yelling at him to just shoot the ****ing ball.

He also sees the floor well, but he doesn’t do a great job of understanding whether his teammates see the same flow. A great PG can make both the difficult pass and put their teammate in a position to succeed. EC can make the difficult pass, but a lot of times, it ended up being a turnover.

He’s not a great shooter but can knock down an open look. He has no ability to create his own shot, outside of getting to the rim. But he is a great finisher when he wants to be.

Maybe a change in scenery will be good for him. He’s a high level recruit who left high school a year early. This past season was supposed to be his freshman year.

I have no ill will towards him and hope he plays well for y’all.

a 4.0 FC/40 this season and a career 66.0 FT% are also part of the EC experience

It was amazing how often he flopped and either had the foul called on him or his guy ended up with a wide open shot.

np

If you like Kenpom, there's also Bart Torvik and Evan Miyakawa in case you aren't already aware. Miyakawa has a PhD in statistics so I default trust his stuff a little more, but I dunno if that's warranted. Not sure about NCAAB, but for NBA there's a body of research on statistical plus/minus measures, etc., that get into the inherent estimation problems with plus-minus on/off type data. It's not light reading.

It is a little confusing as to why Dusty May chose EC over Tre Donaldson. I'm sure there's some deep scouting there that made EC seem like the better piece moving forward.

Doubtful that we'll ever know the full story, but there are things out there on the internet that suggest Tre may have been looking around even before the portal opened. With a general lack of point guard-shaped bodies on the roster, Dusty wasn't going to be left hanging.

Yea I'm not a fan of losing Tre. He wasn't perfect but college basketball players aren't supposed to be. He was an alpha clutch baller. Those guys aren't easily replaceable.

I've only made two women's bets in my life. Won them both, both times taking the points against UConn in the final game, Oklahoma and Stanford a way's back during their mega-dynasty. Tough number here, UConn - 6. Will probably take UConn money line, though -6 seems good here too, oddly. They setting a strong number, very reminiscent of Duke/Bama.

Can anyone with real money ESPN bet account tell me if the Houston +215 is available? I see it on promo ad (I no longer am able to bet there). Thx

I see +200.

grunch: someone give me a good reason to root for auburn or flo rida

i need no such thing for the late game; **** dook

f2, toss his ass (they obv wont)

Two headlines. Choose wisely.

yeah, thats what i was afraid of lol

What a flush

What the **** is this bush league officiating? Somebody important has a billion on Auburn.

Yeah. That was clean.

Clayton, Jr.: 76.7 eFG%

is that good?

Auburn has to be at least 10 points to the good on whistle EV.

Fla coach needed to call a timeout there

a turnover was obv incoming

Congrats to UF. Let’s go Houston.

Now that my final bracket is dead, I can go fully back to Duke hate mode.