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
Hope that T doesn't make it a 6 point margin.
Alright then
If this gets too shaky it hurts Duke in the title game, if they get there.
holy ****
That was a hell of a sequence.
Uh oh
It's happening?
Plz god. Don't tease me
Unreal. D has been awesome by the F4 teams, and now you just can't get it in bounds.
I want Duke to lose too bad for it to happen.
There's no way I'm giving them a free inbound there lol.
Flagg hasn't been good in this spot this year looking exhausted. Awesome game by him.
This is about to be wild
lol dook
Came up short
Huge choke
happening omg
Not even close and way too soon anyway.
WOW
Checking the monitor on every clock stoppage is ruining these games.
March madness finally happened in April!@!@!!!
The foul called on Flagg on the free throw rebound was straight garbage, but if Duke didn't melt down it wouldn't have come to that.
Shrug.
I had Duke -4.5, so pretty much dead when Houston cut it to 1, so whatever.
This has been a master class in coaching by Sampson. I can't think of a better coaching performance.
wow, what a ****ing game, let's go Cougs
