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
Just went to take a break and see if anything's on TV. UConn is taking South Carolina to the woodshed in the women's final.
Scheyer will never have a team as good as this one.
Do you guys think Cooper returns to Duke for "unfinished business of not winning the title"?
I think it depends who wins the NBA Lottery... does he really want to spend 8 years in Utah? Or play for the inept Wizards?
Is there any reliable info on how much he's making on NIL while being maybe the biggest Big Man on Campus ever upcoming?
Is there any reliable info on how much he's making on NIL while being maybe the biggest Big Man on Campus ever upcoming?
No that **** it all kept private. Which makes sense as long as it is allowed.
"Yeah college is offering me X, can you match me with Y"
"Hey I just got offered with Y, can you match that?"
"Yeah we just overpaid Y because we just had to...not making it public"
You wouldn't have been surprised if you had watched the first UF-Auburn game. It looked exactly like the Final Four game-- that is, no answer for Clayton.
Not to mention the whole SEC regular season and tournament. Florida's 6-1 record against the other elite of the SEC -- Bama, Auburn, Tennessee -- marked them as the class of the league and of the country along with Duke.
Houston of course is throwing a monkey wrench into that with the comeback and we don't give up field goals thing. I thought Gators would be a bit more but they got a major, major problem on their hands, and any info gleaned from that line hints of that. Sometimes the line is telling you something when it doesn't really mind being against a popular perception.
Florida actually played a solid A game against UK. Somehow UK played an A++ game against them while fully healthy. One of the best games of the season
Do you guys think Cooper returns to Duke for "unfinished business of not winning the title"?
I think it depends who wins the NBA Lottery... does he really want to spend 8 years in Utah? Or play for the inept Wizards?
Is there any reliable info on how much he's making on NIL while being maybe the biggest Big Man on Campus ever upcoming?
I saw his figure for this year at $3M. While likely much higher for 25-26 if he returned… The math is really about being one year closer to a second and then a third NBA contract. That’s the $ that blows away NIL dollars in the big picture. And last year #1 overall has 2 year guarantee $26M and 4 years with options double that. Not including any endorsements likely to exceed current NIL dollars he gets.
As much as I’d like to see return as a college basketball fan financially I don’t see any way it happens
Incredible f4 performances from LJ Cryer and Walter Clayton.
Houston played a perfect last ten minutes after Duke decided they could milk the clock for the final ten minutes. Above all for Duke, Tyrese Proctor was a real stinkaroo and he played 37 minutes. If Scheyer gets Caleb Foster in the game to handle the ball down the stretch, Duke is probably in the final.
I saw his figure for this year at $3M. While likely much higher for 25-26 if he returned. The math is really about being one year closer to a second and then a third NBA contract. That's the $ that blows away NIL dollars in the big picture. And last year #1 overall has 2 year guarantee $26M and 4 years with options double that. Not including any endorsements likely to exceed current NIL dollars he gets.
As much as I'd like to see return as a college basketball fan financially I don't see an
I think it will eventually happen because humans aren't motivated purely by money. The financial gap doesn't need to be closed. We're talking about escape velocity money (from wage slavery) either way. So the opportunity is there. H0mo Economicus would never do it but a real human will. Just a matter of when.
leggo Cougs
fps for Clayton, Jr. early
I'll pick Houston to win and Clayton to suck.
Up and down physical game so far. Hou has been the better team.
NBA is usually dark on NCAA Championship Monday night. They are trying a few games tonight.
Is the official who made the call on Flagg in this game?
Real ugly shooting out there
Already twice as many fouls in the second half.
I haven't watched any college ball till today but damn Florida looks awful. The ball handling in the first half was just atrocious, they can't shoot, and now fouls. How tf they get here
I haven't watched any college ball till today but damn Florida looks awful. The ball handling in the first half was just atrocious, they can't shoot, and now fouls. How tf they get here
It's this sick D they are up against. Clayton looks better than Isaiah Thomas in this tourney, the old one, but can't walk so far in this game.
Gators can come back against almost anybody this year. This is super tough spot. I think they'll do it but not quite get there.
#1 D in country and they are better than that.
Clayton finally scores and they take him out?
It's like Houston has 6 players on the court. They're doubling everyone.
