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
I obviously understand that Cameron is a tough place to play, but Duke -3.5 against Auburn seems a little off.
If Broome is efficient in the half court and Auburn is able to play inside-out through him in the half court (as it has done all year), then I think Auburn wins. If Flagg is able to prevent Broome from scoring inside in the half court, then Duke probably wins. Broome is strong and has a weirdly deep bag, so I guess that I think the former is more likely than the latter. Either way, I think you will know in the first ten minutes.
Bullshit outcome of course will be if Flagg or Broome gets into early foul trouble.
