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
Let's Go!
Seven assists for Florida on 79 basketball points.
Meh on Broome as a draft pick. Can't really get his own shot, no hops, slow, bad shooter from 3 and FT.
Gator fiber showing. I think Elijah Martin has a super freak hops figure.
Houston went to the Final 4 all three years Olajuwon was there, two years with Elvin Hayes, then a couple times recently.
Both teams playing tight.
That was a long time without a break. Hou needed it.
10 minute TO
Free throw
10 minute TO
The ball looks juiced as hell. Has there been a shot that touched the rim and went down?
Flagg is absurd.
Otherworldly.
Dook too good. Hou can't generate enough quality offense.
Hou just can't catch the momentum.
Knueppel's form is so pure.
****ing hell
Here we go
I did that in a championship game one time. Got a T for hitting the ball like that on the inbounder. Learned the hard way that was a technical.
