College Bball Thread

[mamasa]

49 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

1. Smith clearly kinda hates Goodman.

2. Goodman could post up that midget.

Ummmm, I believe the pc term is Diego Pavia!!!!!

[OliviaPope40]

5 minutes ago, mamasa said:

Ummmm, I believe the pc term is Diego Pavia!!!!!

The fact that anybody other than IU fans thought he would steal the Heisman. 

[Demo]

Getting the early start on the next guy. 

[WayneFleekHoosier]

13 minutes ago, Demo said:

Getting the early start on the next guy. 

Indiana would be coached by Dusty May if we had Kansas States reaction speed.  It’s gonna take me a while to get over this obvious flub.  

[LIHoosier]

This was Tang's 4th season at KState. They just didn't pussyfoot with calling it a collaborative retirement or whatever we did.

[Pagoda]

18 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

This was Tang's 4th season at KState. They just didn't pussyfoot with calling it a collaborative retirement or whatever we did.

It was a tough decision, but Mike decided to retire… for 65 days before he joined The Kings.

[Uspshoosier]

21 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Indiana would be coached by Dusty May if we had Kansas States reaction speed.  It’s gonna take me a while to get over this obvious flub.  

Tang coached in his 4th year just like Woody did.  They just fired him with 1 month left in the season to get a jump on the off season.   Their reaction speed wouldn’t have landed Dusty either.   They would have had to fired Tang at the end of his 3rd year in order for their reaction speed to land Dusty  

[Jeff Flabjohns]

To be fair, Tang led K-State to tournament success we haven’t sniffed in over 20 years. Woody could never. Ironically of course lost to Dusty in the E8 that year. All downhill since then. 

[Hovadipo]

People claiming KState is going to try going the for-cause route. Could get messy if true. 

[Brass Cannon]

33 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

It was a tough decision, but Mike decided to retire… for 65 days before he joined The Kings.

When you have so much basketball knowledge it’s unfair to keep it to yourself 

[Pagoda]

Thamel reports “the basis for the for cause firing is language in his contract that references any activity that brings “public disrepute, embarrassment, ridicule” to Kansas State.”  

This is referencing his recent presser comments.

Ha.  Good luck arguing he met the standard for cause here… (no way)

[LIHoosier]

Trying to get out of an $18 million buyout before April 30.

[jermhoosierfan]

12 hours ago, LIHoosier said:

Trying to get out of an $18 million buyout before April 30.

They are buying time to raise the $18 million or wanting to negotiate because Cronin has said a lot worse than what Tang said.  

[Shooter]

On 2/15/2026 at 9:05 AM, Uspshoosier said:

That’s still debatable though if he has had a first good season just yet.   He has yet to beat a top tier team at home or on the road.    No AP top 25 wins just yet.   Yeah he did beat IU on the road but IU is a projected 9 seed at the moment and his other tourney quality wins are home wins over UCLA and USC 2 teams projected lower than IU. Most have those teams  in the Last 4 in or last 4 byes which is squarely on the bubble.   Non con Sos 259 and overall of 68.   They are trending down with a tough schedule to play.  They could easily play themselves out of the tourney.   They have definitely played themselves to being close to bent on the bubble.  
 

My thing we Iowa was people were using McCollum and Iowa’s season as a point to show how IU and DeVries should of been doing it in year 1 and you could argue that IU has had the better season despite losing to them at home.   Luckily for Iowa they have 6 games left to get it turned back around 

I would consider making the tourney year 1 at a place with below average resources for the B1G a good first season. You are right that the season hasn't fully played out yet, but he's going to make it unless they just collapse. (This is not a comment on McCollum vs Devries, just assessing Iowa's season in a vacuum.)

I'm not sure they are trending down too much - they've won 6 of their last 8. Lost one game they shouldn't have, yes.

[Uspshoosier]

23 minutes ago, Shooter said:

he's going to make it unless they just collapse

 

23 minutes ago, Shooter said:

I'm not sure they are trending down too much - they've won 6 of their last 8. Lost one game they shouldn't have, yes.

They are closer to falling out of the bracket than you would think.   Won 6 of 8 but 4 of the 6 were against non tourney teams.  Barely won at home against USC.  Probably should have lost that game except for a kid decided to foul Stirtz while he was trying to call timeout. There biggest win of the year is at IU which is a projected 9 seed.  No top of the bracket wins.  They have 4 games left against the top of the B1G teams.   If they go 0-4 in those games with their terrible non con sos they are going to be in trouble.    Some have them as a 9 seed as of today.  They are far from safe making the tourney 

[Shooter]

1 hour ago, Uspshoosier said:

 

They are closer to falling out of the bracket than you would think.   Won 6 of 8 but 4 of the 6 were against non tourney teams.  Barely won at home against USC.  Probably should have lost that game except for a kid decided to foul Stirtz while he was trying to call timeout. There biggest win of the year is at IU which is a projected 9 seed.  No top of the bracket wins.  They have 4 games left against the top of the B1G teams.   If they go 0-4 in those games with their terrible non con sos they are going to be in trouble.    Some have them as a 9 seed as of today.  They are far from safe making the tourney 

Do "barely" wins not count? IU's tourney chances would be would be very different if we didn't barely beat UCLA and Wisconsin.

Iowa is well within the cut line as of today. Could they fall out if they lose most of their remaining games, yea of course. Same as a lot of teams.

[Uspshoosier]

15 minutes ago, Shooter said:

Do "barely" wins not count? IU's tourney chances would be would be very different if we didn't barely beat UCLA and Wisconsin.

Iowa is well within the cut line as of today. Could they fall out if they lose most of their remaining games, yea of course. Same as a lot of teams.

Definitely count but unlike IU, Iowa  has 0 wins against the top of the B1G. IU has 2.  IU is probably in better shape then Iowa as of today since they already of those quality Q1A wins in the bag.    Iowa needs to start winning games against good teams (top of the bracket teams) something they haven’t done yet. Lucky for them the schedule sets up where they get those games at home.  

[HoosierHoopster]

23 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Indiana would be coached by Dusty May if we had Kansas States reaction speed.  It’s gonna take me a while to get over this obvious flub.  

Yeah except it wasn’t reaction time it was Buckner/ BOT’s keeping Woody in for the 4th year. Terrible decision but it was always clear that was going to happen 

[HoosierHoopster]

22 hours ago, Pagoda said:

Thamel reports “the basis for the for cause firing is language in his contract that references any activity that brings “public disrepute, embarrassment, ridicule” to Kansas State.”  

This is referencing his recent presser comments.

Ha.  Good luck arguing he met the standard for cause here… (no way)

Yeah that’s a joke - KSU will lose 

[Uspshoosier]

Iowa St/Houston.  Let’s go