College Bball Thread

[NOLA Hoosier]

Cal has had all the talent in the world and gotten one natty in 10 years. That’s not good enough for the culture of UK, who literally only care about winning. Not to mention he hasn’t even gotten to the Final Four since 2015. 

I said last year I think he’s turned a corner. Nothing lasts forever (thank god)

[TheWatShot]

Heard one of the broadcasters during our game today say that this is the least talented freshman class Cal has brought in. Other than name-brand, I can't think of why they started in the top 5. 

[Alford Bailey]

UK fans are already looking forward to the 2020 class. Makes you wonder how Brooks fits. Also comical how some of their fans are consumed with what Hardaway is doing at Memphis.

[Hoosier1984]

I don’t see too many of these Kentucky players leaving for NBA and he already has a descent size class coming in....wouldn’t be surprised to see Brooks and maybe others Crean’d


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[Hoosier1984]

Watching this Iowa/Cincy game and Iowa’s 7 ft center is a better 3 point shooter than anyone we have


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[Hoosier1984]

Turned it on the LSU/USC game for the first time and first sentence uttered by the commentators is “How lucky was Trendon Watford to be able to grow up in assembly hall and watch his brother play there”....as they show Christian at the game...Perfect timing


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[HoosierAloha]

Northwestern just fell flat in the last minute+.


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[mdn82]

Anyone else find this as comical as I did. Purdue posts pic of Bankers Life as IU is playing...knowing close to half the arena will be empty for their game.


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Ha there was a lot of IU fans stay until halftime of the PU game. Starting at the under 12 it cleared out quickly. The pic with the empty seats behind the bench was the IU section. I personally think of the lower bowl IU got 50% of the seats. Butler had the 2nd most fans. PU 3rd. I didn’t hear many ND fans outside of their lower bowl section.


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[yogisballin]

Whoever the analyst is on the Minn-Ok St just said, swear to God, “X’s And O’’s don’t win games. They don’t. It’s playing the game the way you want to play the game.”  Awesome insight.  Let me try that one. “Shooting doesn’t result In points. It doesn’t. It’s releasing the ball in the direction of the rim.”

This is great. I spit my drink up when I read this


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[yogisballin]

Man watching Carton ball out hurts. He’s already a damn good player

I know, imagine if


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[RaceToTheTop]

45 minutes ago, Hoosier1984 said:

Watching this Iowa/Cincy game and Iowa’s 7 ft center is a better 3 point shooter than anyone we have


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He has shot it well from deep this year so far, but for his career he's 48 out of 144 (33%).  Best part of his game is definitely inside the arc.  He's a load.

[MoyeNeeded]

Stanford, Akansas, and Indiana only power 5 conference teams with one loss not in AP Top 25.

[Brass Cannon]

4 minutes ago, Hardwood83 said:

Funny before reading this thread I hadn't even thought about Watford for months. Looked up his stat line: 

12.5ppg 5.5 reb 1.3 ast 3.1 TO(!) shooting 51% FG, 59%FT and 36.8% 3-pt. Looks like he's 4th in minutes & scoring on the team. 3rd in rebounds. I think he'd be in the rotation, but doubt he'd start at IU this season. Same with Brooks. Carton on the other hand? He's the one that got away. I have a strong feeling we're gonna be real sick of him before his O$U career is over. 

Hopefully his OSU career is over in about 5 months 

[Uspshoosier]

St. John’s takes down Zona


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[Uspshoosier]

Oregon only up 1 on Texas Southern at home with 4 min to go


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[Walking Boot of Doom]

1 hour ago, MoyeNeeded said:

Stanford, Akansas, and Indiana only power 5 conference teams with one loss not in AP Top 25.

Gonna be only Stanford and Indiana soon

[Uspshoosier]

Oregon only up 1 on Texas Southern at home with 4 min to go


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Pritchard took over down the stretch


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[WayneFleekHoosier]

Indiana recruited Garza and Carton. Those 2 would have really helped.

Speaking of Brooks, if he came to Indiana and was having the season he is having, social media would be relentless that it’s Indiana’s fault. Curious to see how his career progresses. If anything his numbers are lessening.


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[Uspshoosier]

Big Ten now has 12 top-55 Kenpom teams.


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[AKHoosier]

Honestly it's probably for the best that Brooks didn't come to IU.  He's not all that great, but it would have been perceived Archie is killing another lottery pick's talent.  Who knows where we'd be though.

Sure hope Dad saved all that bagman cash though, at this rate I don't think Keion will make it to the league anytime soon.