College Bball Thread

[RaceToTheTop]

You can see what trash fans Bryant has.  These are videos from yesterday after Wagner left Bryant's gym after practice.  Garbage twitter posters applauding the behavior.

https://twitter.com/frannyandy123/status/1500908281065259011?s=20&t=BF7v5C1rFovhSUe7U1AVYw

https://twitter.com/stoolbenchmob/status/1500902701336567810?s=20&t=BF7v5C1rFovhSUe7U1AVYw

 

[Uspshoosier]

9 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

What a game.    SDSU up 2 with 3:21 to go.   This has been a good one 

SDSU up 3 with 30 sec to go.    These 2 always deliver a good game.   Great rivalry 

[RaceToTheTop]

1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

 

I want:

1) South Dakota St to be a 14 seed so that

2) Purdue plays South Dakota St.

That’s what I want.

 

I would expect that South Dakota State will be a 12 or 13 if they hang on tonight -- wherever the top auto bids come after the at larges.  The two top bottom "after the at large" auto teams will likely be South Dakota State and North Texas, assuming they win their tourney.

[RaceToTheTop]

I don't understand why teams play such soft defense up 4 or 5 points late.  South Dakota just basically gave up a quick 2 with 20 seconds left.  Now up just 2.

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1 minute ago, brumdog45 said:

I don't understand why teams play such soft defense up 4 or 5 points late.  South Dakota just basically gave up a quick 2 with 20 seconds left.  Now up just 2.

They just did it again....after hitting two free throws, they let North Dakota State go the length of the court in 8 seconds and lay one in to pull within 2 again.  South Dakota State up by 2, 12.3 seconds left, South Dakota State ball.

[RaceToTheTop]

8 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

I don’t think they have a chance at an at large.    Always seems some mid majors get left out with a bunch of wins.  I want  to say st Mary’s has been left out with that many but I would have to look it up 

I took a little look at their breakdown, and they definitely wouldn't get an at large -- you are definitely right.  They have only played 4 quad 1 and quad 2 games -- 0-2 in quad 1, 2-0 in quad 2.  Also have two lower division wins, so they actually have 27 wins that count, not 29.

[RaceToTheTop]

Know how you know it's March?  I'm flipping over to Winthrop at Longwood.

[Uspshoosier]

5 minutes ago, brumdog45 said:

Know how you know it's March?  I'm flipping over to Winthrop at Longwood.

That would be a replay game 

Longwood punched their ticket already 

[RaceToTheTop]

6 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

That would be a replay game 

Longwood punched their ticket already 

Well, hell.  Any games left for tonight?

[Uspshoosier]

3 minutes ago, brumdog45 said:

Well, hell.  Any games left for tonight?

Espn +. Has 2 more tonight 

First round games in the WAC and Big West 

 

[RaceToTheTop]

1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

Espn +. Has 2 more tonight 

First round games in the WAC and Big West 

 

Unfortunately, I've run into issues with ESPN+ streams.

[Southside]

13 minutes ago, brumdog45 said:

Unfortunately, I've run into issues with ESPN+ streams.

Got Kodi?

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

3 hours ago, Ryno6284 said:

Bryant has no class!  Should've taken a shot clock violation every time they had the ball!

Should have went for 80 or 90. 

[IUFAN1976]

On 3/7/2022 at 1:45 PM, str8baller said:

Wisconsin f’d us again. I’d love to have had another shot at them. We played them 80 min total and led about 75min of it.  
 

I was hoping Michigan State would have lost, we matchup to them decent and Wisconsin, I felt like we should have beaten them twice.  
 

I can’t get that image out of my head when Davis was waving bye bye and saying it to the Assembly Hall fans.  I would have loved to have another crack at them. They say the 3rd time is a charm!

[IUFAN1976]

17 hours ago, HoosierHoopster said:

I'm not a Crean apologist but you don't develop one of the best offenses in college basketball consistently without being able to coach. It's more that he was a bad defensive coach and failed to develop sustained recruiting with depth for the next year. He would land a strong class, lose players to the NBA and overseas, with a follow-up lackluster recruiting class, and then he lost the high school coaches' respect, and the vicious circle began. 

You could certainly make the argument he's a better coach than CAM. Here's a thought, Crean was IU's third winningest coach of all time. Big 10 COY 2011-12, coached IU to wins over, among others, UK of course, twice, MSU, etc., first IU team to beat 3 top 5 teams in a season, the 2011-12 team was 2nd in the nation in 3-pt percentage (imagine that, today), same team finished 1st in the Big 10 in shooting and 3-point shooting and fg%, consistently after had IU among the top teams in scoring/shooting. He's not a really bad coach, but he's only good on one side of the ball and is too much a cheerleader on the sideline.

He definitely can’t coach against a 2-3 zone.  Being an offensive mastermind, you would think he would 

[Uspshoosier]

Idaho St/Sacramento St start the day out at 11:30 on espn +.    Cuse/Florida St really get it going at noon.     Noon basketball the rest of the week.   

[str8baller]

47 minutes ago, IUFAN1976 said:

He definitely can’t coach against a 2-3 zone.  Being an offensive mastermind, you would think he would 

Yea…his offense was a gimmicky. And anyone who took away that gimmick (basically selling everything other aspect of the game to get into transition) stalled IU’s offense in it’s tracks whether that was playing zone or controlling the pace and forcing us into half court (Bo Ryan).  
 

Crean could recruit and he was a good salesman. But he was not a good coach.

[JSHoosier]

1 hour ago, IUFAN1976 said:

He definitely can’t coach against a 2-3 zone.  Being an offensive mastermind, you would think he would 

His offense was good of they could get out and run.  Force them to play half court and it could get ugly.

[Its Always Sunny at IU]

49 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Yea…his offense was a gimmicky. And anyone who took away that gimmick (basically selling everything other aspect of the game to get into transition) stalled IU’s offense in it’s tracks whether that was playing zone or controlling the pace and forcing us into half court (Bo Ryan).  
 

Crean could recruit and he was a good salesman. But he was not a good coach.

Can I please have a not good coach who can win 2 Big Ten titles. Bring me the worst coach in America if he can win a pair of Big Ten Titles in the next 10 years. At the time I wasn't a big Crean fan, but right now I wish we would have kept him instead of hiring Archie. 

[HoosierHoopster]

1 hour ago, IUFAN1976 said:

He definitely can’t coach against a 2-3 zone.  Being an offensive mastermind, you would think he would 

He certainly struggled with Cuse's Zone. But then, in that awful SW16 game, Hulls was playing injured, couldn't shoot, and Cody couldn't do anything in the middle. Unfortunate.