College Bball Thread

[Stuhoo]

https://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-wildcats/news/texas-reportedly-contacts-john-calipari-in-basketball-coaching-search/

I just cannot imagine that Texas would be that indescribably stupid.

[Uspshoosier]

Oral Roberts/New Mexico and Colgate/Army are the top games tonight.  
 

Enjoy the Georgia/TCU football championship game.  lol 

[LamarCheeks]

Cal to Austin ...? 
 

 

[go iu bb]

7 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

Cal to Austin ...? 
 

 

No! I hope they don't bail out UK! Make UK pay out the ridiculous buyout when they fire him.

[BtownStrength]

I have no idea where to put this (so mods pls move if appropriate), but this made my day. Jared Jeffries hype will never get old. 

https://streamable.com/lv9jtg

 

[Uspshoosier]

 

[Ryno6284]

22 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

 

That is BA!

[Muskie for three]

59 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

 

Always liked cooper even more now.

[Uspshoosier]

Army up 4 with 3:21 to go 

iupui down 1 at Robert Morris with 7 min to go 

[Hovadipo]

13 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Army up 4 with 3:21 to go 

iupui down 1 at Robert Morris with 7 min to go 

Nice to know there are some competitive college sports tonight, however hard they may be to find. 

[RaceToTheTop]

9 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Here is mine from my WAR calculations....not necessarily a traditional 'top 25' but rather my calculations of a team's overall resume in comparison to the minimum number of wins necessary to make the tournament (last year a +1.00 or higher was pretty much a guarantee at the end of the year.  Records against D1 opponents are listed first followed by the team's WAR rating.  Feel free to critique, LCS, since I was hard on your's last week.  :)

1.  Kansas 14-1 (+5.38)

2.  Purdue 15-1 (+4.97)

3.  Alabama 13-2 (+4.34)

4.  U Conn 15-2 (+4.29)

5.  Gonzaga 13-3 (+3.83)

6.  Houston 16-1 (+3.76)

7.  Kansas St 14-1 (+3.6)

8.  Arizona 14-2 (+3.51)

9.  UCLA 14-2 (+3.26)

10. Xavier 13-3 (+3.00)

11.  Tennessee 12-2 (+2.96)

12. Iowa St 12-2 (+2.92)

13.  Miami (F) 13-2 (+2.76)

14.  San Diego St 11-3 (+2.43)

15. Texas 13-2 (+2.38)

16. Charleston 15-1 (+2.37)

17. Missouri 13-2 (+2.36)

18.  Providence 14-3 (+2.08)

19.  Wisconsin 11-3 (+2.06)

20.  Virginia 11-3 (+2.02)

21.  Marquette 13-4 (+1.95)

22. Auburn 12-3 (+1.93)

23. Florida Atlantic (+1.87)

24. Arkansas 12-4 (+1.84)

25. TCU 13-2 (+1.75)

Also considered:

Arizona St 13-3 (+1.75), Duke 12-4 (+1.53), Northwestern 12-3 (+1.52), Michigan St 11-4 (+1.51), Memphis 12-4 (+1.42). 

[Uspshoosier]

12 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Nice to know there are some competitive college sports tonight, however hard they may be to find. 

Colgate won by 2 

iupui did their thing and lost.   
 

Georgia looks like they are playing a basketball team on the field.   Pat  Mcafee broadcast might be the only thing to keep watching that game for 

[RaceToTheTop]

One thing I did notice was that mine and LCS's lists had 23 of the 25 top 25 the same even thought hey were meant to measure different things.  The two teams he had in that I did not were Clemson (21st) and Michigan State (23rd);  the two teams I had in that he didn't were San Diego State (14th) and Auburn (22nd).    Both of the teams I had in that he didn't were on his 'considerations list;  Michigan State, which he had in, was on my considerations list while Clemson I had a lot lower (36th overall).

[Uspshoosier]

24 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Nice to know there are some competitive college sports tonight, however hard they may be to find. 

https://themw.com/watch/?sid=497683
 

[RaceToTheTop]

2 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://themw.com/watch/?sid=497683
 

It's a really big game for both teams.  New Mexico needs to break their two game losing streak and Oral Roberts is flying under the radar, but that's a pretty good team.  Only losses so far are road losses to St. Mary's, Utah State, and Houston.  Problem for Oral Roberts is that and New Mexico are there only chances for statement games and that assumes New Mexico keeps playing well.

[RaceToTheTop]

Conner Vanover is the strangest player in D1.  7'5", on his third team (Cal, Arkansas, Oral Roberts).  Can shoot the three some, hell of a free throw shooter, but not necessarily that good at doing what a 7'5" should be good at (inside game, rebounding).

[Uspshoosier]

 

[reconmkd]

Anyone listen to Rick Boyages talking about officiating? 
don’t know what to really think about his comments, but as the Associate Commissioner of Mens Basketball for the B1G, he blames the coaches for the differences between B1G and other conferences. Says that all B1G refs officiate other conferences all the time and they don’t control our conferences preference to tackle basketball. Let’s see who would he be specifically talking about?

[go iu bb]

5 minutes ago, reconmkd said:

Anyone listen to Rick Boyages talking about officiating? 
don’t know what to really think about his comments, but as the Associate Commissioner of Mens Basketball for the B1G, he blames the coaches for the differences between B1G and other conferences. Says that all B1G refs officiate other conferences all the time and they don’t control our conferences preference to tackle basketball. Let’s see who would he be specifically talking about?

So the coaches blame the officials and the officials blame the coaches for the current state of B1G officiating. The coaches will do anything within what they're allowed to do to win so it's the officials that need to make the change. Foul out 1/2 a roster and throw a few coaches if that is what it takes, but they'll get it and adjust accordingly. 

I don't know how one can blame the coaches for the inconsistency within a single game or between separate B1G games, though.

 

[reconmkd]

3 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

So the coaches blame the officials and the officials blame the coaches for the current state of B1G officiating. The coaches will do anything within what they're allowed to do to win so it's the officials that need to make the change. Foul out 1/2 a roster and throw a few coaches if that is what it takes, but they'll get it and adjust accordingly. 

I don't know how one can blame the coaches for the inconsistency within a single game or between separate B1G games, though.

 

Thats why I didn't know what to say and this guy is apparently involved with scheduling and has or still does evaluate refs. Typical B1G official response to any negativity, well its not us, its them. He mentioned that the conference drops the hammer on refs that miss obvious rules and will suspend them for a game or 2 to hit them financially (refs paid $3.5-4K a game according to Rick). Well if that is true than I want to see the official punishment for the refs with the Fran incident the other night!