College Bball Thread

[LamarCheeks]

Free basketball in Birmingham. 

[LamarCheeks]

UAB wins 76-73 in OT. 

Lendeborg for UAB has 17 points and 21 rebounds. 

Scratch Dusty off the list -- LOL! 

[RaceToTheTop]

Utah loses in 3OT to Arizona and have themselves to blame — 10 of 21 from the free throw line.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

Penn State now 6-6 in conference play. How? No clue.

[Stuhoo]

28 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Penn State now 6-6 in conference play. How? No clue.

Not a knock at you:

Apparently it's happening because of a really good coaching hire.

It can happen, including with a guy that was not a big name. It's about great judgment by the hiring committee, fit, culture building, and running excellent practices and development to build skill, motivate effort, and enable in-game execution and buy-in. 

[Uspshoosier]

1 hour ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Penn State now 6-6 in conference play. How? No clue.

Conference isn’t that good this year.    Teams 4-14 are all bunched together.    Bringing in successful guards through the portal.   Taking chances on guys that sat at high major teams benches has paid off.    Bringing the A-10 player of the year and Defensive player of the year with you when you get the job was big.  

[RaceToTheTop]

19 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Conference isn’t that good this year.    Teams 4-14 are all bunched together.    Bringing in successful guards through the portal.   Taking chances on guys that sat at high major teams benches has paid off.    Bringing the A-10 player of the year and Defensive player of the year with you when you get the job was big.  

They are also going to be helped by having single plays against the top three in the Big Ten -- Purdue, Wisky, and Illinois.

[Uspshoosier]

9 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

They are also going to be helped by having single plays against the top three in the Big Ten -- Purdue, Wisky, and Illinois.

And Nebraksa.  So only playing teams that are currently projected as tourney teams they only have to play once.    Unbalanced schedule at its finest.   The other side of that is they only got 4 opportunities against the top of the league to build a resume 

[Uspshoosier]

https://x.com/jydecker/status/1755957375419253094?s=46
 

im sure everyone remembers this one if you are older.  lol.   This was when IU was getting calls on the road.  

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

1 hour ago, Uspshoosier said:

Conference isn’t that good this year.    Teams 4-14 are all bunched together.    Bringing in successful guards through the portal.   Taking chances on guys that sat at high major teams benches has paid off.    Bringing the A-10 player of the year and Defensive player of the year with you when you get the job was big.  

 

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

Not a knock at you:

Apparently it's happening because of a really good coaching hire.

It can happen, including with a guy that was not a big name. It's about great judgment by the hiring committee, fit, culture building, and running excellent practices and development to build skill, motivate effort, and enable in-game execution and buy-in. 

Good points.

[go iu bb]

57 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://x.com/jydecker/status/1755957375419253094?s=46
 

im sure everyone remembers this one if you are older.  lol.   This was when IU was getting calls on the road.  

I remember that game. It was in Penn State's old "arena" (being generous calling it that) that was teeny tiny. I was very surprised when IU struggled so much to beat them that game because PSU wasn't very good.

[RaceToTheTop]

6 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

And Nebraksa.  So only playing teams that are currently projected as tourney teams they only have to play once.    Unbalanced schedule at its finest.   The other side of that is they only got 4 opportunities against the top of the league to build a resume 

Yeah, but in Penn State’s case it’s not really about resume building.  Their non-conference SOS on Pom was 314 and they are just 12-11 overall.  With that kind of non conference and conference schedule, they’d probably need to be at least 16-7 to be in the conversation

[Scotty R]

7 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://x.com/jydecker/status/1755957375419253094?s=46
 

im sure everyone remembers this one if you are older.  lol.   This was when IU was getting calls on the road.  

That was a horrible call

[southsidehoosier]

8 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://x.com/jydecker/status/1755957375419253094?s=46
 

im sure everyone remembers this one if you are older.  lol.   This was when IU was getting calls on the road.  

 

[Uspshoosier]

MWC after dark 

Nevada/San Diego St headed to OT 

[johnsoniu]

Bare bones schedule tonight but two great games. VCU knocks off Dayton 49-47, now Nevada and San Diego St headed to OT tied at 60

[Uspshoosier]

LeDee might be a be most jacked player in college basketball this year.   He is huge 

[Uspshoosier]

Nevada wins it.   Great game 

[johnsoniu]

Nevada wins 

@Uspshoosier the spread was 2.5.

do you think the refs knew that when they called the foul with .3 seconds left lol

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

7 minutes ago, johnsoniu said:

Nevada wins 

@Uspshoosier the spread was 2.5.

do you think the refs knew that when they called the foul with .3 seconds left lol

Probably. If there was a legit investigation done into betting on college sports, they wouldn't exist anymore.