College Bball Thread

[RaceToTheTop 25,624]

1 hour ago, LamarCheeks said:

Nevada now up by 42 about 5 minutes into the second half.

Good lord -- what an ugly basketball game. 

Gonna be some angry tim miles tweets

[LamarCheeks 18,803]

I didn't see this yesterday. Sad news from the land of our top rivals. 

My brothers and dad went to PU, so we were always watching their games (in addition to IU's) when I was a kid. 

Dude was essentially a bodybuilder-turned-basketball player. Not terribly skilled, but worked like crazy  -- and he sure had one great season. 

 (BTW -- this is just a cut and paste of the tweet. Since Twitter changed, I haven't figured out how to embed tweets -- though I noticed many here still can). 

[Uspshoosier 45,623]

Loaded day of hoops today.    3 top 10 matchups and some other big games.  End the night with Zags/St Mary’s.     Going to be a fun day of hoops 

[LamarCheeks 18,803]

19 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Loaded day of hoops today.    3 top 10 matchups and some other big games.  End the night with Zags/St Mary’s.     Going to be a fun day of hoops 

Kinda surprised that Duke-UNC is at 6:30 p.m. (EST). 

Seems like that almost always slides into a prime-time slot. 

[str8baller 5,214]

I’m seeing Kansas as +1.5 dog today. I wonder when the last time Kansas was an underdog at Phog? Especially to a conference team. 

[lillurk 3,738]

9 hours ago, RaceToTheTop said:

That was the play where Justin Smith flat out got burnt.

Yeah, don’t totally disagree but Wesson ghosts a screen and Smith gets caught flat-footed, trying to hedge it like the packline does. The other Wesson is lifted so there’s no defender in the lane, weak side action means the help from the opposite corner is late.

Smith should’ve played it differently…but really CAM should’ve changed to switch everything for the possession, or switch 1-4.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,672]

2 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

Loaded day of hoops today.    3 top 10 matchups and some other big games.  End the night with Zags/St Mary’s.     Going to be a fun day of hoops 

Are the Zags a tourney team? Resume looks bubbly.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,672]

If you want to know how bad the college basketball landscape is looking this year, Butler building a tourney resume.

[Uspshoosier 45,623]

11 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Are the Zags a tourney team? Resume looks bubbly.

Not as of today.     Need to road win at Kentucky and needs to beat St Mary’s at least once to get one in my opinion.   I got them 6 or 7 away from being last 4 in 

[Uspshoosier 45,623]

3 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

If you want to know how bad the college basketball landscape is looking this year, Butler building a tourney resume.

That happens when you get big road wins.  @creighton and @marquette.  Also shows you that you can have success through the portal.    Matta pretty much replaced everyone from last year.   Also won lossy night without Alexander probably the best guard defender in the Big East 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,672]

25 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

That happens when you get big road wins.  @creighton and @marquette.  Also shows you that you can have success through the portal.    Matta pretty much replaced everyone from last year.   Also won lossy night without Alexander probably the best guard defender in the Big East 

It's been an odd year. So many teams with Q3 and Q4 losses. Even teams that aren't on the bubble. Feel like the bubble is the biggest it's ever been.

[Uspshoosier 45,623]

31 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

It's been an odd year. So many teams with Q3 and Q4 losses. Even teams that aren't on the bubble. Feel like the bubble is the biggest it's ever been.

Tourney quality teams in the middle and the end of the bracket will always have  Q3 losses.   Nothing really different from a normal year.  Every year the bubble is big 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,672]

1 hour ago, Uspshoosier said:

Tourney quality teams in the middle and the end of the bracket will always have  Q3 losses.   Nothing really different from a normal year.  Every year the bubble is big 

Something felt different about it this year. Like it happened more often. Maybe it didn't, but it sure seemed like it.

[Uspshoosier 45,623]

32 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Something felt different about it this year. Like it happened more often. Maybe it didn't, but it sure seemed like it.

Last year Houston earned a 1 seed and lost a Q3 home game.   Kentucky had 2 Q3 losses and a Q4 loss.  Those losses happen at the top of the bracket as well 

[Uspshoosier 45,623]

Will Wade lost 

[pappy1865 2,204]

I ******* hate officials. Hate them. Drake with only 2 fouls called against them with under 2 to go in the half, but Sycamore players being pushed all over. ISU has 7 fouls. One of them an offensive foul on a moving screen.

 

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[str8baller 5,214]

Heck of an effort by Drake to close the gap by halftime 

[Stuhoo 80,572]

Josh Schertz is Bruce Pearl’s younger brother from another mother 

[str8baller 5,214]

This unc/duke game is high intensity too. As expected, but still

[pappy1865 2,204]

And another "moving screen" on the Trees.

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