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College Bball Thread

By BlueDevil, in Indiana Men's Basketball

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str8baller    5,170

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Utah was 17/29 from 3 last night. My friend text me that and I had to look it up to believe it. Can you imagine shooting like that from 3 and still losing by double digits?  

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steubenhoosier    839

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1 hour ago, str8baller said:

Utah was 17/29 from 3 last night. My friend text me that and I had to look it up to believe it. Can you imagine shooting like that from 3 and still losing by double digits?  

Yes, the announcers last night made reference that neither team was very good defensively. ISU was 108th in defensive metrics this year. As much fun as their offensive style is, Schertz is going to have to learn to coach better defense if he wants to move up the coaching ladder.

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str8baller    5,170

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3 hours ago, steubenhoosier said:

Yes, the announcers last night made reference that neither team was very good defensively. ISU was 108th in defensive metrics this year. As much fun as their offensive style is, Schertz is going to have to learn to coach better defense if he wants to move up the coaching ladder.

Their defense doesn’t worry me too much, at least not from a Shertz perspective.  
 

1. Eye test - every time I watched them I thought they at least competed hard and played fairly smart. Also you can only be so good on defense when a guy like Avila is your starting center.  
 

2. The nature of the statistics itself. They tend to rate high paced teams poorly on defense. They also don’t do a great job of comparing small major teams to high major teams, especially on defense where high major teams get a lot of mileage on superior athletes alone. For comparison, ISU was 4th in their conference. That’s not great but also not bad, again factoring in the high pace they push.  
 

I think it’s fair to keep an eye on that as Shertz rises up the coaching ranks, but it doesn’t jump out as a giant red flag, to me at least.  

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Class of '66 Old Fart    84,310

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UConn with flight issues per Matt Norlander's series of tweets -

UConn does not have a plane to fly to Arizona at the moment, Dan Hurley tells @CBSSports . Was supposed to take off at 6 ET, logistical/mechanical issues with the plane coming in from Kansas City forced significant delays. NCAA handles all travel for NCAAT

The issue for UConn (among many) is crew flying plane from KC would be over their FAA hours and can’t fly UConn immediately to Arizona. UConn’s earliest option is to get a smaller plane via Cincinnati that won’t take off until 12:45 am ET and not land until nearly 5 am ET/2 am PT

The plane from Cincinnati would require a fuel stop because it’s smaller. The Huskies are going to get to Arizona with hours to spare before Thursday media availability. They have tried for an hour working every charter possible, but nothing is available for the next five hours.

UConn remains in limbo and waiting on its earliest flight, but barring a stunner, it’s not getting out until we’ll after midnight and will have to stop somewhere to refuel. If it waits on the plane from Kansas City, per Hurley, that crew can’t fly until 10 am ET on Thursday.

Obviously a travel disaster for the No. 1 overall seed. All other teams are on the ground in Arizona. Alabama and Purdue got in yesterday, NC State just landed in the past hour.

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OliviaPope40    6,483

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On 3/31/2024 at 7:20 PM, Rico said:

Seems like Duke is offensively challenged...kind of like us in a different sort of way.

Don't know what happened between the time they played them at NC State to the Elite Eight game.

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Dave from Dayton    3,062

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15 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

UConn with flight issues per Matt Norlander's series of tweets -

UConn does not have a plane to fly to Arizona at the moment, Dan Hurley tells @CBSSports . Was supposed to take off at 6 ET, logistical/mechanical issues with the plane coming in from Kansas City forced significant delays. NCAA handles all travel for NCAAT

The issue for UConn (among many) is crew flying plane from KC would be over their FAA hours and can’t fly UConn immediately to Arizona. UConn’s earliest option is to get a smaller plane via Cincinnati that won’t take off until 12:45 am ET and not land until nearly 5 am ET/2 am PT

The plane from Cincinnati would require a fuel stop because it’s smaller. The Huskies are going to get to Arizona with hours to spare before Thursday media availability. They have tried for an hour working every charter possible, but nothing is available for the next five hours.

UConn remains in limbo and waiting on its earliest flight, but barring a stunner, it’s not getting out until we’ll after midnight and will have to stop somewhere to refuel. If it waits on the plane from Kansas City, per Hurley, that crew can’t fly until 10 am ET on Thursday.

Obviously a travel disaster for the No. 1 overall seed. All other teams are on the ground in Arizona. Alabama and Purdue got in yesterday, NC State just landed in the past hour.

Just in, UConn men's team landed in AZ at 3:12 PT (6:12 AM ET) this morning.  Only a couple of hours after when they were scheduled.  

Adjusted sleep schedule; ample time before media event this afternoon; other teams were already there... stress...

March Madness 2024: UConn's flight to Final Four in Arizona delayed due to mechanical issues with plane - CBSSports.com

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LamarCheeks    18,489

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Just saw a comical tweet from the B1G -- bragging about being the only conference to send teams to the men's and women's basketball Final Four and the men's and women's Frozen Four (Final Four for hockey). 

But we're the only conference that actually can do so.

Most schools that play Division I hockey are in different conferences for other sports. For instance, Connecticut and Providence skate in Hockey East, but play most other sports in the Big East. Most Ivy league schools that play hockey do so in the ECAC. And many schools that play Division I hockey play Division II basketball.  

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