College Bball Thread

[Uspshoosier]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Will Wade lost 

[pappy1865]

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. [emoji849]

 

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[str8baller]

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

[Stuhoo]

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

[str8baller]

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

[pappy1865]

And another "moving screen" on the Trees. [emoji849]

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[OliviaPope40]

3 minutes ago, str8baller said:

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

Foul discrepancy is Purdue and Northwestern 2.0. 

[str8baller]

Close one in Terre Haute! 
 

If you just tune in ISU is in the terrible uniforms for some reason! 

[str8baller]

Isu up 3 gives up an open 3 and fouls away but drake misses both. Tie ball game.  
 

Then the big boy for isu hits a 3.  Leaves up 3
 

48 sec. 
 

lets see if ISU stays in the zone…

[FortWayneHoosier]

1 minute ago, str8baller said:

Isu up 3 gives up an open 3 and fouls away but drake misses both. Tie ball game.  
 

Then the big boy for isu hits a 3.  Leaves up 3
 

48 sec. 
 

lets see if ISU stays in the zone…

This is a fun one. Never watched ISU ever, fun team. They are the real deal 

[str8baller]

ISU goes back m2m and gets a stop both time and then hits most of their FTs.  
 

Ball game.  

[str8baller]

2 minutes ago, FortWayneHoosier said:

This is a fun one. Never watched ISU ever, fun team. They are the real deal 

Both teams were pretty good at times. Crowd sounded wild. Fun stuff

[Muskie for three]

On 1/26/2024 at 1:51 AM, pappy1865 said:

Unpopular opinion. I catch a lot of ish being an IU fan as a graduate of indiana State. My late father and late mother got their masters from IU. I attended IUPUI for 2 years as an IU undergrad. My ex mother-in-law and father-in-law's best man was Ron Felling.

I hear the "everyone who lives in Terre Haute should be Sycamore fans. It's where you live. I disagree. I've worked in other states. Just because their job is there doesn't mean they root for the hometown team. Not their school. Just because they live in the city doesn't mean they have to support the local team.

Now, can it be fun to jump on board? Sure! But to be pressured to follow the local. Team, because you live there? Nah, man. Support your team.

Long rant. May or may not be Maker's Mark induced.

but, don't sleep on the Sycamores!

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Tree house was rocking . Was extremely loud great atmosphere. Good times .

[OliviaPope40]

Could see UNC and UCONN in the final game.

[LamarCheeks]

Can't recall if there's a generic women's hoops thread -- but this Maryland-Iowa game is a real wing-dinger. 

Iowa led by 18, now trails by 2 late in third quarter.