College Bball Thread

[Hovadipo]

Wasn't yesterday Purdue's day of giving too? That's some poetry right there.

[Demo]

Thank God we’re basically in the last year of this.

[IUCrazy2]

On 4/19/2024 at 5:13 PM, LamarCheeks said:

After all the departures in Madison, some Bucky fans have been calling for a changing of the Gard (see what I did there?) 

Not gonna happen. At least not anytime soon. 

 

They had their run and the pecking order is being reset.  I think NIL has turned into garbage that will have to be dealt with in some manner or it is going to kill college athletics.  We are just lucky that we are fans of a program that has Yankee and Dodger money as opposed to Pirates cash....

[Stuhoo]

21 minutes ago, Hardwood83 said:

Somewhat random, but I just read there are fewer than 3000 people worldwide that are 7'1" or taller. 

My guess is Matt Painter has recruited most of them. 

 

That's crazy considering that over the past few years Purdud has rostered Edey, Haarms, Berg, Haas, and now Jacobsen.

That means that  almost two-tenths of a percent of people on the planet that are that tall have been Purdoo centers.

[Demo]

https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/sports/chris-ledlum-jordan-dingle-suing-ncaa-for-extra-year-of-eligibility-at-st-johns/
 

The Covid year never ends. Chris Ledlum and Jordan Dingle are suing for another year of eligibility because the Ivy League cancelled the 20-21 season. So, in effect, they didn’t get a Covid year. I see their point, but I’m completely over 24-25 year old men playing in college.

[LIHoosier]

54 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/sports/chris-ledlum-jordan-dingle-suing-ncaa-for-extra-year-of-eligibility-at-st-johns/
 

The Covid year never ends. Chris Ledlum and Jordan Dingle are suing for another year of eligibility because the Ivy League cancelled the 20-21 season. So, in effect, they didn’t get a Covid year. I see their point, but I’m completely over 24-25 year old men playing in college.

[steubenhoosier]

Juwan Howard hires on as an assistant with the Brooklyn Nets

[BlueDevil]

Indiana up to #16 in the ESPN way too early Top 25 for next season.

[str8baller]

2 hours ago, BlueDevil said:

Indiana up to #16 in the ESPN way too early Top 25 for next season.

Ant Wright on Twitter is a decent follow. He thinks IU has a top 5 roster, fwiw.

[Hornsby]

https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/sports/chris-ledlum-jordan-dingle-suing-ncaa-for-extra-year-of-eligibility-at-st-johns/
 
The Covid year never ends. Chris Ledlum and Jordan Dingle are suing for another year of eligibility because the Ivy League cancelled the 20-21 season. So, in effect, they didn’t get a Covid year. I see their point, but I’m completely over 24-25 year old men playing in college.

Lol it is never going to end.24 and 25 year olds playing against 18 year olds. Andof course they will win the ncaa is powerless now

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[Demo]

5 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Ant Wright on Twitter is a decent follow. He thinks IU has a top 5 roster, fwiw.

I like Ant a lot. He may even be right. But, man, there are so many pieces to incorporate and get acquainted here that in November they may look like the ‘76 team some moments and the ‘09 team other moments in the same games. This will be an undeniably interesting season.

 

[CSP]

19 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Ant Wright on Twitter is a decent follow. He thinks IU has a top 5 roster, fwiw.

Here's what he said. 

 

 

 

 

[go iu bb]

52 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

Lol it is never going to end.24 and 25 year olds playing against 18 year olds. Andof course they will win the ncaa is powerless now

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I think this is one that the NCAA can actually win. Typically when they've lost, it's been because they were trying to restrict students who happened to be athletes (which is and has been the NCAA's view for a long time) from having the same rights as students who aren't athletes. Basically, by not wanting to make athletes employees, the NCAA and the schools created this situation.

However, I don't think another year of eligibility because of not playing falls into that category. 

I guess it would really depend on how the NCAA worded it when they gave players another year of eligibility.

[str8baller]

3 hours ago, Demo said:

I like Ant a lot. He may even be right. But, man, there are so many pieces to incorporate and get acquainted here that in November they may look like the ‘76 team some moments and the ‘09 team other moments in the same games. This will be an undeniably interesting season.

 

Agree. That’s the danger of the portal, I guess. But we have all season to sort it out. I’ll say, one thing I’ll give Woody credit for is he seems to generally have brought in solid dudes who like to compete. Even Ware really had very little issues in that regard. 

[str8baller]

3 hours ago, btownqb said:

Here's what he said. 

 

 

 

 

I didn’t see his follow up post. The first one made it sound like he thought top 5 or pretty close to it.  
 

He’s historically defended Woody too—and he was defending him in the comments to that first tweet—so it’s not like he’s throwing that out to place unrealistic expectations on him.

[Stuhoo]

3 hours ago, Demo said:

I like Ant a lot. He may even be right. But, man, there are so many pieces to incorporate and get acquainted here that in November they may look like the ‘76 team some moments and the ‘09 team other moments in the same games. This will be an undeniably interesting season.

 

Versus all of these other portal era teams that have great continuity and five starters retur...

Ahhh ... never mind.

[Demo]

30 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Versus all of these other portal era teams that have great continuity and five starters retur...

Ahhh ... never mind.

Fair point, but even by portal standards this is gonna be pretty fluid. Would think the 2 big things early will be how long does it take Rice to figure where to get the ball to guys and where not to and do they communicate defensively well enough not to put Ballo in foul trouble every game.

[CSP]

16 hours ago, str8baller said:

I didn’t see his follow up post. The first one made it sound like he thought top 5 or pretty close to it.  
 

He’s historically defended Woody too—and he was defending him in the comments to that first tweet—so it’s not like he’s throwing that out to place unrealistic expectations on him.

I have no problem with Ant's posts... and he keeps receipts and has been right A LOT. He's a good follow. 

[Stuhoo]

17 hours ago, Demo said:

Fair point, but even by portal standards this is gonna be pretty fluid. Would think the 2 big things early will be how long does it take Rice to figure where to get the ball to guys and where not to and do they communicate defensively well enough not to put Ballo in foul trouble every game.

Illinois says "hold my beer."

Their current starting lineup:

• Ty Rodgers,
• Carey Booth,
• Tre White,
• Kylan Boswell,
• Drayvn Gibbs-Langhorn.

[Demo]

57 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Illinois says "hold my beer."

Their current starting lineup:

• Ty Rodgers,
• Carey Booth,
• Tre White,
• Kylan Boswell,
• Drayvn Gibbs-Langhorn.

Very true. And even with the respect I have for Underwood there is no universe where I’m giving my team to Gibbs-Lawhorn. No, no, no, no, no.