2023-24 College Basketball Thread

[willeyeam]

lol

[Orlando Penguin]

Wow

I've always been puzzled at how St. John's never seems to be able to legitimately compete. I get that NYC is a pro town but they play home games at MSG, and have a huge pool of players to maybe get to stay at home.

3 impressions of this:

1. You could have stayed at Iona and built the team you wanted under little scrutiny. But nope, Pitino is an egomaniac and needed to be back in the spotlight.

2. This is the team you recruited. You were hired on March 20. The portal hadn’t opened yet. Don’t give us this crap that this was a last-minute build.

3. It doesn’t say much about your in-game coaching. They’ve lost 8 of their last 10, 3 of them by one possession. They’ve had other games like last night where they hit a slump and that dooms them. Pitino doesn’t seem to have any answers.

[willeyeam]

VT beating UVA up. If this was the big twelve, we could talk about how it shows how deep the conference is and every night is a grind.

[CBear3]

Or maybe UVA has a really low floor as evidenced by scoring a combined 88 points over their last two games and their other horrible losses to Notre Dame(#223) and NC State (#90).

(RPI)

[willeyeam]

NC State isn't a bad loss

[CBear3]

KenPom likes them a lot more than the RPI does it seems, so maybe I'll give them a pass.
What's interesting is that Ken Pom actually likes VT more than UVa

[willeyeam]

yeah, VT isn't too bad

[CBear3]

And I have to admit to slightly checking out.
Mizzou is butt, the Juwan Howard experiment has expired back in my birthplace, so the only team I have to root for with a winning record is my father's alma mater Drexel. Lean times in Bear household.

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

Lean time less than a month from a superb owl

[CBear3]

Lean time less than a month from a superb owl

In terms of CBB at least

[RonnieFranchise]

You know you're on the bandwagon

[CBear3]

Forgot about Kim. heard they had to play in rain boots last time out.

[RonnieFranchise]

State beats #12 Illinois at Rec Hall. Move back there permanently pls.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

[willeyeam]

Kent State sucks

[RonnieFranchise]

PSU gets to 8-9 in conference with a dub over Indiana today. Seeing them get their act together has been nice. Can’t imagine they have swept the Hoosiers before.

They will finish around .500 but Shrews crashed and burned at ND in a crummy ACC this year. Funny how that works.

[Orlando Penguin]

Shrews also didn’t have much to work with when he got there, which would have been similar had he stayed at PSU. ND’s his dream job and he got a nice raise for it too.

[RonnieFranchise]

Should it be the end of court storms? Why, because a dookie got hurt?

Seriously though, once I got the "cry me a **** river Duke" out of my system, man they freaking trucked that kid. It's hard to not assume malicious intent from appearances, but drunk excited college kids in the heat of the moment.....

Schools have to be prepared with extra security in front of student sections for games where a court storm is possible. Unranked team vs high ranked, games deciding any kind of championship, and any game vs a blue blood and especially Duke. How you keep a 5,000 strong student section off the court.... extend some sort of barrier from a minute left until the teams have cleared the court if a storm is imminent? Threaten a forfeit if they storm before it's clear?

[Orlando Penguin]

Bumped for current events…

It’s UCF so winning isn’t something they’re used to in basketball. It was also their first Big 12 win and it came against Kansas. That being said, those things are dangerous in confined arenas like that one. There was a big bottleneck at one end with people getting close to being trampled and one of the officials got trapped between the seating area and basket support, trying to ride out the tide.

[willeyeam]

[dodint]

I wonder how hockey avoids these kinds of things....hmmm. Maybe it will come to me in time.

[willeyeam]

Good point. Put in some boards and glass, and make the surface ice

[dodint]

Bingo.

[Beveridge]

Shock collars, I agree.

[RonnieFranchise]

One game left vs. UCONN, then the Big East Tourney. If we don't win another game, this is a good way to close the last win of the season, at Ed's home court.