2025-26 College Hoops Thread

[MuMark]

https://x.com/nbc10/status/2038343776838492450?s=61

[Jay Bee]

Powell is a sh1tbag

[MU82]

https://x.com/nbc10/status/2038343776838492450?s=61

Stunning. He seemed like such a fine young man.

[Tarragona]

This is not a surprise, even if unpopular. 76 teams for the NCAA Tourney:

https://x.com/sbj/status/2040157662332035546?s=46

[Scoop Snoop]

Stunning. He seemed like such a fine young man.

Is he in the portal? Muggsy has been screaming for bangers. This guy fits the bill.

[MuggsyB]

Is he in the portal? Muggsy has been screaming for bangers. This guy fits the bill.

Let's not talk nonsense.  Dude is a total thug. 

[K1 Lover]

Just tuned in to the NIT Championship. Not like it matters, but actually an entertaining game.

Auburn blew a 21-point lead and was down 3 to Tulsa with seven seconds left. Tulsa shot themselves in the foot and turned the ball over during the inbound, allowing Auburn to make a game-tying three.

Auburn's up 3 with about a minute left in OT.

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

Bump

Would you take Florida, Zona, and Duke vs the field?

No, because Michigan might be the favorite.

[willie warrior]

Bump

ESPN has Michigan as way too early favorite in Top 25. UConn and St. John in top 11. MU Nowhere to be found. The gap is huge. Giddyup Shaka. That is why you get the big bucks.

[muwarrior69]

ESPN has Michigan as way too early favorite in Top 25. UConn and St. John in top 11. MU Nowhere to be found. The gap is huge. Giddyup Shaka. That is why you get the big bucks.

hmm...perhaps some of the players are getting bigger bucks.

[MU82]

Two years ago, Michigan went 8-24.

[rocky_warrior]

Two years ago, Michigan went 8-24.

And fired that coach!

[Pakuni]

Two years ago, Michigan went 8-24.

And fired that coach!

And completely overhauled the roster by hitting the portal hard.

[Billy Hoyle]

And fired that coach!

and rebuilt their roster using the Portal. Call the entire team "mercenaries" if you want (especially if you're in East Lansing, MI), but UM took advantage of the new rules and used them to their advantage, building a roster that meshed together. As much as I dislike UM, they were the best team.

That said, UConn had the right game plan to beat them; they just didn't execute on the offensive end.

[Uncle Rico]

and rebuilt their roster using the Portal. Call the entire team "mercenaries" if you want (especially if you're in East Lansing, MI), but UM took advantage of the new rules and used them to their advantage, building a roster that meshed together. As much as I dislike UM, they were the best team.

That said, UConn had the right game plan to beat them; they just didn't execute on the offensive end.

A lot of narratives will be written about this game, like when Kentucky won in 2012.

Really, there's one common thread, the teams with the best players usually win

[brewcity77]

A lot of narratives will be written about this game, like when Kentucky won in 2012.

Had UConn pulled it off, the narrative around Yaxel playing would've haunted Dusty May for a long time.

But they won, so I'm sure someone will try to write his poor performance as some motivational Willis Reed moment.

[Billy Hoyle]

ESPN has Michigan as way too early favorite in Top 25. UConn and St. John in top 11. MU Nowhere to be found. The gap is huge. Giddyup Shaka. That is why you get the big bucks.

who cares? Nobody knows what those teams' rosters are going to look like.

[Uncle Rico]

Had UConn pulled it off, the narrative around Yaxel playing would've haunted Dusty May for a long time.

But they won, so I'm sure someone will try to write his poor performance as some motivational Willis Reed moment.

Yup.  Tower always says it, the winners write the narrative

[tower912]

who cares? Nobody knows what those teams' rosters are going to look like.

You never know when you are going to have a top team team in early April, only to have the second and third best players decide they don't like the best player, take their ball and leave.

[MU82]

And fired that coach!

And completely overhauled the roster by hitting the portal hard.

Yup, and yup.

I honestly was not trying to make a "Just watch Marquette do what Michigan did!" statement. I read that fact this morning, and it blew my mind, so I posted it. No ulterior motive.

May is neither the first nor only coach to have rebuilt almost totally by the transfer portal, but he did it better than anybody else - obviously. As an outside observer, I find the whole thing fascinating.

[wadesworld]

The president accepts a participation Nobel Peace Prize trophy that somebody else won and now everyone wants to pass along their awards to other participants.  Sad!

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/arizona-basketball-tommy-lloyd-wants-205411105.html

[MU82]

Really good article in The Athletic about Dusty May's rise and his philosophy.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7177801/2026/04/07/dusty-may-michigan-national-championship-career/?

As one who coached at the high school and middle school level (and who definitely was not a "screamer"), this really resonated with me:

At the Final Four, May trusted Cadeau to throw passes off the backboard to get around Arizona's behemoth center Motiejus Krivas. And when his number was called in crunch time on Monday night, Cadeau got a little too brave, tossing an underhanded alley oop from the 3-point line over the head of Mara. Instead of chastising his point guard, May calmly pointed to where he thought the ball should have gone, to Nimari Burnett at the top of the key.

"When we turn the ball over or miss a shot, we never look over to the sideline and see one of the coaches throwing a fit," Cadeau said. "They're just all calm because they understand that we understand the mistakes that we made. There's really no reason to react crazily."

"We're fortunate because we are learning that you don't have to be a d— to be successful," assistant coach Mike Boynton Jr. said, "You don't have to demean your players. You can find joy in the work, and then it makes the joy and the success of that work much more impactful."