2024-25 NCAA Basketball Thread

[MuggsyB]

Anyone putting Love above Kam on any best player list, just doesn't watch ball.

Poll the top 25 teams in country. All 25 coaches take Kam.

Absolutely.  Kam was spectacular today minus those two missed FT's.

[Shaka Shart]

Not a single player with a buzz cut on the badger roster.

[romey]

Not a single player with a buzz cut on the badger roster.

That's why they scored 103

[PGsHeroes32]

Absolutely.  Kam was spectacular today minus those two missed FT's.

That's on you tho.

[wadesworld]

Remember when posters were saying Purdue isn't a Tourney team without Edey last year? 😂 As if Matt Painter wasn't the Purdue coach or something.

[Tyler COLEk]

Love to see Purdue winning that game coming into Tuesday.

[MuggsyB]

Purdue is obviously a big challenge and well coached......how would you go about dismantling them? They rarely turn it over. 

[MuggsyB]

Remember when posters were saying Purdue isn't a Tourney team without Edey last year? 😂 As if Matt Painter wasn't the Purdue coach or something.

Who said that?

[Jay Bee]

Who said that?

His mom, during a bathing session.

[Newsdreams]

Anyone putting Love above Kam on any best player list, just doesn't watch ball.

Poll the top 25 teams in country. All 25 coaches take Kam.

Coaches know ball

[DoctorV]

Purdue is obviously a big challenge and well coached......how would you go about dismantling them? They rarely turn it over. 

Very systematically Muggsy.

Marquette and Purdue are two of the hands down best programs in college basketball these days, with two of the hands down best coaches in the game.

It'll be a treat for the fans, just like last nights game in Maryland was

[Uncle Rico]

Anyone putting Love above Kam on any best player list, just doesn't watch ball.

Poll the top 25 teams in country. All 25 coaches take Kam.

Love was their Achilles heel in the tourney last year.  I think Tommy Lloyd is a good coach.  His team does a lot of good stuff but he needs to reign Love in for that team to maximize its potential

[Uncle Rico]

Huge games on the docket today.  Many with direct implications for the cause of the Big East. 

St. Mary's (MN) at UIC, Noon, ESPN+

Misericordia at Binghamton, 1PM, ESPN+

Rockford at Houston Christian, 3:30, ESPN+

St. Joseph's (Long Island) at Stony Brook, 5:31PM, FloC

Capital at Dayton, 6PM, ESPN+

Central State (OH) at Wright St., 6PM, ESPN+

Haskell Indian Nations at Oral Bob, 7PM, Summit

[MUDPT]

Purdue is obviously a big challenge and well coached......how would you go about dismantling them? They rarely turn it over. 

Told my Dad last night (Purdue alum), that Braden Smith watched a lot of Kolek videos last summer. He was so good last night manipulating the defenders in the pick and roll. I didn't see the 2nd half, but it looks like they went on a roll from 3. Kaufman- Renn has also been really good. Where they aren't as good without Edey is defensively. Lots of wide open 3s and difficulty handling isolation on the perimeter. It will probably come down to who hits more 3s.

[Newsdreams]

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Huge games on the docket today.  Many with direct implications for the cause of the Big East. 

St. Mary's (MN) at UIC, Noon, ESPN+

Misericordia at Binghamton, 1PM, ESPN+

Rockford at Houston Christian, 3:30, ESPN+

St. Joseph's (Long Island) at Stony Brook, 5:31PM, FloC

Capital at Dayton, 6PM, ESPN+

Central State (OH) at Wright St., 6PM, ESPN+

Haskell Indian Nations at Oral Bob, 7PM, Summit

Huge games on the docket today.  Many with direct implications for the cause of the Big East. 

St. Mary's (MN) at UIC, Noon, ESPN+

Misericordia at Binghamton, 1PM, ESPN+

Rockford at Houston Christian, 3:30, ESPN+

St. Joseph's (Long Island) at Stony Brook, 5:31PM, FloC

Capital at Dayton, 6PM, ESPN+

Central State (OH) at Wright St., 6PM, ESPN+

Haskell Indian Nations at Oral Bob, 7PM, Summit

Got to watch St. Joseph's @ Stony Brook huge implications for MU's seeding. Is Oral Bob supported by MU dentists?

[wadesworld]

Who said that?

Maybe I was thinking of this:

Purdue wouldn't be ranked without Edey.

But there were posts like this throughout the year about Purdue, and posts about how Edey wasn't good at basketball and wouldn't have an NBA career.  Sure, if Edey had been perfectly healthy all through warmups and then last second told Painter he couldn't go, in theory MN might "boat race" Purdue, but even then I have my doubts.  Guys like Kaufman-Renn are sitting on Purdue's bench behind NPOY candidates every year.  And again, Painter is on their bench.  It's safe to just assume Purdue will be minimum a top 15 team with Painter there until we start seeing otherwise.

I would go as far as to say take Eddey off that team and they get boat raced by the gophers.

Even the announcers on 3 occaisions have been befuddled by 3 fouls hes drawn.

[MuggsyB]

Very systematically Muggsy.

Marquette and Purdue are two of the hands down best programs in college basketball these days, with two of the hands down best coaches in the game.

It'll be a treat for the fans, just like last nights game in Maryland was

One of the unsung stats last night is that we didn't cough it up much until the last minute where we lost focus.  I thought we played our B game Dr.V.  Kam carried us and there are going to be games where he can't do it alone or he has an off shooting night.  Part of it is missing wide open looks but it's also a few guys pressing a bit .  The easiest way to get into rhythm imo is to get a bucket or two inside and some throws early.  The ball movement was crisp, it's time for all of our guys to deliver and go on consistent barrages in our offensive sets. 

[Uncle Rico]

Got to watch St. Joseph's @ Stony Brook huge implications for MU's seeding. Is Oral Bob supported by MU dentists?

The Stony Brook game is one of the bigger ones of the day.  Can really help Marquette's cause and the Big East's cause.

Many people confuse Oral Bob with Liberty and with good reason

[Uncle Rico]

Maybe I was thinking of this:

But there were posts like this throughout the year about Purdue, and posts about how Edey wasn't good at basketball and wouldn't have an NBA career.  Sure, if Edey had been perfectly healthy all through warmups and then last second told Painter he couldn't go, in theory MN might "boat race" Purdue, but even then I have my doubts.  Guys like Kaufman-Renn are sitting on Purdue's bench behind NPOY candidates every year.  And again, Painter is on their bench.  It's safe to just assume Purdue will be minimum a top 15 team with Painter there until we start seeing otherwise.

At this point, doubting Purdue regular season success is foolhardy. 

Culture?  They have it ingrained in that program.  I don't like them, but that's going to be a well-coached, tough as nails team.

Unlike Tony Bennett, I think Painter loves the challenge of today's landscape building a sustainable level of excellence instead of chasing the dragon.

They may not win a natty but they'll be in the mix a lot more than not and that makes it a lot of fun for the players, supporters and Dollar Store Boilermakers

[Uncle Rico]

Youngstown State up 7 at half at Syracuse

[MuMark]

I don't know what there is not to like about Purdue.........Painter is a class act.......great program.....never cheated as far as I know.......lots of respect for them.

[Tyler COLEk]

Youngstown State up 7 at half at Syracuse

Curious that the deterioration of Syracuse bball coincided with the woke mob cancelling Bernie Fine.

[Uncle Rico]

Yale up 21-11 at Minnesota

[tower912]

Marcus Johnson, Bowling Green.  Shaka should have grabbed from the portal for all of you Davante fans.

[Newsdreams]

Marcus Johnson, Bowling Green.  Shaka should have grabbed from the portal for all of you Davante fans.

Automatic? Or chilling...