2024-25 NCAA Basketball Thread

[PointWarrior]

Uh oh.....here comes the "we will beat Red by double digit" posts.

No, should beat them by at least 20..

[We R Final Four]

No, should beat them by at least 20..

.....which would be double digits.

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

.....which would be double digits.

I was told there would be no math.

[Galway Eagle]

.....which would be double digits.

In a factor of 10 sure but in binary it's quintuple digits. 

[muwarrior69]

I thought it would be fun to start with this item I just read in the Yahoo Sports e-newsletter:

Alright, this needs to be a bigger story: A freshman on the Florida basketball team is the tallest teenager in the world — and he just keeps getting taller.

‌Meet Olivier Rioux: The 18-year-old from Terrebonne, Quebec, played high school hoops at IMG Academy in Florida, where he was a 3-star recruit and the No. 310 player in the 2024 class, per 247Sports.

++ At eight years old, Rioux was 6-foot-1. By sixth grade, he was almost 7 feet tall. When he signed with the Gators last fall, he was 7-foot-6. Now, he's listed at 7-foot-9.
++ That makes him the tallest teenager in the world and the tallest player in college basketball history, topping 7-foot-8 Paul Sturgess. It would make him the tallest player in NBA history, too, should he make it to the league.
++ And what if he keeps growing? Well, then Gainesville, Florida, may just become home to the world's tallest man, a title currently held by an 8-foot-3 Turkish farmer named Sultan Kösen.

What he's saying: "We're still not 100% sure why I'm so tall ... doctors could only explain it with the genetics that my family has. My father is 6-foot-8, my mom is 6-foot-2 and my older brother is 6-foot-9," Rioux told Guinness World Records. "This is what nature planned for me. I learned to be peaceful and happy about it."

‌

I bet hey share bunk beds.

[Uncle Rico]

Monday marks the beginning of the 2024-25 college basketball season.  Here is your first list of must-see games, brought to you by our friends at Lenny's Tap:

IU-Columbus at IU-Indy, 10AM, ESPN+

Oglethorpe at Middle Tennessee St., 11AM, ESPN+

University of North Texas-Dallas at UT-Arlington, 11AM, ESPN+

La Grange at Jacksonville St., 11:30AM, ESPN+

Penn State-York at UMBC, 3PM, ESPN+

SUNY-Old Westbury at Hofstra, 4PM, FloC

Erskine at Wofford, 4PM, ESPN+

Framingham St. at Stonehill, 4PM, NEC

Georgian Court at Drexel, 5PM, FloC

River at Mass-Lowell, 5PM, ESPN+

Houghton at Niagara, 5:30PM, ESPN+

Peace at Davidson, 6PM, ESPN+

Cleary at Detroit, 6PM, ESPN+

Alice Lloyd at Eastern Kentucky, 6PM, ESPN+

Columbia International at Furman, 6PM, ESPN+

Trinity Baptist at Jacksonville, 6PM, ESPN+

Davis & Elkins at Marshall, 6PM, ESPN+

Hannibal-La Grange at Missouri-KC, 6PM, ESPN+

Frostburg St. at Morgan State, 6PM, ESPN+

Notre Dame of Maryland at Mount St. Mary's, 6PM, ESPN+

Defiance at Oakland, 6PM, ESPN+

College of Biblical Studies at Prairie View A&M, 6PM, SWAC

New College of Florida at Stetson, 6PM, ESPN3

Lakeland at Milwaukee, 6PM, ESPN+

Bluffton at PFW, 6PM, ESPN+

Lynchburg at Queens University, 6PM, ESPN+

York College (NE) at Drake, 6:30PM, ESPN+

LSU-Alexandria at Louisiana Tech, 6:30, ESPN+

West Georgia at Mississippi State, 6:30PM, SEC

Dallas Christian at Northwestern State, 6:30PM, ESPN+

Louisiana Christian at Tulane, 6:30PM, ESPN+

Randolph at Longwood, 6:30PM, ESPN+

Westminster (PA) at Youngstown St., 6:35PM, ESPN+

Arkansas Baptist at UALR, 7PM, ESPN+

Avila @ Houston Christian, 7PM, ESPN+

Paul Quinn at Lamar, 7PM, ESPN+

Park University-Gilbert at Northern Arizona, 7PM, ESPN+

Jamestown at North Dakota St., 7PM, Summit

William-Carey at SE Louisiana, 7:30, ESPN+

North Central at St. Thomas, 8PM, Summit

Life Pacific at LMU, 9PM, ESPN+

William Jessup at Pacific, 9PM, ESPN+

[tower912]

Thank you.  That list really gets me fired up.

[DoctorV]

What about Marquette?

[The Sultan]

Hannibal-La Grange at Missouri-KC, 6PM, ESPN+

Hannibal-La Grange's most prominant alumnus? Cotton Fitzsimmons.

Notre Dame of Maryland at Mount St. Mary's, 6PM, ESPN+

Notre Dame of Maryland is a sister school to Milwaukee's very own Mount Mary University. It only began accepting men last Fall.

[Uncle Rico]

Hannibal-La Grange's most prominant alumnus? Cotton Fitzsimmons.


Notre Dame of Maryland is a sister school to Milwaukee's very own Mount Mary University. It only began accepting men last Fall.

Mount Mary Milwaukee should move their campus to Mequon

[The Sultan]

Mount Mary Milwaukee should move their campus to Mequon

The Sisters sold that campus to Concordia back in the day.

[Uncle Rico]

The Sisters sold that campus to Concordia back in the day.

And now they're all dead.  SMDH

[Tyler COLEk]

Insane to see a game like Bluffton at PFW scheduled on the first day of the season.

[Jay Bee]

Another clash of the titans at DePaul tomorrow as well. One of our AAU kids is on Southern Indiana - hoping for a big Screaming Eagles win at WinTrust.

[The Sultan]

Insane to see a game like Bluffton at PFW scheduled on the first day of the season.

UWM is hosting Lakeland. A bad D3 team.

[Tyler COLEk]

UWM is hosting Lakeland. A bad D3 team.

Another gem. We need programs to save some of these marquee matchups for later in the season.

[Uncle Rico]

Wisconsin hosts Holy Cross tonight.  Watching that one closely.  Think this is the most talented Badger team this century.

[Shaka Shart]

North Central at future conference mate St. Thomas has big implications for Marquette's future SOS.

[Uncle Rico]

North Central at future conference mate St. Thomas has big implications for Marquette's future SOS.

I'll have my eye on that game for sure

[TallTitan34]

hoping for a big Screaming Eagles win at WinTrust.

Hayden Fox coaching?

[The Sultan]

North Central at future conference mate St. Thomas has big implications for Marquette's future SOS.

St.Thomas has to be careful. You can't just invite the lads up from Naperville and think you're gonna be able to manage them.

[Shaka Shart]

I have heard from my sources that Jamestown will eat you up inside if they get hungry enough to score.

[MUbiz]

Wisconsin hosts Holy Cross tonight.  Watching that one closely.  Think this is the most talented Badger team this century.

Same - which is why I hammered HC +26.5

[Newsdreams]

Wisconsin hosts Holy Cross tonight.  Watching that one closely.  Think this is the most talented Badger team this century.

Doesn't matta, Gard owns Shaka.

[Shaka Shart]

Doesn't matta, Gard owns Shaka.

I thought the holy cross was the process of Marquette driving to Madison