2024-25 NCAA Basketball Thread

[brewcity77]

I don't recall a team ever having a resume this early on as Auburn has. They could legitimately clinch a 1 seed barring a collapse during conference play already. It would be hard pressed to find another who even has a remaining schedule with teams as good as they have already beat.

Houston
Iowa state
Memphis
North Carolina

Remaining games vs Duke and Purdue.

Purdue has a very good non conference schedule last year but I don't think it's close to what Auburn has done to date

Will be interesting to watch. Last year Purdue beat three 2-seeds, a 4, and a 5. If Auburn sweeps, they might outdo that, but I think people are overrating Memphis again. Probably a 7-10 seed, not the 2-4 people are currently saying. That UConn win lost a lot of luster in the last 72 hours.

[Uncle Rico]

No games of the day today.  Enjoy your Thanksgiving knowing Bradley hosts Judson tomorrow

[brewcity77]

Seriously? I just watched an angry UConn team get beat by a bad Colorado team and you think they'll kick the s#!t out of a Dayton team that has gone toe to toe with UNC & Iowa St?

Maybe a different UConn shows up today, but I expect Dayton to win that. They have been the much, much better team in Maui so far.

QFT

[PGsHeroes32]

Will be interesting to watch. Last year Purdue beat three 2-seeds, a 4, and a 5. If Auburn sweeps, they might outdo that, but I think people are overrating Memphis again. Probably a 7-10 seed, not the 2-4 people are currently saying. That UConn win lost a lot of luster in the last 72 hours.

Yeah Memphis definitely has talent and can be tough on teams any given night

But a huge part of both of their first two wins in Maui was Hunter a very blah shooter for many years. Going unconscious drilling step backs

[Billy Hoyle]

Congrats to Posh Alexander on being the first college hoopster to play for 100 different schools.

Dayton is only Posh's third school, that's nothing these days. Penn State had a kid a few years ago who played for five different D1 schools. https://apnews.com/article/march-madness-penn-state-henn-9af0a0f7ae9b16d3496c3bd4b2f1203f

AJ Storr will probably be on his fourth next season, and if that happens it would be his eighth different school in eight years (four high schools). Player intros should not just include hometowns but also previous colleges attended. MU's would be the fastest in the country.

[Scoop Snoop]

QFT

Enjoy your victory lap, Brew. I was one of those scoopers who said, in effect, "But it's UCONN. It's UCONN. They'll be fine. Just you wait and see." Yeah, riiiight. We saw.

[Billy Hoyle]

Yeah Memphis definitely has talent and can be tough on teams any given night

But a huge part of both of their first two wins in Maui was Hunter a very blah shooter for many years. Going unconscious drilling step backs

The X factor for Memphis is having Penny on the bench. He's good for grabbing defeats from the jaws of victory a few times a season.

[Apolitical Warrior]

QFT

You were right! I just didn't expect Uconn to let itself get punched in the mouth like that.

[PGsHeroes32]

arizona is very fortunate they are in the big 12 now. Because right now their non con resume is very Big East like

Extremely overrated team to begin the year

[MuggsyB]

Zona is apparently mediocre.

[MuggsyB]

Jeremiah Cherry is like a taller and more mobile Davante. 

[wisblue]

We're being reminded that preseason rankings are pretty meaningless.

They always have been, but it seems to be worse now in the free transfer era. You just don't know how these teams are going to come together.

The other reminder should be that teams can change a lot between November and March.

Back in the old days, the first games of the season would be in late November or even early December. Now teams have 7 or 8 games by then, some of them against tough competition.

[Billy Hoyle]

St Mary's bests USC 71-36. The Gaels don't seem to be misding Aiden Mahaney tonight

[Apolitical Warrior]

Add em to the big east

[Uncle Rico]

A lot of action today that will directly hurt or help Marquette's credit score.  Games are brought to you by the Matt Eberflus School of Game Managment:

Judson College at Bradley, 1PM, ESPN+

Central Penn College at Liberty, 3PM, ESPN+

Elizabeth City St., at VCU, 6PM, ESPN+

[Scoop Snoop]

Add em to the big east

Why the teal? Val is going to need to find some decent non-FB schools once she finds a way to off-load the BE dregs. The WCC looks like one of the conferences worth poaching.

[Billy Hoyle]

Why the teal? Val is going to need to find some decent non-FB schools once she finds a way to off-load the BE dregs. The WCC looks like one of the conferences worth poaching.

Maybe because other than basketball their teams are bad and the school is facing an enrollment and financial crisis. Their previousAD, Mark Orr,left after the President took the money Orr raised to build a new hoops arena. No way they could afford to join the Big East. They aren't even on the radar of the MWC or Pac whatever.

[wadesworld]

Maybe because other than basketball their teams are bad and the school is facing an enrollment and financial crisis. Their previousAD, Mark Orr,left after the President took the money Orr raised to build a new hoops arena. No way they could afford to join the Big East. They aren't even on the radar of the MWC or Pac whatever.

The BE shouldn't care how sports other than men's basketball are.

[Billy Hoyle]

The BE shouldn't care how sports other than men's basketball are.

BE won't care but the school that would be forced to significantly increase it's investment into sports, especially travel, does care, especially when they don't have the money. That's the issue for SMC.

[Scoop Snoop]

Maybe because other than basketball their teams are bad and the school is facing an enrollment and financial crisis. Their previousAD, Mark Orr,left after the President took the money Orr raised to build a new hoops arena. No way they could afford to join the Big East. They aren't even on the radar of the MWC or Pac whatever.

Guess I should have used teal myself.

[PGsHeroes32]

Florida is a perfect example for why Shaka scheduled the way he did this non con instead of joining a random poor MTE if the good ones were unavailable.

Florida had Wake(Ken Pom 105 entering today), Wichita(74) and Minnesota(just an awful team) in their 4 teamer

Beat Wak 75-58. Currently beating Wichita 62-24.

Wake and Wichita both survived Minnesota in games in the 50s in regulation. That made eyes bleed.

[wadesworld]

BE won't care but the school that would be forced to significantly increase it's investment into sports, especially travel, does care, especially when they don't have the money. That's the issue for SMC.

They'd get more than enough money from playing BE basketball than they'd lose out on travel costs for their other sports teams.

[Uncle Rico]

Arizona scuffle bus

[MuggsyB]

Arizona scuffle bus

So much for that "signature win" at the Kohl.  And they won't be getting 50 FT's against anyone else. 

[PGsHeroes32]

Zona 3-4 lol