2025-26 College Hoops Thread

[wadesworld]

https://x.com/i/status/2019251901116600637

Buddy if you believe the University of Houston is hurting for money for their basketball program I've got a bridge to sell you. I'm sure the #16 and 55 ranked freshman recruits for next year are going there for free, the numbers 7, 16, and 22 ranked recruits in this year's freshman class (a historically good class) were all value buys on the clearance rack that no other P4 programs wanted, and borderline NBA returnees in Sharp, Uzan, and Tugler couldn't find competitive NIL deals from other high majors.

It's Houston my man. The area certainly isn't hurting for money, and they certainly don't have a small alumni base. They have almost 50K students attending this year.

Certainly it couldn't be a coach crying poor to get even more money to use on his roster.

[JTJ3]

https://x.com/i/status/2019251901116600637

Lol what a joke of a quote.  Sampson is as good as it gets in college ball right now, but his roster is also absolutely loaded and has multiple billionaire boosters.

[muwarrior69]

Lol what a joke of a quote.  Sampson is as good as it gets in college ball right now, but his roster is also absolutely loaded and has multiple billionaire boosters.

...and Marquette can compete in this environment. In another thread the Wisconsin legislature just gave UW another 15 million. 

[Tarragona]

Get some Kohler money. Recently, Nina Kohler made the lead gift to Vanderbilt Women's Athletics' new $50 million campaign. All money goes to Women's Sports. She is on the board of trustees there. This is in addition their recent athletics campaign which surpassed $300 million.

https://vucommodores.com/anchoredforher/

[MuggsyB]

Lol what a joke of a quote.  Sampson is as good as it gets in college ball right now, but his roster is also absolutely loaded and has multiple billionaire boosters.

Ya....this is complete nonsense. 

[The Sultan]

...and Marquette can compete in this environment. In another thread the Wisconsin legislature just gave UW another 15 million.

Time to fold the program.

[muwarrior69]

Time to fold the program.

Hope not, but?

[The Sultan]

Hope not, but?

Yep. We can't compete. Might as well close the university.

[MU82]

https://x.com/i/status/2019251901116600637

Yeah, this isn't at all like a politician, who already has a huge stash of campaign cash, out there stumping for more.

[JWags85]

Wes Miller finding a way to save his job?

I really liked Wes Miller as a coach when he was at UNCG, thought he was gonna be a great high major HC.  But he's been really disappointing 5 years in at Cincy.  He walked into a mess, but its been years and now he has the B12 to leverage instead of the AAC.  And this year has just been a weird year. Lost to Eastern Michigan in the non-con and lost by 20 on a neutral court to a very mediocre UGA team.  Started 1-3 in the B12 and then absolutely handle a previously recently undefeated ISU the entire game.  Then they lose another 4 of 5, Miller is near tears apologizing to fans for losing to WVU, and then they destroy a UCF team that had just beat TTU, beat K State bad enough to get Tang fired, and then smoke KU in Lawrence.  What a ride.

Also, another volume transfer portal caution story.  They brought a bunch of seemingly attractive transfers, former top 100 guys like Harris from WVU/Illinois, another guy who shot 40%+ from 3 at both Cal and Baylor, and then Kriisa who started 70 games for Zona then shot 40% from 3 at WVU before transferring to UK and getting hurt...but they've all stunk.  Especially Kriisa.  Their most productive transfer, from George Mason, got hurt before the year even started.  Their other 2 transfers, Thiem and Baba Miller, have actually been their best 2 players, but bringing in that much new talent, especially when you have 2 other highly touted top 60 freshman, you gotta expect more.   

[JWags85]

That article is misleading a bit.

https://x.com/rosschaifetz/status/2025048187451388111?s=46

Barry Evans (VCU) started the fight. The other 2 things were common basketball plays with bad timing. Down 16 with 1 second left, VCU tried to steal the ball and take a shot while everyone else had stopped playing. Often a coach would tell the players to back off. He didn't.

So, trapped on the sidelines at half court, he steals the ball, and he gets a soft low body bump tap foul from Avila if foul worthy at all. Normal basketball plays. Questionable timing and location.

This angle here shows Evans running upand shoving a player from behind:

https://x.com/jwarren332/status/2025031901757444135?s=46

Josh Schertz still has some of his sneaky top national 100 junior tennis speed.

The mentioned previous year fight was fans in the stands as VCU had a player from Saint Louis on their team. He brought a lot of family and friends. There was a lot of trash talk that eventually turned physical.

Good to have you back shoothoops!

[Billy Hoyle]

Buddy if you believe the University of Houston is hurting for money for their basketball program I've got a bridge to sell you. I'm sure the #16 and 55 ranked freshman recruits for next year are going there for free, the numbers 7, 16, and 22 ranked recruits in this year's freshman class (a historically good class) were all value buys on the clearance rack that no other P4 programs wanted, and borderline NBA returnees in Sharp, Uzan, and Tugler couldn't find competitive NIL deals from other high majors.

It's Houston my man. The area certainly isn't hurting for money, and they certainly don't have a small alumni base. They have almost 50K students attending this year.

Certainly it couldn't be a coach crying poor to get even more money to use on his roster.

How many actually graduate, and with degrees that are going to make them serious money, though? It's like UCF with over 70K attending, but what is the actual graduation rate, and what kind of careers are the graduates going into?

[Billy Hoyle]

That article is misleading a bit.

https://x.com/rosschaifetz/status/2025048187451388111?s=46

I wouldn't expect much use from Nepobaby jock sniffer Chaifetz. The SLU player forearmed the VCU defender, so the VCU defender stole the ball from him, then Billiken Laimbeer shoved the VCU player.

[wadesworld]

Good to have you back shoothoops!

Ah, now THAT explains everything.