NCAA HOOP

chet v paolo 2nite baby big game

neglected to watch it, looked like a good game tho

uconn women ranked seventh

what a disaster, geno no doubt searching wikipedia for 'seppuku'

amazing that joe lunardi has carved out a career as a 'bracketologist'

i mean all you have to do is . . . look at the team records? maybe the kenpom? and if you're wrong on a bubble team, you can always blame it on some minor conference tournament upset

i respect the hustle, particularly when it involves writing mid-january stories about how kansas has fallen off the one-line(!)

we have a scrum in madison

CHAOS IN THE HANDSHAKE LINE

Juwan Howard is HOT😲pic.twitter.com/6BnBdhOVK2

— PointsBet Sportsbook (@PointsBetUSA) February 20, 2022

lol this is a tremendously bad look for howard

you hafta think some serious disrespect was perceived in what the badger coach said

not howard’s first time not acting his age

o shit duke's gonna lose K's last home game

shouldve booked an easier game

i haven't been paying attention to the acc, but i was sort of surprised to see that unc isn't ranked despite being 14-5 in conference play.

this 20-minute long extended feed of sad Duke fans waiting to be addressed by Coach K is one of the greatest moments in sports television history. I’m riveted

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) March 6, 2022

Hate see Mike go out like this.

— Daggum Roy (@DaggumRoy) March 6, 2022

this is pretty good i had idea he was such a psycho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfyw0I9Zucs

i have two really good friends from high school who went to duke, apparently he would use rallies to ream out the student sections for not cheering hard enough using like total full profanity. he is a psychotic little rat man.

lol not sure how i missed that thought he was more of a professional success wins type guy, i like him better now

i haven't been paying attention to the acc, but i was sort of surprised to see that unc isn't ranked despite being 14-5 in conference play.

― circles, Saturday, March 5, 2022 8:26 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago)

bad year for the ACC. not sure UNC has a single NBA player on their team. even duke feels like a top 5 team by default more than anything. banchero might be the only NBA player on their team.

if you root for an acc basketball team that isn't duke you're very well aware that coach k is notorious for berating the refs into leaning towards duke w/ his demonic vermin screaming that will never ever get T'd up because he is the one and only coach k

xxxp that was not my experience having gone to duke (tbf i am old)

i mean, i don't think he's a *nice* guy, but i doubt he's worse than most other coaches, let alone the successful ones

Haha @WorldWideWob pic.twitter.com/mdWTF1EHNP

— Karan (@Karan8263) March 6, 2022

notorious for berating the refs into leaning towards duke w/ his demonic vermin screaming

lol he's still bitter about dean getting this treatment 30-40 years ago

i will say i hate duke but i don’t hate coach k. idk why. maybe it’s bcuz so many NBA players who didn’t play for him in college seem to love him

athletes are the most enthusiastic consumers of athletic mythology

that’s true

i mean im sure hes good with players, college sports is so much about recruiting after all, but hes def got a halo

tbh i just think he pays a great deal of attention to the small shit

ten years ago i went to a duke fantasy camp (courtesy of an extremely loaded friend, because i can in no way afford that) and basically tore my acl the first time i touched the ball, which was embarrassing af

two weeks later he fucking called me to 'see how i was doing'

obviously he built up advantages (and presumably he thought i had more money to spend on him) but that's good recruiting

wow yeah that is some high level shit

that's impressive as hell, no argument from me

yeah, that's impressive. even as the years went on he could still sell himself to recruits and their families, duke donors, the media, and nba players on team usa. lol, i guess seeing bob knight up close gave him good example of how not to do it.

banchero might be the only NBA player on their team.

― J0rdan S., Saturday, March 5, 2022 9:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

griffin is gonna be a high pick, but maybe cause this draft is just not great

DAVE HOLMGREN

Chet Holmgren's dad films all of his son's games from the stands 🎥 pic.twitter.com/OwohB90TIx

— ESPN (@espn) March 8, 2022

lol

Dad goals

is michigan even going to make the tournament

supposedly yes, but if they don’t they only have themselves to blame

is the play-in even the tournament? i say no

i say no for power conference teams but yes for others

definitely iffy for power teams that were ranked in the preseason top 10!

carolina's armando bacot from the field tonight: 9-10

the other nine tar heels: 13-50

hate to see it

oh my duke seems to have lost another game

o shit

hate to lose to the hokies and/or wahoos

we are the same

Ron Harper, jr. line drive bank shot madness

that did not look good going up

two crazy overtime periods

yes, a good first four!

zags looking sloppy

kenpom's piece in defector did not age well

they need to denounce the fraud drew timme and let chet bring them home

SC just too big, too deep

37-0 bench advantage my lord

aw coach is crying thats sweet

Clark’s passing is a joy to watch

hard agree.

and congrats to SC's women, who were perfect this season. as for Clark, she beat Maravich's record and is already a legend, so she has nothing to be down about.

Iowa made a run at it in the end there but I think they pressed too hard, had some dumb turnovers and Clark was just launching long range and badly contested shots. idk what they were supposed to do but you could tell they were mentally exhausted, kinda why you need a bench

great game

SC's depth really allowed them to overcome the inevitable foul trouble from playing tough D.

John Calipari to Arkansas! Crazy. They go to Lexington next season.

people like john calipari never actually 'fail' but in the grand scheme of college basketball . . . that's rough

calipari so outta here

guess its obvious tho i had not considered it since i dont really consider college ball but the ease of transferring these days makes it much easier to build good teams around upperclassmen

The NCAA tournament losses, one Big Dance win since 2019, refusing to embrace the transfer portal and continuing to build freshmen-focused rosters -- it all added up to a frustrated fan base.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39898367/what-means-kentucky-john-calipari-moving-arkansas-new-head-coach-whos-next

Frustrated fan-base member here. This is good for everyone involved ... Kentucky, which saves a $33 million buyout ... and even Cal, who lands at a top 10? 15? college basketball job at a school with national championship pedigree/aspirations and at least one booster (Cal's pal the Tyson chicken family) willing to pony up to get there. The past 5 years have been a failure at UK, but I don't think anyone could characterize his full run there as a failure.

One nitpick on lagoon's point: Yes, he has continued to recruit one and dones and he built this year's team around them ... but it's not like he has shunned the transfer portal. The team that lost to St. Peter's two years ago was the oldest team in the country and included transfers from Iowa, Georgia, Davidson, Rhode Island and Creighton ... and they flamed out, too.

It's very clear that roster construction has changed in college hoops and Cal didn't adjust enough. But there are other/bigger issues at play with regard to how they've ended their seasons since 2019.

US college sports 'boosters' are mostly very horrible people, and in their pursuit of winning teams they've dumped tons of money on some very horrible coaches with Bobby Knight being the poster child. It's hard to have any sympathy at all for the coaches who embrace the system and reap the biggest rewards.

i don't think arkansas is a top 10 or 15 cbb job

def a solid landing spot for him tho, he can still probably get a similar level of recruit

yeah he brings a top ten job with him, especially since hes got the chicken man in his pocket

right, i just wouldn't say arkansas is a top 15 job on its own, since the job only opened after eric musselman left to coach usc (the one in california)

Now there's trouble busin' in from outta state
And the AD can't get no relief

i wld rather go to usc but arkansas is nice too

Let's name jobs better than Arkansas, understanding this is of course subjective:

Kentucky
Carolina
Kansas
Duke
Arizona
UCONN
Michigan
Michigan State
Texas
UCLA
Southern Cal (I guess)
Villanova
Louisville and (especially) Indiana are like Marty McFly's siblings fading away in that photo at the end of Back To The Future

that's 14, but i'm not so sure a coach leaves Arkansas for Indiana.

we're talking history, of course, and resources, nearby recruits, etc. i don't have enough info on NIL programs to consider them.

Zags? Houston? Virginia? Maryland? Ohio State? we're getting into dicey territory.

In addition to the Tyson chicken family, Arkansas has a *ton* of money it can tap into, and it *cares* about being good at basketball.

Florida, maybe.
Syracuse? Not imo. But I suppose some people would think so.
Illinois if you can get Chicago kids.

I might've underrated Maryland and Ohio State.

Point is Arkansas is right near #15 ... maybe it's #14, maybe it's #17. I almost put "top 20" but got excited. :)

Arkansas is 52nd in most recent final four appearance. A good Jimbo retirement job for college basketball's Jimbo.

Cal is a great car salesman but pretty meh as a strategic in game coach.

Cal recruits big throws them out there and if their magnificence wins out good, but switch things up in game rare to never.

Dude made much of his rep as big fish small pond conferences.

da big game

clamps are down baby

^^

its true

Heading into commercial...shot of Hurley losing his shit.

Announcers: "The coaches are into to it"

Cut to shot of Painter, slowly receding into the hedges.

I follow like 2 or 3 co-nuggets fans/uconn alums and they are loving the malone-like rage timeouts

uconn’s playbook and execution are just on another level. they look like an NBA team

Edey doesn't seem like someone who will make it in the NBA except maybe as one of those weird end-of-game bench guys who you can occassionally gamble on

yeah hurleys lapping the rest of college

they fuckin pass and cut so well

it’s so funny when you watch a lot of NBA and then watch a little college and even the best teams struggle to do things like get the ball over half under pressure, make a secondary read, rotate correctly on defense… and then you watch uconn and they’re on a string

Part of Edey's incredible value is that he's one of the rare 7-footers that can play 40 minutes. Clingan can't.

— Ken Pomeroy (@kenpomeroy) April 9, 2024

not my king…

hurley’s such a clown lol

highest point differential in tournament history I believe a chyron just said

helluva run

12 straight tourney games won, zero close ones

first back to back champs since al horford was in college

my oldest sister did undergrad at purdue and post grad at iowa. ooof.

Kentucky’s AD at Dan Hurley’s house pic.twitter.com/qi9STXKNvn

— Pregame Empire (@PregameEmpire) April 8, 2024