NCAA HOOP

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

chet is 2" better

hes aprox 100 inches better

This is insane pic.twitter.com/mhHSVxAa8f

— Real Hooper Pilled Trill (@TrillBroDude) March 17, 2022

Chet chetting

chet is so good love chet baby baby, h8 timme disgusting man can only score against children

I honestly don’t hate timme, he’s gonna have a great career in Spain

This is insane

Speaking of skinny kids, at LSU Pete Maravich stood 6' 5" and weighed 160. He still averaged over 40 ppg for each of his three years playing on the "varsity" team - with no three point shots either! This was back when college freshmen were not allowed to play with the big boys.

kevin durant was so skinny coming out of college he couldnt bench the standard 185 at the draft combine think he said something like "good thing the ball doesnt weigh 185 pounds" lmao

and you know what hes still very skinny

Was just struck by that fact seeing him play the other day. Surprisingly never really beefed up. I thought he kinda did when on Warriors?? Maybe the TV I was watching then was distorted lol

hes def bigger than he was when he came into the league but not that much lol

wouldnt be surprised if he didnt lift weights at all.

hes got to i think hes prob just not capable of bulking up

Gotta be harder to when you're that tall

Per @JaredBerson, Chet Holmgren is the first player in NCAA Tournament history to post 15 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists, and 5 blocks in a game.

(*blocks only have been counted officially since 1986).

— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) March 18, 2022

thank god for 12-5 matchups

Seth Davis will murder you

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