2022-23 NCAA Men's Basketball Thread

[Billy Hoyle]

To be fair, Bellarmine is solid.  Top D2 program who competed in the ASun immediately. Won their conference tournament last year.  Louisville was only favored by like 7.  So that's a 4 pt spread on a neutral floor.

Fun fact, Bellarmine's home floor is Freedom Hall

They are (and it's too bad their request to waive the 4 year transition period was denied), but we're talking A-Sun against ACC. It's a major indictment of how far Louisville has fallen. You hate to see it. 

[JWags85]

USC destroying Alabama State in the late game, nbd.  Made me consider 2 things.

1) Impressed Andy Enfield is still there.  But then you realize USC's never been a good job.  In the shadow of UCLA basketball and their own football prowess.  Looked back to Al's era and Enfield might actually be their best coach in 50 years, since Bob Boyd.  Nobody was making the NCAA multiple times, not even Tim Floyd's dirty teams had much meaningful success.  Bibby made the fluke E8 with Scalabrine, but his tenure was just meh.

So it makes sense that Enfield has gotten some leash.  But they've finished top 3 in the Pac12 3 years in a row.  Have nice returning talent and picked 4th this year, should be a fringe top 25 team.  Good for him.  Cause it certainly seemed random as a fully East Coast guy going to the other coast.

2) Speaking of coasts and Enfield and USC...they lost their season opener to his former Dunk City compatriots and Mr Mediocre himself, Pat Chambers.  FGCU then promptly lost to Steve Lavin and USD.

[Spotcheck Billy]

Notre Dame almost lost to Radford last night, didn't take the lead until 0:02 left from what I've read.

[rocky_warrior]

Had the Duke / SC Upstate game on my second screen without sound, and they flashed a stat for "True Freshman 3pt %", I guess not surprisingly, Howard and Novak had the top 2 spots, apparently SC Upstate had the #3 spot (assuming from a current Soph since it'd be too soon to claim a current frosh holds the 3rd spot) - but who cares about the 3rd spot.  We're # 1, and #2!?

* Edit: Jordan Gainey - current soph for SC Upstate.
** Edit 2: Markus @ 54.7%, Novak @ 50.5%, Gainey @ 49.6% (min 100 attempts)

[MuggsyB]

Had the Duke / SC Upstate game on my second screen without sound, and they flashed a stat for "True Freshman 3pt %", I guess not surprisingly, Howard and Novak had the top 2 spots, apparently SC Upstate had the #3 spot (assuming from a current Soph since it'd be too soon to claim a current frosh holds the 3rd spot) - but who cares about the 3rd spot.  We're # 1, and #2!?

Didn't both Novak and Howard have a season where they shot over 94% from the FT line?  The one cool thing about the Mighty Mites is that when we had a lead down the stretch the game was essentially over.  It's a shame Rowsey wasn't 6'5.

[brewcity77]

Watching Purdue/Austin Peay. As good as Edey is on offense, he is a liabilty on defense if you get him in pick and roll or have a big that can drive.

[cheebs09]

Had the Duke / SC Upstate game on my second screen without sound, and they flashed a stat for "True Freshman 3pt %", I guess not surprisingly, Howard and Novak had the top 2 spots, apparently SC Upstate had the #3 spot (assuming from a current Soph since it'd be too soon to claim a current frosh holds the 3rd spot) - but who cares about the 3rd spot.  We're # 1, and #2!?

* Edit: Jordan Gainey - current soph for SC Upstate.
** Edit 2: Markus @ 54.7%, Novak @ 50.5%, Gainey @ 49.6% (min 100 attempts)

Son of former MU Assistant Justin Gainey.

[rocky_warrior]

Son of former MU Assistant Justin Gainey.

Hah, nice.  Guess I haven't been paying enough attention.  We'll give MU 2.5 of the top 3 then

[GoldenEagles03]

UW- 32
Stanford- 20

at the half.

UW- 12/35 FG
Stanford- 7/22 FG

UW- 3/11 3FG
Stanford- 0/10 3FG

A ton of open looks for both teams. Just an overall ugly basketball game.

[GoldenEagles03]

Rob Dauster on the Brew City Battle between UW-Madison and Stanford.

"The only thing that could have made this event better is if they got 2 good teams to play in it."

Great line.

[Uncle Rico]

Georgetown scored 61 against UWGB.  In the second half.

Not here to talk about Georgetown, though.  UWGB is one of the worst teams in college basketball again.  I know the Phoenix aren't going to be the next Butler or something like that, but they started the year 350 on KenPom and we're terrible the first two years of the Will Ryan era.  Curious how long the nepotism leash is

[Jay Bee]

Wright St buzzer beats 0-2 Louisville. Lol

[MuggsyB]

Congrats to Wright St.

[JWags85]

Georgetown scored 61 against UWGB.  In the second half.

Not here to talk about Georgetown, though.  UWGB is one of the worst teams in college basketball again.  I know the Phoenix aren't going to be the next Butler or something like that, but they started the year 350 on KenPom and we're terrible the first two years of the Will Ryan era.  Curious how long the nepotism leash is

It was a preposterous hire even at the time.  He wasnt a good D2 HC in his short tenure, and before that he was the lead assistant in a coaching staff that failed miserably.  The previous 3 coaches at OU made the NCAA and left for better jobs.  Phillips made a CBI and ended up in the bottom half of the MAC.  But sure, get Ryan cause who his Dad is.


Unrelated, Emoni Bates scored 30 in his first game for EMU and they took Michigan to the wire.  Good for him.  Truly hope he can be an impact player there and get his life/career back on track.

[Billy Hoyle]

Congrats to Wright St.

Biggest win since knocking off Michigan State in 1999.

Love the taunt in Dayton: "Wright State, wrong school."

[GoldenEagles03]

Colorado just lost to Grambling State a few days ago.

Colorado now leads #11 Tennessee 66-55 with 3:00 left.

That's college hoops!

[MUfan12]

Mr. Aidoo barely getting any run for the Vols.

[GoldenEagles03]

Wyoming lost to SE Louisiana as a 22 point favorite.

The Moutain West had a ton of bids last year IIRC.

SE Louisiana was 325 in KenPom. Does that basically eliminate their At Large hopes this year?

[Uncle Rico]

Wyoming lost to SE Louisiana as a 22 point favorite.

The Moutain West had a ton of bids last year IIRC.

SE Louisiana was 325 in KenPom. Does that basically eliminate their At Large hopes this year?

No.  They have games against Dayton and St. Mary's and an ok game against Grand Canyon.  They don't have much room for error anymore and puts a lot of pressure on those games.  They'll get cracks at San Diego State, too

[MuggsyB]

Thank you Northwestern State. 

[VanderBlueFanClub]

St. John's has the weakest non-conference schedule of all time.

Merrimack
Lafayette
Central Connecticut
Nebraska
Temple
Niagara
LIU
Iowa St.
Depaul
New Hampshire
Florida

[PGsHeroes32]

St. John's has the weakest non-conference schedule of all time.

Merrimack
Lafayette
Central Connecticut
Nebraska
Temple
Niagara
LIU
Iowa St.
Depaul
New Hampshire
Florida

You might wanna look at the Gophers. Woof

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Thank you Northwestern State. 

TCU has dropped from preseason #16 in KenPom to #58 in 3 games. I don't know that I've seen a team drop that quickly before

[muwarrior69]

St. John's has the weakest non-conference schedule of all time.

Merrimack
Lafayette
Central Connecticut
Nebraska
Temple
Niagara
LIU
Iowa St.
Depaul
New Hampshire
Florida

Typo?

[WhiteTrash]

Typo?

I hope not. That's some funny $h!t.