2024-25 NCAA Basketball Thread

[Uncle Rico]

Holy Hell.  70-46???  WTF?

Penn State is winning

[brewcity77]

Be interesting to see if Purdue's loss drops us behind Kentucky in kenpom.

[CountryRoads]

Purdue just seems incredibly overrated. They seem like a 8-9 seed to me. Not #8 in the country. Wouldn't be surprised if the Maryland and Georgia win end up looking way better by year's end.

Those guards played their first two seasons with a total unicorn player and are being exposed now without him.

[MuggsyB]

Purdue just seems incredibly overrated. They seem like a 8-9 seed to me. Not #8 in the country. Wouldn't be surprised if the Maryland and Georgia win end up looking way better by year's end.

They've beaten Bama and Miss.

[Uncle Rico]

Radford ahead of N.C. Central by 2 with :07 left

[Uncle Rico]

Nice comeback win for Radford

[Uncle Rico]

Games of the Day brought to you by Bo Ryan's mistresses:

St. Joseph's Long Island at Hofstra, 10:30AM, FloC

Calumet College of St. Joseph at Eastern Illinois, Noon, ESPN+

Campbellsville-Harrodsburg at Eastern Kentucky, 6PM, ESPN+

Trinity (FL) at Florida A&M, 6PM, No TV listed

New College of Florida at FIU, 6PM, ESPN+

East-West at Western Illinois, 6PM, ESPN+

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

Marks in the Athletic after analyzing Wednesday games and concluding parity has come to basketball this year.

"None of those are bad losses. But they do suggest a level of parity at the top of the pecking order. All that said, I'd still pick several of those teams among my top-five favorites to make the Final Four. In alphabetical order: Auburn, Duke, Iowa State, Marquette (if Ross is fine) and Tennessee."

[Uncle Rico]

Marks in the Athletic after analyzing Wednesday games and concluding parity has come to basketball this year.

"None of those are bad losses. But they do suggest a level of parity at the top of the pecking order. All that said, I'd still pick several of those teams among my top-five favorites to make the Final Four. In alphabetical order: Auburn, Duke, Iowa State, Marquette (if Ross is fine) and Tennessee."

I think I read that same article every December

[K1 Lover]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DDNb3hexEmX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Is there an achievement for taking down these guys? We've already won against 2 of the 5 and will have beaten a third once we play UConn.

(I haven't yet figured out how to embed social media posts onto Scoop, let me know if anyone knows how.)

[rocky_warrior]

(I haven't yet figured out how to embed social media posts onto Scoop, let me know if anyone knows how.)

Only Twitter works automatically right now.  The others are diy.

(Though there is a handy button for YouTube...)

[Uncle Rico]

Games of the Day brought to you by The Bible-

Lehman at FDU, Noon, NEC

United States Merhcant Marine Academy at Columbia, 1PM, ESPN+

St. Andrews's Presbyterian at UNC-Asheville, 1PM, ESPN+

Defiance at Toledo, 1PM, ESPN+

SUNY-Brockport at Albany, 2PM, ESPN+

Montana at St. Thomas, 2PM, Summit

LeTourneau at McNeese St., 3PM, ESPN+

Montreat at UT-Martin, 4PM, ESPN+

Life Pacific at Grand Canyon, 6PM, ESPN+

[tower912]

Defiance at Toledo?  Isn't that how Michigan ended up with the UP instead of it being part of Wisconsin?

[Uncle Rico]

Defiance at Toledo?  Isn't that how Michigan ended up with the UP instead of it being part of Wisconsin?

I just hope the check Life Pacific is getting from Grand Canyon doesn't bounce.  That's a dirtbag program and school

[Newsdreams]

St. Thomas' road to BE

[Tyler COLEk]

St. Thomas's recent football loss to Dayton in the Pioneer League harmed their Big East chances.

[Uncle Rico]

St. Thomas' road to BE

Huge win over Montana.  Helps Big East's Nielsen ratings

[JWags85]

Defiance at Toledo?  Isn't that how Michigan ended up with the UP instead of it being part of Wisconsin?

Absolutely TINY school.  HS best friend of my sophomore roommate in college played soccer there.  I wanna say like 800 undergrads? It was D3 at the time and has since dropped down to NAIA cause they were too small to properly compete at that level. Drove 3-4 hours to hang with us almost weekly once the season was over cause it was boring in the middle of nowhere

Shocked they got close to scoring 50 to be honest.

[The Sultan]

Absolutely TINY school.  HS best friend of my sophomore roommate in college played soccer there.  I wanna say like 800 undergrads? It was D3 at the time and has since dropped down to NAIA cause they were too small to properly compete at that level. Drove 3-4 hours to hang with us almost weekly once the season was over cause it was boring in the middle of nowhere

Shocked they got close to scoring 50 to be honest.

I would be somewhat surprised if Defiance is still open in a decade. They are poor, don't graduate many of their students, and are on probation by their accreditors.

[wadesworld]

Technical foul for yelling "And one!" On an and 1? Lol come on.

[wadesworld]

I'd like MU's chances against Kentucky. Gonzaga is really good. Ike is a big problem. And the idea that Creighton was upgrading their PG position by going from
Nembhard to Ashworth is LOL funny.

[PGsHeroes32]

I'd like MU's chances against Kentucky. Gonzaga is really good. Ike is a big problem. And the idea that Creighton was upgrading their PG position by going from
Nembhard to Ashworth is LOL funny.

Yeah based off top teams I've seen.

I think Gonzaga, Duke and Tennessee would be the 3 toughest for us.

With the caveat on Duke that we don't just turn them over repeatedly and keep it from a half court game.

[MuggsyB]

I'd like MU's chances against Kentucky. Gonzaga is really good. Ike is a big problem. And the idea that Creighton was upgrading their PG position by going from
Nembhard to Ashworth is LOL funny.

Gonzaga will be intimated by the Scoop threads if we match up with them. 

[brewcity77]

Yeah based off top teams I've seen.

I think Gonzaga, Duke and Tennessee would be the 3 toughest for us.

With the caveat on Duke that we don't just turn them over repeatedly and keep it from a half court game.

I think Auburn would be tough. Multiple shot makers, good defense, and Broome is a problem.

[PGsHeroes32]

I think Auburn would be tough. Multiple shot makers, good defense, and Broome is a problem.

Yeah I'll be honest, kinda just forgot them since they've kinda been a class of their own resume wise lol

But even them I think a lot of their play could play into us. They are really good and deep but they also play chaotic and don't have consistent help to Broome. I think they will be prone to games like ISU 1st half where they don't shift it back.