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2020-2021 NCAA (maybe???) basketball season thread

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On 10/21/2020 at 4:04 AM, mulletpelini said:

Your thoughts on him will probably be the deal breaker.  I'm not sure how he'll ever get beyond it.  If he gets fired, he'll just have to take his millions and go home, weeping and begging for your forgiveness I guess.

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And it begins 

 

On 11/10/2020 at 9:45 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

 

Greggggggg gggggone. 

Weeks been over a few days, he's still the coach here.

NCAA announces the entire tournament will be played in the Indianapolis area (was already hosting Final Four)

2 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

What about the NIT?  Probably more relevant for Shaka ball.  

Can hold it in NYC like the old days. 

Couldn’t happen to a better guy. He’ll end up at liberty or something. Probably never sniff big time basketball again. 

42 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

 

 

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So Marshall is also a racist and just all-around despicable human being who gets paid millions more to go away. His former players should be allowed to take him to court for their share of his settlement. 

Talking with a Wichita friend yesterday and he’s astonished with the buyout. Doesn’t even know what to read into it... was the program just ready to remove a stain and paid him to leave with little evidence to conclude the investigation? Did the AD and school admin know so they are covering their ass by paying out and sacrificing Marshall? 
 

I think it’s pretty clear they didn’t feel they had him dead to rights on the legal front. 

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Eight of the top 13 teams in college basketball will highlight a two-night slate of marquee games from the Champions Classic and Jimmy V Men's Classic at the start of December.

The State Farm Champions Classic is set for Dec. 1, featuring No. 9 Duke facing No. 13 Michigan State and No. 10 Kentucky playing No. 6 Kansas. The Blue Devils will host the Spartans, while Kentucky and Kansas will play at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

The Jimmy V Men's Classic will take place on Dec. 2, with No. 12 Tennessee going against No. 1 Gonzaga and No. 2 Baylor playing No. 8 Illinois. Both games will be played at Bankers Life.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/30342714/eight-top-hoops-teams-play-two-nights

Baylor's Tristan Clark medically retired yesterday. Real young at the post.

14 hours ago, Jhawk said:

Talking with a Wichita friend yesterday and he’s astonished with the buyout. Doesn’t even know what to read into it... was the program just ready to remove a stain and paid him to leave with little evidence to conclude the investigation? Did the AD and school admin know so they are covering their ass by paying out and sacrificing Marshall? 
 

I think it’s pretty clear they didn’t feel they had him dead to rights on the legal front. 

I'd say he had all the leverage it appears yes.  It became a story and they had to do something.  President hired then resigned.  Trumps daughter visit got canceled.  My guess is Koch put in .02 as well.  School PR has a bad look about now.

Yeah with Covid ramping up like a mofo, I'm not real optimistic that you can have teams flying all over the country for 2-3 games a week. At this point, I'm just hopeful that conference schedules are relatively stable and we can have a tourney in Indy. All it takes is a couple of players to wreck a team for a couple of weeks. 

Why in the world is CBB not delaying this thing 1-2 months?  There’s been so many unknowns with this virus but one of the few constants has been that it was going to flare up come late fall and early winter.  

This, coupled with a potential vaccine on the near horizon and it makes all the sense in the world to push back the start to avoid the ‘bad’ season and reap the rewards on the back-end come late spring/early summer.  So March Madness becomes May Madness, who cares?

I just don’t get it.  

11 hours ago, Chet Steadman said:

Why in the world is CBB not delaying this thing 1-2 months?  There’s been so many unknowns with this virus but one of the few constants has been that it was going to flare up come late fall and early winter.  

This, coupled with a potential vaccine on the near horizon and it makes all the sense in the world to push back the start to avoid the ‘bad’ season and reap the rewards on the back-end come late spring/early summer.  So March Madness becomes May Madness, who cares?

I just don’t get it.  

It would probably be best to do away with pre-conf games and just do a bubble for the conf games for each conf. 

It's a mess, predictably, but it's basically the same as what CFB has gone through, with the added burden of being indoors. Every single sport has had COVID issues at the re-start, from the women's pro soccer league to even the vaunted NBA having to hold players out in the bubble for a while. It's harder with college kids for obvious reasons.

I would argue having the messy re-start, where a bunch of meaningless non-conference games don't get played, will actually help teams get into a routine of living safely in time for conference season. If they just punted until January, then all these cases would start popping up in January.

SFA flew to Connecticut for a tourney only today to have a positive test and have to leave. Maine did the same thing. 

It’ll be impossible to keep straight what games are happening as this virus will only worsen the next two months.

 

 

Whenever they figure out what portions of the season will exist, it will be difficult for teams to have a decided home court advantage this season. No way they can pack in a bunch of students. 

Bruins shit the bed against SDSU.  Great start.

jesus the Zags look good. i know it's November, but i'm looking at a team that should legit be disappointed if they aren't playing for/winning the national title. 

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19 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

jesus the Zags look good. i know it's November, but i'm looking at a team that should legit be disappointed if they aren't playing for/winning the national title. 

Two Zags scratched a couple minutes before their game against Auburn tipped off at 11 due to contact tracing.

Oh Tony Bennett. Just lost to San Francisco. 

On 11/27/2020 at 10:19 AM, J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. said:

FOX college basketball uses "Roundball Rock?"

For like 3-4 years now.  

Still a lot of game to play, but Michigan is down against Oakland (0-3) early in second half as 30 pt favorites. Oakland lost by 52 last week to Xavier. Lulz, Michigan fans have it worse than we do.

Edit - Heading to OT. 

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UNLV 13-0 over #14 UNC. In the first 6 min

Thats some Shaka-level opening of a game 

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