June 20Jun 20 6 hours ago, Underdog said: What does Coach K have to do with WP? Also, Duke playing in Rose Hill would be cool. Wait wut? Google is your friend. See also Bobby Knight & WP.
June 25Jun 25 Texas over UCONN and Nova is wild. I don’t think anyone can legitimately claim we have been a better program than them the past 30 years. Edited June 25Jun 25 by Macklemore
June 25Jun 25 Author shows how crazy up-and-down uconn has been these last ~30 years, and how crazy successful they’ve been in the tourney.
June 25Jun 25 2 minutes ago, Derka said: shows how crazy up-and-down uconn has been these last ~30 years, and how crazy successful they’ve been in the tourney. I have always been impressed with KenPom’s analysis and like how you post shit from him during the season but this list is straight up trash. 6 championships from UCONN and 2 for Nova trumps 1 Final Four by any measure.
June 25Jun 25 Author 13 minutes ago, Macklemore said: I have always been impressed with KenPom’s analysis and like how you post shit from him during the season but this list is straight up trash. 6 championships from UCONN and 2 for Nova trumps 1 Final Four by any measure. it’s not a rating of which programs have been the best overall, it’s just the aggregate kenpom ratings from 1997-2025. a program that made the tourney 22-23 times being rated slightly higher then one that missed it a bunch of times and also won it like three different times on down years isn’t super surprising. uconn is the program that every other program envies accomplishments-wise, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t fielded more than their share of shitty teams since 1997, which obviously impacts their aggregate rating. Edited June 25Jun 25 by Derka
June 25Jun 25 Author and just to simplify it for those who might not know, your kenpom ratings is the difference in your adjusted offense (AdjO, or ORtg now) minus your AdJ (DRtg). each rating is based on points per 100 possessions, weighted for sos. so if you play in a tough conference and you win 20-25 games per year you’re probably going to have a pretty high aggregate rating over a period of time, even if your program struggles in the tourney.
June 25Jun 25 According to CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander, the number of college basketball games played in a season is set to increase. Norlander reports beginning with the 2026-2027 season, teams can play 32 games. They will not be required to but the move allows programs to schedule more nonconference games any given year.
June 25Jun 25 Something even more wild? In the history of college basketball, Texas has more wins than UConn.
July 16Jul 16 That's gonna be a slight feel of THU/FRI of March Madness opening weekend with that slate. Looks fun.
July 16Jul 16 3 hours ago, Iceman said: That's gonna be a slight feel of THU/FRI of March Madness opening weekend with that slate. Looks fun. Yep, it's basically the first 2 days of MM, but with second weekend type of matchups.
July 18Jul 18 On 7/15/2025 at 1:22 PM, Js1 said: Feeling a tummy ache coming on around lunch time that Monday that'll last through Tuesday.
July 24Jul 24 Gilbert Arenas' kid having a rough go of it early at USC Quote USC freshman basketball player Alijah Arenas will sit out six to eight months after suffering a knee injury that will require surgery, the school announced Wednesday. Arenas, the son of former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas, was a five-star recruit who graduated high school a year early to suit up for the Trojans. "Alijah is a tremendous worker, teammate, competitor, and person," USC coach Eric Musselman said. "He is understandably disappointed that he will not be able to take the court to start the season, but his health is our No. 1 priority. We have no doubt that he will come back even stronger. We look forward to supporting him during this process." Arenas had just made his practice debut earlier this month following an April car crash that left him hospitalized for nearly a week. The crash occurred when Arenas lost control of his Tesla Cybertruck and crashed into a tree. He said in June that the car's keypad and steering wheel wouldn't respond. The car caught on fire, but Arenas was able to break the driver's side window and get out with help from bystanders.
August 6Aug 6 On 7/31/2025 at 8:58 PM, Derka said: Peterson and Dybantsa matchups should be awesome. Probably going to be #1 and #2 in the draft.
August 9Aug 9 If you have ESPN+, watch this, no fucking bullshit. https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/4450027 It’s an hour, you’ll be fine.
August 11Aug 11 On 8/9/2025 at 8:04 AM, shadow_operative2.0 said: If you have ESPN+, watch this, no fucking bullshit. https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/4450027 It’s an hour, you’ll be fine. I bet you fuckin cried
August 11Aug 11 On 6/24/2025 at 7:33 PM, Derka said: shows how crazy up-and-down uconn has been these last ~30 years, and how crazy successful they’ve been in the tourney. They've only lost 1 Final Four game. Doesn't make sense tbh.
August 11Aug 11 The UCLA FF run still boggles the mind, lose in the SF in their first trip and don’t lose for another 9 trips before NCSU gets them in ‘74.
August 18Aug 18 Doesn't really belong in this thread but I didn't want to start a new one, really interesting (if you're an Xs and Os nerd) breakdown of UMBC's upset of Virginia I watched this morning:
September 15Sep 15 On 7/17/2025 at 7:54 PM, Derka said: Fuck you, Cam. Duke has won ONE championship in the last 15 seasons. Nobody likes you. There are a shit ton of other very good programs out there. Perhaps if GodCoachK hadn't fully embraced the One & Done model Duke would have won more but, he didn't, so you didn't. Win something before you bitch about respect. Fuck you, Cam.
September 20Sep 20 Six Wofford men’s basketball players that were ruled ineligible by the school for receiving “impermissible benefits” have been reinstated, according to the athletes’ attorney. On Thursday, The Field of 68’s Jeff Goodman reported that the unidentified players were allowed to use meal plans provided to students housed in dorms while living in off-campus apartments. The improper benefits ranged from $84 to $108 in value. Yet shortly thereafter, the NCAA public-relations department posted a quote-tweet response to a post on X aggregating the original report. "This is not accurate," the NCAA said in its post. "The NCAA did not suspend student-athletes at [Wofford] and did not take any action against any athletic department personnel at this school," the statement added. Wofford had not made any announcement regarding players being deemed ineligible. Attorney Mark Peper — who's representing four of the players reportedly ruled ineligible, and seven players overall on the Wofford men's basketball roster — said in an interview with WYFF's Marc Whiteman that using the meal plans violated Wofford bylaws, not NCAA rules, and the players were never told the plans could not be used. The school fired men's basketball coach Dwight Perry and associate head coach Tysor Anderson last week for undisclosed reasons. Last season, the Terriers finished 19-16 and won the Southern Conference tournament to earn an automatic NCAA tournament berth. Wofford went on to lose to Tennessee in the first round. According to Peper, the six players were told by Wofford that they would be housed in upperclassmen dorms on campus. Five of them transferred from other schools. However, the players were placed in underclassmen dorms instead and subsequently rented an off-campus apartment. School officials were informed of the decision by Anderson. Five days after fall classes began at Wofford, the five athletes were told to break their lease to remain eligible. They did so on Sept. 3. Two weeks later, the players were reportedly informed that the NCAA had ruled them ineligible for using their on-campus meal plans while living off campus. In addition to regaining their eligibility with "no suspensions, no penalties, no repayment," according to Peper, the players want Perry and Anderson to be reinstated to their positions since the athletes transferred to Wofford to play for them. The question now is whether or not the coaches will get their jobs back since the players won't be penalized for any alleged violations. "Based on my investigation this week, there is nothing that indicates that prior to this meal plan off-campus miscommunication, Coach Perry was in no jeopardy of being removed as the head coach at Wofford," Peper told Whiteman. "I can only speak for my players, all of whom have said in no uncertain terms, both in writing and in meetings this week with various administrators, that they are here to play for Coach Perry," he added. With Perry's dismissal, Wofford men's basketball players have a 30-day window to enter the transfer portal under NCAA rules. Peper said the players he represents could explore entering the portal if Perry and Anderson do not get their jobs back. Assistant coach Drew Gibson was named the interim coach after Perry was dismissed. If the six players — or more — decide to transfer, that could leave Wofford unable to field a team two months before the 2025-26 season is scheduled to tip off on Nov. 8 versus George Mason.
September 23Sep 23 ^^^ congratulations to COACH SCHAEFER and the TEXAS WBB program. welcome to the 40 acres, AALIAH SPAIGHT. HOOK'EM!
September 25Sep 25 Well, shit! https://sports.yahoo.com/article/sister-jean-longtime-loyola-chicago-021228548.html?guccounter=1 Edited September 25Sep 25 by Underdog Like Pete Best... Not dead yet
October 7Oct 7 Hey, let's ruin March Madness! I am tired of "rewarding" AQs with play-in bids. Let the opening round / play-in be the at-large teams who were awful in-conference (.500 or under records) and let the AQ teams be in the field of 64. Otherwise, get rid of the term "auto-qualifier" because they aren't qualifying for what the other AQs are.
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