2024-2025 College Basketball General Discussion

[leeraymond]

Good contrast in styles right now in the Warriors Rockets game. Houston going with three bigs in Adams, Sengun, and Jabari Smith against four guards for Golden State.

The series to watch is the Detroit-New York series. That is good old fashion tough hard-nosed gritty basketball. One of the best play-off series I have seen in a while. I think that the Knicks will eventually win the series because they have the most talent and play-off experience. If Detroit had a decent scoring 5 and a 4, this team would be very scary. Great series. Good defense.

[D.A.H.]

Can't blame the NCAA. Their hands are tied by a permanent injunction preventing any transfer restrictions.

yeah, you can. the ncaa has been one of the worst run organizations in recent history. completely incompetent. way too late, reactive, as opposed to being proactive.

[red_n_black_attack]

Wild that a 22 yr old professional can come over here and play college ball.

What is missing is a real opportunity to create a professional league here in the states. AAU is basically that, but I'm talking something akin to the Adriatic League. Make it rune from mid April to August so players stay in high school, i.e. maintain student eligibility. Make the teams similar have a geographic footprint, though players could move to other geographies and play if enrolled in high school in that geography. This could be built from the AAU circuit, and also pay the players a salary. There could be multiple teams within a geography. The post-season for a league like this would be excellent, with in season games within a region, and the post-season national.

Perhaps we could even open this up to 15-18 yo kids globally. While I'd expect salaries for most kids to be in the 30K range, some top rated kids could command high 6 figures at that level.

[sedz]

What you all think. I say 2 or 3 seasons until there is a in season transfer portal. Basically a trade deadline

Can't blame the NCAA. Their hands are tied by a permanent injunction preventing any transfer restrictions.

[Dr.kenneth noisewater]

What you all think. I say 2 or 3 seasons until there is a in season transfer portal. Basically a trade deadline

[Dr.kenneth noisewater]

Wild that a 22 yr old professional can come over here and play college ball.

It's Thunder dome. And there is only one rule in Thunder Dome.

[sedz]

Wild that a 22 yr old professional can come over here and play college ball.

[Carthage World]

Illinois is building a Balkan (southeastern European) all-star team that will surely enter the new season as a title contender.

6'3 Mihailo Petrovic (22 y/o) - incoming recruit who averaged 14.3 ppg and 7.3 apg in the Adriatic League last season.

6'9 David Mirkovic (19 y/o) - incoming recruit who averaged 9.1 ppg and 6.6 rpg in the Adriatic League last season.

7'2 Zvonimir Ivisic - incoming transfer from Arkansas (by way of Kentucky) who averaged 8.5 ppg, 4.3 rpg, and 1.9 bpg (with a 8.5 BPM) last season.

6'7 Andrej Stojakovic - incoming transfer from Cal (by way of Stanford) who averaged 17.9 ppg and 4.7 rpg (with a 4.7 BPM) last season.

They also return 7'1 Tomislav Ivisic (twin brother of Zvonimir) who averaged 13 ppg and 7.7 rpg (with a 10.7 BPM) last season.

[sedz]

The first half was one scuffle after another, mostly featuring usual suspects Draymond Green or Dillon Brooks. A great basketball game broke out in the second half.

[GoBearcats31]

Good contrast in styles right now in the Warriors Rockets game. Houston going with three bigs in Adams, Sengun, and Jabari Smith against four guards for Golden State.

While we're talking Warriors-Rockets...

https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/nba-playoffs-draymond-green-narrowly-avoids-ejection-leads-warriors-past-rockets-late-to-grab-3-1-series-lead-032310880.html

"Then just a few minutes later, [Draymond] Green got into another altercation with Tari Eason. Green fell on top of Eason and drilled him directly in the head with his feet after they were fighting for a loose ball — which sparked another, though less severe, dust up. Green held on to Eason’s collar briefly and then looked like he was going to lift him up by the leg, but the two were separated successfully.

Green was assessed a flagrant foul there, which allowed him to avoid the automatic ejection. Eason was also given a technical foul."

[sedz]

Good contrast in styles right now in the Warriors Rockets game. Houston going with three bigs in Adams, Sengun, and Jabari Smith against four guards for Golden State.

[Dr.kenneth noisewater]

The Nuggets Clippers finish gave me flashbacks to our loss to St Joes 10 years ago, when Ellis's fingertips were still on the ball as time expired on a game tying dunk attempt. This time Aaron Gordon lets go just in time for the game winner.

I remember that well. They said Ellis couldn't drop a ball in .6 seconds but the dude from uconn could take 3 steps and launch a half courter in .8 a week before.

[sedz]

The Nuggets Clippers finish gave me flashbacks to our loss to St Joes 10 years ago, when Ellis's fingertips were still on the ball as time expired on a game tying dunk attempt. This time Aaron Gordon lets go just in time for the game winner.

[Carthage World]

The NIT bracket was announced last night and only features 4 power conference teams of its 32 participants. 3 of those teams are from the ACC (SMU, Georgia Tech, and Stanford) while the last one is Oklahoma St, who finished 15-17.

https://www.ncaa.com/_flysystem/public-s3/files/NIT%20Bracket%20FOR%20RLEASE%203_16_2025.pdf

Based on that development, it seems like many of the top power conference teams will either be participating in the Crown or not participating in the postseason at all.

Here are the NET rankings of the top 16 remaining eligible teams:

#41 Ohio State (potential automatic qualifier)
#44 Boise State
#50 Cincinnati (potential automatic qualifier)
#51 West Virginia (potential automatic qualifier)
#53 Northwestern (potential automatic qualifier)
#54 Indiana
#55 Villanova (potential automatic qualifier)
#59 Nebraska
#61 Pittsburgh
#63 Iowa
#66 Penn State
#69 Wake Forest
#70 USC
#71 UCF
#73 Utah
#88 Georgetown (potential automatic qualifier)

[leeraymond]

Are you in Columbia? I was stationed at Fort Jackson for two years in the 1970's. The city certainly has changed since then.

On the outskirts of Columbia.