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

[Js1 85416]

Makes a lot of sense and the women are doing it for their tournament in San Antonio.

It worked for the NBA - 3 venues and 1 practice facility.  A lot less teams, so you need double the venues. 

[Sandman 3403]

I don't see why they'd put the final four in Lucas if there's no fans, why would they need all that room?. Having it in Hinkle would be amazing. 

[Js1 85416]

Huge name if true. Along with Tshibwe

 

Edited January 6, 2021 by Js1

[LTtxfan 49253]

    Brian Davis. @BDavisAAS

31m

 

NCAA will require men's basketball tourney participants to have 7 consecutive negative COVID-19 tests before arriving in Indy. Daily testing while in the bubble, too

 

 

Edited January 7, 2021 by LTtxfan

[Sbbruin 21861]

Nail biter on ESPN b/w Bruins and Sun Devils

[Underdog 28711]

Highly entertaining game with Bama/Auburn, Tide hangs on to win 94-90 to move to 4-0 in conference play.  

[Sbbruin 21861]

Bruins sweep in the desert. 5-0 in the PAC, 9-2 overall.  Probably in the top 25.

[SDG 3319]

1 hour ago, Sbbruin said:

Bruins sweep in the desert. 5-0 in the PAC, 9-2 overall.  Probably in the top 25.

unfortunately, the bar isn't that high in the pac this year.

[Underdog 28711]

Big Blue may be getting its act together, 3 straight wins.  They’re working their way up to the 16 Seed line in Gonzaga bracket. 

[Sbbruin 21861]

8 hours ago, SDG said:

unfortunately, the bar isn't that high in the pac this year.

Actually you’re wrong.  Better conference than it’s been in a while.

[SDG 3319]

5 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

Actually you’re wrong.  Better conference than it’s been in a while.

The highest rated team according to ken pom is USC @ 17.  The B12 has 5 teams ranked ahead of them.  Being the tallest midget doesn't mean you're tall.   

 

Ultimately; we'll find out how good the Pac is during the tournament.  

[Js1 85416]

AP Top 10 vs. NET Top 10

Gonzaga (1 - 1)

Baylor (2 - 2)

Villanova (3 - 7)

Texas (4 - 9)

Iowa (5 - 5)

Kansas (6 - 13)

Michigan (7 - 4)

Creighton (8 - 14)

Wisconsin (9 - 10)

Tennessee (10 - 3)

 

Learn me on why teams like Illinois are getting such love in NET? 9-4 with losses to #73 Missouri and #35 Maryland?  Texas has wins over #13, #26, #36, #43, #52 and only a single loss to #7. 

Edited January 11, 2021 by Js1

[Js1 85416]

On 1/10/2021 at 7:15 AM, Sbbruin said:

Actually you’re wrong.  Better conference than it’s been in a while.

Excuse me, this isn't women's volleyball or softball.  

[Sbbruin 21861]

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Excuse me, this isn't women's volleyball or softball.  

[Js1 85416]

The last Pac-12 champ was 1997 and you've had a grand total of 2 Final Four teams in the past 12 seasons (and 5 since Y2K was a thing).

[Underdog 28711]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

The last Pac-12 champ was 1997 and you've had a grand total of 2 Final Four teams in the past 12 seasons (and 5 since Y2K was a thing).

Thanks for the memory, asswipe.  Now Imma hafta start therapy all over again. 

[Underdog 28711]

Might be a good time to jump on the Bama bandwagon, fun team to watch and about to go 5-0 in SEC after road wins in Knoxville, Auburn and tonight Lexington.  

[Js1 85416]

20 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Might be a good time to jump on the Bama bandwagon, fun team to watch and about to go 5-0 in SEC after road wins in Knoxville, Auburn and tonight Lexington.  

At least you got Tshibwe for next year?

[Napoleon 8689]

5 hours ago, Underdog said:

Might be a good time to jump on the Bama bandwagon, fun team to watch and about to go 5-0 in SEC after road wins in Knoxville, Auburn and tonight Lexington.  

Juwan Howard's Michigan Wolverines roll their eyes at Alabama's bandwagon.

[Underdog 28711]

Go Blue is also doing well, crushed Wisconsin last night. 

[Juicy 727]

Michigan is a basketball school anyways. 

[Underdog 28711]

11 hours ago, Js1 said:

At least you got Tshibwe for next year?

[EuroHorn 3265]

Michigan lost to Minnesota today by about 20

Edited January 16, 2021 by EuroHorn

[Underdog 28711]

On 1/13/2021 at 7:46 AM, Underdog said:

Go Blue is also doing well, crushed Wisconsin last night. 

 

43 minutes ago, EuroHorn said:

Michigan lost to Minnesota today by about 20

Like clockwork. 

[WhatTheBuck 28788]

Nice comeback by St. John’s to get the win at UConn. 

[Machinator 32099]

 

[ztejas 43476]

[ztejas 43476]

On 1/11/2021 at 11:14 AM, Js1 said:

Learn me on why teams like Illinois are getting such love in NET? 9-4 with losses to #73 Missouri and #35 Maryland?  Texas has wins over #13, #26, #36, #43, #52 and only a single loss to #7. 

I have no idea. NET seems poorly conceived and I made a similar point earlier in the season. Illinois other three losses (now) are to tOSU and Mizzou who are both good not great (maybe Tech level) and by 13 to Baylor. Their best win is by 27 against Minnesota and Duke on the "road" I guess? They seem like a perfectly mediocre tournament team.

[Js1 85416]

3 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I have no idea. NET seems poorly conceived and I made a similar point earlier in the season. Illinois other three losses (now) are to tOSU and Mizzou who are both good not great (maybe Tech level) and by 13 to Baylor. Their best win is by 27 against Minnesota and Duke on the "road" I guess? They seem like a perfectly mediocre tournament team.

The updated for this week is even worse. Colorado, Virginia and drake are ahead of Texas. Who is 13th...

[PittsburghTiger 6190]

2 hours ago, ztejas said:

Pitt just beat Duke, 79-73. The game was at Pitt. We are slowly building our way out of the StallingsDisaster and stand at 7-2.

[shadow_operative2.0 16006]

Pitt over Duke by 6. 

Edited January 20, 2021 by shadow_operative2.0
See, Tiger guy is happy.

[Underdog 28711]

9 hours ago, ztejas said:

At one point UCLA, IU and UL were also unranked along with these 3.  

Another impressive road win by Bama...  23 3s made...  Jesus. 

Edited January 20, 2021 by Underdog

[PittsburghTiger 6190]

44 minutes ago, Underdog said:

At one point UCLA, IU and UL were also unranked along with these 3.  

Another impressive road win by Bama...  23 3s made...  Jesus. 

Yeah, Alabama was scoring like crazy. I flipped over from the Pitt game during a commercial and Alabama had 96, or 94, points with just over 7 minutes to play.

[Underdog 28711]

They had 30+ with over 11 minutes left in 1H.  

[PittsburghTiger 6190]

49 minutes ago, Underdog said:

They had 30+ with over 11 minutes left in 1H.  

That’s Hank Gathers & Bo Kimble scoring right there!

[mulletpelini 5212]

you're old.

[EuroHorn 3265]

Indiana up 7 against no. 4 Iowa with less than 5 minutes to go 

[EuroHorn 3265]

Iowa goes down

Edited January 22, 2021 by EuroHorn

[mulletpelini 5212]

Not unlike their women.

[shadow_operative 15932]

[WhatTheBuck 28788]

Holy shit! Quite a finish to the UCLA-Stanford game. 

[Underdog 28711]

Helluva OOB play by Stanford FTW over UCLA 73-72.  

[shadow_operative 15932]

2 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Helluva OOB play by Stanford FTW over UCLA 73-72.  

yep, just a great play with 0.8 seconds left and no timeouts. smart kids up there at Stanford.

[shadow_operative2.0 16006]

Yeah, that was pretty clean. 

 

[WhatTheBuck 28788]

After Stanford led for the whole OT it looked like the Bruins were going to steal a win. What a painful loss that would’ve been but Stanford snatched victory from the jaws of defeat at not even the last second. 

[EuroHorn 3265]

Kentucky battling it out with LSU

[Underdog 28711]

Bama up just 5 on Miss St. with just over a minute to play. 

 

PS: Tide go on to win 81-73. 

Edited January 24, 2021 by Underdog

[shadow_operative 15932]

a lot of people were singing the Tide's praises during the preseason and they were not wrong. that's a talented team down there. i would not want to see them in the tourney. 

[perfectchaos007 6673]

4 teams from the state of Texas are in the AP top 10 right now. Still crazy that only one D1 team from the state has ever won a title. Several close calls!

[ztejas 43476]

29 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

4 teams from the state of Texas are in the AP top 10 right now. Still crazy that only one D1 team from the state has ever won a title. Several close calls!

Who has ever made the title game besides Tech and Texas Western?