College Basketball 2025-26 season thread

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wmheel1287 said:
Wisconsin played really well and Michigan did not execute well. I do think the basket interference that waived off the sake tying basket was a bad call, but shit happens.

They are still the best team in the country as much as it chaps my ass that they are.
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Again, just goes to show an unranked team can beat you by going nuts shooting the ball - even at your place - though you may be the best team in the country. Whisky for the season only hit's 32% from three. 45% today. And I don't think Michigan laid down and didn't defend - they had 5 blocked shots.
 
If y'all want a little schadenfreude to pick you up after our game, UK fans are booing less than 5 minutes into the game on SECN.

ETA: Dangit, I must have jinxed Miss St, as they've now forgotten how to play basketball.
 
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superrific said:
Henri is the #3 bes ttransfer and Ian Jackson the #3 biggest disappointment. LOL.
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Also, Xaivian Lee is listed as a bust, I recall many falling apart when we didn't get him.

Didn't we also miss on Dent and possibly Fland?

I don't recall UNC being in it for Conwell...

I think Ian would have been better if he had stayed. Not sure why anyone thought he was a point guard...
 
UNCatTech said:
Also, Xaivian Lee is listed as a bust, I recall many falling apart when we didn't get him.

Didn't we also miss on Dent and possibly Fland?

I don't recall UNC being in it for Conwell...

I think Ian would have been better if he had stayed. Not sure why anyone thought he was a point guard...
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hard not to think of what could have been had cadeau and jackson stayed in CH.

quite annoying that we don't get to reap the rewards of upperclassman cadeau after suffering through the rollercoasters that were his first 2 years.

looking like it was a mistake by HD and co to let him go. he's a hell of a lot better than kyan evans.
 
I really don’t think it’s worth putting much stock into the performance of guys who left or didn’t come, for better or worse. It’s all so specific to so many things — team personnel and chemistry with the players and staff, changes in fitness or summer spent putting in work (or not), nagging injuries, adapting to a new school/home and the myriad personal considerations that go with that, et al.

Same player different schools is almost never apples to apples, for better or worse.
 
duluoz said:
Same player different schools is almost never apples to apples, for better or worse.
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Also, sometimes a player needs to be cut from the team, so to speak, in order to get motivated, to realize that actually they are less than they thought. Kenny Smith has talked about this, and I think Danny Green also said that dropping to the G League was an eye opener and told him he needed to work harder.

To the extent EC is better this year (and he is still only playing half the game), it's likely for that reason. He just struck me as a guy who didn't really work on his game at all between freshman and sophomore years. I mean, not even the FTs.
 
duluoz said:
I really don’t think it’s worth putting much stock into the performance of guys who left or didn’t come, for better or worse. It’s all so specific to so many things — team personnel and chemistry with the players and staff, changes in fitness or summer spent putting in work (or not), nagging injuries, adapting to a new school/home and the myriad personal considerations that go with that, et al.

Same player different schools is almost never apples to apples, for better or worse.
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Completely agree.

But, it's something to talk about.
 
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