College Basketball 2025-26 season thread

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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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We all put stock into the performance of guys who play at different schools. Explicitly so for players who transfer to Carolina from other schools. Many people criticized Coach Davis for not getting Dent and Fland and Lee, and for Jackson transferring. These players not performing up to expectations at other schools is definitely relevant.
 
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Rock said:
Headed to Allen Fieldhouse tonight to watch Iowa State probably blow us out of the water and usher in Bill Selfs retirement.
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Speaking of Self’s retirement, I recently looked at a list of all of the basketball coaches in Kansas’s history. Kansas is one of the oldest active D1 basketball programs in the country, dating back to the late-1890s, and was first coached by the guy who actually invented the game of basketball. Yet, amazingly, Kansas has had only EIGHT head basketball coaches! That’s insane to me. And five of those eight are in the Naismith Hall of Fame, with said Hall of Fame being named after one do them (though it was not his coaching that landed him there).

Also, three of the eight were at some point in their careers assistant coaches at UNC.
 
Icky Mettle said:
Speaking of Self’s retirement, I recently looked at a list of all of the basketball coaches in Kansas’s history. Kansas is one of the oldest active D1 basketball programs in the country, dating back to the late-1890s, and was first coached by the guy who actually invented the game of basketball. Yet, amazingly, Kansas has had only EIGHT head basketball coaches! That’s insane to me. And five of those eight are in the Naismith Hall of Fame, with said Hall of Fame being named after one do them (though it was not his coaching that landed him there).

Also, three of the eight were at some point in their careers assistant coaches at UNC.
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And, Bill Self’s first coaching job was as an assistant under Larry Brown. So, a bit of a UNC tie for Self.
 
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