College Basketball Thread 2024-25 Season (General)

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nycfan said:
Stay up? I may nap first, so more wake up and watch it. But I want to see the Blue Devils/AZ game at 10:30 (I think) as well, so we’ll see.
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I'm planning to watch that AZ game also, but I doubt I'll stay awake for the second half. That's what a DVR is for.
 
Zoo_View said:
It’s Carolina football season……I started looking at basketball before the James Madison debacle.

You’re a d00k fan…..don’t tell me you go into football season being optimistic.

Twenty or twenty-five seasons ago, the ACC had to lobby the NCAA to change its minimum home attendance standards for a team to be Division I……

The attendance standard was something like 15k…..maybe 18K or 19,999K……

d00k’s attendance was well south of 15K…….well south……sub-11,000……likely sub-10K

d00k got innovative…….the ACC and NCAA didn’t want to punt d00k……so, d00k football survived.
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This isn't a thread for you to shit on Duke. There are plenty of Carolina topics for that. That's how this forum stays welcoming to all. Well their standards were for ticket sales, not attendance. Our attendance was dogshit awful. The team was worse, though.

And yes, I go into football seasons feeling optimistic and excited. It's my favorite by far (soccer and lacrosse are up there too)
 
nycfan said:
Stay up? I may nap first, so more wake up and watch it. But I want to see the Blue Devils/AZ game at 10:30 (I think) as well, so we’ll see.
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No chance in Hell I watch our game tomorrow night. I will wake up the next morning to find out how badly we lost.
 
aGDevil2k said:
It's football season
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CBB is my favorite sport, I just can’t get fully immersed into the early November games while the CFB regular season is still in full swing. Like UNC @ KU a few weeks ago was an awesome matchup, but I wasn’t nearly as amped up for that like I would be for a conference game in January.

Thanksgiving week with all of the in-season tournaments and CFB regular season wrapping up is usually when I start to fully tune my attention to basketball.
 
Woof. UVA got pummeled by TN last night, losing 64-42. The Hoos shot 28.6% from the floor.

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Now Miami is getting clobbered by Oklahoma State (-18 early in the second half) in the consolation bracket in Charleston after being handled by Drake yesterday.
 
Duke clamped down on Arizona. This might be the best defensive Duke team in a while.
 
CRHeel94 said:
Duke clamped down on Arizona. This might be the best defensive Duke team in a while.
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They are a scary good team this season. A Duke grad co-worker and friend is really really confident about them…and when he is they usually are very successful.
 
nycfan said:
Woof. UVA got pummeled by TN last night, losing 64-42. The Hoos shot 28.6% from the floor.

Basketball GIF by DrSquatchSoapCo

Now Miami is getting clobbered by Oklahoma State (-18 early in the second half) in the consolation bracket in Charleston after being handled by Drake yesterday.
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They played two really good teams- in fact I think Tennessee may be one of the best teams in the country – but I think that UVA struggling *this* badly out of the gate And being virtually noncompetitive against good teams is probably the best thing in the long run for them so that they conduct an actual national coaching search and do a complete program reset. It is pretty clear already that Sanchez is not the guy. All due respect to Tony Bennett, who was one of my favorite people in collegiate athletics and a phenomenal coach, but the grim reality is that the system on which the Virginia basketball program was built over the last decade and a half is just not going to be tenable moving forward. So I think Virginia should now use this opportunity to basically conduct a national coaching search throughout the entire season- which I believe they will do.

If I had to guess, I think Ryan Odom at VCU may be the next Virginia coach. His dad, Dave, was an assistant at Virginia under Terry Holland and then of course the head coach at Wake Forest when they were really good in the 90s. T.J. Otzelberger at Iowa State could be a good option. I also would not rule out the possibility of Rick Carlisle. He is in his final year of his contract with the Indiana Pacers, his daughter is a first year student at UVA, and from what I understand Rick and his wife are currently building a big home at Keswick in Charlottesville.

Virginia definitely has the resources and the ability to be pretty darn good in basketball. They have some very wealthy donors help, they have one of the best home court environments in the country and some of the best basketball facilities in the country, and obviously the University of Virginia is an outstanding university all around. So they definitely need to cut bait and move on to the next era under a new coach. I think they will- there are enough wealthy and influence boosters there who remember how dreadful their program was for essentially two decades between Terry Holland and Tony Bennett.
 
aGDevil2k said:
And yes, I go into football seasons feeling optimistic and excited. It's my favorite by far (soccer and lacrosse are up there too)
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I know you already know this, aG, but for our Tarheel friends, I am a much bigger Duke Football fan than I am Basketball.
CRHeel94 said:
Duke clamped down on Arizona. This might be the best defensive Duke team in a while.
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I was particularly encouraged at how Duke pounded Arizona on the glass. They were leading the nation in rebounding and Duke outrebounded them 43-30
 
TitanNC said:
They are a scary good team this season. A Duke grad co-worker and friend is really really confident about them…and when he is they usually are very successful.
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I agree. They look really, really good. They smoked what I thought was going to be a pretty good Arizona team in Tucson.
 
TitanNC said:
They are a scary good team this season. A Duke grad co-worker and friend is really really confident about them…and when he is they usually are very successful.
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The prevailing notion was that since Coach K went to the OAD model, his teams have underperformed on the defensive end compared to the teams he had earlier in his career. Much tougher to get a freshman-laden team to buy into tedious defensive habits, as well as developing that defensive cohesion. I don't thinking of the first Scheyer teams were particularly good on defense.

This squad is built different; they can beat teams on the defensive end. They have a lot of length along the front court with Flagg and Malauach. Proctor and Foster are both capable guards. Knueppel works hard...think he may struggle with more athletic wingmen (but you really need him on the offensive end). They also have some experienced defenders coming in off the bench in Gillis, Brown and James.

Ironically, they may have more struggles on the offensive end than on defense. They should get better over the course of the season; this gauntlet of games (kudos to Scheyer) will toughen them up.
 
CFordUNC said:
They played two really good teams- in fact I think Tennessee may be one of the best teams in the country – but I think that UVA struggling *this* badly out of the gate And being virtually noncompetitive against good teams is probably the best thing in the long run for them so that they conduct an actual national coaching search and do a complete program reset. It is pretty clear already that Sanchez is not the guy. All due respect to Tony Bennett, who was one of my favorite people in collegiate athletics and a phenomenal coach, but the grim reality is that the system on which the Virginia basketball program was built over the last decade and a half is just not going to be tenable moving forward. So I think Virginia should now use this opportunity to basically conduct a national coaching search throughout the entire season- which I believe they will do.

If I had to guess, I think Ryan Odom at VCU may be the next Virginia coach. His dad, Dave, was an assistant at Virginia under Terry Holland and then of course the head coach at Wake Forest when they were really good in the 90s. T.J. Otzelberger at Iowa State could be a good option. I also would not rule out the possibility of Rick Carlisle. He is in his final year of his contract with the Indiana Pacers, his daughter is a first year student at UVA, and from what I understand Rick and his wife are currently building a big home at Keswick in Charlottesville.

Virginia definitely has the resources and the ability to be pretty darn good in basketball. They have some very wealthy donors help, they have one of the best home court environments in the country and some of the best basketball facilities in the country, and obviously the University of Virginia is an outstanding university all around. So they definitely need to cut bait and move on to the next era under a new coach. I think they will- there are enough wealthy and influence boosters there who remember how dreadful their program was for essentially two decades between Terry Holland and Tony Bennett.
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Tennessee is good. I know Baylor was coming off of an exhausting game the night before, but that game was over in 5 minutes.

Amazing that the one guy for Tenn had 16 of their first 17 points. He was on fire from the jump.
 
dukeman92 said:
I know you already know this, aG, but for our Tarheel friends, I am a much bigger Duke Football fan than I am Basketball.


I was particularly encouraged at how Duke pounded Arizona on the glass. They were leading the nation in rebounding and Duke outrebounded them 43-30
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See how great this board is. I was about to post something negative about dook and I thought to myself this is not the UNC only thread and stopped.

Somehow, we have managed to join UNC and Duke fans. (y)
 
Some of those from the basketball board on IC understand that I'm on a 4 year detente with Duke basketball. So I'll call it down the plate for a while.
 
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