'23 - '24 NCAA Hoops

First games of the season tonight. I'm cautiously excited about a long-hoped-for resurgence of Georgetown Basketball now that we have an actual coach (Ed Cooley) who knows what he's doing. Kind of cool that we have Dikembe Mutombo's son Ryan and Gheorghe Muresan's kid Victor on the squad, they'll be interesting to watch at least.

But I'm really excited that we have a transfer in from Fairfield by the name of Supreme Cook. I'm gonna stay away from cheesy Dad jokes for now but I love that name and can't wait to see what he serves up.

Cuse 1-0…Autry’s first game coaching after Boeheim retired after 47 YEARS.

Yup, UCONN, 2022-23 National Champions opened
up with a 95 - 52 win over N. Arizona.
Looking forward to the season.

Went up to the XL Center last night.
UCONN vs MSVU
Ugly game. Some highlights - Samson Johnson has returned after being out all last year.
Could be a nice 1-2 with Donovan Clingan.
Transfer Cam Spencer can knock down the 3.
Solomon Ball (F) looks like he's got upside.
Highly touted freshman Stephon Castle did not suit up due to sustaining a knee injury in the last game vs Stonehill.
Was really hoping to be able to check him out early in his career.
With 3 starters from last year gone to the NBA and 5 freshmen things are going to take awhile to mesh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooNdcMTjf58

There were were a couple of good games on TV last night, Mich. St-Duke and Kentucky-Kansas. Aside from Bilas badly wanting to give KU's Hunter Dickinson a blowjob it was pretty entertaining.

My Xavier Musketeers hung with #2 Purdue pretty well Monday night keeping it to 9 points and under till garbage time. It's a complete rebuild from last year's Sweet 16 team so my expectations are low but with Sean Miller back at the helm I think they can make some noise in the Big East.

So I turn on Pitt-WVU, usually a good rivalry game, and...No Huggy Bear?? Shit I missed that he retired. I was pretty sure he'd die before he retired, glad I was wrong. Always liked that guy for some reason.

Forced out after a dui

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*2nd embarrassing DUI - the first was when he lost a couple bottles of red from his gut on dashcam after taping his coaches show at UC in his uni-provided Lexus.

Iceman also must have missed when he went back on Cincinnati radio to call Xavier students a bunch of “fags” multiple times on air shortly before this last DUI.

(Sorry we got the best of you Huggs, I always rooted for your teams, lol)


It’s all good though, UC will likely get their 3rd Crosstown Shootout win in 15 years over X this weekend as X (led my Sean Miller 2.0) currently is fielding 10 freshman after their S16 players graduated

Clearly I have not followed Coach Huggins nor West Virginia basketball very closely but Huggy just seemed like kind of an icon of some weird type, I dunno. I didn't know any of that other stuff but I can't say I'm amazed.

Marquette coach Shaka Smart beat his former team Texas! Good for him, I thought he got screwed when they fired him.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...6c16002f4c.jpg
Go CSU Rams (double post from last year’s thread cause jong.

Last week’s outcome v CU. Highest top25 ranking in history of school. Pretty fun environment, my kids had a blast

Dang. Lucky 13! https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/bask.../ncaab/ap-poll

A friend works at Gonzaga and had an extra ticket so invited me to a game last week. I had a pretty good time, I guess that means I have to be a zags fan now.

The Huggins story is really weird, has it fully played out yet? Because he retired (which everyone viewed as forced out, but agreed on retired language), then claimed he never retired and never communicated that to the school. And was going to file suit to get his job back.

My GF is a huge CU fan, has season tickets, so I guess I'm gonna see some games. They actually seem somewhat decent this year

The rumors coming out of Arkansas are pretty wild...

https://twitter.com/Joes_Picks/statu...%7Ctwcamp%5Etw

What in the Sam hell fuck


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NTTAWWT

St. Johns sneaking up on X here. Where my BMills at?

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i would say there is something wrong with sleeping around the locker room.

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Staying quiet until the final buzzer, that's where. There's only so much Sean Miller can do with 11 underclassmen, but I like how they're progressing, getting better with each game and staying in the fight against top10 teams so far.

I do enjoy some Wednesday night Big East basketball and its fun seeing all these great coaches back in the Conference together in Miller, Thad Matta, Pitino, Cooley, Smart, et al.

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Off to MSG Saturday for the UCONN - St Johns game...kinda stoked

UCONN looks in prime form.

On a plane to Kentucky right now. Will be in Rupp Arena tomorrow night when Tennessee comes to town to play the Wildcats. Then on to Nashville for Kentucky at Vandy. Back to Lexington next Saturday for Gonzaga-UK. Stoked!

Bill Walton said on the broadcast last night that Chewbacca was based on him?

https://awfulannouncing.com/pop-cult...-audition.html

I want whatever is in Bill's stash.

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On a plane to Kentucky right now. Will be in Rupp Arena tomorrow night when Tennessee comes to town to play the Wildcats. Then on to Nashville for Kentucky at Vandy. Back to Lexington next Saturday for Gonzaga-UK. Stoked!

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Damn, that's a hell of a trip!

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We all do, brother, we all do

welcome back, armando.

fuck duke.

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https://awfulannouncing.com/pop-cult...-audition.html

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Bill's really at his best with Dave Pasch.

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welcome back, armando.

fuck duke.

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filipowski looked and played extra hateable tonight.

UCONN loves playing at MSG.
Watching the late replay right now instead of going to sleep after skiing all day.
It was snowing.

How about Xavier’s Quincy Olivari ? A 43 pt. 10 rebound double double. A perfect 12 for 12 from the foul line.

Season all of a sudden seems to be in full swing for everyone now.

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UCONN loves playing at MSG.
Watching the late replay right now instead of going to sleep after skiing all day.
It was snowing.

How about Xavier’s Quincy Olivari ? A 43 pt. 10 rebound double double. A perfect 12 for 12 from the foul line.

Season all of a sudden seems to be in full swing for everyone now.

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I saw Quincy’s line last night and was like, well that’s gonna raise your national profile a bit. Sure enough, right there on Sportscenter this morning.

Some great games yesterday.

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On a plane to Kentucky right now. Will be in Rupp Arena tomorrow night when Tennessee comes to town to play the Wildcats. Then on to Nashville for Kentucky at Vandy. Back to Lexington next Saturday for Gonzaga-UK. Stoked!

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Loved watching the Vols show out against those kitties. Fans headed for the exits down double digits with still a few to play then Calipari extending the game with desperation fouls. Scoring 100+ in Rupp and never relinquishing the lead from tipoff. Strong performance Tennessee!

Loved the beatdown while consuming Four Roses single barrel. A few good things come out of Kentucky, but glad it wasn't basketball Saturday night!!!

Glad to see support for Kenect from the rest of the crew too. Solid work.

And the social media whining is awesome!

Kentucky is a confusing team to me. Have a few alums in the office so I get a lot of perspective. They seem like they can hang 90 on anyone but then also completely forget how to play defense or even how the play was scripted after 5 seconds into running it.

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Kentucky is a confusing team to me. Have a few alums in the office so I get a lot of perspective. They seem like they can hang 90 on anyone but then also completely forget how to play defense or even how the play was scripted after 5 seconds into running it.

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they are a kentucky team so they are inexperienced. real issue is they don't have the talent to make up for it like we are used to seeing from them. justin edwards came in as the no. 3 overall recruit and has been a non factor if not a liability.

I was right behind the Tennessee bench Saturday night. The atmosphere was awesome. Frustrating game for Kentucky fans like me for sure. Rob Dillingham goes bonkers, UK hold Kenect in check and UT still in control the whole game. I've always had a ton of respect for Rick Barnes, one of the best coached out there.

that was fucking sorry from the heels tonight. fucking sorry. terrible on the glass. dominated by their two white boys on the inside. and cormac needs to either figure it out from 3 or start driving and kicking. more questions than answers.

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that was fucking sorry from the heels tonight. fucking sorry. terrible on the glass. dominated by their two white boys on the inside. and cormac needs to either figure it out from 3 or start driving and kicking. more questions than answers.

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Agreed…as a long time heels guy/ some nights I love watching them play/ and some nights I hate watching them play. Tonight was a hate night. Looked like last year’s team/very frustrating.