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And for those forward-looking types…in a few years when the transition is made to athletes being University employees instead of enrolled students there’ll no longer be a limit on how many years an employee can play on a university team. The only league that’ll be left standing, unscathed, at...

Ok then they won’t be enrolled students. They’ll be university employees. However it’s done, it won’t involve taking classes.

Do Ivy League schools participate in NIL? Thinking they may not. After all, I believe they don’t even give out athletic scholarships.

This is the next obvious step in “college” athletics. Athletes will be allowed to play without taking classes. Their degree program will be them participating in whatever sport they play. The way things are accelerating I give it three years at best before all remaining remnants of the...

I based my statement on knowing absolutely nothing whatsoever about Boogie. I have to ask… is that a bad thing? Because if it is I’d never had posted it. I must say I thought that in the BY it was perfectly fine. :cool:;)

Someone has to replace the points that are leaving with Clingan, TN, Cam and Castle. After Karaban, Stewart of all the returnees is most ready to be that offensive weapon. That’s going to put him in line for a major jump in PPG. Entirely possible to see him in the 15+ range. All depends...

He’ll be portal jumping every year he’s in college, bringing a whole new slant to the term “one and done”.

The Caitlin Clark factor. The women’s sports media collective have been promoting the narrative that this is the breakout year which will change forever Americas interest in women’s college basketball. Look, I follow the UConn women and tune in for their big games. The rest of women’s college...

Haven't seen any mention here (?) about Harvard FRESHMAN guard Malik Mack, who is in the portal. His stats are amazingly similar to TN's numbers at East Carolina: 17.2 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 4.8 APG. Scores, assists, and rebounds at the PG position. And he's from Harvard, so probably brings a high...

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It’s easier to be ready to deal with a loss when we’re the underdog. This is the first time coming in as the prohibitive favorite …. I find that a lot more stressful as a fan, but this team has handled being the favorite superbly all year, which gives me confidence that they’ll finish this...

Everyone who’s feeling nervous here, go back and look at Purdue’s games from this year. Lost to Wisconsin. Lost to Ohio St. Lost to Northwestern. Mich St lost two games by only 5 and 6 pts. These aren’t great teams. Purdue only blew out a handful of teams all year, typically they’ve won by...

IMO, the brilliance and domination of the UCLA teams of the 60’s created for the first time a national, rather than regional, spotlight on college basketball. The 1968 game where Elvin Hayes and an undefeated Houston team played Lew Alcindor’s undefeated and reigning national championship UCLA...

Exactly. If someone added Clingan’s blocks, the steals, SJ and Cams blocks, etc to the scoring in that clip it’d be unbelievably fantastic.

Cam and Diarra on Sears. Put Castle on Nelson. Nelson’s their game changer. He’s the problem. Shut him down and UConn's playing Monday night. It’d be a mistake assigning our singular elite defensive resource putting Castle on Sears. The tandem of Cam and Diarra can more than handle Sears.

Casual fan

An 0-4 night for me. But should set the deck for 4-0 mojo reversal this weekend.

Tenn making all the hustle plays.

Something more went down in this game than just Marquette having a bad shooting night. At best, hopefully it was just a late night of partying, or the flu, or bad calamari. Or something much much worse. Cuz something was way way off. That looked like a team playing a Sunday pickup game at...

Just opened this thread and saw all the same comments about Mitchell that I felt right from the beginning of the game. He was jogging up and down the court, played awful D, bricked shot after shot, turned the ball over in bizarre ways. I don’t know all the Marquette players names but most...

This thread can’t be good karma.

You’re right. I don’t watch any NBA regular season games anymore. I watch some playoff games but that’s it.

All right, I’m getting smoked here. Feeling like Stetson vs UConn. Pressing on… I have no issue with today’s centers being able to shoot the 3. However, Shaq couldn’t shoot outside the paint, nor could Olajawan, or Parish, or any of those players. In fact, none did or could. Yet their...

If you’re a fan of today’s NBA version of basketball, good for you. Enjoy. I much prefer a balanced inside/outside game, and it being reffed according to the rules in the book. Seriously, “hilariously stupid”? That’s your fact based counterpoint argument? Right. LOL:cool:

That the NBA doesn’t value Edey is an indictment of the present-day NBA and its decision to roll out a product that long ago decided to sell the “Michael Jordan superstar” marketing image to its audience. Winning, and competition, are a distant second to packaging when it comes to the NBA...

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I’m expecting a difficult 1st half, with UConn taking charge midway through the 2nd half. Similar to the Big East tourney games.

Two of their starters are out with injury; Nichols 7’0” center and Berry 6’3” guard. In their last OT game against Purdue both of them played. Nichols had 4 pts and Berry 25. Interestingly, Purdue had 38 more FTs than NW in that game yet NW was good enough to take Purdue into OT. Those two...

Kentucky on a players short list never sits right with me. I know I’m painting with too broad a brushstroke but in my mind a “Kentucky” player is not a “UConn” player. Cultures couldn’t be more different. Hopefully Joson is an exception.

None of this bracket speculation matters. You have to show up and beat whoever the committee puts in front of you. Instead, look at the brackets from the perspective of the other tournament teams. UConn presents problems that most teams haven’t had to scheme, or play, against. First, Clingan...

Yeah but WTF when Can was shooting technical foul shots and they don’t tell us WTF is going on! Gus is just blubbering on about who knows what and never shuts up and never notices that something important is happening on the court.

This is the first year that Samson Johnson Is playing at the 5 spot. As everyone knows, he was brought in to play the 4 and that’s the position he practiced at for two years. I don’t see it as a stretch that in his second year at center SJ has a chance to improve significantly.

Clingan is big…in bare feet

Won’t be the first time. Wasnt he in Storrs, head firmly planted in the sand, as KO drove the program off the cliff?

Thanks for the details