December General CBB Discussion Thread (Non-BE)

[HooperScooper]

Duke led most of the game but TT with the nice comeback.

Texas Tech 82-81 Duke (Dec 20, 2025) Box Score - ESPN

Box score for the Texas Tech Red Raiders vs. Duke Blue Devils NCAAM game from December 20, 2025 on ESPN. Includes all points, rebounds and steals stats.

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[FightOnCT]

The East 1 seed is for us to lose now

 

[Mr. French]

I didn’t watch the whole game but obviously they collapsed.

Seeing the foul they called on Duke though with 3 seconds left, and reading Sheyer’s lips, he’s right. Awful job by the refs (there’s a shock).

Not sad for Duke but objectively crappy job by the ref.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Epic is right. That is a brutal loss. Texas Tech had all that foul trouble and a ton of injuries. Horrific loss

Scheyer was terrible with his TOs. Waited way too long on some runs and then Boozer just inexplicably was absent from their offense for stretches of the second half.

 

[uconngb]

Rupp or Atlanta, my bad. Affecting St John’s strength when we play them or not, don’t care. They can lose every game, I don’t care. I want UConn to win games I’m not worrying about St John’s ratings.

Completely agree…..the fraud Pitino can’t lose enough for me

 

[uconngb]

Scheyer was terrible with his TOs. Waited way too long on some runs and then Boozer just inexplicably was absent from their offense for stretches of the second half.

They had such an advantage w Boozer and didn’t exploit it at all. That’s coaching malpractice

 

[RuffRuff]

They had such an advantage w Boozer and didn’t exploit it at all. That’s coaching malpractice

Not sure Boozer is that much of an advantage over Toppin. Toppin is a heckuva player.

Duke's downfall will be against teams that have a great guard, and a big that can handle Boozer (like Toppin). Duke's guard play isn't all that good. Nice game by Watts too. TT basically a 3 man team.

 

[Huskyforlife]

We should move into the top 4 if we don’t blow it against DePaul. One seed is officially on the table.

 

[uh-no]

They had such an advantage w Boozer and didn’t exploit it at all. That’s coaching malpractice

problem is boozer (the big one) is BOTH their best scorer AND best PG. Their actual guards are limited on BOTh offense and defense, that's why libscomb had them on the ropes for a half playing 5-out, and why TT was able to make their comback when they were forced to go small.

Duke's big weakness is their guard play, and boozer can only make up for so much of it.

 

[uh-no]

Not sure Boozer is that much of an advantage over Toppin. Toppin is a heckuva player.

Duke's downfall will be against teams that have a great guard, and a big that can handle Boozer (like Toppin). Duke's guard play isn't all that good. Nice game by Watts too. TT basically a 3 man team.

100%.

Duke is still very very good, but it's about the advantage of boozer vs the limited guard play.

 

[HooperScooper]

The East 1 seed is for us to lose now

What? Both teams have 20+ games to go. It's always good to see Duke lose but I wouldn't start with that stuff.

 

[UConNick]

Anderson is absolutely bonkers. Not the first time this year he went off like that (27, 5 triples).

Always a good day when Duke loses. Boozer looked weirdly spooked by an undersized kid against him, like he didn’t know what to do with the advantage and floundered

 

[shizzle787]

I don't particularly want to see Dayton or anyone else added to the Big East. Anyone that's added means shifting off of the round robin schedule, and thus the potential we're only getting 1 game against the other top teams

This and also diluting the original Big East schools as a percentage of the league. The four most likely teams to get a bid this year are part of the eastern six.

 

[BigTenFan]

They had such an advantage w Boozer and didn’t exploit it at all. That’s coaching malpractice

Missed a ton of FT

 

[WhereistheDove?]

I didn’t watch the whole game but obviously they collapsed.

Seeing the foul they called on Duke though with 3 seconds left, and reading Sheyer’s lips, he’s right. Awful job by the refs (there’s a shock).

Not sad for Duke but objectively crappy job by the ref.

Don’t agree with that take at all. Duke guard had his hands all over Anderson and was leaning in to him from the halfcourt line all the way until they called the foul. I actually think they gave Duke a decent amount of leeway given the circumstance but kind of had their hand forced with how much contact there was.

 

[Mr. French]

Don’t agree with that take at all. Duke guard had his hands all over Anderson and was leaning in to him from the halfcourt line all the way until they called the foul. I actually think they gave Duke a decent amount of leeway given the circumstance but kind of had their hand forced with how much contact there was.

Yeah, I disagree. Unless I missed the contact it looked like he was riding along with him and in no way does that deserve to get called with 3 seconds left. It affected nothing and I didn’t see hands, I saw physical bodying. But I’m open to being shown wrong, I watched it once on my phone.

 

[Gurleyman]

Still early - but our old friends San Diego State giving Arizona a game in the first half. Up 23-20 with 3:30 left. They look horrific on offense (28 foot desperation threes, off balance shots off the side of the backboard, etc.), so I don’t think it’ll last - but they are making Arizona work for everything on defense.

 

[uh-no]

Don’t agree with that take at all. Duke guard had his hands all over Anderson and was leaning in to him from the halfcourt line all the way until they called the foul. I actually think they gave Duke a decent amount of leeway given the circumstance but kind of had their hand forced with how much contact there was.

nbongba 100% got away with that second hook....and was lucky the refs called it on the TT guy and it wasn't egregious enough to overturn like the first one.

That first one was dirty, IMO...he hooked him, then shot his foot out to "fall"....well deserved flagrant.

 

[RuffRuff]

Darius Adams with a 3/10 games, 4 TO's no assist game. He's working from the bench these days.

 

[Gurleyman]

Darius Adams with a 3/10 games, 4 TO's no assist game. He's working from the bench these days.

He actually has some decent potential - good size and skill on the wing. But the argument way back when that he left because we brought in Demary and Smith and he couldn’t play point guard was silly. He isn’t a point guard … or even a combo guard.

 

[RuffRuff]

Still early - but our old friends San Diego State giving Arizona a game in the first half. Up 23-20 with 3:30 left. They look horrific on offense (28 foot desperation threes, off balance shots off the side of the backboard, etc.), so I don’t think it’ll last - but they are making Arizona work for everything on defense.

This one is a brick laying contest.

 

[AllHusky]

SDSU can’t shoot.

 

[HooperScooper]

This one is a brick laying contest.

2 teams are a combined 2-24 from three. Oof.

 

[aceboon]

Arizona starting to run away with this one now

 

[superjohn]

We should move into the top 4 if we don’t blow it against DePaul. One seed is officially on the table.

On the table? You didn't think a one seed was on the table before today.

The goal should be #1 overall heading into the tournament. We would be #1 now if healthy.