OT: Cuse

[Matrim55]

The Onion must have a new writer that is a college basketball fan because they also had one about Cooper Flagg the other day too.

Even the Onion can't top Flagg's own IG:

 

[bendm]

College basketball is better with a good Syracuse and a good Georgetown.

they arent the knicks. the casual fan couldnt care less about Cuse.

i completely agree the BE is better with a good Gtown team since they are probably still the third or fourth biggest brand, so as a BE fan i'm rooting for them to turn it around. but i will never root for anything good to happen to Cuse or the ACC.

 

[HooperScooper]

Rutgers is 8-7 this season with two Top 5 draft picks on the roster. I'll say it again, loved him as a Husky player, but Pikiell's highly overrated as a coach. He's in his ninth season at Rutgers, has one 20 win season there and is 1-3 in his career in the NCAA Tournament. Bailey and Harper wasted their one year of college ball. Great he was a Husky, but some honesty on his coaching ability.

"Those two are incredibly talented young men with very bright futures in the NBA but they don't try hard defensively," a high-major assistant who faced Rutgers this season told CBS Sports. "In college, any time any team is built around two freshmen and those freshmen don't necessarily have the maturity or intangibles of what goes into winning yet, it's going to impact your team. That's not saying they're bad young men, they just don't have what it takes to win yet."

Instead, Steve Pikiell is overseeing one of the most disappointing — and vexing — teams in the sport. With yet another loss Princeton home L to Kennesaw State, Rutgers isn't even a bubble team. That's what can happen when you change your template and rely on freshmen after having never done so before, as Pikiell is responsible for now.

Court Report: Rutgers could be first team to miss NCAA Tournament despite having two top-five NBA Draft picks

Matt Norlander's weekly notebook also has three ranked teams to fade and Tennessee's March outlook after its loss to Florida

www.cbssports.com

 

[HooperScooper]

One more nugget from Norlander's article posted above.

Things are dire for the ACC: 12 of the 18 teams in the conference rank worse than 73rd in the NET. Even going back to the problematic era of the RPI, I can't ever remember a power conference having so much dead weight.