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.

 

[HitDog]

Announced crowd of 19,750. Looks like 15 thousand people made the right choice to stay home last night

 

[uconngb]

Announced crowd of 19,750. Looks like 15 thousand people made the right choice to stay home last night

I think that’s the total aggregate crowd for all home games season to date. You hate to see it.

 

[bazzdog]

I think that’s the total aggregate crowd for all home games season to date. You hate to see it.

Maybe they shoulda kept Boeheim

 

[Waquoit]

I think that’s the total aggregate crowd for all home games season to date. You hate to see it.

Do you?

 

[Palatine]

They are now the Excuse.

 

[uconngb]

Do you?

 

[Chin Diesel]

Announced crowd of 19,750. Looks like 15 thousand people made the right choice to stay home last night

I was channel surfing and watched for about 5 minutes midway through the first half. 4 1/2 of the minutes watched was trying to figure out why so many Notre Dame fans were at a 'ville v. 'cuse game.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

The ACC did them wonders

 

[uconndogs]

BC hoops has sucked for so long it's hard to remember when they put respectible teams on the floor. Conte is an absolute morgue. Syracuse could be headed for the same fate......

 

[Inyatkin]

BC hoops has sucked for so long it's hard to remember when they put respectible teams on the floor. Conte is an absolute morgue. Syracuse could be headed for the same fate......

Remember when they thought they could do better than Al Skinner? Hilarious

 

[Rocktheworld]

BC hoops has sucked for so long it's hard to remember when they put respectible teams on the floor. Conte is an absolute morgue. Syracuse could be headed for the same fate......

At least BC is in Boston. Good luck to Finger Lakes State filling that arena.

Also I wonder if National Grid wants their money back for what minimal outreach their little T-shirt advertising stunt surely achieved lol

 

[superjohn]

At least BC is in Boston. Good luck to Finger Lakes State filling that arena.

Also I wonder if National Grid wants their money back for what minimal outreach their little T-shirt advertising stunt surely achieved lol

Syracuse is always top 3 in the nation in attendance. BC gets less fans than UMass.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Announced crowd of 19,750. Looks like 15 thousand people made the right choice to stay home last night

the caption says how the dome looked just after tip time. Seems to look like they were at a game of dodgeball from the way the players are "playing" the game.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Syracuse is always top 3 in the nation in attendance. BC gets less fans than UMass.

True, nobody in Syracuse has anything to do but go to Syracuse games. They really do have that going for them lmao

But man if I’m an alum of either school and had to pick a team to continue to suffer for, it would be BC because at least I get to spend a weekend in Boston (and I saw many people in Syracuse gear presumably going to their game last weekend) out if it. Although hotels are surely dirt cheap in Syracuse lol guess it’s not such a clear choice!

 

[Samoo]

the caption says how the dome looked just after tip time. Seems to look like they were at a game of dodgeball from the way the players are "playing" the game.

Color guard present so probably the national anthem. The amazing thing is guys like this just make chit up and it gets posted without question, though the fact that it is about cuse tempers my disdain...and it is shortly before rip-off.

I meant tip off; may have been Freudian slip

 

[HooperScooper]

At least BC is in Boston. Good luck to Finger Lakes State filling that arena.

Except that nobody outside BC grads cares about BC athletics in Boston. It's a private school and they don't have a wide following. At least that's my experience. Do you get that impression also?

 

[UConniki]

I chose my handle to clown on Syracuse. I revel in their misery but I also look forward to seeing them turn it around and at least be respectable again.

I'd rather see old Big East teams in the top 25 than all these SEC schools.

I don’t. It’s just a constant reminder of how UConn got left behind mostly because of spiteful things done by former Big East teams ( BC, Cuse, Pitt and Ville) in the hopes of killing off our program (petty jealousy) and some self destructive decisions by the school, Wrong school president, lazy AD, no foresight as to the consequences of staying in the BE long term and being too trusting and gullible concerning the motives of other schools desire to get out primarily BC and Pitt. Remember when JC swore he’d never play BC and Pitt in basketball ever again because of their behind the scenes dishonesty to destroy the BE ( Pitt) and block (BC) UConn’s admittance. All of the other states that were home to
a BE school had pro sports if I’m remembering correctly and more than 1 major sports school except for Connecticut so the dissolution of the league was a much bigger disaster for Connecticut sports fans. I currently live in Fla and we have 10 pro sports teams and a half dozen major college sports teams in Florida so the damage to 1 college sports department wouldn’t even be a blip on the Fla sports scene. Thank god for some recent good luck ( DB, DH, JM ) in adding some highly successful coaches to GA and Tom Penders ( baseball?). JMHO