****Official 2023-24 College Hoops Thread ****
 

Please post any and all thoughts on games you’re watching in here if you like. Let’s all have fun and remain very very civil to each other!!

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Duke and Zona tonight

I like KU

This is a nice start to the thread! Me too

NW MO beats Northern State SD

65-47

NW started the year ranked #1

I can't wait for that home and home vs Arizona every year.

'Sucky up 38-30 on Texas A&M Commerce at half

LMAO

Triple C starting off hot hot hot

I feel bad for Arizona fans. They will have to watch Caleb Love chuck up bad shots over and over again derailing their season. That's what he does.

It’s that time again folks. Kansas by a dozen tonight. Would love to see dook lose as well

I was at the game Friday. Funny you didn’t post the final score.

Kansas should win. Kentucky is without 3 7 footers. Only way this game is close is if Dickinson gets in foul trouble.

Looking forward to the season. Should be a fun one.

Yep!

Because nobody cares if Kentucky ends up beating texas commerce by 30 or 40 or whatever it was.

It's still funny to only be up 8 at the half against a university that nobody knew existed until last weekend.

Oof. This is what Kentucky fans have been reduced to, "You didn't post the final score of our game against Texas Community College!" LMAO

Huh?

If you’re going to troll, troll better instead of being disingenuous. I am fully aware that they were down 13 in the 1st half because I was at Rupp the entire game.

I went with my friends from Alabama who had never been to Lexington before and then went to the football game Saturday.

I already said that.

Kentucky will lose like they have been doing alot in football lately

Still a better record than Nebraska!

Are you sure you weren't in Prague for that one?

Do you want me to send you an itemized receipt of all my trips from December 2022 to now? Is it my job to post after every Kentucky related sporting event?

No Nebraska is undefeated in basketball Kentucky won't be able to say the same after tonight losers

I was referring to football, a sport that Nebraska used to be dominant in. Kind of like Kentucky and basketball.

On this forum, yes.

I’ll do that if you don’t randomly disappear after a Blue Jays PO series loss.

Yes, the rules are if you root for an outside team that nobody in KC gives a shit about; you MUST post immediately after losing so we can ridicule you and drink your sorrow in for strength.

That's pretty funny coming from the guy that was at his 5th cousin's birthday party everytime the Royals beat the Blue Jays during their world series run.

Teams I personally enjoy seeing lose at sports:

Nebraska football
Kentucky basketball
Blue Jays baseball

Ikr why doesn't he get that?

Its like Pablo can read my mind

Pretty complete list.

Cal is looking as leathery and greasy as ever

Don't forget the Patriots

Filipowski is continuing the Puke tradition of having the most punchable face in college ball.

Sweeeet. When my team loses, all my sorrow oozes out of my wang straw. I'll be sure to come looking for you if Kansas upsets UK.

Did you know Rick Pitino is still alive? I mean barely but still.
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Sparty getting warm.

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Apparently finding mom-daughter whores for recruits ages a guy.

Nobody should win this Duke game.

Im rooting hard for Sparty. I just wanna see Jon Sheyer get fired.

Refs still in Puke pocket I see.

FIFY

Plow/Flail into a dude and expect a foul is the worst kind of basketball

Pretty good list. I’d add the raiders (love seeing their dumbass fans live in misery)

And love seeing Mexico soccer lose (for the same reasons)

MEU got hosed in some big calls tonight.

It bears repeating. Goddamn I wouldn't mind hitting that dude with a crowbar.

I wouldn’t mind seeing him shoved into a trash compactor

Wood chipper?

If I Don't have to clean it up, sure.

Up 7 without any bigs. LMAO

The lack of size is, in part, what got them this lead. UK's guards are running circles around KU's bigs and Dickinson looks completely out of place defensively.

Wagner is doing absolutely nothing right now. Main damage is coming from Reeves and Dillingham with Thiero helping as well.

If I were Self, I’d feed Dickinson in the paint against Mitchell to exploit UK’s personnel.

Becuase KU is playing a big who can't move/cover any of these guys. More size wouldn't help UK in this matchup the way it's playing out right now.

They were doing that but nobody on KU apparently knows how to make a post pass.

UK’s outrebounding KU right now (which shouldn’t be happening).

More size would help to mitigate some of the damage Dickinson is doing. Edwards is also doing nothing.

Don’t think UK will be as hot from 3, but unless Dickinson goes off, I feel OK.

Didn’t expect to make that many 3s, but point still stands.

Your guys can play. If Calapari can hold everything together, you'll be good.

Yeah, tonight’s effort was promising. Inexperience showed at times along but nothing too concerning. Wagner and Edwards had off nights.

Get Bradshaw and Oneyenso healthy and this team is dangerous.

I'm feeling better about them than the last few years. Still a problem in these kind of games where guys want to play hero ball at the end. If they had stuck to what they were doing the entire game, that's a W. When they get an inside presence, they should be tough.

Gotta learn from it and move on.

Dillingham and Sheppard ****ed up big time at the end, but they wouldn’t have been in a position to win without them.

I like what this team can be if they get their bigs back.

After what happened at the end of the half, i mentioned to my wife how bad they are at end of half/game play. I honestly can't remember the last time they had the ball with a chance to win (in this case tie) as the clock was running out, and they made a shot. It's been sooooo long. I've seen plenty of flubs though, tonite included.

I honestly don't recall that they've ever made a shot at the end of the game to win it under Cal.

Reeves going 3 for 17 from three was quite something to watch. Way too much hero ball for those guards down the stretch and KU's experience carried them.

Yeah, i'm not gonna get down on the guys. They played hard and smart for about 37 minutes. If they learn from it and get some size back, this is going to be a good team.

I've seen it a lot over the years and it can be frustrating. It's just something, with Cal's teams, that you hope they figure out by the time the tournament rolls around.

I think Dillingham and Reeves being streaky compounds with Edwards and Wagner doing dog shit exacerbated the volume misses. I don’t think Reeves should be the main shooter, but if no one else is making a shot, might as well let him rip it.

Reeves did nothing vs Kansas St., but so did Toppin and no one else would take 3s. Gotta live with both the good and bad on volume shooters.

Reeves took a good look at the end from 3 that I no problem with. It just didn’t go in.

Precisely. Dillingham got killed on screens and Sheppard took a dumb 3 at the end.

Learn and move on. Miami in two weeks will be a nice shot at redemption.

Typical Kentucky high end team. All the talent in the world, enough to win it, just a question on whether Cal can get it in sync before the season's end.

I can't remember the last time he had a team with this ceiling, to be honest with you.

2016-2017 with Fox, Monk, and Adebayo.

This team should be fine come March. Just really ****ing young and without a true big right now.

I was thinking somewhere between the '14 and '16 team. Not as good as '14 but potentially better than '16.

That was a fun game to watch. At least the good guys ended up winning. 1 game closer to being the all time leader again.

2014-2015 had a mix of experienced players and talented freshmen (Booker was coming off the bench).

This team isn’t that good, but it should hold its weight against 2016-2017 depending on how Bradshaw develops. This team may be even better than that depending on how Dillingham, Sheppard, and Wagner develop as well. I’d take all of them over Briscoe offensively now and TBD if any of them can be as good as Fox. They don’t need to be as natural of a shooter as Monk (who was streaky as hell), but if they can defend they’ll be better than him overall if they can replicate even 70-80% of what he was offensively.

Need to see how they play defensively.

That’s a Calipari thing. He won’t ramp down the hero ball because he thinks it will hurt recruiting (IMO). And he’s right I think. He needs to recruit well enough that coaching doesn’t matter. And with this class he may have. But yeah, hero ball isn’t going away.

Sheppard took a dumb shot but he needs more minutes. He’s a better pure shooter with a tighter more reproducible stroke. He can really create space on the lanes for the athletes. That kid isn’t the flashy player the other guys are but he brings a lot to the table.

Thank you for showing up immediately after losing and sharing your frustrations for us all to enjoy Sucky fans.

You’re not as entertaining as rupp rafters folks though

I am high on UK. They have some shoemakers this year.

Yea I agree. Most of their players belong in a sweat shop making Nikes

Missouri loses to 0-5 Jackson State. In basketballs

Purdue with a 3/4 court shot to take it to half 45-42

Good game so far. First one in this tourney I've been able to sit and watch completely so far.

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UK with their 4th straight game making 12+ threes. First time since 1989.

Cal embracing the way if the 3 now? I feel like Self and Cals teams don't typically shoot near as much as other coaches teams

Seems like it. Cal's first couple teams were in the mid 100s (in all of D1) in atts per game but from then it's been more often than not in the 300s. This year they're 12th in att and 4th (before tonights game, i believe) in makes and they hit 16 tonight, so they could be a bit higher than that. It helps when you have several guys that can/have been hitting them pretty consistently.

Big test coming up against Miami on Tuesday.

Sports radio 810 used to have this commercial for hoops called "are you a hoops a holic" and I felt bad because I really do miss work and isolate to watch college basketball. I have gotten better though since I because a son