2018 ncaa

giannis's little brother plays for dayton

go flyers

cal's don coleman has 26 in the first half against wichita state

Mo Bamba is awfully good

Maybe number 1 pick good?

bc > duke

55-8 nwestern ahead of chicago state @ the half

hoosiers

i am into trae young

he even does the chest touch point to the sky thing like curry. looks awesome tho.

going to ASU game on Friday.

Trae Young is averaging 28.5 PPG & 10.2 APG. The most PPG by anyone to average 10+ APG in the @collegebb_ref DB is 18.1 by current NBA ref Leon Wood, back in 1982-83 https://t.co/f6O4h2x2Fw

— Mike Lynch (@SportInfo247) December 20, 2017

the more u know

Trae Young has 25 points and 10 assists at halftime, accounting for 50 of Oklahoma's 68 points.

Young has accounted for 126 points over his last 46 minutes of basketball (3 halves).

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) December 23, 2017

Bagley with 32/21.

Marvin Bagley: 32 pts, 21 reb
Trae Young: 39 pts, 14 ast
Tank away!

— Tankathon.com (@tankathon) December 30, 2017

Duke and FSU have been going at it hammer and tongs, as if it were March and an NCCA tournament game. They're playing back and forth across the border between sloppy and amazing.

50 years ago, Pete Maravich averaged 43.8 PPG his 1st season of varsity at LSU. He scored or assisted on 51.8 PPG and his offensive output has never been rivaled.

Until Trae Young.

Young is scoring or assisting on 52.6 PPG entering today.

— Micah Adams (@MicahAdams13) December 30, 2017

trae young 43 & ll rebounds

He’s pushing for that #1 spot and might get it

this draft more than usual is a fascinating competition between people with insane physical gifts and those who are good at basketball

btw before the season trae young was a consensus bubble first rounder

jfc

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUBvxv2X0AEF5zX.jpg

^_^

seems excessive

further explorations in whether insanely talented scorers can learn to play (a little bit of) defense in just five months

30 years ago tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSwZgpOad8

sexton vs trae on espn right has been fun

really having a hard time figuring out trae youngs hair situation.

bagley 30-14

honestly where does duke find all its grayson allens

POINT: It’s wrong to hate an unpaid, college amateur.

COUNTERPOINT: Grayson Allen exists. pic.twitter.com/DptHbVhLNZ

— SportsPickle (@sportspickle) January 27, 2018

remember when jj redick wrote poetry about how it was tough being jj redick because no one understood how it felt to be jj redick looool he must be so embarrassed abt it now they put that shit on national tv

last time unc & duke lost at home the same day -- 2/21/1973

nice

lol duke

lol nova !

uh oh

https://twitter.com/DraftExpress/status/963597597528256512

Trae Young has missed the last 16 3-pointers he's attempted. 3P% is now down to 37% on the season. Oklahoma is 2-7 in their last nine games. Young has 66 assists and 58 turnovers in that stretch. Schedule doesn't get much easier from here. Home vs Texas Saturday, @ Kansas Monday

tbf this is the point in the season where freshmen -- especially the ones playing 35 minutes a game -- hit a wall

trae young is bad and not the next xteph xurry

aww yeah baby

Sources tell @YahooSports that the breadth and depth of material in discovery in the Basketball corruption cases will alter the sport of college basketball. Hall of Fame coaches, Lottery picks and top programs are all exposed to significant sanctions. https://t.co/u8cwrw0VOZ

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) February 15, 2018

you can use either 'soundtrack' or 'ticking time bomb' -- if you must -- but not both

wow @ msu coming back on nwstrn

watch out for the ragin cajuns in the tourney imo

No. 13 Kansas took 35 free throws, while West Virginia took two.

I am generally suspicious of the notion that basketball players move by brownian motion, resulting in an even split of fouls. And west virginia's whole game plan is relentless press.

sure. but 35 to 2 is absurd

miami has a true freshman PG that is listed at 5' 7" which every announcer always says is "generous" ... he's really dope

Filthy finish by @IAm_Lykesdat!#MustSeeACC pic.twitter.com/F8S0IcU9Kv

— ACC Digital Network (@theACCDN) February 20, 2018

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/22513517/ncaa-denies-louisville-appeal-rules-cardinals-vacate-2013-national-title

does it matter?

as a michigan grad, i say we hang a banner!

just kidding

i thought the announcement would be a new coaching hire

it prob matters to the university of louisville

they have to take down a banner, but it ultimately doesn't matter--everyone remembers what happened, and there will be plenty of record of Louisville's win, even if it's not written in the official record books

sports records are perhaps less thoroughly kept and preserved than the records of our criminal courts. in this way, louisville has strengthened its legacy.

Missouri freshman Michael Porter Jr. has been fully cleared for all basketball activities, per a source.

— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) February 22, 2018

drexel!

nice ppl

Based on a filing obtained by @ShaunKing the NCAA defense counsel in the Poppy suit is using a prisoner exemption in the 13th amendment — which abolished slavery — to allow the NCAA to not compensate athletes by using prison labor as precedent. https://t.co/abQ0wguUym

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) February 22, 2018

Breaking: Sources say FBI wiretaps intercepted Sean Miller and Christian Dawkins discussing a payment of 00,000 to ensure star freshman DeAndre Ayton signed with Arizona. pic.twitter.com/TUajew2ouu

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) February 24, 2018

why is miller making these calls haaa.

good pittsburgh kid, just like calipari

dont really care about any of this beyond hoping that the end result is the players get paid (legally) in the future

and of course i want coach k to go down in flames

deandre ayton looks like prime dwight howard with a jump shot when he’s trying

he looks like a giant out there

yikes oklahoma

february madness: 1st round of big south tourney last night, longwood lancers snap a 12 game losing streak to advance - https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/2018-02-27-19-high-point.html

sick finish ut arlington/texas st

there's never been a better time to

ban college hoops. revamp the d league and pay these kids.

― Spottie, Monday, October 31, 2016 12:42 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A plan is expected to include the NBA starting relationships with elite teenagers while they are in high school, providing skills to help them develop both on and off the court. It would ultimately open an alternate path to the NBA besides playing in college and a way 18-year-olds could earn a meaningful salary either from NBA teams or as part of an enhanced option in the developmental G League, sources said.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22615784/nba-making-plans-get-involved-high-school-level-once-again-espn

fn about time

particularly w the g league up and running theres really no need to have college in the loop anymore, also it wld be good if the nbas involvement with high school players got to the level where it prevented guys from shooting from the wrong side of their heads

tho prob from a marketing standpoint still nothing will ever be better than a two and done rule

they will have to up the salaries pretty significantly cos you know, you could get 100k + from Arizona... vs only 26k current max g league salary.

college hoops should be for dudes that stick around for 4 years and that (at the most) have a minor shot to play overseas.

the best high school players shd just get drafted like in the garnett days but you can still give them run in the g league if theyre not ready for grown man minutes, and then yeah raise the G league salaries for non nba players/two way contract guys to compete w foreign leagues/illicit ncaa money, and regardless of competition they shd just be paying these guys a living wage

maybe tack on a year to the rookie contracts of straight out of high school players to allow teams more time to develop them idk

yeah think you would have to

uconn women are up 43-5 at the half

rude

cincy scored 0 in the 2nd period

i saw it got up to 51-8 lol how is that allowed

8-for-58 (13.8%) from the field

uconn had 55 rebounds

Cleveland State (12-22) scores 61 point in the second half to beat the #1 seed in their conference tourney then beat Oakland in semi finals 44-43. Play for the championship tonight vs Wright State. A win would put them in the NCAA tournament I think?

prob into a play-in game but yea auto bid, right?

yes! Pretty sure Wright State is going to kill them though.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXoLqZIWkAMLGeC.jpg:small

raf otm

functioning alcoholism is not joining twitter

btw it is absurd that the big ten and ACC had their tournaments in NYC this year (and even more absurd that the big ten went a week early because the big east is having its proper tourney at MSG now)

yay let's invite our fans to spend most of a week in a really expensive city that famously doesn't care about college sports

its the mecca baby

i was thinking the other day about how the whole north east doesnt care about college sports, weird

i grew up in the town where bc is and i knew one person who expressed interest in their sports teams one time

oddly the only college sports thing boston cares about is "the beanpot"

they cared enough at bc to shave points

gotta shave some points off now and then keep the score crisp

wouldn't want a birds nest of points situation

there used to be a certain attachment to syracuse hoops in NYC, but rather less when they're finishing 11th in a league dominated by teams hundreds of miles away

lol at the big ten thinking adding rutgers would make NYC care

The Athletic Department’s Search Committee seeks a Head Men’s Basketball coach with integrity, vision, and a commitment to the comprehensive development and success of the program and its individual student-athletes. A Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years’ coaching experience (preferably at the NCAA Division l or comparable level) are required. In addition, the candidate should present the following qualifications:
Demonstrated ability to produce and lead a highly successful, championship level Men’s Basketball team;
Demonstrated commitment to the safety, welfare, personal development and academic success of student-athletes;
Demonstrated commitment to and compliance with the principles and bylaws of the NCAA, policies and procedures of the ACC, the University and the Athletic
Department, as well as a demonstrated record of ethical decision making and sound-level judgment within a fast-paced and competitive environment;
Demonstrated ability to manage, lead, and hire a qualified staff of coaches;
Demonstrated ability to build and manage effective relationships with prospective student-athletes, current student-athletes, university administrators, staff, alumni, donors, community, and other internal and external constituents.
Commitment to comply fully with the mission statements of the University and the Department. the Department’s Head Coach Philosophy Statement as well as the principles of “The Pitt Promise”

https://www.pittsource.com/postings/154301

bama has outscored auburn 28-6 so far 2nd half

woops 28-5*

sexton wow

sick length of the court drive & floater 3-pt buzzer beater by memphis

last 5 minutes or so were otherwise a hard watch, turnovers, touch fouls & missed FTs

rip ollie

ot prov/nova coming, w gus johnson

msg crowd has been good and loud yesterdays prov win over xavier & this game too

ed cooley is coaching so hard he split his pants btw

i'm told that ed cooley is 47-17 in games decided by six points or fewer over the last five seasons

unfortunately this didn't turn out to be one of them

lmao what trash announcing at large bids alphabetically

also really does not need a studio audience

uk having to go to boise is reasonably funny

jcrunch where are u

watchin nit with the cool guys

these refs in the OK RI game are a little offensive foul call happy

TRA3333333 YOUNG

six turnovers

buzzkill mookie

how did he miss that!?

btw i saw the guy from the sonic ads (the one who plays the straight man) on the subway yesterday

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYWWV6uWkAMCuPN.jpg:small

v nice

go quakers

RI got this

trae young not being able to get his team out of the first round says quite a bit about those curry comparisons imo.

https://i.imgur.com/2aMyW1c.png

nah didnt happen you see

the question we shld be asking is is trae young literally steph curry

in my haste to criticize our boy trae i forgot that curry wasnt a one and done lol

heh

its pretty interesting that no one knew what to make of steph, he went 7th as a junior, then ended up having arguably the greatest offensive season ever winning multiple mvps and changed how the game is played

WOWWWW L OYOLA

#ruiningthegame

— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) March 15, 2018

kentucky and davidson trying to make this last minute last half an hour

Y’all this buffalo team is giving AZ the business at the moment

14 p lead!

19!

25! Game Oveeerrr

yeah that was pretty much a blowout. buffalo was 15-30 from 3 and arizona was 2-18.

zona bad at tournaments

buffalo was really clowning the fuck out of them

yeah that was an awesome undressing. they took ayton out pretty easily with small ball

Watching that I was thinking that Ayton must have dropped about 8 draft positions with that game. His fundamentals were dismal. He looked flummoxed on defense and easily kept off the block on offense. Even so, basic economics will make sure he's a one-and-done and that some team will draft him by number 15 for sure.

hes stil gonna go top 3

where will the Kings be drafting this time around?

yeah ayton is considered the second best player in the draft

i'd say that game should be a little concerning in that it highlights how hard it is to win vs a team hitting threes if your best offensive play is to dump down to a guy on the block

and here i thought arizona was an awfully tough four-seed for virginia

lol pac 12

yeah ayton is considered the second best player in the draft

― J0rdan S., Friday, March 16, 2018 1:45 AM (twelve hours ago)

after doncic?

yes

cld be 7 guys in the mix for 1 will be interesting to see how it shakes out

lookin like wvu/marshall gm nxt rd

i love javale

Safe to say JaVale is juiced about Nevada’s win over Texas (via JaVale’s IG story) pic.twitter.com/217oPVmWH3

— Logan Murdock (@loganmmurdock) March 16, 2018

yeah! javale is hilarious. btw that's the school my cuz decided to play at. he'll be a freshman there next year! playing under our old friend musselman

i have nevada in the sweet 16 so i was sweatin' a bit

things looking not so good for uva

lets get this upset weve all been living for all these years

^^^

this is painful tho

man looks like its happening

It’s happening. Hooooly shit

these crowd shots lmaooo

lol, grim in the stands

man they didnt just beat them they fn destroyed

Yooooooooooooooooooooo

brutal

tbh this is why i never have complained that my team should have gotten a 1 seed

Aha hahahahaha lmao at everyone who did a bracket

Moneyline was UVA -10000 I hope we hear about someone getting rich off this

xp, yeah, a certain amount of my reaction is thank god it wasn't my team.

it wldve been better if it was duke tho

oh well

lol

Second Half about to start, no matter what happens we just want you all to remember......we are conveniently located just outside of Baltimore and have stellar academics

— UMBC Athletics (@UMBCAthletics) March 17, 2018

At least it wasn’t Duke.

Grayson's tantrum would have been something

In our office bracket I was checking out the last place person, a woman on international rotation from Egypt. She has UMBC winning the whole thing.

:-0

The tiebreaker is the final score, she has UMBC winning 18-11.

lol nice

no signs yet that anybody got rich off of umbc, but one dude lost $20k

http://www.espn.com/chalk/story/_/id/22801426/2018-ncaa-tournament-umbc-retrievers-pull-2nd-largest-ncaa-tourney-point-spread-upset

uh the uconn women just won an ncaa tournament game by 88 points

auspicious number

i love OTT sports columns so much, give me these takes all day

https://sports.yahoo.com/theres-no-escaping-historic-embarrassment-virginia-043006234.html

The 1-16 upset has long been considered one of the final frontiers in sports. The truly impossible upset. And it has been perpetrated by a commuter school from the America East upon the leafy upper-crust Atlantic Coast Conference enclave founded by Thomas Jefferson.

As TJ himself once said, “I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Now here is that hostility being visited upon his own school. Virginia has gagged upon its own privilege.

Thomas Jefferson's battle cry against tyranny just got thrown back in his face #owned

lmbc

I hope this means future Jeffersons will think before they pledge eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

very cool last 3 possessions florida/texas tech

did not think that was going in at all, crazy last second shot/play

absurd shot...really good defense

gotta put more pressure on those passers

that was an insane shot. hard to blame the defense.

idk not defending the inbounder at least seems like a blunder

that shot was from like 30 feet at best and was defended. i'd take that in most situations.

this angle is amazing pic.twitter.com/IQCGYOVuca

— nick (@nick_pants) March 18, 2018

what a prayer of a shot. he looked like he splayed out trying to draw contact/foul. defender went straight up, arms in his face, nothing you can do there.

Best thing about college basketball, having to go the full length of the court for these shots. Inbounds play at half court wouldn’t have been nearly as exciting.

What an incredible shot, truly one of those moments you live for as a sports fan. I usually hear from my mom when things happen to Michigan sports, but I didn't hear from her after the shot, because she turned the TV off with three seconds left!

Incredibly unlikely shot, but Poole has ice in his veins, and even though he's a freshman, he's probably the guy on Michigan to make a shot when it matters most.

Jordan Poole Appreciation Thread: pic.twitter.com/aTfI3EgCWt

— Brandon Koretz (@BrandonKoretz) March 14, 2018

give this man attention

Crazy shot to end the half of the cuse/mstate game. Which has been borderline unwatchable.

NO WAY pic.twitter.com/96r4qNIfmg

— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) March 18, 2018

Best thing about college basketball, having to go the full length of the court for these shots. Inbounds play at half court wouldn’t have been nearly as exciting.

― Jeff, Sunday, March 18, 2018 9:28 AM (six hours ago)

eh but the whole point of the NBA rule is to make more of these buzzerbeater attempts possible!

yeah the full court buzzerbeater is more impressive, because its harder to convert

some hot percentages there
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYmbrqDVoAA9YTp.jpg:large

the zone broke them

Always good to see unc lose.

impressive how many of these upsets have been blowouts

if you're umbc this is like the most obvious and forgivable letdown game in history and they are f'n here to play.

i'm a hoops fan now, this is great

welcome, friend

one of us!

this is the best board in the world according to me, m bison, the ilh mod

thx buds, bball is good imho

^^^gets it

if u like this u shd check out the league with the better players

i had to look up the difference between a point guard and a center but i'm basically an expert now

5" looks like

that tiny m'fer on umbc is going to skew things just fyi

is jonny greenwood a shooting guard or a small forward, asking for a friend

we just call him a "wing" these days

yeah there aren't really positions anymore it's weird but also good

you gotta free your mind man

i don't really know what's going on anyway so

whoa this game has gotten crazy

absurd yakety sax sequence from UMBC lol

i'm traumatized i hate this welp time to watch whatever the next one is

gnarly sequence late lost that game for umbc but they should be hella proud. a few open 3s and a few steals avoided and they'd be in the sweet 16.

left side of the bracket is fucked up

There's gonna be at least one random ass team in the elite eight. Probably more

Charles Barkley’s bracket is a crime scene pic.twitter.com/ata7WdkgiW

— Danny (@recordsANDradio) March 18, 2018

i don't understand why analysts loved MSU so much this year, Izzo never figured what to do with Jackson, the weird rotation meant the team never developed a chemistry and they played down to their competition in every game,

wow penny about to jump from high school to big league college coaching god speed

Memphis is expected to hire Penny Hardaway as their new coach after firing Tubby Smith, per @JonRothsteinhttps://t.co/bpxHNVtPV6 pic.twitter.com/yFsgO386dC

— College Basketball (@br_CBB) March 14, 2018

10 1st half a+m turnovers
10/16 mich from 3 o_o

hoisting

jcrunch where are u

― mookieproof, Thursday, March 15, 2018 12:16 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

missed this, i was in san diego fyi

loy chi hasnt missed a fg yet 2nd half

lol @ cwebb "definitely a travel"

He’s bad at announcing and good in the studio

ramble on

The "Elite Eight" now has one #11 seed, two #9s, and a #3 seed. The next four tbd.

dukes zone is provoking incredible shock and outrage on twitter.com

ive been hearing a lot about this online website http://www.twitter.com

its a hot mirco blogging platform

how do u read it if its so small

nobody said it was perfect

is there an app to make microblogs bigger

just imagine jim nantz reading the microblogs

these papists are pretty good

p wild

having never paid that much attention to bball im getting lagoon's pt about how much better the nba is -- these kids are just constantly making mistakes. it's exciting but also lol

pretty sick steal by that simpson kid for michigan. he had 6 steals last game, apparently the co-NCAA tournament record?

sister jean segment was pretty awkward lol

this game is bad

Can’t take the stress of this game.

v into it

that was a charge

At least they can’t say duke got all the calls.

Still can’t say it.

please, Loyola, win it all

the nation needs it

I'd love that. But Villanova will probably take home the prize.

idk kansas looked good too

yeah, but michigan...

...must be stopped?

must be stopped from losing

but they are still cursed because that assistant hasn't publicly admitted making the timeout motion to c webb

pitt hiring jeff capel is a surprise

take that, geno

I thought this would never happen

nice shot, arike

SHOTS

hoists

who we rooting for?

i think mish

beilein @ least seems like he wont outcoach himself this game like he did the trey burke year

If the Michigan game plan is to pound Villanova inside on offense and force them off the 3-line defensively, they're executing it well.

mich cant really execute on offense huh
that 3 was brutal

who is this divincenzo dude, he is fearless out there

yeah kid is taking over

havent watched either of these two teams any of these kids NBA lottery level?

https://www.landof10.com/big-ten/nba-mock-draft-2018-projections-first-round-top-players-ncaa-tournament-april-2

if this is anything to go by, a couple of first rounders potentially

...well besides Donte DiVincenzo who is the clear #1 overall pick

thx bison

Mikal Bridges is a prototype 3&D dude, gonna go in the late lottery. DiVincenzo will be a late first, Brunson and Wagner will go in the second