NCAA Basketball

[Chris]

All 4 teams in the Final Four are #1 seeds.

I’d love to see a ranking by team of NIL money paid and the details of how many players were recruited out of high school vs recruited from the portal.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

All 4 teams in the Final Four are #1 seeds.

I’d love to see a ranking by team of NIL money paid and the details of how many players were recruited out of high school vs recruited from the portal.

If I had a guess, they would be near the top. Of course Flagg is going to throw that number off because by all accounts he’s the top player by a lot. But I would also bet some teams that lost this past weekend were collectively pretty high as well. The SEC clearly used a ton of money to build up their teams. It wasn’t that long ago in 2016 they only got 3 teams in the NCAA tournament. Now they have set records with 14 teams in the tournament. A lot of those I’m sure had big budgets and some may have been bigger than teams that went further.

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

What a good basketball game that was last night. I'm just really sorry Houston won. My #1 pet peeve today is how players, particularly in college, pass up a short shot and kick it out. The worst offender of the Final Four was Alex Condon from Florida. The entire weekend he passed up a 5 footer and immediately looked to pass out, not to an open shooter but in a panic move to get rid of the ball. His play can best be described as being a pussy. And he walks away as a champion, that sucked. I really wanted Sampson to win a Natty.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

I was really hoping Samson could get that championship. What’s crazy to me is that the last 3 Houston possessions, they didn’t even take a shot. Three turnovers the last minute of the game. Just a brutal way to end the game.

I also agree on Condon as he wasn’t even looking for a shot in so many instances. He would catch and have a good shot, but just look to pass. I see a lot of guards doing it too on the drive. I know the big guys are looking to swat shots of the guards, but a lot pass up good shots in close for contested shots outside.

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

This was a pic I posted on Facebook to show what is wrong with the game today. This guy had a wide open layup, #4 was Fats Russell who stood about 5'9", He was never contesting this layup. Instead he kicked it out to the corner where the player missed the 20 footer and Maryland grabbed the rebound.

 

[skinzplay]

Bert Smith is assigned to an inordinately high percentage of Duke games, and especially high profile ones. When I saw him at the tipoff against Michigan State, I didn't bother watching the game because I knew how things were gonna sway. He's the new Tony Greene for Duke basketball, and I'm really disappointed in the league for allowing this to continue. It's like seeing Lenny Wirtz back in UNC's Dean Smith era. Opposing coaches knew they were in for it.

 

[skinzplay]

Well, what a surprise. Bert Smith was assigned as the lead official for the Duke-Texas Tech matchup at Madison Square Garden yesterday. Kudos to the Red Raiders for maintaining composure and playing through it. Great game. I stil think Duke will be a Final 4 team, and might win it all. Great coaching and lots of talented young men on that squad.