***2025-26 Mens College Basketball Thread***

[JP4CY]

Dajuan Harris is still there?

Yeah no kidding

 

[CYedUp]

Kj is a freak athlete. If he could shoot he would be really scary

 

[FerShizzle]

Anyone else think that Kansas doesn’t look like the number one team? I mean, they played really good competition in their first 3 games but it just seems something odd about them. Maybe they just haven’t gelled yet.

They are better when their unanimous 1st team all conference, player of the year center is on the bench.

 

[FerShizzle]

Kj is a freak athlete. If he could shoot he would be really scary

Is he the next college BB PF turned NFL TE? He would be scary in football pads and a full head of steam.

 

[FerShizzle]

This is the last year of covid eligibility right?

Yes.

 

[stormchaser2014]

Yes.

Thank ****. Feels like Dickinson has been playing for 8 years.

 

[FerShizzle]

Thank ****. Feels like Dickinson has been playing for 8 years.

You can thank Covid for CuJo this year.

 

[JP4CY]

So, who's getting the Villanova job?

Watch it shock us and be somebody like Mick Cronin.

 

[cycloneG]

Pretty hard foul tonight

 

[madguy30]

Anyone else think that Kansas doesn’t look like the number one team? I mean, they played really good competition in their first 3 games but it just seems something odd about them. Maybe they just haven’t gelled yet.

It's November. Not even mid-November haha.

KU for several years has had a trend of looking quasi so-so for 2-3 months and then some Tuesday night in early February they start putting their opponents on skates.

 

[JP4CY]

Pretty hard foul tonight

Looks like a bunch of APB left the bench.

 

[FerShizzle]

Thank ****. Feels like Dickinson has been playing for 8 years.

I would like to see an NCAA rule change that allows red shirting like in football. Allow freshman to play something like 10 or fewer games and redshirt. This would continue this trend of older seniors that Covid has created, and makes for better basketball IMO. But would also make it seem like some players have been at rivals for way too long.

 

[IASTATE07]

Watch it shock us and be somebody like Mick Cronin.

Haha I definitely didn't see him going to UCLA.

 

[alarson]

I would like to see an NCAA rule change that allows red shirting like in football. Allow freshman to play something like 10 or fewer games and redshirt. This would continue this trend of older seniors that Covid has created, and makes for better basketball IMO. But would also make it seem like some players have been at rivals for way too long.

I think its more likely we just end up in a 5 to play 5 situation with no redshirts

The 'only play a certain number of games' thing doesn't work so well in the NIL era when players will shut it down at the threshold so they can make sure they maximize their earnings in the future.

 

[JP4CY]

Haha I definitely didn't see him going to UCLA.

I think Chris Mack will climb back up to a good job. He was my other idea but he needs to stay put in Charleston for a couple years.
Like, he'd be a good fit to succeed Pitino at St Johns.

 

[Clonehomer]

I would like to see an NCAA rule change that allows red shirting like in football. Allow freshman to play something like 10 or fewer games and redshirt. This would continue this trend of older seniors that Covid has created, and makes for better basketball IMO. But would also make it seem like some players have been at rivals for way too long.

Why? That rule has been disastrous for CFB. You’ll see kids sit out after the November tournaments if their teams aren’t winning. Or worse, their team wins and someone gets in their ear to redshirt and transfer.

I could get behind it if they also bring back the sit a year for transfers with no exceptions.

 

[FerShizzle]

Why? That rule has been disastrous for CFB. You’ll see kids sit out after the November tournaments if their teams aren’t winning. Or worse, their team wins and someone gets in their ear to redshirt and transfer.

I could get behind it if they also bring back the sit a year for transfers with no exceptions.

Disastrous? It lets kids get a little run, while still redshirting. It’s very important for a developmental program like ISU.

 

[FerShizzle]

I think its more likely we just end up in a 5 to play 5 situation with no redshirts

The 'only play a certain number of games' thing doesn't work so well in the NIL era when players will shut it down at the threshold so they can make sure they maximize their earnings in the future.

It would probably need to be limited to underclassman.

 

[ClonerJams]

Pope at Kentucky is going to be like Hoiball on steroids

 

[Clonehomer]

Disastrous? It lets kids get a little run, while still redshirting. It’s very important for a developmental program like ISU.

It also lets boosters of other programs to get in a kid’s ear to redshirt and transfer a few games into a season. Again, I think it could work with some guard rails in place. But the NCAA doesn’t seem to have the power or desire to put those guard rails in place.