***2025-26 Mens College Basketball Thread***
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They looked soft last week too.
Did they lose a lot/rebuild? I wasn't impressed with them for now.
They have a legit shot at winning the Valley with a bunch of Division 2 players.
I agree with this somewhat. But CBB hasn’t been about the top recruit winning titles on their own often. It’s been about the team who plays together better and can play defense. I don’t know that necessarily comes together in November. I’ll be more worried when the SEC starts snatching up the coaches more than the recruits. Also, no one is spending $20m on a basketball team. The cost to enter these basketball recruiting negotiations is a lot lower for the Big12 and ACC schools to be in the mix.
As for Arizona, I don’t think they’re very good. I think they feasted on a weak PAC for years and they’re going to look mediocre by the time they get through a tough conference schedule.
i think this league just lost a lot of talent from last year. It may be a bit down from years past, but there’s still a lot of freshman talent around that’ll grow into problems for the league.
Lamelo Ball was the worst. He actually is good when healthy but they covered him as a rookie like a vastly superior version of Jordan.
SEC I see it, big ten it’s still some future theory.
The strength of the big 12 during the 10 team era was we usually had 8 tourney caliber teams…80%. No other conference ever had more than 50-60%. Then on top of it we had a few programs win recent natties and make final fours…again a drastically higher % of the conference than anybody else.
Sure we brought in Arizona and Houston but we also brought in 6 other teams (good but not elite) and with 16 we won’t have that depth anymore. Possible we’ll never see any conferemce as deep as that 10 team era.
The two mega cash conferences taking bad basketball schools and leaving elite historic basketball schools was enough alone to elevate us for a while. Either of them could’ve had KU, Zona or UConn and passed.
Holy crap.. I hope he was kicked out of the game? That could have been really dangerous.
This could be but I think there are some other teams to be heard from in the Big XII yet.
BYU does not appear to have missed a step with coaching change and has some elite recruits coming in next couple classes.
I think Cincy is going to be a real problem this year and probably going forward.
I am very interested to see what Devries does at WVU in a couple of year.
Maybe we are seeing a changing of the guard in the Big XII as much as anything?
CycloneErik
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Second best team in the state.
Fantastic start for Drake, they look solid in every aspect. I’ll definitely be heading over to the Knapp Center soon to check out the new team live.
The thing about Drake is, beating Miami, FAU, and Vandy by double digits in every game is really impressive.
