NCAA Basketball 2024/25 Thread: Mods Asleep, Post Rutgers Propaganda

[Krandor]

RIP Zags, time to hate watch the rest of the tournament

Actually that's not true, I want Houston to win now because I've always liked Kelvin Sampson

[Weltall]

If Ole Miss holds, the SEC will take the record (7) for most teams in a Sweet 16.

[Krandor]

Oh look Welt showing up to masturbate over the SEC, what a surprise

[Weltall]

Just for you

Record set

[Krandor]

Refs are absolutely determined to keep Tennessee in this game. This is beyond Chiefs level bias from the zebras

[Krandor]

That dude in the office bracket pool who knows absolutely nothing about college basketball and just picked all the one seeds is gonna be insufferable tomorrow

[chazzyphizzle]

good old fashioned choke job by duke, feels good man

[Tyche]

[6souls]

good old fashioned choke job by duke, feels good man

Now their center is going to get deported

[Buffy]

Congrats to UConn and Paige.

A Houston win tomorrow would round out March madness nicely

[Krandor]

I would very much like Kelvin Sampson to finally win it all

[Tyche]

I would very much like anyone but Bruce Pearl to win it.

[Krandor]

Kinda funny how there's only been 4 coaches to ever return to the NCAA after getting a show-cause penalty and two of them were in this final four.

[Weltall]

Kekkekekekekek

[Dimmauk]

The last 4 possessions for Houston were awful.

[Melena]

So EA won the license for NCAA basketball, but 2K made a deal with UCLA. EA is at least 2-3 years away from a game as they have to build from the ground up and threatening to not make a game at all if 2K is allowed to make that deal with UCLA.

[Tyche]

My understanding is quite different.

First, NCAA is a building with a sign. Nothing more. They can't make deals. It'll be with conferences, schools, and players. It's not just UCLA. EA was making deals with schools but wanted exclusivity rights with the deals. 2K pushed for deals without it. EA does not want to deal without exclusivity. EA is willing to leave the franchise behind altogether if it can't have exclusive deals with all the schools.

Fuck EA. Let them leave.

[6souls]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...shaving-scheme

20 charged in a point-shaving scheme involving 39 players across 17 teams between 2022 & 2025.

Twenty men have been charged in a point-shaving scheme involving 39 college basketball players on 17 NCAA Division I teams, leading to 29 games being fixed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Fifteen of the defendants played college basketball during the 2023-24 and/or 2024-25 seasons, according to the indictment. Two of the players named in the indictment, Cedquavious Hunter and Dyquavian Short, were sanctioned in November by the NCAA for fixing New Orleans games.

Four of the players charged -- Simeon Cottle, Carlos Hart, Camian Shell and Oumar Koureissi -- have played for their current teams in the past week. The allegations against Hart, Shell and Koureissi stem from their previous schools, while Cottle's alleged incident occurred in the 2023-24 season.

The charges, filed in federal court in Philadelphia, include bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy. The bribery charges carry a maximum sentence of five years. The fraud charges carry a maximum sentence of up to 20 years.

The scheme, according to the 70-page indictment, began around September 2022 and initially was focused on fixing games in the Chinese Basketball Association. The group later targeted college basketball games, offering bribes to college players ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 to compromise games for betting purposes, according to the indictment.

The affected schools;

Abilene Christian
Alabama State
Buffalo
Coppin State
DePaul
Eastern Michigan
Fordham
Kennesaw State
La Salle
New Orleans
Nicholls State
North Carolina A&T
Northwestern State
Robert Morris
Saint Louis
Southern Miss
Tulane

[6souls]

First college game in nearly 20 years

[Mertron]

caleb wilson broke his thumb dunking in practice and is done for the year

lol?