College Basketball Season 23-24

[xudash]

See Steele, Travis.

Shaka did it quickly, no doubt. Miller year 3 and beyond will have us consistently competing for the BE crown, imo.

This

Sean comes back and in his first year with Steele's personnel he takes us to a S16.

We come into this year missing Freemantle and a refound Hunter due to unfortunate injuries.

Oakland turned out to not be anywhere near a gimmie.

Who knows what will happen Friday, but I still believe Sean can mold these guys into an NCAAT team by the end of the season, understanding that that will have to be accomplished with some key wins in the BE.

Nonetheless, beyond all of this, with Sean at the age of 55 and truly grateful to be back on Victory Parkway, I believe Steele's Final 2% will be achieved.

We have a bright future.

[D-West & PO-Z]

I'm not sure I'm understanding the "woe is us" coming from this thread. Sure, Steele sucked, but we were in the Sweet 16, swept the national champs and were in the Big East Tournament finals last season. We've won twice as many NCAA Tournament games in the last 9 months than "perennial contender" Marquette has won in a decade. Creighton has been to the Sweet Sixteen like twice in its history. If you want to look up at Villanova and UConn and see that we have quite a hill to climb, sure. But Marquette and Creighton? I don't see it.

Yes, I definitely agree.

Marquette does seem to be able to get that top tier 5 star guy we can't get, but yeah we have been a far superior program than them (and Creighton) since joining the Big East.

[bleedXblue]

This

Sean comes back and in his first year with Steele's personnel he takes us to a S16.

We come into this year missing Freemantle and a refound Hunter due to unfortunate injuries.

Oakland turned out to not be anywhere near a gimmie.

Who knows what will happen Friday, but I still believe Sean can mold these guys into an NCAAT team by the end of the season, understanding that that will have to be accomplished with some key wins in the BE.

Nonetheless, beyond all of this, with Sean at the age of 55 and truly grateful to be back on Victory Parkway, I believe Steele's Final 2% will be achieved.

We have a bright future.

I want to be optimistic for this year, but we are woefully limited in the post. We have 1 guy who is a true post player with experience. Ciani has been a nice surprise as a frosh. I think our guard play will be ok and I think that guys like Swain and Lazar will improve and give us some decent production. I just dont know how were going to compete with teams with good, physical front courts.

[Xavgrad08]

Kentucky loses to UNC Wilmington. Duke loses to Georgia Tech. Scheyer has been crushing it on the recruiting side, but needs to improve on the coaching side.

[JTG]

I want to be optimistic for this year, but we are woefully limited in the post. We have 1 guy who is a true post player with experience. Ciani has been a nice surprise as a frosh. I think our guard play will be ok and I think that guys like Swain and Lazar will improve and give us some decent production. I just dont know how were going to compete with teams with good, physical front courts.

Ciani is physical, he just needs more seasoning. Euro ball is more finesse, and that's all our 3 guys have been exposed to, until these first 8 games. Ousmane did play better against Houston. And judging from this past week, I'm not so sure the BE is the juggernaut people are making them out to be.

[noteggs]

Vermont trailed Yale by 5 with 3.8 seconds in regulation. Vermont beats Yale by 1 in regulation. Unreal finish!

[X-band '01]

Yale still led by 5 with under a second in regulation. Vermont finished the game on a 4-point play.

[JEHARDI]

Ciani is physical, he just needs more seasoning. Euro ball is more finesse, and that's all our 3 guys have been exposed to, until these first 8 games. Ousmane did play better against Houston. And judging from this past week, I'm not so sure the BE is the juggernaut people are making them out to be.

May be accurate regarding the BE but can also make that claim about every league right now. A lot of head scratching upsets everywhere you look.

[Xville]

I dunno if Nebraska is any good but what creighton is doing them might be illegal. Yikes

[X-band '01]

Creighton was still pissed off about losing to Nebraska last year.