The Official 2024-2025 College Basketball Random Thoughts Thread

[Whips-n-Chains]

St. John's is really back Pitino is a better coach than Cal by a wide margin..

Was this ever in doubt?

Cal is an average at best coach and an excellent recruiter, mostly b/c he played dirty for decades (not that Pitino didn't either)

 

[trick]

Honestly he just eminds me of a better Sam Merril

Isaiah Evans and Malauch will be better nba players to me

That might be too generous for him. He reminds me of Sam Dekker with less athleticism

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Why is St Johns so popular in NY? Ain’t this shyt a catholic school

The connection between NYC Basketball and the Catholic Church runs hella deep. The Catholic Church spent decades offering sports but Football was way too expensive so they went all in on Basketball.

All the Catholic schools (St Lutheran, Archbishop Molloy, Christ the King, Holy Cross, etc) have massive Basketball program histories.

Secondly, NYC has a very very very very deep Catholic population so when St John’s surpassed city college and become the Defacto program in the 60’s the Catholic community followed

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Why is St Johns so popular in NY? Ain’t this shyt a catholic school

Only program worth a damn within like 15 counties

 

[Chrishaune]

I don't think we're dog shyt by any means breh. I don't think we matchup well with them specifically. Tenn matches up better with them just because they got a better defense, but they also got so little ways they can score. Houston and Duke are at least currently considered better than them and we matchup better with them than FL.

Styles make fights overall. If you got 4 legit options to play at the 4/5, you're probably going to handle Auburn as this team is currently playing. They got that

Their front court is definitely better. But we got blown out by nobody this year. Closest was Florida, I just know there will be a different strategy by Bruce if we see them again. Have to remember their coach has been on Bruce's staff.

The regular season is about going straight up and seeing who has more talent. The postseason is a chess match.

You usually slow the game down against teams you don't want to run with. Teams like bama lack that ability. They have one speed. Florida loves to run. You play half court games against them.

 

[Big Blue]

Why is St Johns so popular in NY? Ain’t this shyt a catholic school

USC is a private Christian school too. It's the one big D1 program in the city. I went there but that's the reason the city gets behind it.

 

[Chrishaune]

The connection between NYC Basketball and the Catholic Church runs hella deep. The Catholic Church spent decades offering sports but Football was way too expensive so they went all in on Basketball.

All the Catholic schools (St Lutheran, Archbishop Molloy, Christ the King, Holy Cross, etc) have massive Basketball program histories.

Secondly, NYC has a very very very very deep Catholic population so when St John’s surpassed city college and become the Defacto program in the 60’s the Catholic community followed

The Vatican has a hand in the propaganda they use to push Roman Catholic institutions in America. Basketball being an American sport was easy for them.

Most of the schools that get the hype are Roman Catholic, or Jesuit, or connected to some Free Mason organization.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

They really tried to get Pitino out the paint over some hookers Dumb fukks.... lol

 

[mson]

Why is St Johns so popular in NY? Ain’t this shyt a catholic school

How would being a catholic school hurt them?

 

[Trips]

Why is St Johns so popular in NY? Ain’t this shyt a catholic school

I feel like NY is the Catholic capital of the US

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

God bless dikky V…but you know it takes a humble announcing team to work with him at this point lol…he just be throwing out some off the wall random facts not related to the game at all , like right in the middle of plays

But he’s locked in

 

[MikelArteta]

I like Sion James game
Solid 2nd round pick imo

 

[MikelArteta]

I feel like NY is the Catholic capital of the US

I thought Boston would be

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I think these 4 or 5 days off will do wonders for a team like Auburn. I'm interested to see who the 8/9 matchup is in their region.

I'd love for Gonzaga to be there for a potential Broome/Ike battle, but the Zags could very well be bumped up to a 7 seed.

 

[MikelArteta]

They really tried to get Pitino out the paint over some hookers Dumb fukks.... lol

Unless you do some gregg marshall type of ish should have turned the other cheek