Yeah, but he made the final four that one time.

Oh, and don't forget about the CBI and NIT championships!

I didn't even realize he was with Marquette. Forgot lolwojo got fired.

Might take a couple months for this Michigan team to put it together. Not unexpected given the youth and turnover of the roster and they'll be tested again soon with @UNC is the challenge then San Diego St. at home before two winnable conference games, @Neb, Minn.

It's clear defense and offense need a lot of work in order to compete against the Top 25 at this point, all the confidence in the world for coach Howard tho

What happened that Smart took offense late in the game? Turned it on right at that point to watch Michigan play.

Schmidt called a timeout up 20+ to get his starters out of the game.

i see. thought it might be that but didn't know if it was something i had posted. fwiw, i haven't read the article.

prob won't be much of a test. UNC is a hot stinking pile of dog **** right now.

I was relatively impressed with UNC's effort against Purdue. I went in knowing Purdue was the superior team, and we hung with them for most of the game even grabbing a short lead midway through the second half.

I was incredibly disappointed yesterday. We were never in the game. Defense and rebounding emphasis were two things that Roy never got enough credit for. Whether his defensive style still fit this current era is another debate, but at least he tried to teach what he thought was best, and a player's playing time suffered severely if he didn't give the defensive effort Roy expected.

Our team yesterday looked like they hadn't worked on defense for one second in practice.

This 8 man rotation is going to get worn down quickly. We all got frustrated with Roy's 10-12 man deep rotations in the early part of the season, but there was a reason for that. I wish Styles and Dunn would get some more run. They are both 4 star freshman, so it's not like they are scrubs. McKoy hasn't been very good, but he should have gotten some run yesterday given we were playing a second game within 24 hours.

I am happy with Hubert and optimistic about his future, but he has a lot to learn from an X's and O's standpoint with regard to coaching it to the players, game rotations, game flow management, etc.. At least based on this small sample size so far.

Even the offense was stagnant and a lot of one on one play.

At least we are hitting 3s at a decent clip, which is a nice change from the past two seasons.

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The defensive stats are all very troubling. And there has been way too much one on one BS offensively.

One thing I like about Hubert so far has been his success on both the recruiting trail and in the transfer portal.

But that’s only one small piece of the puzzle. He needs to find a way to translate that to the court. I’m willing to be patient, but patience can wear thin quickly with the fanbase and higher ups.

I was actually pretty down on the Hubert hire initially too, as I also preferred someone with successful head coaching experience. But Roy’s support along with what Hubert has said publicly and done with getting players so far has drawn me in. But I need to see a big improvement on the court by the end of the year, or I could start to come off of it.

its weird duke is on there at all with no coach K

Anyone watching this Gonzaga vs UCLA game CHET dominating early on.

Gonzaga the best November team of all time

Interested to see how Gonzaga looks against Duke Friday. Clear they are a matchup nightmare versus UCLA, but that won't be the case versus Duke.

Lol at that game winning shot

The Continental Tire Challenge. Let’s go

In full on fan mode, hoping for Coach K to go undefeated in his last year

Man, even if Duke isn't the best team right now (which they probably are), they will be by the end of the year. I don't care who, but I am going to need someone to beat Duke in the tourney.

I second that.

Used to be Michigan.

Remember the November national title they won in 2019 finishing undefeated and beating top 10 UNC and Zaga b2b?

Then they lost 3 of their next 4, but they'll always have that November natty.

Duke seems like a very complete team. At least 1-7. I havent got a good look at their bench players
With no injuries, theyre a one seed

The platoon at center seems incredibly strong

Does anyone think ESPN helped build the Gonzaga program becahse they have the rights to the West Coast Conference?

Feels like theyre trying to do the same thing with Memphis.

Refs miss the call on the cleanest block in history and completely change the game.

Can't find any high school FT shooting stats for Emoni Bates. I see 70% in limited attempts this year. If you are going to compare him to Durant as a player as announcer was doing, I think he needs to be a pure shooter, not just tall and thin.

Gawd Bias ... "fantastic" meter was about 10 in the first half. How about they're playing basketball and sometimes they are hot?

Why, who you got?

Speaking of november/december I wonder how many times Duke started 10-0 or 10-1 under Coach K?

Pitino lost today by the same score as Coach K won his (and Duke's) first NCAA championship, 72-65. Foreshadowing to the season??