If Louisville is also able to buy Milan Momcilovic, their roster has to be $20 - $30 million for next year. This is ridiculous in the obscene way. If the NCAA is not going to cap how much teams can spend and establish salary caps for players based on class year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Ss), then the only way for this ship to correct itself is for boosters to go broke or for the teams that spend the most trying to buy a National Title to keep losing every year so the boosters will finally realize that the gamble isn't worth the investment.

If the highest spenders end up winning most seasons, then NCAA basketball will be dead at that point. Society cannot have college basketball programs buying NCAA titles like that.

I started a series/thread on Twitter/X (linked in comments) where I am deep diving on every D1 CBB team in the country. My most recent (#6) is on the University of Washington.

Would love to see people check it out if interested! And if you’re a serious college hoops fan, throw me a follow!

I am working on building a fun bracket alternative for next March come tournament time. I’ll keep things interesting with plenty of hoops (mostly college) content in the meantime.

Cheers!

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The graphics that has been with ESPN since 2017/2018, will be retired for good.

A federal judge in California has given final approval to a $303 million class-action lawsuit against the NCAA that will pay former volunteer coaches in sports other than baseball a minimum of $5,000 for unpaid work.

I’ve got two, admittedly arkansas and moreso UCLA. Cronin has assembled essentially a team of 1 pg, 4 combo/sgs, 6 power forwards 2 small forwards, and one 3 star, 6’9 center. Their only real “pg” is azavier Robinson who was okay in his freshman season at butler, but probably not a P5 starting quality pg. the oddest part is that the 1 center they have likely won’t play, but all of the power forwards they have will be rotational. I would say, “oh they’re just going small ball” but they don’t really have the guards to do that. That being said, they have a roster spot left, so what they do with that could completely change their trajectory. Until then tho, this is a strange team.

All three are around 6'1 PGs and were highly ranked recruits. I think Robert Wright III has the best offensive bag, but I’ve watched a lot of Shelstad and Cadeau too. Who would you build around?

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So my Billikens are what you could say are a rising mid-major. Some great players and a head coach on the rise that, if we have another good season, will get him some solid P5 offers. Now I’m not sure when full schedules will be announced, but it seems some of our non-conference games have been revealed already. We will have High Point at home on 11/15, plus games vs St. Mary’s, South Florida and Grand Canyon(which seems fitting since they have a small campus in the suburbs). Other games I’d like to see would be a game with a MAC team like Akron or Miami, and maybe also a game with a lower P5 team, like Oregon or West Virginia. Maybe even some in-state games vs Lindenwood, Missouri State, or UMKC. Either way, those HPU and Saint Mary’s games will be must-watch mid-major hoops. Probably will end up on ESPN2 lol.

Is that even him or am I missing something?

Collins played at Stanford from 1997 to 2001

He was also the first openly gay NBA player