2025-2026 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

#9 for Florida is a massive douchebag.  He is out there throwing elbows while simultaneously whining about every whistle 

[OrangeAfroMan]

I guess he's the only one.

So Florida doesn't have to play Duke?  I'll take it. 

*EDIT* You guys have a 6-page 25-26 basketball thread?!?!  Jesus.  

Exhibit 193483491 on how we're different.

[ELA]

https://twitter.com/Verbose_Dutch/status/1909069662299512987

[bayareabadger]

https://twitter.com/Verbose_Dutch/status/1909069662299512987

Cool. my team’s new point guard is very experienced.

(Also, next year there won’t be that many kids with COVID years left, and the year after, they’ll be close to extinct)

[betarhoalphadelta]

Hey, if you're never going to sniff the NBA, might as well milk the college NIL money as long as you can. 

Besides, a lot of people go to college for 7 years. 

[utee94]

Cool. my team’s new point guard is very experienced.

(Also, next year there won’t be that many kids with COVID years left, and the year after, they’ll be close to extinct)

Sure, but the number of kids challenging NCAA years-of-eligibility rules in court, is going to start increasing.

[medinabuckeye1]

Besides, a lot of people go to college for 7 years.

I know, they're called doctors.


https://youtu.be/UOsQ2epsI2M?si=nLuHqpfQcF7dHs9h

[bayareabadger]

Sure, but the number of kids challenging NCAA years-of-eligibility rules in court, is going to start increasing.

Very possible. It’s funny because the two teams around the Covid year at Wisconsin actually started a pair of guys who played six years the old-fashioned way. Which of the time felt a hair more than mundane.

It’s also funny because both had the option to come back because of Covid, and they turned it down Because NIL wasn’t a thing back then. 

[ELA]

Auburn brining back Chad Baker-Mazara who will turn 26 during the season.

He is 3 months younger than Jaren Jackson Jr., who will be in his 8th NBA season.  And 9 months younger than Luka Doncic

[ELA]

I mean if you like minor league basketball, there is an outlet for you.  Id prefer 22 year olds not play high school basketball, or 18 year olds play middle school basketball.  But I guess if you can get paid to do so, nobody can stop your eligibility?

If I paid a 16 year old to play on my 12 year olds team, telling him no is restricting his earning potential 

[ELA]

Michigan lands the #1 player out of the portal, a big from UAB.

Dusty May said he didn't want to run a portal program, but the problem is now, how can you not when you take a new job?  He said he had to lean on the portal this year, or he wouldn't have had a roster, which is true.  But unless you commit to tough times, and building from scratch, once you make that first team a portal team, you need to keep going back there because all of the guys he brought in are now gone, so his returning roster looks as bad as it did a year ago.  Unless you had your job pre portal, you almost have to be a portal team, because you inherited nothing.  And now that teams like Michigan, St. John's, and Louisville did what they did, and won quickly, I don't think the option of "patience because we don't want to be a portal team" is an option

Apparently they paid him over $4 million, and have spent over $7 million on transfers thus far.  That's roughly on par with being the #16 pick in the NBA Draft on a one year basis

[FearlessF]

New Iowa coach Ben McCollum can now field an entire starting 5 from the players he has brought over from Drake. Banks, the 6th man of the year in the MVC, reportedly committed Friday.

There's a good chance this won't be the starting 5, since the #Hawkeyes also have a former 4-star recruit, Cooper Koch, on the roster. It does show how man players made the move.

[FearlessF]

[boilerbanger]

Purdue filled out their roster yesterday in the portal, a couple of good pieces 6'4" point guard from Israel, 18 year old w/ 4 years eligibility ... already played some pro ball and a good 3 pt shooting 6'7" wing.  Boilers are going to be Top 3 preseason next year and expectations will be as high as our National Championship run last year.