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Gadogs.com: Quick Chat: Noah Thomasson
https://georgiadogs.com/news/2024/2/28/mens-basketball-quick-chat-noah-thomasson
2024 Recruiting
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2025 Recruiting
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SEC Basketball
Alabama
Erik Haslem: Per our own metrics, Crimson Tide are now second nationally in offensive efficiency and 78th in defensive efficiency. Not typically the philosophy that yields long-term gains in the NCAA Tournament, but Nate Oats and company have decided to march to the beat of their own drum.
Tuscaloosa News: Alabama basketball shakes off slow start, scores 103 in win vs. Ole Miss
https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/stor...-beard-davin-cosby-rylan-griffen/72712694007/
Auburn
“Dalton is terrific,” Auburn coach Bruce Pearl said. “We thought we had guys who could guard him. When he went downhill, we could have offered more resistance.”
Auburn, rated 13th overall (top 4 seed) by the Selection Comm two weeks ago now has a 1-7 Quad 1 record after Ole Miss drops out of the Top 75. The Tigers are 0-6 in road/neutral games v the projected field.
Fascinated to see what the Comm does with them if those splits remain.
Florida
Gainesville Sun: Tyrese Samuel lifts Florida basketball to win over Missouri
https://www.gainesville.com/story/s...etball-holds-off-missouri-tigers/72704054007/
Kentucky
CBS Sports: Kentucky is winning despite John Calipari holding back Reed Sheppard and Rob Dillingham, his two best players
https://www.cbssports.com/college-b...pard-and-rob-dillingham-his-two-best-players/
Missouri
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Tennessee
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Knoxville News Sentinel: Inside the change that unlocked Dalton Knecht for Tennessee basketball vs. Auburn
“Barnes had made a change at the under-8 media timeout and this was that move put into action. He altered a staple set of Tennessee’s offense that has three players low near the baseline and two high outside the 3-point line. It normally gives Knecht — or whomever — the opportunity to start in the middle under the hoop and use a screen in either direction.
“Instead of having him have a chance to come off either side, we moved him over to one side and told both guys to go get him open,” Barnes said. “We really gave him two-thirds of the court to try to get him open and get the ball. He did it. Then it is up to him to make the moves and the shots that he thinks he’s got.”
Knecht did time and time again. He ran down the baseline on the first play, using a screen from Awaka to get switched onto Broome. He waved away another Awaka screen into full isolation. He hit a 3-pointer over Broome.
He used it differently the next time, splitting the screens and getting on Broome again. He went by him for a dunk.
“It just gave me a lot more room just to isolate kind of,” Knecht said. “Just to give me the whole side then if I want a screen to call for a screen. It worked.”
The Vols used the set eight times in 10 possessions in the final eight minutes. Knecht started on the left five times and the right three times. He was 3-for-4 shooting out of the adjusted set with seven points. UT got 13 points total on the possessions, pulling away from the Tigers.
"If people want to stick to the shooters, it is going to give him too much space to operate and he is going to get a basket whenever he feels like," guard Zakai Zeigler said. "It is going to work regardless."
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/spor...ee-basketball-auburn-rick-barnes/72640893007/
NCAA Basketball
Arizona State
Bobby Hurley provides a message to Sun Devil fans:
"Although we're not having a fantastic season, there are teams that are freaking brutal. They stink, and they've given up, and they don't compete. That's not what your team is doing."
California
In its debut in the Atlantic Coast Conference next season, the Cal men’s basketball team will make trips to play at two of the game’s most glamorous arenas, Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium and North Carolina’s Dean Smith Center.
The Bears will play home and away against three opponents: long-time rival Stanford along with SMU and North Carolina State. Stanford and SMU are regarded as Cal’s partner schools in the new ACC alignment, the conference announced Thursday.
Connecticut
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Drake
Sean Paul: Drake’s Tucker DeVries is one of the best players in college hoops. He dropped 39 points in Drake’s thrilling win over UIC. DeVries now averages 21 points per game and will likely secure his second consecutive MVC POY award.
Georgia Tech
The ACC revealed conference opponents for each of its schools for the 2024-25 basketball season. The Georgia Tech men will play host to Cal and Stanford at McCamish Pavilion that season, but the Yellow Jackets will travel to SMU
Houston
Borzello ESPN: Men's college basketball coaches break down Houston's high ceiling
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...cougars-coaches-confidential-breaking-ceiling
Maryland
Baltimore Sun: Late rally falls short for Maryland men’s basketball in 68-61 loss to Northwestern
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/02/28/maryland-mens-basketball-northwestern/
Ohio State
Jeff Goodman:
Ohio State improves to 3-1 under interim coach Jake Diebler after tonight’s win over Nebraska without Bruce Thornton.
Buckeyes also beaten Purdue at home and won at Michigan State under Diebler.
The ex-Valpo player showing he should be candidate for mid-major Midwest openings.
Old Dominion
Old Dominion is hiring Maryland assistant Mike Jones as its next head coach, sources told me and @PeteThamel. Jones is an ODU alum who led the Monarchs to two NCAA tournaments as a player in the 1990s. Was one of the best high school coaches in the country at DeMatha.
Washington
Seattle Times: UW men’s basketball guard Nate Calmese making the most of his limited chances for the Huskies
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports...-most-of-his-limited-chances-for-the-huskies/
Wichita State
Wichita Eagle: Wichita State basketball prevails in nail-biter at UAB to notch first road AAC win
https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article286060776.html
Wisconsin-Stout
Wisconsin-Stout 6'6 guard Brody Fox who entered the transfer portal earlier this week tells me that he's heard from North Dakota, Chattanooga, Belmont, Robert Morris, among others.
Second leading scorer in D3, averaging 26.6 points and 5.8 rebounds per game.
History
Charlotte Observer: March is sacred for basketball. Disagree? Former coach Bobby Cremins will fight you on it
You joined a legendary group of coaches.
BC: Absolutely. Coach Dean Smith (at UNC) was on top and he was in the league by himself. And everybody was after him. The second group was Coach Lefty Driesell (Maryland), Coach Terry Holland (Virginia) and Coach Carl Tacy (Wake Forest).
They didn’t like Coach Smith, or they didn’t like him being on top. And then there were the young guys. They called us the young guns. And that was Jimmy, Mike and myself. ... We all became close. I saw Jimmy V win a national championship (in 1983). That’s what happened first. Those two were doing unbelievable things, and I had to catch up a little bit.
In the coaches’ meetings, Jimmy would come in and just take over. He could bring people together with his storytelling. Dean Smith loved him. And Mike? He just took the whole thing to another level. He was a great defensive coach. ... I think I can speak for Jimmy and Mike and tell you that you know, Dean Smith set the bar. He showed us what it would take to be a champion. And all three of us won ACC tournaments.
Now Coach K — he broke the bar. But Dean Smith set the bar.
SF: Why were you able to turn Georgia Tech around?
BC: I was a bit crazy. I always say Jimmy Valvano — he’d go about 120 miles an hour. I’d go about 100 miles an hour. Coach K? He stayed at the speed limit. He was more balanced than we were. And I had a great staff…. We hit the recruiting road hard. George Felton found a point guard from Enid, Oklahoma. George said the point guard was 5-11 and white. I said, “You gotta be kidding.”
But he convinced me, and that was Mark Price. And then my New York roots helped us get John Salley. Price and Salley were the first ones, and then we got a lot of other great players (including Kenny Anderson, Stephon Marbury and Dennis Scott.) What made me was my players.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/sports-legends/article285605912.html
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