8 is still greater than 6. Pope pleaseee ace the portal this summer
***National Championship Thread***
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Ok now let’s own the portal and win it all next year… can dream right..
Come on.. MSU in 2000. Matean Cleaves!
No. Mich St in 2000
Tremendous hire, Michigan.
Gets a title two years in.
Great time to have been a student at Michigan the last few years- titles in both sports.
Gets a title two years in.
Great time to have been a student at Michigan the last few years- titles in both sports.
2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 that should been at least 3 titles in there
On one hand Uconn had a lot of fouls.. on the other hand, they earned all those fouls and then some.
The better team won.
The better team won.
11 and 14 is unforgivable. Cal gave them 2 titles
Now I got to wait another 15 mins for one shinning moment
2015 felt pretty unforgivable to me when your 38-0 and have all that talent and up 6 with about 5 mins left
Why should 2011 and 2014 have been titles? 2014 specifically did a lot of losing.. just cause Aaron Harrison made an incredible run doesnt really mean they "should have" won the title. Especially not with Uconns Shabaz Napier flopping all over the court.
Add Yaxel Lendeborg to the list of greatest versatile defensive players ever in college basketball. Even extremely hurt he was the best defender on the court. Amazing considering where he was several years ago.
Cal never saw a lead that he couldn't stall out and choke away. It took Anthony Davis to get that POS a title.
I said 3 out of 4.
2011 if you beat UCONN (we barely lost was down 2 with 1 last shot to win it) we get an 8 seed Butler team
2014 you were the underdog in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th games win them all then your the favorite and lose. Also Kentucky was preseason #1.
And Lamb's big shot after screwing it up in the otherside of the court. That was the dagger
Michigan fans are lucky. They win a football championship a couple of years ago and now win the basketball championship.
Best team in the country won it this year. That doesn't always happen.
That’s what a quality athletic department looks like. I can’t even say UK’s is functional at the moment and hasn’t been in years. Even the Indianas and Vandys of the world are doing better than us.
But I dont understand the reasoning that those two teams should have won the title, just because they made some nice runs in the tournament. Those teams, and 2014 in particular werent "great" teams. You run that 2014 tournament in a simulator 100 time we probably dont get out of the first weekend in half of them. We got bailed out by Harrisons 3 buzzer beaters.
Also, preseason rankings? Because a team is preseason #1, based mostly off of freshman recruiting rankings, were "supposed" to win the title? It turns out 2014 didnt really have much "talent".. Julius Randle, and thats about it. That was a bad recruiting class all around.
What a defensive team.
Also, somebody give Morez Johnson his flowers. 12pts 10 rebounds 2 blocks. Stuff he does doesn't show up in the boxscore.
Also, somebody give Morez Johnson his flowers. 12pts 10 rebounds 2 blocks. Stuff he does doesn't show up in the boxscore.
UConn got friendly whistles against us in 2011 and 2014. They can GFT.
Glad Michigan won. Beating Arizona by 30 was crazy impressive.
Michigan was dogshit two years ago. They make a great hire and win a title.
Ditch Pope and get a real coach at UK
Ditch Pope and get a real coach at UK
He gets next year to figure it out. If he fails to meet expectations go after guys like Shertz or Lucas if we can’t pull one of the bigger coaches from another program.
The "elite freshman must always win title" argument really needs to be put to bed. I figured people would learn this after watching Coach K and Jon Scheyer take #1 recruiting classes and win nothing with them for the last decade.. and that was WITH the refs help. Its not football where raw size and speed almost always wins out. Elite freshman still make a ton of mistakes and are inexperienced. Its just a model that really only works sparingly.
Is it a coincidence that Cals best coaching jobs or his best success came when he had experienced players who he had for several years, whether at Kentucky or UMass or Memphis??
Is it a coincidence that Cals best coaching jobs or his best success came when he had experienced players who he had for several years, whether at Kentucky or UMass or Memphis??
They’re gonna waste another year with Pope but he should be canned. Zero reason to expect anything good until he’s gone.
Big night for the sports books. Michigan win, UConn cover and the under.
That’s just the sad reality of it. Can’t fire a coach unless they’re given at least 3 years or you end up scaring potential coaches you plan to hire.
I think we’ll know within the next week or two on if next year will be worth the wait or another wasted hear.
This is a Mo Diobate game. Mistake not keeping that guy- bruising inside the paint warriors like Mo are on both teams.
Yeah I agree we need some bruisers like him, but I’d prefer someone who can’t shoot, especially FT’s. Michigan would have lost had their entire team not been able to shoot FT’s. They reminded me of our early Calipari teams without that flaw.