***2025-26 Mens College Basketball Thread***

[simply1]

Fran Fraschilla is such a cheeky monkey.

A foul is called.

"The Cougar fans love it."

Peppa!

 

[bozclone]

I really don’t like 30 and 5 for BYU. Not impressed with the BYU fans around us in KC. Glad Houston won. Respect how they play

 

[Marcelason78]

Houston had an incredible amount of stripped balls tonight with their dialed in defense. Only thing I thought of watching this is that Keyshon and Tamin would have been called on at least half of those plays.

 

[Cyched]

Duke and UNC down to the wire

 

[rosshm16]

I really don’t like 30 and 5 anyone for BYU. Not impressed with the BYU fans around us in KC. Glad Houston won.

 

[simply1]

Houston’s free throw defense isn’t better than ours

 

[Cyched]

I really don’t like 30 and 5 for BYU. Not impressed with the BYU fans around us in KC. Glad Houston won.

Do tell

 

[rosshm16]

I guess I'm not sure what this does besides give your team a bunch of fouls since he averages 7ish points a game.

If anything you try to get him in foul trouble to take away the rebounding.

Deliberately fouling very bad free throw shooters is a common and effective strategy in basketball.

 

[simply1]

UNC with quite a rally

 

[madguy30]

Houston's defense is ELITE. They are #1 in defensive efficiency. I think ISU was #12, but looks like we dropped to #18 after yesterday's performance.

(Iowa is #314 out of 364 teams fwiw. Drake is #28, BYU #84)

I do believe HOU is better on D than ISU, but agree it's not a big gap. This game tells me more about BYU.

Houston has the athletes/length to be able to defend straight up and ISU has to create havoc with their trapping and can get spread out when doing so.

 

[simply1]

I guess I'm not sure what this does besides give your team a bunch of fouls since he averages 7ish points a game.

If anything you try to get him in foul trouble to take away the rebounding.

Takes away a possession and 3 attempt

 

[madguy30]

Deliberately fouling very bad free throw shooters is a common and effective strategy in basketball.

If it's someone who carries a lot of the weight offensively, sure.

But that's not the case with him.

 

[rosshm16]

If it's someone who carries a lot of the weight offensively, sure.

But that's not the case with him.

They have to shoot the free throws regardless of however many PPG they average.

 

[madguy30]

Takes away a possession and 3 attempt

And it takes away the front court for ISU.

 

[Cyched]

And...UNC fubars the go ahead FTs

 

[CloniesForLife]

And...UNC fubars the go ahead FTs

YIKES

 

[3TrueFans]

Lol what a mistake

 

[fsanford]

And...UNC fubars the go ahead FTs

Dude you jump into the lane when your guy is shooting. Brutal. You know his motion

 

[GTO]

Typical Duke ref call.

 

[simply1]

Ouch Tar Heel free throw violation