***2026-27 Mens College Basketball Thread***

[Cyhig]

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Hope he remains ineligible to play

 

[BigJCy]

Best recruit for Cincy in quite awhile:

 

[ClonerJams]

Best recruit for Cincy in quite awhile:

Reclassifying rarely works out

 

[cyclones500]

With Players Era bracket announced, I think this is what we know so far for 2026 non-con ... any revisions, please advise.

Nov. 2 vs. Memphis (Sioux Falls)
Nov. 6 Southern Miss
Nov. 10 Southern
Nov. 24 vs. San Diego State (Players Era 16)
Nov. 26 vs. Tennessee/Maryland (Players Era 16)
Nov. 27 vs. St. John’s/Oregon//Louisville/Texas Tech (Players Era 16)
Nov. 28 [vs. TBA/pending (Players Era 16 championship)]
Dec. 5 (date TBA?) Purdue
Dec. 10 (date TBA?) at Iowa
Dec. 18 vs. Missouri State (Hall of Fame Classic, Kansas City)
Dec. 29 New Hampshire

 

[JP4CY]

LSU has officially become the scummiest school in the Country. Just a-hole scum coaches across the board.

 

[BigJCy]

 

[FerShizzle]

Frees up a lot of money to go after someone else.

 

[NENick]

Frees up a lot of money to go after someone else.

3-point shooting was their only real weakness this past season. There might be a decent shooter available.

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

The 2 biggest names that could be wearing Cardinal and Gold, might still be playing Big 12 Basketball. All we needed was $8,000,000. Give or take?

 

[theshadow]

With Players Era bracket announced, I think this is what we know so far for 2026 non-con ... any revisions, please advise.

Nov. 2 vs. Memphis (Sioux Falls)
Nov. 6 Southern Miss
Nov. 10 Southern
Nov. 24 vs. San Diego State (Players Era 16)
Nov. 26 vs. Tennessee/Maryland (Players Era 16)
Nov. 27 vs. St. John’s/Oregon//Louisville/Texas Tech (Players Era 16)
Nov. 28 [vs. TBA/pending (Players Era 16 championship)]
Dec. 5 (date TBA?) Purdue
Dec. 10 (date TBA?) at Iowa
Dec. 18 vs. Missouri State (Hall of Fame Classic, Kansas City)
Dec. 29 New Hampshire

Purdue confirmed for Dec. 5.

 

[BigJCy]

Iowa State at #23

 

[rosshm16]

"Three of the top six scorers are back" sounds nice if you ignore that it's #4-5-6 and #1-2-3 accounted for ~65% of that scoring. Normally when you say something like that, it's #2-4-6 or something.

I expect Toure and Batemon both make big steps are scorers though.

 

[FerShizzle]

"Three of the top six scorers are back" sounds nice if you ignore that it's #4-5-6 and #1-2-3 accounted for ~65% of that scoring. Normally when you say something like that, it's #2-4-6 or something.

I expect Toure and Batemon both make big steps are scorers though.

I am way more concerned about the amount of assists graduated. 4/5th of the primary ball handling graduated. Toure is capable of filling some of that, but there are multiple other players that also need to step up.

On a plus, having both Pleta and BB back is huge. I expect jumps from both.

 

[Clonehomer]

I am way more concerned about the amount of assists graduated. 4/5th of the primary ball handling graduated. Toure is capable of filling some of that, but there are multiple other players that also need to step up.

On a plus, having both Pleta and BB back is huge. I expect jumps from both.

I’m much more concerned about the off ball guard than the point guard. Toure and Batemon were very good freshmen in running the offense when needed. I assume they’ll be even better as sophomores We just need a guy that can get buckets on their own when called upon. Lipsey and Jefferson are two big losses there.

 

[NENick]

I didn't see Batemon as a PG. He looked like a prototypical scoring 2 to me.
Johnson will alleviate the 2nd PG concern.

 

[awd4cy]

Looks like UNI travels to Allen Fieldhouse next year

 

[Messi]

Looks like UNI travels to Allen Fieldhouse next year

Huge day for the “why doesn’t ISU or Iowa play the in state schools” crowd

 

[awd4cy]

Huge day for the “why doesn’t ISU or Iowa play the in state schools” crowd

glad UNI finally knows their place and is traveling to these places now. The door is open if they want to come to Hilton

 

[JP4CY]

I didn't see Batemon as a PG. He looked like a prototypical scoring 2 to me.
Johnson will alleviate the 2nd PG concern.

Will also allow Toure to continue to be feisty on D. He does have a tendency to pickup a REALLY quick foul or two.

 

[Big_Sill]

glad UNI finally knows their place and is traveling to these places now. The door is open if they want to come to Hilton

ISU should play both UNI and Drake every year, the games should ALWAYS be in Hilton. Its not 1993, we aren't playing road games at low to mid majors anymore. They need to realize that.