[Notorious]

Season starts on Friday, and I for one am pretty excited to see my Longhorns with the coaching change :mark:

Also excited to see some of the potential top picks in next years draft in Ben Simmons and Skal Labisserie.

Preseason AP Top 25 rankings:
1. North Carolina
2. Kentucky
3. Maryland
4. Kansas
5. Duke
6. Virginia
7. Iowa State
8. Oklahoma
9. Gonzaga
10. Wichita State
11. Villanova
12. Arizona
13. Michigan State
14. California
15. Indiana
16. Utah
17. Wisconsin
18. Vanderbilt
19. Notre Dame
20. Connecticut
21. LSU
22. Baylor
23. Purdue
24. Butler
25. Michigan

 

[Stax Classic]

Excited to see what Musselman can do at Nevada

 

[cactus_jack22]

I'm just happy ben simmons chose someone other than Kentucky or Duke, best of luck to him at LSU

 

[LaMelo]

Duke will probably lose in the first round of the tourney but we are set up nicely for next season.

 

[Chrome]

Interested to see how Notre Dame builds off of their conference title & Elite 8 appearance last year. How Demetrius Jackson takes that next step will be key methinks.

 

[Joel Anthony]

My body is beyond ready. Had a real nice little write up last night that got lost because I forgot to keep myself signed inn and when I hit post it promoted me to re log in and the entire write up vanished. fpalm

So for now I'll just leave this: wanna see how my boys JEKIRI and Larranaga do in their final year together. Coach L has been preparing JEKIRI for this very moment. He's been able to learn and hone his new craft after being a soccer player his entire childhood. I think this , his senior year, is the year he puts it all together and resembles a true seven footer. He's been working on every aspect of the game the last four years, including a sweet little 15-18 footer ala Haslem.

Shabbazz Muhammads little bro has to sit out a year after transferring. Would have been nice to have him but it's Davon Reed time anyway. Think he can become a household name this year. Showed a lot of little flashes of brilliance last year.

Let's get back to that big dance.

MAH
BAWD
IZ
REDEE
:mark:

 

[Cashmere]

Butler is back in the top 25 = Automatic Final Four bid. Just the way it is.

 

[LaMelo]

Butler is back in the top 25 = Automatic Final Four bid. Just the way it is.

As long as someone takes North Carolina out. My Blue Devils will be back next season.

 

[DesolationRow]

Can't wait to watch my CAL BEARS as well as the Kentucky Wildcats! :mark: :cheer :woo :dance

Skal Labisserie isn't Anthony Davis yet but Coach Cal is making the comparison for good reason; Labisserie's offensive prowess versus the Anthony Davis who had just reached Kentucky is considerably superior. He's going to be exceptionally fun to watch.

Season starting on Friday the 13th! :mark:

 

[Chrome]

Jackson with 27 points tonight. bama4

Settling into that leadership role already. I know it's only the 1st game and it's the Red Flash, but still, nice to see.

 

[LaMelo]

Brandon Ingram is the real deal!

 

[Stax Classic]

Busted up a perennial NCAA team in Coastal Carolina to open the season, I'll take it Muss, I'll take it :curry2

 

[RetepAdam.]

Anyone else enjoying the Bill Walton experience on ESPN right now?

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/11/13/9733592/bill-walton-china-texas-washington-taylor-swift

 

[DesolationRow]

Anyone else enjoying the Bill Walton experience on ESPN right now?

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/11/13/9733592/bill-walton-china-texas-washington-taylor-swift

Yes I am! :lmao Of course his son is doing a marvelous job substituting for Steve Kerr! :mark:

CAL opened up the 2015-16 season with a fabulously vibrant performance at home, crushing the Rice Owls, 97-65! Tyrone WALLACE with 20 points, 6 boards and 8 assists! :mark: :cheer :woo :dance

"Bears Cook Rice" is my headline! :cheer

 

[Joel Anthony]

Deyonta Davis looks like Adrien Payne 2.0 with the chance to be deadlier. Completely dominated my Owls tonight. My Canes doe. My Canes. It's nice having Cruz Uceda here for the first half of the year unlike last season.

 

[RetepAdam.]

Yes I am! :lmao Of course his son is doing a marvelous job substituting for Steve Kerr! :mark:

CAL opened up the 2015-16 season with a fabulously vibrant performance at home, crushing the Rice Owls, 97-65! Tyrone WALLACE with 20 points, 6 boards and 8 assists! :mark: :cheer :woo :dance

"Bears Cook Rice" is my headline! :cheer

I'm sure Cal's substantial Asian-American student body was thrilled about taking down Rice.

 

[Joel Anthony]

Lots of power fives taking it on the chin so far by these mid majors. Gonna be an interesting season.

Georgetown didn't play Alonzo Mournings son Trey vs Radford. Thoroughly convinced that is the reason they lost. fpalm

 

[Joel Anthony]

31 STRAIGHT HOURS :mark:

Finally all of Long Beach transfers are eligible to play this year which is awesome because they lost everybody. This one with BYU is gonna be exciting.

Muh Canes almost hit that 100 mark. I can't remember the last time we did. I like the way we look. We lost a few to mid majors last year, we can't do that again. Not in the ACC especially this year. Have to look like this through the rest of 2015 and carry it over to conference play. Shawn Long is no joke. But I am very disheartened with how TONYE preformed against him tonight. He has to get better against Elite bigs and Shawn Long of ULL is definitely an elite big.

 

[Stax Classic]

Damn, Nevada losses by 1 at Hawaii in the 4 AM game after losing their top 2 PG's in the previous game and coming back from down 16. Really liking the #Musketball being played in Reno for Coach

 

[Joel Anthony]

I actually stayed up until like the final minute of that Nevada game. Hawaii got some shooters. Marqueze Coleman looks ready for a big senior season for my PACK (RISHARD! fpalm). AJ WEST had a disappointing game. Don't think he'll have many more of those. Refs were giving him a hard time though.

Big showing from URI with EC Matthews on crutches.

The Beach looks good. Nick Faust. Whoa. Gonna be fun watching them running their usual non conference gauntlet of death. The Anti Duke. Always challenging themselves. Very smart. All they have to do is be in a few games and pull a few out and they pretty much punch their ticket before conference play.

Wanna take a gander at the Noles tonight. They have some freshman group. Couped with XRM and Phil Cofer-needs to develop still-they look like they could be a surprise in the ACC to some.

Tonight is the night though. Double main event. Let the games begin.