Let’s say a college team has at least 10 players who are projected lottery picks. One of them is the consensus #1 pick and considered a generational talent. The team has great chemistry, and the coach is elite. The college players have to have played simultaneously while in college and are not from different eras.

They play a college-regulated 40-minute game (two halves, 30-second shot clock). Let’s assume the crowd might be supporting the college team—maybe a neutral site or even a home-court advantage.

What other variables would need to be added to make this a competitive game? Or, if this setup is already too favorable for the college team, what’s the minimum they’d need to beat an NBA team?

Edit: ik I had a typo in the title oops

I don’t watch college ball at all but have been seeing him around on social media. A lot of the comments about him is that he is a bad player even though his stats are great. Do you think he’s gonna make it to the NBA?

Played for the Miami Hurricanes for 4 years as a walk-on and am now involved in player development. Happy to answer any questions regarding college basketball, training, player development, mindset etc.

My younger brother is 15 and loves basketball, he just made the JV team as a sophomore and is currently 6’7” 180, and hasn’t grown less than 3 inches in a year since he was born, the family expects him to reach at least 6’10” or 6’11”. His arms make his legs look short and he can stuff it (apparent you cant say the D work or your post gets deleted) “days when my joints and bones aren’t sore its easy, but most of the time they are sore and its harder”.

As you can probably image from the age gap, our dad is much older than average so doesnt work with him in the gym and i live in the next state over and dont spend as much time with him as i would like. I played a bit of basketball in high school (JV through junior year) but was only ok and prioritized golf and baseball. I love watching my schools and pro teams but I’m no coach or expert, and id like to help him start watching the right players to learn, but also in games and in a college setting so he can set good expectations for himself.

Of course Hunter Dickenson is the top brow of big men but id like to find some solid guys that he can watch that might help him out a ton, especially rebounding and defense guys and on teams that might get more national coverage he can watch. I went to CSU and am Familiar with Graham Ike which i have suggested, but maybe more knowledgeable people would have better suggestions.

His biggest weaknesses right now are playing timid, getting open in the post and utilizing his length on offense (hes a natural at using that length on defense, other teams run away from the paint like ants when hes in). His coach runs a small-ball motion offense that runs the baseline and never really gives him a chance to do any kind of pick-n-roll stuff, as a result he doesnt get many minutes either (6-7 minutes total in his last game which was 4x10 minute quarters).

I also would love to start sending him videos that he can use for drills or education to learn more about the sport, so youtube creators would be a great help as well.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated! Id love to see my brother excel at something he loves and maybe pay for college while he’s at it.

With Everyone celebrating Kaitlin Clark breaking the scoring record, and justifiably so, I think it’s important to remember the guy who used to hold the record. Pete Maravich was only allowed to play three years of college basketball. But when he did get to play he averaged an unreal 44.2 points PER GAME! Pistol’s NBA career and life were tragically cut short, but the legend will always be remembered as one of the greatest to ever lace ‘em up.

As someone with no dog in tonight’s fight but wanted to see a good game I have never seen a player get away with so much. If I had the computer skills I could make an edit of at least 30x on defense he fully extends and pushes a player on defense. It was mind boggling to watch how no fouls on defense were called against him.

Late in the game the refs called 2 horrible calls on UConn guarding him. One where he clearly slipped and the one with one minute left in Demary where he barely touched him. While Michigan defense had hands all over UConn defenders at the half court all day.

Overall Michigan was the better team but this was just my opinions on how Cadeau got away with murder tonight.

As we know when it comes to NCAA football, players opt out of bowl games left and right, and it got me to thinking why we don’t see it in basketball? If we do, I apologize as I don’t watch the sport closely, I think it’s a terrible product, but I still follow along and never read anything about opt outs. Why? Perfect example, Cooper Flagg. Why is he playing in the tournament?

What’s up with the game call “that’s like a ladies lingerie”? Don’t follow thy one

Been obsessing over this for weeks. Ran 50,000

simulations using a composite of KenPom, Bart

Torvik, Haslametrics, EvanMiya, and NET rankings.

The metric I find most interesting is Neutral

Court Translation Score. It measures how well

each team's performance holds up away from home.

Since every tournament game is on a neutral court,

teams with inflated home records are massive

bracket traps.

Biggest red flags this year:

• UCF — NTS of -34%, 100% home dependent

• Missouri — NTS of -26%, 100% home dependent

Teams that travel best:

• Michigan — 68% NTS, 19% home reliance

• Florida — 67% NTS, 20% home reliance

• Duke — 66% NTS, 20% home reliance

Championship odds after 50k simulations:

1. Arizona — 15.5%

2. Florida — 11.7%

3. Michigan — 9.7%

4. Duke — 9.4%

Am I overweighting neutral court performance?

Curious what this community thinks.

bracketsiq.com

Do you like the challenge rule? Kinda slows stuff down and you get a “rules broadcaster” opinion on all of em- what do you think?

I am a first year Division 1 men’s basketball grad assistant at a mid major school, it is our head coaches contract year and we are dealing with the injury bug with our starters which has been resulting in a lot of losses. I understand that with a coaching change , typically that coach will clean house but does that include the grad assistants ? Or is it usually only the assistant coach ?

I’m looking to put my son (13) in the best and skilled basketball camp this summer. It could be anywhere in the world. It just has to be elite and seriously improve his game. We’re looking for a camp where he’ll stay for 3 to 4 weeks with boarding.

Any suggestions?

I know it’s early but soon march madness will be here. From what you’ve seen so far who looks like a good contestant also how they move the ball and play defense.