2023-24 College Basketball 🏀

I grew up loving Bobby Knight and Dean Smith, they had contrasting styles and personalities, but the one thing that they had in common was that they both would make you not only a better basketball player, but more importantly a better man

I have no ties to Indiana, the university or the state, but I always pull for Indiana basketball because of Bobby Knight, he was a tough disciplinarian, outspoken, brash, and temperamental, but he won, graduated kids, and made his players better people than they were before arriving at Indiana

“When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want them to bury me upside down so my critics can kiss my ass” Bobby Knight ( The General )

“The key is not the will to win-everyone has that. The key is the will to prepare to win”
Wise words.

For some not so wise words, look up his interview with Connie Chung.

Media will make a saint out of Knight now. Not going to speak ill of the dead. I’ll leave it at that.

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Bob Knight watching Butter Johnson play in the 2004 NCAA Tournament.

BUFFALO, NY - MARCH 18: Head coach Bob Knight of the Texas Tech Red Raiders shouts from the sideline during the first round game of the 2004 NCAA Basketball Tournament against the Charlotte 49ers on March 18, 2004 at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York. The Red Raiders won 76-73. (Photo by Rick Stewart/Getty Images)

Yet another shoulda, woulda, coulda.

So far, no one I’ve read is leaving out the boorish aspects of Knight’s persona in reporting on his life.

https://twitter.com/SethDavisHoops/status/1719915561419997511

https://twitter.com/tsnmike/status/1719908896427454693

https://twitter.com/ByPatForde/status/1719907074229060073

https://twitter.com/DanWetzel/status/1719847425689452992

The crowd chanting for Bobby is epic!!! Yeah, I would say there is a better than good chance that throwing a chair completely across the basketball floor was getting him ejected!

30 tix @ $2,000 each:

https://twitter.com/queensMBB/status/1720554057742311517

30 court side seats for queens fans seems like a a lot. If I was a queens fan and rich, I’d do it in a heart beat.

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clt says $1k seems more reasonable for that package

https://twitter.com/John_Fanta/status/1721141272692294116

https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/1721738735794983007?t=RkZKo9kxVP-OBA_dx8HIVg&s=19

Not sure who, if anybody, has the correct numbers:

https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1721985881647480999

https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1721985983229636662

https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/status/1722036825345208450

Not exactly the same stunners as JMU over #4 Michigan State and reigning WBB champs + #1 LSU losing to Colorado yesterday but totally unexpected nonetheless:

https://twitter.com/jeffborzello/status/1722088257746248022

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https://twitter.com/ABC6/status/1722296706610430147

Duke 73
Arizona 78

Chattanooga 81
Louisville 71

Kenny Payne era will be a short one.

BTW, the Duke vs Zona game was actually at Cameron so quite a win for Tommy Lloyd & Co.

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