The Official 2025-2026 College Basketball Random Thoughts Thread

[Flight]

Rough couple of weeks for Pat Kelsey

 

[aceboon]

Good pickup for y’all. Elite shooter and has like a 6’10” wingspan

Hurley went all in on him after he seen the Mingo process was gonna be long and drawn out

 

[Flight]

Mingo feels like a Baylor kid

 

[TUA TAGOVAILOA]

Hurley went all in on him after he seen the Mingo process was gonna be long and drawn out

Yea I hope playing the long game for Mingo and Caleb **** don’t bite us in the ass. I wanted us to go after Landrew harder but it looks like we’re closing in on Qayden Samuels now. I think we still lead for Jaxon Richardson too. Hopefully the dominos fall our way once all the top guys start committing.

 

[TUA TAGOVAILOA]

He fukked up big time not taking a bag in the portal

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Braden Smith needs to average ~8.6 APG (including a B1GT run & deep NCAAT run) to break Bobby Hurley's all time NCAA assist record...

He averaged 8.7 APG last year, this is doable if they can get to the E8/FF or better

I might clown on Purdue, but Painter is a top 5 active coach, and he's turning 3* and low 4* players into all americans.

 

[Frump]

Braden Smith needs to average ~8.6 APG (including a B1GT run & deep NCAAT run) to break Bobby Hurley's all time NCAA assist record...

He averaged 8.7 APG last year, this is doable if they can get to the E8/FF or better

I might clown on Purdue, but Painter is a top 5 active coach, and he's turning 3* and low 4* players into all americans.

I never thought Purdue would be able to recruit well enough to be perennial contenders and they still technically aren’t but they are still contending

I guess the new landscape of CBB had helped them

 

[TUA TAGOVAILOA]

Yea Painter does a good job of finding and developing guys that stay with the program all 4/5 years. They don’t get the kind of talent they probably could but culture matters. Their 3 best players are from Indiana.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

I never thought Purdue would be able to recruit well enough to be perennial contenders and they still technically aren’t but they are still contending

I guess the new landscape of CBB had helped them

Quality development, the don't lose guys in the portal but gain some. Paint is a great Xs & Os coach.

We'll see if their experience can get them a title this year bc it's essentially F4/natty or bust. If not they might need to figure out how to bring in some more dynamic players, even if it's just 1 every 2-3 recruiting cycles.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Dude has the worst advisors since Emoni Bates

 

[Rigby.]

On the low, hoping Alabama gets the Ratliff brothers…their sisters were fine as fukk caught the follow back from one of em back in the day but got left on read immediately

 

[Rigby.]

Braden Smith needs to average ~8.6 APG (including a B1GT run & deep NCAAT run) to break Bobby Hurley's all time NCAA assist record...

He averaged 8.7 APG last year, this is doable if they can get to the E8/FF or better

I might clown on Purdue, but Painter is a top 5 active coach, and he's turning 3* and low 4* players into all americans.

I know he’s gonna dog fukk us this time around with Denver Jones gone. We 40 balled them nikkas at one point, I know painter gonna run up the score if he can

Could be a 105-103 type of game tho