2024-25 Arizona Basketball

[AZCatGirl]

KJ is 100% gone. Most likely Georgetown, but he hasn't committed yet. Vessaar is just a rumor at this point.

[azcat49]

G-Town? Yuck. Guess he wants to be featured. That’s the only thing so can think of. Cooley is still their coach so he should be well coached. Wish him well but sure would be interesting to hear his thoughts on that decision.

Veesaar I don’t get either. Keep progressing under CTL. Maybe be more of a stretch 4. I would think he is good for 30 minutes a game next year

I like watching these guys progress and improve. This is what is sucking the soul out of college athletics

[Bangkok Wildcat]

I like watching these guys progress and improve. This is what is sucking the soul out of college athletics

Yep, now it’s professional college basketball these days…..and it sucks not to be able to emotionally invest in a player and celebrate their development and progress from year to year……yuck is right. Guess we also need a GM too now with all the free agency and crap….

[RichardCranium]

KJ reminds me of Solomon Hill.
I felt his first 2 years Hill knew what to do and had the physical skills to do things but his brain was not in sync with his body. Example: he seemed to always try a spin move in the lane. Most of the time he would travel or lose the ball as he started his dribble. By his jr year he could do the move and score. He also learned to pass when needed instead of forcing shots.
I hope KJ makes the next step. so far I see him as a guy who isn't quite in sync with his mind and body. He also tries to make big plays instead of making the big pass.
I have faith he will get there.

I’m thinking a slimmer Hassan Adams

Doesn’t matter he’s in the portal as I predicted

I'm thinking a shorter Wilt Chamberlain.

[cat77]

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I like watching these guys progress and improve. This is what is sucking the soul out of college athletics

Yep, now it’s professional college basketball these days…..and it sucks not to be able to emotionally invest in a player and celebrate their development and progress from year to year……yuck is right. Guess we also need a GM too now with all the free agency and crap….

Exactly right Bangkok, depressing

[pc in NM]

Joe Lunardi rated each Sweet 16 Program - Report card: How the top men's programs finished this season https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... -25-season

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... -25-season

Arizona Wildcats

2025 NCAA tournament performance: No. 4 seed; exited in Sweet 16

Program status: UNDERACHIEVER

It would be hard to call Arizona an underachiever in the Tommy Lloyd era, with three Sweet 16 trips in four seasons and an average of 28 wins. Yet, modest underachievers are what the Wildcats have been, at least in terms of NCAA tournament performance and winning percentage overall. Like it or not, Arizona has won fewer games each season under Lloyd.

This was the first season in his tenure that the Wildcats actually played to their seed in the tournament. Their prior Sweet 16 losses came as a 1-seed (against Houston in 2022) and as a 2-seed (against Clemson in 2024). Those defeats sandwiched an awful 2-15 upset exit against Princeton in 2023.

Looking at it another way: Lloyd's six NCAA wins have come over Wright State, TCU, Long Beach State, Dayton, Akron and, finally, Oregon. It's not the most impressive list.

It remains to be seen whether Arizona can be a 30-win program in the Big 12, the way it occasionally was in the Pac-12. But it's a good trade only if the Wildcats can find their way back to the Final Four for the first time since 2001.

[CatMG]

I like watching these guys progress and improve. This is what is sucking the soul out of college athletics

Yep, now it’s professional college basketball these days…..and it sucks not to be able to emotionally invest in a player and celebrate their development and progress from year to year……yuck is right. Guess we also need a GM too now with all the free agency and crap….

Much worse....it is professional college basketball with no salary cap (or luxury tax if you want to compare to the NBA) and no contracts. Certainly long for the days when you looked a team and could see the development over the years. Now, couldn't care less if they just eliminated college athletics.

[Bangkok Wildcat]

I like watching these guys progress and improve. This is what is sucking the soul out of college athletics

Yep, now it’s professional college basketball these days…..and it sucks not to be able to emotionally invest in a player and celebrate their development and progress from year to year……yuck is right. Guess we also need a GM too now with all the free agency and crap….

Much worse....it is professional college basketball with no salary cap (or luxury tax if you want to compare to the NBA) and no contracts. Certainly long for the days when you looked a team and could see the development over the years. Now, couldn't care less if they just eliminated college athletics.

I’m starting to get that way too……I will always love my U of A Wildcats but the more they turn college athletics into a money grab, the less my fandom……the upside is that it’s a whole lot less stress during the season…the downside is the reduced commitment / fandom to the team. The NBA caused this with their greed and these days, with their load management and less physicality it is boring to me….except the playoffs which I might watch a little. Bummer.