College Basketball: 2025-26

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All 365 D1 teams ranked: https://www.si.com/college-basketball/sports-illustrated-complete-2025-26-mens-college-basketball-rankings-digital-cover

[Natsinpwc]

Thanks for that.  Not easy to keep track anymore with the portal movement.

Virginia Tech could be interesting.  They have a guy from Greece who is supposed to be a first round NBA pick.  5-star rated.  Will see how he adjusts. 

[HalfSmokes]

120 for Madison seems pretty disrespectful

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Yale's 86. See surprised me a bit given graduations, but returning 3 starters and most of the bench.

Should be well funded. I noticed one freshman is Jacob Tsai. Notes say Dad Joe played lacrosse. Yes, that Joseph Tsai.

[Natsinpwc]

Neo Avdalas with 33 points in the Hokies win over Providence. Also 6 assists and 5 rebounds.

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Radford @ UNC Chapel Hill tonight in the ACC network.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Yale looking interesting. Another 97 point outing blowing out Quinnipiac. 2 large margin road wins over teams picked for 2nd in their conferences.

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Via reporter Scott Hughes, St. Johns fires its mens basketball GM after an internal investigation found he embezzled $1M in NIL money.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/13/sports/st-johns-fires-mens-basketball-gm-matt-abdelmassih/ had a high level story on the allegations.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

That's Pitino's team, right?

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That's Pitino's team, right?

yep

[Natsinpwc]

Penn finally beat Princeton. Been a long time coming.  Dad and brother are smiling up there.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Congrats. Progress for the program. Princeton is one of Yale's quad 4 losses.

[Natsinpwc]

Congrats. Progress for the program. Princeton is one of Yale's quad 4 losses.

Looks like a wild finish.  Yale and Harvard at 6-2 and four teams behind at 4-4.  Penn has 4 of their last 6 games at home.  Looks like a slim chance now that Yale could get a bid if they don’t win the tourney.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Conceivably, a road win at Harvard or Columbia could turn into a quad 2 win, but I think another league loss will hurt the NET too much. I think Yale could be a 12 if they win out.