Recently I emailed someone And asked if they can send a Greg McDermott autograph ( I saw other people getting them ) And I finally got it !! Always means alot as I’ve always liked his team for some reason

I'm have been working through preseason rosters, schedules, etc. building a preseason tier list of teams for the upcoming season. However, no one digs into their team's potential in the offseason more than their fans! Below, I have my first draft of a Preseason Tier List. What I would like you to do is make the case for your team. Are they too high? Too low? Fair? Make your case and I will take all of the info into account, and then post my updated tier list on Friday. (I know, the anticipation is tremendous.)

Conditions:

• You can only argue for your team. No UNC fans telling me why Duke is gonna suck this year.
• Your reasoning has to include at least some logical reasons. Not just, "They suck!" Gotta explain why.
• Reasoning can be as statistical or non-statistical as you want. Is it based on shot quality? BPR? Or did your dead cat tell you in a dream you were gonna win it all? Either works here (provided your dead cat is good at predicting team success).

Here are my preliminary tiers (no particular order in each tier):

Tier 1: UConn, Houston, Florida, St. John's

Tier 2: UK, Michigan, Purdue, Texas Tech, BYU

Tier 3: Illinois, UCLA, Alabama, Duke

Tier 4: Louisville, Michigan St, Oregon, Arkansas, Creighton, Tennessee, N.C. State, Arizona, Kansas

Tier 5: Texas, Auburn, Iowa St, Gonzaga

EDIT: legitimately forgot to include Louisville. Fixed it. Sorry Cards fans, I know how it looks.

Seems like there’s a million streaming services out there

Which paid streaming platform should I get to watch college basketball games this year?

Keep in mind I’m not from US

For those who have attended the Champions Classic before, did you think it was worth it? Obviously it’s four elite programs and I’m an MSU guy so I’ve wanted to attend for a while now, but obviously there are costs and travel to consider and I have heard from a fellow alum who didn’t have a great experience that it might be better to watch at home. Any thoughts from those who have gone before?

I’ll keep it short:

1. Anyone know a good site that keeps track of foreign tour and other exhibitions being played throughout the summer?

2. With Lindy’s coming out later this year are there any other season previews worth looking at?

Finally it's time! The draw for the last conference to go. This is one of the conferences I'm looking at redoing the qualifying format on because I really didn't like how I did it last year. For now, this is the one I'll do.

Participants:

1. Duke(1)
2. Clemson(22)
3. North Carolina(36)
4. Wake Forest(69)
5. High Point(82)
6. South Carolina(87)
7. UNC Wilmington(102)
8. Furman(127)
9. Wofford(131)
10. NC State(132)
11. UNC Greensboro(138)
12. Charleston(150)
13. Davidson(153)
14. Winthrop(163)
15. Appalachian State(170)
16. East Carolina(176)
17. Elon(184)
18. UNC Asheville(192)
19. South Carolina State(196)
20. Queens(199)
21. Campbell(222)
22. Presbyterian(240)
23. Gardner Webb(266)
24. Charlotte(267)
25. Charleston Southern(294)
26. NC Central(319)
27. Coastal Carolina(328)
28. NC A&T(333)
29. Western Carolina(342)
30. USC Upstate(347)
31. The Citadel(362)

Format:

Play In – Bottom 2 teams play a best of 3 series, winner advances

Round 1 – The 30 remaining teams are split up into 3 groups of 10. The top 4 teams from each group advance

Round 2 – The remaining 12 teams will be placed into 1 large group of 12. The top 5 qualify to the cup.

Group A:

Group B

Group C

And there we have it! See you all soon for the results

1. Max Abrams was such a fun player to watch at OR

2. Thomas Walkup you will always be a legend to me

3. K.J. Maura, what a legend

What about you?

Jayhawks probably 3rd or 4th in the big 12 and realistically lose another round of 32, maybe making it past the first weekend.

I am in a fantasy league where I have to draft teams and so I’d love to get an idea of different sleeper teams in these three tiers.

Tier 1: Sleepers that can win the title

Tier 2: Sleepers that can make a run in the tournament

I could see us winning it all but somewhere in my deep depths of despair, I could see Lowe not being the guy we need him to be, JQ not recovering properly from his injury, Oweh not living up to his potential as our biggest returning player, etc.

This is the best home schedule I’ve seen Akron have in a few years. The Princeton game got some traction on the sub last year so I’m excited for the rematch. James Madison will be a great one too