2025-26 Season

[WichitaSooner]

Seems like its usually about Nov 10.

It’s been the same Monday for at least the past few seasons. It works out perfectly … I’d have a hard time going longer than a day or two between the end of baseball season and the start of the college hoops season.

 

[NickZepp]

Is this the earliest start to the season ever? It feels weird to be starting this early. I kinda miss the Thanksgiving start to the season.

We usually have a preseason game around this time, then start the season 5th-9th since at least 2018 from what I can tell. 2021 obviously doesn't count.

This is the earliest start

I believe we started around mid Nov since the early 2000s or late 90s.

 

[WichitaSooner]

Quantifying overall individual defensive impact/ability is the most difficult thing to do from a basketball analytics standpoint, imo.

Davis is better defensively than any of the numbers say he is. Had some to do with ND’s defensive style, some to do with what he was asked to do individually, some to do with the players around him.

I like Miyakawa as well and think he adds a lot of valuable information, but you can’t scout a player or team solely on a spreadsheet no matter how many new adjustments you make or how hard you try.

Given what Moser said, I’m pretty confident he will at least be good defensively. I feel like maybe he made that comment partially to motivate him and give him a goal to really make his defense a priority, so I’m not sure if I think he’s national POY level. But I really hope we are good defensively at the 3-5. They have the length to do it. I think our guards will struggle a bit on defense so having a good defensive frontcourt would really help.