{"id":177839,"date":"2024-04-09T03:41:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T08:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=177839"},"modified":"2024-04-09T03:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T08:41:53","slug":"random-thoughts-college-hoops-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/04\/09\/random-thoughts-college-hoops-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: college hoops, more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest installment of Random Thoughts centers around UConn, a major hoops coaching change, an impressive season, another coach steps down, and an open letter to CBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UConn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to hand it to UConn. The Huskies took down Purdue 75-60 on Monday night and wrapped up a second consecutive national championship, a feat that isn’t easily accomplished. Make no mistake, UConn was the favorite going into the game and rightfully so, but I guess I held out hope that Purdue would somehow spring the upset. As it turns out, the Boilermakers really had no chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on the national championship game, keep reading. Like many others, I’m not a fan of a 9:20 p.m. tipoff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Calipari<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing against the University of Arkansas or the fine people who go to school and\/or work there, but John Calipari must have been pretty desperate to get out of Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a move that can be best termed as shocking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

38-0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t care what sport it is, going 38-0 \u2013 running the table \u2013 is very impressive. It\u2019s even more impressive when you consider South Carolina lost all five starters from last year\u2019s team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Dawn Staley is a great coach and much classier that at least one of her counterparts. That\u2019s all I\u2019m going say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make it four\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four Western Buckeye League schools are now searching for new boys basketball coaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Tabler resigned at Elida last week. His resignation follows ones by Ben Laudick at Van Wert, Kirk Looser at Bath and Dan Hegemeier at St. Marys Memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 p.m. vs. 9:20 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear CBS,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please take a page from the book of ESPN. Sunday\u2019s NCAA women\u2019s basketball national championship game tipped off at 3 p.m. and it was watched by millions of people. The game was over before 5:30 p.m. and it was wonderful \u2013 the game itself and the fact that it ended before early evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday night\u2019s NCAA men\u2019s basketball championship game tipped off at 9:30 p.m. We all know it\u2019s all about prime time television revenue, but how about considering the viewers for a change? Not everyone wants to or can stay up until midnight to watch a game. Throw in the fact that it\u2019s two teams from the Eastern time zone and that makes the late start time even worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a thought \u2013 play the women\u2019s title game at 3 p.m. Saturday and the men\u2019s title game at 3 p.m. Sunday. Yes, I know, it will take a bit of juggling with the semifinal schedule, but that\u2019s not difficult at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best of all \u2013 more people can actually watch the men\u2019s game, which will increase ratings and revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signed,
All college basketball fans in the Eastern time zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, if you have thoughts or questions on any of the above topics, feel free to email me at sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor The latest installment of Random Thoughts centers around UConn, a major hoops coaching change, an impressive season, another coach steps down, and an open letter to CBS. UConn I have to hand it to UConn. The Huskies took down Purdue 75-60 on Monday night and wrapped up a second consecutive national championship, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 19:14:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177841,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177839\/revisions\/177841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}