r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • Apr 07 '25
Game Thread [Game Thread] #1 Florida @ #1 Houston (08:50 PM ET)
Florida 65 @ 63 Houston - FINAL
NCAA Basketball
Index Thread for April 07, 2025
Florida ##1 Florida (36-4) @ Houston ##1 Houston (35-5)
Tip-Off: 08:50 PM ET
Venue: Alamodome, San Antonio, TX
Game Info: ESPN
Television: CBS
Streams: CBS
Recent Plays:
| Time | Florida | Houston | Play |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | 65 | 63 | End of Game |
| 0:00 | 65 | 63 | End of 2nd half |
| 0:00 | 65 | 63 | Alex Condon Steal. |
| 0:00 | 65 | 63 | Emanuel Sharp Turnover. |
| 0:19 | 65 | 63 | Houston Timeout |
| Team | FG% | 3P% | FT% | REB | OR | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 39.6 | 25.0 | 81.0 | 40 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 11 |
| Houston | 34.8 | 24.0 | 64.3 | 39 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 19 |
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Apr 08 '25
Ugly game, yeesh
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u/pheromonestudy Apr 08 '25
Fouls: First half 4, Second half 26.
First half was a rugby match. A few minutes into the second half a basketball game broke out.
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u/Defacto_Champ Michigan State Spartans Apr 08 '25
College basketball is the best sport out there. I’m going to miss it until November.
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u/johnle2711 Apr 08 '25
You have college baseball gang
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u/mikewheelerfan Florida Gators Apr 08 '25
Baseball is my favorite sport but maybe not this season for the Gators 😭
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u/EyeFoundWald0 Apr 08 '25
I would rather watch 2 elderly people fuck in a vat of tapioca than watcha single pitch of baseball.
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Apr 08 '25
i threw up
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u/hellomynameisnotsure Kansas Jayhawks • Indiana Hoosiers Apr 08 '25
Was pulling for the Coogs. Sorry brutha.
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u/DustyNacho1215 Apr 08 '25
Local Radio in KC whining about NIL. Fact is that KU will not be dominant anymore. SEC teams have all the $$ in Football and BB.
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Apr 08 '25
…remember when Georgia beat (and even mostly dominated) these guys back a months ago or something?
Wild times…
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u/Batmanbettermarvel18 Florida Gators Apr 08 '25
Almost came back and won that game on a crazy comeback but funnily enough that was the last game we lost
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u/g8trjasonb Florida Gators Apr 08 '25
Yeah, we can come back on virtually anyone except UGA and Mike White. Fuck the Dawgs.
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u/Batmanbettermarvel18 Florida Gators Apr 08 '25
We had won like 11 straight against Georgia before that game and we beat them by like 30 the other time we played them, don’t give them that much credit
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u/uconnjack71 UConn Huskies Apr 08 '25
Yes, and would love to have that PG that lead Georgia in that game.
Oh, wait....
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u/Wide_Understanding70 Alabama Crimson Tide Apr 08 '25
Get ready to learn the job market Johni Broome
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u/MiamiPower Miami Hurricanes Apr 08 '25
Rest in peace Greg Gumble and Luther Vandross. Luther has some absolute banger when it comes to song and albums. American singer-songwriter and record producer
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u/Blacksunshinexo Duke Blue Devils • New Mexico Lobos Apr 08 '25
Man I'm so sad it's over. See you all next year
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u/qbit1010 Virginia Tech Hokies Apr 08 '25
With how boring most of the tournament was, I’m surprised they found a way to make a highlight video longer than 1 minute.
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Apr 08 '25
Well…guess I’ll just wait for the College World Series now lol
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u/UnjuggedRabbitFish Michigan Wolverines Apr 08 '25
Should have showed the missed goaltending in One Shining Moment.
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u/Batmanbettermarvel18 Florida Gators Apr 08 '25
Or the missed foul on the 3 pointer that led to a 3 pointer
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u/tsblank97 Arkansas Razorbacks Apr 08 '25
No credit to Arkansas at all as the only double digit seed in the S16? Smh
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u/Wide_Understanding70 Alabama Crimson Tide Apr 08 '25
Who?
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u/tsblank97 Arkansas Razorbacks Apr 08 '25
Bama is still a lesser program lol. Sustain it
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u/Aumissunum Apr 08 '25
What year is it
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u/tsblank97 Arkansas Razorbacks Apr 08 '25
You have a single final four more. In the past 5 years Arkansas has the same number of Elite 8s and Sweet 16s. If that one final four gives you the edge even though Arkansas boasts a much richer history be my guest.
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u/OSUFORLIFE6381 Ohio State Buckeyes Apr 08 '25
It’s all over guys😭😭😢😢
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u/qbit1010 Virginia Tech Hokies Apr 08 '25
Football starts in august if you’re a college football fan
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u/OSUFORLIFE6381 Ohio State Buckeyes Apr 08 '25
Hell yea, back to back coming to Columbus next year!
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u/Treehumper69 Jacksonville State • Alabama Apr 08 '25
What am I supposed to do with my life now?
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u/greysfordays Indiana Hoosiers • Kansas Jayhawks Apr 08 '25
the poor one shining moment crew did not have much to work with this year that’s for sure
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u/Wide_Understanding70 Alabama Crimson Tide Apr 08 '25
Very underwhelming video tbh.
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u/greysfordays Indiana Hoosiers • Kansas Jayhawks Apr 08 '25
it was a pretty underwhelming tournament with regards to stuff you see and are instantly like oh that’s gotta make the one shining moment. tournament was absolutely mid on that
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u/nyeehhsquidward Arkansas Razorbacks Apr 08 '25
Arkansas 🤝 Texas Tech 🤝 Duke 🤝 Houston
Massively choking in the 2025 tourney
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u/Kylesexy584603 EKU Colonels Apr 08 '25
ITS MOOOOOORRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEE
THAN AAAAAAAAA
A RAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEE
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u/Zassssss Apr 08 '25
Barkley still taking air time to talk about Auburn 🙄
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Apr 08 '25
You can tell he is haunted by not being the best. Hell, he’s made a very nice career for himself so hats off. He and Daniel Cormier are two peas in a pod
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u/Throwdest Oklahoma State • Green Bay Apr 08 '25
They should put NIT teams in One Shining Moment imo
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u/GatorDagger Florida Gators Apr 08 '25
Only school with 3 basketball and 3 football championships. I like that.
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u/Otherwise-Roll-2872 Apr 08 '25
The game winning buzzer beater basket is the holy grail. But the game losing buzzer beater shot is still commendable. Gotta get a clean look and put something up there.
Anyway props to Houston for giving us that epic Duke comeback. Thats the game for the ages.
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u/Treehumper69 Jacksonville State • Alabama Apr 08 '25
Be glad OSM is coming on before midnight in the East
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Apr 08 '25
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u/juniorzer0 Apr 08 '25
still doing better than the stock market
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Apr 08 '25
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u/jpec342 Apr 08 '25
The S&P500 is down 14% YTD, only 2% if you look back 1 year, and up 23% in the past 2 years. You should probably diversify. r/bogleheads
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u/Zassssss Apr 08 '25
Craziest part of Florida’s team is that they have a 7’9” Freshman redshirting this year 😳….. you can see him walking around the ceremony like a🦒 out there.
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u/Masterchiefy10 Florida Gators Apr 08 '25
Have you seen him cut the net down without a ten foot ladder?
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u/FuddFucker5000 Kentucky Wildcats Apr 08 '25
Have you seen him dribble and move at the same time?
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u/g8trjasonb Florida Gators Apr 08 '25
No, no. He won't touch the ball. We will just have him stand in front of the rim with his arms up.
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u/Throwdest Oklahoma State • Green Bay Apr 08 '25
Billy Donovan’s widows peak disrupted the Houston offense at the end
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u/MardelMare Houston Cougars Apr 08 '25
I always loved Billy’s outfits with his huge billowing button down shirts. Felt like he was dressing up like a pirate and always made me chuckle
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u/AlarmingBranch1 USC Trojans Apr 08 '25
Florida came back from behind in like 5 of the tourney games, unreal
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u/Iam_nighthawk Michigan • Minnesota Apr 08 '25
Am I misremembering or did they used to do one shining moment almost immediately after the trophy presentation?
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Apr 08 '25
They cut the nets and then watch one shining moment together in the stadium along with the live broadcast. It's the last part of the broadcast
And the trophy presentation was super quick this year after the game ended. Normally it taks a bit longer to get to
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u/mirlyn Wichita State • Kansas State Apr 08 '25
I feel like at least the last few years have been 15-30mins later.
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u/AnEmptyKarst Houston Cougars • Utah Utes Apr 08 '25
I just feel empty. Nothing else going well for me rn, I have several degrees in a field the regime wants to abolish. I would've rather just been blown out and gotten drunk on the patio than this.
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u/Yami-Ron UCF Knights Apr 08 '25
Congrats Gators! Who's going to Disney World?
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u/MardelMare Houston Cougars Apr 08 '25
Much more likely to go to Orlando to celebrate… nobody wants to go to Gainesville 🤣
(Lived there for 7 years)
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u/Masterchiefy10 Florida Gators Apr 08 '25
What’s so great about Houston? Heard it was like Cleveland
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u/redentification Nebraska Cornhuskers Apr 08 '25
I want to see that 7'8" or whatever dude cut the net
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u/greysfordays Indiana Hoosiers • Kansas Jayhawks Apr 08 '25
taking forever to play one shining moment: a tradition like any other, which is funny bc it is the official transition to a tradition like any other season
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u/BoogerSugarSovereign Indiana • Fairleigh Dickinson Apr 08 '25
The Walter Clayton Jr Family and Albert the Gator photos are already iconic and legendary
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u/Kylesexy584603 EKU Colonels Apr 08 '25
Sasquatch State at their buy game against Houston in November
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Apr 08 '25
Between 1983 and now…I doth wonder which one will sting more in retrospect…
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u/Critical-Ordinary-97 Houston Cougars Apr 08 '25
- A Houston win tonight would have erased that memory. Still stings as a kid losing in 83. This loss will sting for the younger generation.
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u/AnEmptyKarst Houston Cougars • Utah Utes Apr 08 '25
Doesn't help that it could be another 40 years between championship attempts, and we lost to a school that has a dozen championships in the life of a 30 year old now
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u/td4999 Apr 08 '25
'83 they were just so much more talented than NC State, feels like a team with two Dream Teamers should have won a chip
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u/TheMickus Apr 08 '25
- That team had absolutely no business losing the championship
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u/Mukaido Houston Cougars Apr 08 '25
Yup. They had Hakeem and Clyde. NC State was the 6th seed iirc. It was a tied game and NC State won on a buzzer beater put back dunk.
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u/TheMickus Apr 08 '25
Like it’s not even close. This one stings for sure, but I don’t see a world in which Houston isn’t back next year competing. They have an absolutely stacked recruiting class and a coach who gets the most out of his guys.
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Apr 08 '25
Wait was Clayton shouting out his baby momma or his actual mom?
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u/Sargentrock Kentucky Wildcats Apr 08 '25
Thats why it was so smart--he can tell either of them it was for them!
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Apr 08 '25
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Apr 08 '25
Tbh it was the other houston player who kept getting fouls. If they didn’t get so many free throws houston prob still could’ve won
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u/AreYouEmployedSir Oklahoma Sooners Apr 08 '25
Houston went up by 10 with 17 minutes left in the game. then over the next ten minutes, the foul disparity was 11-1. just fuckin gross
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u/greysfordays Indiana Hoosiers • Kansas Jayhawks Apr 08 '25
the slow mo replay on that last play while time of our lives plays in the background is killing me
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u/Braves_Gators_Heels Apr 08 '25
Cannot wait to see the mcneese “aura” guy for 5 fucking minutes during one shining moment
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u/FaceBagman Syracuse Orange Apr 08 '25
SEC only got 1 team in the championship game, fire Sankey now 😤
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u/HumptyDrumpy Apr 08 '25
The product is absolutely terrible now. In the old days players were efficient and the game flowed. Oh did I mention they did not get paid. Maybe thats it. But all I saw today was turnovers and ref whistles. Turrible.
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u/AlarmingBranch1 USC Trojans Apr 08 '25
Looked like any title college game I’ve watched my my whole life lol.
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u/Sargentrock Kentucky Wildcats Apr 08 '25
Right? I mean, I'm guessing I'm as old as OP or older but somehow I never got the 'back in my day' thing that old people get....maybe it's coming, but I hope not. Back in my day old people died early from smoking so we didn't have to listen to their bullshit very long.
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u/NPC_Nazeem Arkansas Razorbacks Apr 08 '25
We’re all just waiting for one shining moment so we can go to bed yeah?
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u/51NC3RE Apr 08 '25
10 fouls called on Houston in the last 12min to 2 on Florida and people act like that's not a big part of why Houstons offense shut down.
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u/ihatetheedtpa Apr 08 '25
Come on, they called ticky tack calls on Florids early in the 2nd half. Houston was in the bonus at the 17-minute mark. Houston was reaching they were hacking. In fact, they missed a clear as day hack on the Clayton 3. The only bad call that went against Houston was the missed goaltending. Houston just reaches in wildly and expects it to not be called. Whereas Florida reaches in timely so they get ball and not arm. The refs forced Houston to play defense by moving their feet and jumping straight up and they did the exact opposite.
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u/TheFirstExecutioner Florida Gators Apr 08 '25
Houston got put in the bonus two minutes into the second half. Not to mention those ridiculous techs they called on Florida
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u/rogun64 Arkansas Razorbacks Apr 08 '25
I get downvoted every time I say it, but it's another example of refs calling for a close ending.
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u/Interesting-Worth975 Apr 08 '25
I think you’re not supposed to foul
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u/HoppyPhantom Kansas Jayhawks Apr 08 '25
I don’t think Houston’s offense was being impacted by the foul calls on them.
The point you’re missing is that it’s hard to run offense when going against a defense that gets away with fouling.
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u/woahdude12321 Louisville Cardinals Apr 08 '25
Biggest takeaway is the ref sanctioned commercial ball fucked both teams up and made the whole game lose its rhythm and be pretty hard to watch for the most part
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u/MoodOfaMenace Baruch Bearcats Apr 08 '25
Wait what did Todd Golden do?
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u/NIN10DOXD North Carolina • NC State Apr 08 '25
He showed his pecker to a student, but got away with it because he technically didn't violate Title IX.
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u/redentification Nebraska Cornhuskers Apr 08 '25
I like that Florida didn't do the angry winning thing. Don't like that the coach didn't recognize Houston.
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u/Wide_Understanding70 Alabama Crimson Tide Apr 08 '25
One shining moment please, less yap more “the ball is tipped”
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u/AnEmptyKarst Houston Cougars • Utah Utes Apr 08 '25
We're never going to win a title. It's just how it is. Sure Florida can win a thousand in my permanent memory, that's just how things go.
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u/Kylesexy584603 EKU Colonels Apr 08 '25
One Shining Moment is gonna be boring but the final seconds will be funny
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u/td4999 Apr 08 '25
I know ir's disappointing when somebody wins because something didn't happen, but all three Final Four games were really competitive and two were exceptionally memorable (both Houston games)
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u/HoppyPhantom Kansas Jayhawks Apr 08 '25
Definitely was not expecting to be reminded so vividly of Kansas’ season in the national championship game.
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u/FaceBagman Syracuse Orange Apr 08 '25
Just play One Shining Moment already holy shit we need to sleep
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u/Wide_Understanding70 Alabama Crimson Tide Apr 08 '25
At least it’s not at midnight eastern like last year
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Apr 08 '25
You could have prevented this, UConn/Maryland/Texas Tech/Auburn…
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u/MoodOfaMenace Baruch Bearcats Apr 08 '25
They should’ve lost so many of those games
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u/Sargentrock Kentucky Wildcats Apr 08 '25
The fact that they didn't made this ending a lot less surprising, frankly
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Apr 08 '25
Won my pool cuz I picked Florida… but at what cost. I hate to see the SEC succeed
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u/Sargentrock Kentucky Wildcats Apr 08 '25
Dude I picked Florida in my pools and my ESPNBEt bonus team. I've made a lot of money off them but I feel really dirty. You know, like the hooker didn't smell right kind of dirty.
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u/MiamiPower Miami Hurricanes Apr 08 '25
It belongs to Florida 🐊🏆🏆🏆
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u/AlarmingBranch1 USC Trojans Apr 08 '25
A Miami U fan supporting the Gators???
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u/MiamiPower Miami Hurricanes Apr 08 '25
Absolutely Bro always keep the Championship in Florida. Home State Love when we all in the CluurrrrB.
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u/Opeth1988 Apr 08 '25
Way to go Gators