CBB With Danny Z: Wild Week Of Postgame Rants, Cooper Flagg Wants Another Year And More

Another week in college basketball, another epic array of fantastic content. As always, there's too much to cover, but I'll do my best in this week's edition of CBB With Danny Z. 

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The story of the week, to me, was how many major college basketball head coaches just let it rip during their postgame press conferences. Of course, you had to expect that UCLA head coach Mick Cronin would be one of them, since he does it all the time.

But he wasn't alone! Notre Dame head man Micah Shrewsberry got so animated that he eventually smacked the microphone off the table and then just bounced. 

Enjoying these? Good, because we're not done! Arkansas head coach John Calipari was also fed up and let loose to the media following his team's loss against Texas A&M. 

Room for one more? This one wasn't during a postgame press conference, but rather in the locker room. And it didn't happen this week, but back in December – however, the video surfaced this week. 

St. John's coach, Rick Pitino – a major contender for Coach of the Year – laid into his team at halftime of a game against Providence. The Red Storm trailed by 13 points at the break, but apparently, Pitino's fiery speech got the team going, and they rallied to win with a big second half. 

Wait, what? The presumptive No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, Duke freshman sensation Cooper Flagg, says he wants to play more college basketball?? Huh!?

Welcome to the world of NIL, where it's not as financially irresponsible for players to stay in college rather than bolt to the professional ranks as soon as possible. And, according to Flagg, he's down for