The tournament was rigged for Kentucky. They got to play all home games but one. They had to play one away game at Louisville and lost handily.
The Hawks got to play one home game and it wasn't on campus. I'm glad Davis-Steel won at Kentucky. It was great to see the crowd file out as losers.
I see KU is in the mix for former Michigan St. big man Jaxon Kohler. Averaged 12.5 ppg and 8.9 rpg last season so what are the chances of him actually ending up in Lawrence?
@kjayhawks2.0 said in KU @ Arizona St 8pm CT:
we had 21 offensive rebounds and 4 second chance points. Wow!
Yep. This defined the game and it's stunning.
If you look at this team's record with these remarkably anomalistic, highly improbable and statistically aberrational numbers, you might be tempted to throw a couple of these losses out.
They are pretty good if you take away the weirdness. Or is it weirdness? What is the norm?
It's just hard to know whether this team can still gel and harden and normalize into its full potential at this point.
Rerunning the MTSU game and and one thing is we have sufficient depth to keep the pressure on the whole game whether it's bigs or guards or tweeners. Another is if we ever get polished look the eff out. We can play you any way you want it. Reeves shows rim protecting and down low scoring. On defense we come to you in waves. And we do all these things at a high level and no fear. The recruiting was great and the hired guns have changed a downer us into a possible 25-5 team from the 20-10 which is good enough for 4/5 seed but not good enough for a blue blood program. This NIL era may be one year of excellence and three of large Rogaine ordering.
I think this team has a chance to be the best we have seen since 2023. I’m not ready to say they are championship caliber at this point. I honestly think we have the bodies, we should pressure more often against teams like the Duke and Louisville. Once we get into the meat of conference where the last 5 or 6 teams have completely crumbled, I’ll get back with you.
@Kcmatt7 said in Yormark Out:
Honestly he did some good and some bad. College sports is just such a shit show right now I don’t even know how to evaluate him.
Without him, the Big 12 wouldn't exist as a P4 conference. He jumped the Pac 12 in getting a new media rights deal which is why the Big 12 still exists today as the 3rd conference. He has the league in position add from the ACC in the near future as their next deal is approaching.
He is/was a risk taker and obviously some of his ideas have flopped like the LED court and the Monster Energy deal. He was never passive when it came to acting on his ideas and that's something that was an overall positive for the league and I hope whoever follows him has a similar mindset and approach.
I've only watched the first half of Duke so far... I wish Self would train our guys to not leave their man open on the perimeter and stop sinking in trying to defend the drive so much. We've been leaving guys wide open and most of these guys can probably hit wide open treys blindfolded. Otherwise... I give a mixed report card on our D so far, with some players GOOD and other players BAD. We will never shut other teams down much if our bad guys keep leaking at this level because everyone will exploit them. Also rate our rebounding as UNDERPERFORMING. We have the people that should never lose the team rebounding battle.
@wissox83 1952 NCAA championship, 1952 Olympic gold medal, and 3× NBA champion ('54, '63, '64). First player to ever win an NCAA title, NBA title, and Olympic gold medal.
