Bracket Reveal chat. Sneak preview
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Bilas was commenting on how inconsistent the NCAA is and how they arbitrarily change criteria from year to year. There is no reason KU should be playing ISU in the Sweet 16 and makes Cronin correct saying that they want to sell tickets. If KU and ISU meet in KC, no doubt it will be a sellout. Hopefully ISU used up its 3 point good luck and they don’t come out on fire; of course they need to get past Purdue.
I personally believe that Wichita State got, once again, grossly underseeded. They are #8 according to Pomeroy and 2 spots above KU and they get a #10 seed? Un-effin’ believable. Having said that, I hope Dayton, my undergrad Alma Mater, beats them like drum.
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I hope we get the Clones in the Sweet 16. That would be a gift.
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I’m a little bit worried about a sweet sixteen matchup with Iowa St, but Iowa St would probably have to beat Purdue in order for that to happen. And Purdue is a bad matchup for Iowa St. Purdue has a 6’10 forward who is averaging 18.5 points and 12.6 rebounds per game named Caleb Swanigan. He’s a legit NPOY candidate and Iowa State doesn’t have anyone who can match up with him. Purdue is also a pretty good rebounding team and Iowa State is not. I don’t think ISU is getting by Purdue.
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Sometimes I wonder what the committee uses to pick the last teams in. Can’t be RPI with Illinois State 20 spots higher than KSU and USC 3 spots higher.
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@KUSTEVE Clones are playing really well. I would not consider it a gift at all. The last time we faced them…well, sure you remember us blowing that one ?
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I am going to the Sunday game in Tulsa. If anybody else is going, hit me up.
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In the “the Selection Committee is officially a bunch of morons” category, how can it be that Wisconsin is an #8 seed - behind Maryland and Minnesota and on the same line with Northwestern? Finished tied for second in the conference regular season and got to the title game, which none of the other 3 did. Truly defies explanation…
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Vegas:
Duke 5-1
UNC 6-1
KU 8-1
UK 8-1
Nova 8-1
Zags 10-1
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Both play in crappy conferences. Most prediction had the PAC 12 sending only 3 teams, albeit 3 very good teams.
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@Blown More importantly, does our team remember blowing a home game against an inferior opponent because they went through the motions the 2nd half?It’s a gift.
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@BeddieKU23 Missouri valley is terrible
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Seth Greenberg looks like Uncle Fester from The Addams Family…
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@KUSTEVE they also just blew out TCU…and easily handled WVU. They have been on an uptick the last month. I would have preferred to see any of the other 5 seeds in our bracket.
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And, at risk of going down the @jaybate-2.0 rabbit hole on East Coast bias and the whole thing is engineered is anyway, the ACC was clearly handed gift seeds and match-ups. Easy paths for UNC and Duke. Notre Dame was given the only easy 5-12 match-up. FSU as the overall 10th ranked team???
As much as I wish it were otherwise, I do think the ACC is the strongest conference, especially over the top 5 or 6 in the conference, but this is ridiculous…
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@Blown yeah I wouldn’t want to play them. I think they can beat Purdue.
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@Blown ISU has played well. I think Purdue will be a tough matchup with the 2 big guys…I don’t think ISU gets by them.
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Calipari calling Bilas support of Duke out…like that.
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You mean Puke?
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Mark Few fell asleep mid-sentence
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Is all the crying about Syracuse simply to appease the NY television market?
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@BeddieKU23 6 BIg 12 teams, but point taken.
ISU is a head scratcher. Oh, those silly bracket makers!
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@KUSTEVE said:
@Blown More importantly, does our team remember blowing a home game against an inferior opponent because they went through the motions the 2nd half?It’s a gift.
It also took a record shooting performance from ISU to force OT. They won’t play that well again and KU won’t play that bad again.
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@Bwag said:
Is all the crying about Syracuse simply to appease the NY television market?
Syracuse has one of the top journalism schools in the country and there’s a lot of non-athlete on air personalities at the major networks that graduated from there so there’s an inherent media bias with Syracuse because Syracuse produced many media members .
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@Texas-Hawk-10 I’m starting to agree. We got the easiest 2 seed of all.
Lookint at MSt Record and see no good wins. They may not even make it past Miami.
If they make it to the Elite 8, I Like the chances of getting to the FF
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@Blown Miami/Michigan State is going to be tough. Assuming we get out of the first weekend, Purdue/Iowa State is even tougher. I like Iowa State to win and get to the Sweet Sixteen. We do have the revenge factor, but if our defense doesnt step up, we will lose.
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@Blown It has been a while since we beat Michigan State. The usually get away with everything against us.
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We are the Number 1 Seed in our bracket. If we play like it and stay out of foul trouble, I like our chances. We are Kansas!!!
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@CRH107 Oh yeah…Many whiners argued that Dook should’ve been a #1 seed since they played 2-3 games and won their conf tourney.
The conf tourneys are not meant to determine much. They definitely DO NOT determine #1 seeds. The committee did the right thing. They looked at the overall conference body of play for each of the 1 seeds and chose their #1 seeds. Dook’s overall body of play DID NOT make the cut. I’m so sick of people arguing that if a team wins 2-3 games in their conf tourneys they deserve a high seed.
BTW- Let’s hope the Deacons get in over the Purple Pussies. Manning and his Deacons deserve it more than KSuck.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 I actually think Drew and his boys could beat Dook. We are talking Drew against Rat Face.
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@BeddieKU23 Baylor does have a tendency to disappear this time of year. Baylor’s success will depend a great deal on the other coach’s X and O ability. Drew will not fair well against a good X and O coach.
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Does everyone forget that it took Iowa St. setting a new school record for 3 point FG’s made just to force that AFH game to OT? It took a record setting performance for ISU combined with KU playing one of their worst halves of the year to force OT. That’s not very likely to happen again.
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@BeddieKU23 I wonder if we could’ve won our conf tourney if our overall 1 seed would’ve been cake? I doubt it. We all saw the potential seeds in the bracket for the last 2-3 wks during our overall 1 seed. It looked hellish. In fact, the argument is the South region is the strongest bracket.
Dook and UNC getting a lot of love coming from “the strongest league” in the nation. Yet, we beat UK and Dook. But many are excusing Dook’s early half of the season with all their poor unfortunate circumstances with injuries and their coach being out too. Piss on the ACC and all but 1-2 will drop out early after the first 2-3 rounds.
South West Midwest East
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@KansasComet Not this year for MSU. Unless Izzo can pull a Spartan rabbit out of his hat, this is not MSU’s year. JJ plays against friends if that’s the case.
ESPN has Nova and Dook in the Elite 8. Wow, what bold predictions. Gawd, I hope the boyz show up and play their game.
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4 days changed a lot of things for how people are perceiving Duke. It was impressive they won 4 games in 4 days against good teams. Our lasting impression wasn’t great which is why we are kind of not being talked about. Had we taken care of business we would have been the unquestioned #1 overall seed.
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@KansasComet I like the small sacrifice of losing that nasty overall #1 seed and getting some extra time to work some areas. I like the rest it gave our guys. I really think Dook tanks sooner than many realize. They can’t keep up the pace after playing like hell against UNC and the end of their year. Many of these teams, ISU included, will be gassed. I like our fresh chance.
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@truehawk93 I am with you all the way. I just hope they don’t become a cinderella story at our expense.
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@KansasComet I do respect Izzo. Has nothing but love and respect for the KU program and Self. He is one of those Xs and Os coaches that can work magic. But his team seems to lack something this year. For example, that Valentine team was nasty. He willed that team during many games. They don’t have a real Valentine type of player. They are good, but not Valentine good. It will even be with a Magic Johnson pep talk too.
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There is nothing in between now. Crimson and Blue all the way to Phoenix. There is no other option.
ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK GO KU
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@truehawk93 If they lose to Miami, we won’t have to worry about it.
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@BeddieKU23 Exactly. It took that horrible pressure off the boyz to prepare. They still have respect, but still have a NC to prove.
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I choose to look at the osu game when we had the whole team together in a place we haven’t played well in 3 years.
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@KansasComet Miami is one of those B12 type teams too. It will be interesting. We should come out on top.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Great point! Jackson didn’t play against TCU and Graham got hurt. If we don’t get a foul with 2 seconds left…how many people think we lose to TCU in overtime?
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@Crimsonorblue22 I REALLY think that OSU win was bigger than many realize. It broke a losing stigma. They proved a little something to themselves that other teams could not do over the years.
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I just hope Jackson shows up when we need him too. It was clear without him on the floor this team would not come close to 28 wins this season. We are relying on a freshman being a key part of our end of the season.
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@BeddieKU23 relied on him all year! He’s steadily improved.
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Remember when at the beginning of the season many in this board were calling UK overrated and that once they played Michigan State the perception would change? Well, UK spanked them by 21 and MSU never quite recovered while UK is. #2 seed. Michigan State is a middle of the pack team in the Big 10 which is having a down year.
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@wissox I watched the second half of the Wisconsin and Michigan game. Do the Badgers normally play like they did today? I saw no real offensive scheme. It was all dribble, dribble, dribble, pound, pound, pound. If it wasn’t their guards dribbling around outside it was the center pounding the ball to back his man down. It seemed as if the whole team had velcro on their hands.
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Different in the tourney as we know. I’m sure he’ll be eager to please after what happened recently. Without his production we know what happens.
Its BIFM time
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The Jayhawks lost their Big 12 tournament opener to TCU without suspended star Josh Jackson. Kansas missed out on a chance to get revenge on Iowa State in the conference tournament, but might get another crack at the Cyclones in the Sweet 16.
The Cyclones, the 5-seed in the Midwest, beat Kansas in overtime in Lawrence in February and closed the regular season with nine wins out of 10. They’ll have to get past Nevada and possibly Purdue for a trip to the regional semifinals. - ESPN
I was reading the WVU ISU thread the other night. There was a butt sore Clown fan arguing against KU and get this…he was even bitching about how KU would’ve won if they played them in the B12 tourney due to Bill Self having the refs in his back pocket. He even bitched about how Huggie tried to put the refs in his back pockets, but his team proved KU and WVU wrong. What was even more funny, the foul ratio wasn’t that skewed.
Sad how fans have to depend on the officials to win or blame for losing a game.
