TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY HORNED FROGS
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You also told us to book the Temple game. Did we have a point guard? - No. Should Self have said what he said to the public? - No. Sometimes we blame his honesty. I read recently that Frank goes into Self’s office almost everyday to sit and talk about strategies and everything else. Frank is not only a point guard, he is an extension of the coach on the court. Everyone listens to Frank. If you watch him between plays and during free throws, he is talking, talking and serious, serious. We didn’t have a point guard then or an extension of Coach on the court. Now we do and his back up, though all smiles, has 20+ assist and 1 turnover. I felt like coach did during the YMCA, our Coach sometimes just says what’s on his mind.
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Topeka YMCA never recovered from beating us. They haven’t been heard from since. It must have gone to their heads.
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@wrwlumpy Im gonna go out on a real skinny limb here and say KU gets beat by 2 tonight. *Im only half serious.
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@Lulufulu Which half of you is serious?? We get beat by the two points or are you going out on a skinny limb?
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@Kip_McSmithers Naaaah, Im totally playing around.
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I like our chances for two reasons… and I’m not even going to get into how we played at Texas and the development of our players.
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In close games we finish well.
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In close games TCU finishes poorly. I still don’t know how they blew that game at WVU.
Those two factors alone give me all the optimism I need without even digging further.
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Awesome lumpy!
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OK Jesse I agree with you this time. - Ken Pom says Big 12 the best by far.
http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/entry/determining_the_best_conference
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@drgnslayr Personally I didn’t think TCU fouled the guy on that lay up at the end there. Or at least from the camera angles I caught it wasn’t worth sending him to the line for.
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@Kip_McSmithers Agreed
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I also agree…
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Interesting analysis by Ken Pomeroy. I found it puzzling that he uses the expression:
"That matches national perception a little bit better."
when tweaking his projections; however, he does not use this logic on his team rankings, many of which are way, way off the “national perception.”
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I agree… but they should have had the game already won.
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Reminds me of when Hank Stram tackled the Ref after the game. That was the Ben Davidson Cheap shot game.
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@JayHawkFanToo Kenpom is bordering on fraud, imo. I started noticing lots of inconsistencies over the past two years in his “rankings” that couldn’t be explained, so i started tracking his team movements. I have concluded he will move any team up after they win, The key word is after they win. I think Kenpom cooks the books, so to speak. His “results” tell us nothing - the way he manipulated moving up UCONN and Kentucky would make a pretzelmaker proud last year. If we keep winning, our defensive ratings will magically improve, even if our defense doesn’t.
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I have been posting periodically big inconsistencies in his ratings that are impossible to explain away with numbers. He seem to like OU and Wichita State, among others, and KU cannot catch a break… His number are at odds with the majority of the other computerized ratings as well.
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@JayHawkFanToo He’s a book cooker. He has as much sway as a dart board to me.
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ARE YOU READY FOR SOME BASKETBALL?
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@wrwlumpy After we moved down here my wife who is a RN was working as a temp while waiting for something full time. She came home one morning and asked me, “you ever hear of Hank Stram?” I said yeah, he was head coach for Kansas City and New Orleans. She said she took care of him that night and he was a character. He had a very nice place here in Covington, LA, all fenced with an S monogram on the gate. Guess his wife still lives there.
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@brooksmd cool story!
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@wrwlumpy said:
predict that this will be an ugly road win
Nice prediction! Doesn’t get much uglier than that and still a get a W