Other games 2024-2025
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Apropos of the discussions regarding roster construction, congrats to Eijiofor, Philon, Grant-Foster and Pettiford, who have helped lead their squads to the Big Dance…
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Who does Pettiford play for?
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@wissox High Point
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Yesufu missed it by that much
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DeVries out at West Virginia hoops after only one year, headed to Indiana
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Anyone remember this name? Ali Farokmanesh hired as coach of Colorado St.
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@wissox said in Other games 2024-2025:
Anyone remember this name? Ali Farokmanesh hired as coach of Colorado St.
Never had anything against CSU before, now hope they go 0-30 every year.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Other games 2024-2025:
@wissox said in Other games 2024-2025:
Anyone remember this name? Ali Farokmanesh hired as coach of Colorado St.
Never had anything against CSU before, now hope they go 0-30 every year.
Couldn’t have said it better
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@Texas-Hawk-10 I suppose you were joking a bit but I admire the heck out of that guy for that shot!
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@wissox yeah. Brass cajones, that shot. As a fan of basketball, you have to tip the hat. As I remember it, we werent horrible that day, and they didnt job us with bad calls, Northern Iowa executed brilliantly and earned the win.
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@wissox said in Other games 2024-2025:
@Texas-Hawk-10 I suppose you were joking a bit but I admire the heck out of that guy for that shot!
I’m still very salty about that game because that was my last KU game as a student and that was a team that should’ve won a national championship even more than the 2011 team. That 2010 team only lost 2 games entering the NCAA Tournament and was an overwhelming favorite to win it.
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@approxinfinity said in Other games 2024-2025:
@wissox yeah. Brass cajones, that shot. As a fan of basketball, you have to tip the hat. As I remember it, we werent horrible that day, and they didnt job us with bad calls, Northern Iowa executed brilliantly and earned the win.
Sherron and Tyshawn were terrible that game. Sherron was 4-15, including 0-6 from 3 for 10 points and 5 turnovers. Tyshawn was 0-5 from 3 and had 2 points.
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UNI earned that win. We were intimidated by the pressure of the tourney and they were not. But there was some luck that factored into the outcome. They could not miss a three all game. A stat that has haunted me ever since was that their center, who had hit 1 career three before that game, went 2-3 from downtown against us.
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Ha. You guys hung onto the sting longer? better? than I did. Thanks for reminding me. For some reason that one didnt stick with me because I expected it. Sherron has never been one my favorite Jayhawks. Mostly, I found his decision making maddening. Kind of the opposite of Juan. Hopeless drives to get packed at the rim, etc.
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@Jhawk69 said in Other games 2024-2025:
UNI earned that win. We were intimidated by the pressure of the tourney and they were not. But there was some luck that factored into the outcome. They could not miss a three all game. A stat that has haunted me ever since was that their center, who had hit 1 career three before that game, went 2-3 from downtown against us.
UNI was 9-26 from 3, KU was 6-23 from 3 with our star player going 0-6. If Sherron shoots his average (37%), KU wins that game and likely wins a national title.
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That shot by Ali was crazy, bet his coach was like “Nooooooo , yes!” But that’s the shot you take in the underdog. If I’m not mistaken that was and still is the highest rated 9 seed since KenPom started. They had zero business being anything worse than a 6. If I remember correctly they were ranked 23rd in the country going into the tournament. We got a favorable draw in 2022 but we have been hosed a lot. I read an article last season how KU has faced the highest rated KenPom team in just about every seed 9-16.
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Maybe winning it all in 08 made it sting less in my mind just like this year and 22 still fresh in the memory. Zona in 97, Syracuse in 03 and Michigan in 13 feel a lot worse in my mind.
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@wissox said in Other games 2024-2025:
Maybe winning it all in 08 made it sting less in my mind just like this year and 22 still fresh in the memory. Zona in 97, Syracuse in 03 and Michigan in 13 feel a lot worse in my mind.
That 97 team is IMO the best team to not win a Natty in CBB history. Roy Williams has always said that’s the best team he ever coached. Crazy how some of that works out because I think you could argue that the two or three of best Kansas teams in my lifetime didn’t win it.
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@wissox I’m still mad at Purdue for 1994. lol. Nearly every season ending loss stings. This year not so much.
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@kjayhawks The injury to Jerrod Hasse was unknown to me until just recently in a podcast and it took away his deadly 3 ball for that game.
It’d require a lot of knowledge to say which was the best team to not win it all. One that comes to mind is Houston in 83 when Guy Lewis committed coaching malpractice by going into a stall to blow a comfortable lead to Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwan, etc. A college team with future Hall of Famers should win a natty and couldn’t pull it off a year later either.
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@wissox oh for sure the greatest KU team to never win it is highly debatable as it is when you include everyone.
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@kjayhawks No the highly debatable part you said I thought you were referring to all of college hoops. I think the 97 KU team is the best KU team ever. 85 could be argued for that title as well. That team beat national champ Louisville twice during the regular season. Never ranked worse than 9th
All of NCAA history, I just don’t know enough about the 40’s-70’s to make a best to not win declaration.
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@dylans said in Other games 2024-2025:
@wissox I’m still mad at Purdue for 1994. lol. Nearly every season ending loss stings. This year not so much.
This year stings a lot to me because I thought we had a really good path to the EE had we played well and together. We may not get as favorable as draw as we did this season for another 5 or 10 years.
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@kjayhawks eh. This season is quickly fading into the rearview for me, like a cloud of dust at a graveside service.
I very much want to see a roster we can be geeked about for next year to take shape quickly, at least the big pieces.
Last year can RIP
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@kjayhawks That very well might be true but I think our 2020 team deserves that title, even if there were other teams with more dominant or better regular seasons in the discussion. The reason being that every other great team not to win a title failed on their own in the tournament. That 2020 team, on the other hand, was unfairly stripped of a chance to play for a title.
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@Jhawk69 said in Other games 2024-2025:
@kjayhawks That very well might be true but I think our 2020 team deserves that title, even if there were other teams with more dominant or better regular seasons in the discussion. The reason being that every other great team not to win a title failed on their own in the tournament. That 2020 team, on the other hand, was unfairly stripped of a chance to play for a title.
Yes this for sure makes the 2020 team the hardest pill to swallow.
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@kjayhawks Oh I forgot about that one. Probably because it didn’t end with a difficult loss. I’ve often wondered if that team is allowed to play, and assuming they won, does that make it easier for guys like Och to go pro earlier and make 2022 less likely?
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@wissox ha, yeah the seldom seen other side of the “its very hard to win it all” coin.
Very unlikely we would have won it all, and also, butterfly effect.
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Lets go Vols!
