Eastern Illinois. 344 Ken Pom KU #5
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Teddy bear toss!
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Eh. We look sloppy, but a shit team can make you stoop to that level. Largely so far this season tho… we aren’t bending over far
I love our passing. There’s lots of time. But get to it dammit. Lol
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Elmarko with a jam and a trey plus 3 steals.
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@dylans some 35 seconds unaccounted for
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@dylans He was inquiring if the buzzer beating 3 got off before the shot clock.
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@wissox said in Eastern Illinois. 344 Ken Pom KU #5:
This game is going to put me out of my misery once and for all. Not the worlds greatest mismatch, I mean there was Georgia tech 220-0 over Cumberland College in 1916 and Chiefs 41, Bears 10 much later than that. But I digress, as a newly corona(ted) sufferer I’m now stuck to my chair for the next few days, so I have much time to fill these pages with more stuff for you all to ignore or read to your amusement.
The Panthers reside alongside I-57 on the eastern edge of Illinois between Chicago and Cairo (pronounced Cayr0) at the confluence of two great streams of our continent, the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. I mean Charleston, IL is not anywhere near the interesting confluence which is too bad because it would be by far the most interesting thing in town. Driving north and south along that road 54 times we figured out during the 900 mile trip between Baton Rouge and Chicago/or Wisconsin Charleston represented one of of those things we look forward to on a road trip. It was a place to pull off the interstate, yell at the kids, and get some really crappy food at some fast food joint. Needless to say if it was the other Charleston (no not the one in WV) we probably never would have made it to Chicago. This Charleston that KU is playing, and it’s too bad it’s not at EIU’s gym because I would have gone, except then I would have had Corona and my thoughtful wife would have been telling me you can’t go with Corona Virus.
But this is KU at last word so what to know about them? When I was matriculating at The Harvard of Mt. Oread our fine football team (they were decent when I arrived on campus in 1985) was playing EIU. I’ve struggled to prove this but Sean Payton, no relation to the GOAT Walter, was the QB there and presumably played, and lost to KU that day. So we saw the genesis of a great coach that day.
As for their basketball team they hilariously scored scored 55 in the second half against Iowa just last year and beat the suckeyes and their whiney baby coach of the famed frantrum. In the name of journalistic integrity I must point out EIU beat my other slightly less favorite team also…in 1987 when UW sucked bad in hoops and I was at KU and coulda cared less.
Their current team is deserving of 344 Ken Pom. They’ve played their 1-57 counterpart U of I and got destroyed. Beaten two bad teams Coppin St (which used to have a coach named “Fang”. “Hello Mom and Dad, I’d like you to meat my new boyfriend Fang”) and basically gotten beat down by the rest. The EIU message board ("EIU Buckets) will be in full meltdown mode by the time they jump the ball. Frankly they’re one of the teams that make you wonder why they’re competing in D1 because back in their D2 days they were regular NCAA visitors to their tournament.
Of course, I think we make it to 99 points by about the 10 minute mark and then go cold leaving a final score of 99-3 when Tiger Booker hits a 3 at the buzzer.
You are supposed to be laid up. This first post is more of a stand up routine!
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@mayjay working on if this teaching thing doesn’t work out.!
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Lol @ lateral quickness meaning sticking your foot out repeatedly
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9 point game
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We should really quit playing with our food
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Lol
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@wissox said in Eastern Illinois. 344 Ken Pom KU #5:
@mayjay working on if this teaching thing doesn’t work out.!
Sounds from your description of the Hunt for Gallbladder episode like you were auditioning to be a model used for teaching surgery to undergrads. Or maybe to be a pin cushion.
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Kev 5, Elmarko 5, KJ 4, Juan 0. Come on guys
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Hard to believe I’m talking refs right now but we haven’t got a fair shake in the last minute or so.
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Wow we came out flat
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Outscored 12 - 4
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@mayjay gallbladder ?? Not me
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Not great bob!
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Not great at all. Jamari time
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One of those times i think where Nick didnt do anything terribly wrong but Jamari will do little things right
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If the Hawks play like this Friday, UConn will blow us out at home…
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Don’t save the ball under your own basket
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should win by 25 instead of 40 at this rate
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Is this really happening right now
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Bad boys with a killer instinct. Nah
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@wissox I may be drinking Got my patients confused!
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We are getting outrebounded?
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The good ppl of Lynchburg TN are likely to love my support this season
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Boy making shots sure is hard tonight
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EIU lost by 28 to Illinois and 23 to Loyola Chicago…
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So many luck shots tonight
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@DCHawker I said the same exact thing earlier and @approxinfinity banned me!!!
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Jamari having another really nice night
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I would “ban” @DCHawker as well but i am biased towards DC.
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@FarmerJayhawk don’t ever say that again while he’s trying to make another ft… lol
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@cragarhawk said in Eastern Illinois. 344 Ken Pom KU #5:
@FarmerJayhawk don’t ever say that again while he’s trying to make another ft… lol
Hard to win with people putting hexes on our team
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Seriously though im not taking anything from this game other than we have stuff to work on and chose this game to work on them.
Sure we will show our best current face against UCONN
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How much time do we think KU actually prepared for this game rather than the one coming up Friday?
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Hell I asked to get banned and didn’t. Idk what you guys do to piss ppl off around here but wow.
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@cragarhawk BANNED! Happy?
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@DanR almost 0
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Ok lets stop banning people. Please. My middle finger hurts from hitting enter so hard.
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Lol
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@approxinfinity said in Eastern Illinois. 344 Ken Pom KU #5:
@cragarhawk BANNED! Happy?
Careful, cragar. The mod is drugged.
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He’s playing all the new kiddos a lot
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@mayjay yes but mostly level headed as it were
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@Crimsonorblue22 said in Eastern Illinois. 344 Ken Pom KU #5:
He’s playing all the new kiddos a lot
Its good. Digging it.
And they are all showing growth
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Now we kick their asses from here on out
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After that basket… now we’re mad…
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Compared to the fould KJ got on the screen EIU is getting away with some ridiculous screens
