Directional Game Thread
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Every year since 1986 except the probation year and the two OAD years of 05-06 KU wins their first game of the tourney. If my math is right that’s 30 of 32 tourneys we’ve won the 1st game. Not sure who else can claim that. Forget the conference streak, that one is equally or even greater.
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RockChalkinTexas said:
Now don’t go getting big heads squad. Just get rested for next. Has to give them some confidence.
It’s gonna be a big jump - -another team that can spread the floor - - only better athletes. – just gonna have to defend the three like today
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KirkIsMyHinrich said:
I’m so used to the round of 64 game being a stressful nightmare. That game was a leisurely breeze.
kind of nice for a change lol. - -Northeastern defense was horrible. - hope the guys don’t think they are going to be able to drive the lane time after time after time like they did today. - but ya it was nice to just enjoy and not stress lol
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Haha
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@kjayhawks good one
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Syracuse has only committed one foul through fifteen minutes of this game against Baylor…Yeah right.
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@kjayhawks so good! lololol
Still real to me damn it!
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Some dude from Wofford just set the career record for 3s in a career. He went 0-9 against us. At the 11:16 mark of the 2nd half we were ahead 43-41. At the 2:30 mark Wofford made a 3 pointer to make it 70-44. That’s right, we scored 27 straight points against the team is trying to move into the 2nd round of the tourney right now against Seton Hall. 27-0 Imagine that!
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Syracuse just knocks over 3 point shooter in the act of shooting. 6 eyes on 3 refs didn’t see it. I’m no Baylor fan, but I will pull for league teams against the east coasters. It’s almost hard to watch it’s such a bogus contest.
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This is hilarious. Baylor guy gets knocked over rebounding. Then the Syracuse guy trips over the guy on Baylor he just knocked to the floor. Then they call a foul on the Baylor guy laying on the floor. ACC teams get the whistles.
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Hard to believe Fletcher Magee went 0-9 against Kansas.
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@BShark That was back when were humming along with Doke and Vick and company.
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Baylor overcomes some strange (normal) officiating to win impressively
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wissox said:
@BShark That was back when were humming along with Doke and Vick and company.
Doke and Vick were non-factors in that game.
Seems like Self had the same gameplan for each game though. I love that KU always seems to schedule tough mid majors in the non-con.
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Yeah, at the time sounded like a gimmee type game, but now they’re a nice win as is some others who’ve won today like Baylor, but Marquette is a loser.
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@wissox Our schedule person is good, I forget their name (it’s late) but they do a great job identifying mid majors that will do well in their league.
KU ended up playing the winner of these conferences in the regular season: America East, Southern, WAC (who happened to give Auburn all they wanted today).
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BShark said:
@wissox Our schedule person is good, I forget their name (it’s late) but they do a great job identifying mid majors that will do well in their league.
KU ended up playing the winner of these conferences in the regular season: America East, Southern, WAC (who happened to give Auburn all they wanted today).
Jim Marchinoy (sp)
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@Woodrow no
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@Woodrow I think his name is Larry keating, or close to something like that. Marchiony doesn’t do that. He’s an associate AD. Guessing close to retiring.
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Who had the most minutes against NU ? Grimes at 31 … 3 points , 1 rebound, 3 assists
any second now mr NBA is going to carry us and pull a Malik Newman !! Final four baby!!
(Ok… let’s have him make me eat my words on Sunday…)
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Grimes remains completely puzzling. So many minutes, and so little production sometimes.
Some including me complained about our personnel choices vs ISU. Self clearly made the right moves in this game and deserves high credit for the switching strategy out high to help defend the three. Switching can be used against you when you employ it in such a broad manner — offenses can create the match-ups they want. Here, Self must have felt that risk was limited. It worked quite well and gave us a 30 point win over a team some analysts seemed to think might beat us.
I think analysts forget that while a team like Northeastern may play like ISU, they just aren’t as good as ISU.
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Crimsonorblue22 said:
@Woodrow I think his name is Larry keating, or close to something like that. Marchiony doesn’t do that. He’s an associate AD. Guessing close to retiring.
Yes , I think that’s right. Just got those two mixed up.
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Bosthawk said:
Who had the most minutes against NU ? Grimes at 31 … 3 points , 1 rebound, 3 assists
any second now mr NBA is going to carry us and pull a Malik Newman !! Final four baby!!
(Ok… let’s have him make me eat my words on Sunday…)
He was not very good yesterday , but he did hit the biggest shot of the game in my opinion. Northeastern scored 5 straight to start the second half and KU looked disinterested and like
. Lead was down to 7 and Grimes hit that 3 and it was all over from there.I also don’t think he shot again after that.
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All of our great scheduling, though, and the strength of our schedule really did nothing for us … maybe gave us a four seed over a five? No, we clearly deserved a four or better.
But it didn’t get us to the three line. Houston has a really good season … beat Cincy, LSU, Oregon; but did they play near our schedule? LSU got a three seed with 6 losses (we had 9) but look at their schedule. Their non-con sucked. They lost to FSU and Houston in the non-con. Also lost to Oklahoma St. And Purdue? Good grief. They lost 9 games. Their non-con sucked too. And they lost to their two good non-con opponents (FSU and Va. Tech), and lost at Texas.
My point is that I don’t think our excellent schedule gains us much. Otherwise, we would have jumped Houston, LSU, or Purdue for a three seed.
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@HighEliteMajor They just changed the formula this year. It used to help when one of the worst teams in recent memory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014–15_Kansas_Jayhawks_men's_basketball_team) got a 2 seed.
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@HighEliteMajor It has battle-hardened us. After a tough schedule there will be no faltering to the likes of Northeastern. We chewed them up and spit them out and moved on. How hard was our schedule the years we lost to the double Bs or Northern Iowa? I’m curious, I have no idea and can’t dig in now. i wonder if it spooked Self and contributed to the impetus for making the schedule ultra-hard every year.
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@DanR but his head is…
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KU now leads the all-time series with Northeastern, 1-0
favorite line of the KUSports article.
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dylans said:
KU now leads the all-time series with Northeastern, 1-0
favorite line of the KUSports article.
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Apparently we played 27 games against teams that made the dance including of course Northeastern last night. That is a stout schedule for sure.
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@wissox I like the way Kansas schedules. I hope it doesn’t change too much for NET purposes.
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@dylans It’s an interesting strategy. You get two really good teams with the champions classic and the SEC challenge which usually is Kentucky. Then it’s a bunch of good major conference teams. These are teams we would presume we should beat like Arizona this year, but teams that are going to be competitive none-the-less.
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@approxinfinity I got the link below for 2009-10. We actually played 4 true road games - UCLA, Temple, Tennessee, and Nebraska. Hosted Michigan and Cal. Neutral site vs Memphis.
We haven’t lost a first round game since Bradley. I just don’t think our schedule gained us anything as far as NCAA seeding or tourney benefits this year.
Maybe because of losing Doke and Vick, our early wins were minimized. We had the toughest schedule though and it got us nothing .
It seems like a team like Houston getting 30 wins got more out of that. And Purdue?
http://m.kusports.com/schedules/mens-basketball/2009-10/kansas/?templates=mobile
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So Garrett is fighting a cold, maybe the flu and Dotson tweaked the ankle and was a bit sore Friday. Yikes
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@HighEliteMajor Wasn’t it the bad losses that got us the lower seed than usual? WV, UT. And getting kind of blown out in some games?
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@Hawk8086 KU’s after Dok record wasn’t pretty and I’m sure a factor.
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@Hawk8086 I don’t know. I was referring mainly to the tough non-con. Look at Purdue. Their non-con amounted to three losses against only three decent teams they played.
LSU played a zero non con and lost to Okla St by 13 and lost to Houston.
I still don’t know …
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/2509/purdue-boilermakers
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@HighEliteMajor thanks for looking that up. I see your point. Here are all the pros and cons to a soft non-con.
Pros: Higher seed
More total wins (chasing UK all time total)
Maybe less stress and Vick doesnt implode?
Cons:
Less intense games (at the time, did we really appreciate what this team was doing ?)
Less battle hardened (leap of faith here that overall being battle tested is a good thing, even if Northern Iowa is a piece of data to the contrary)
Less conference wins, i.e no streak?
