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Someone suggested so am starting this. What are your upset picks?
I had Dayton over OSU.
I have ND State over OU.
I have Pitt over CO.
I have Oregon over BYU.
I have Harvard over Cincy.
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No Dayton or Harvard in 3 of my brackets.
Pitt over CU.
Oregon over BYU.
OU over NDSU.
UF over Albany- wouldn’t mind being wrong on this game.
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@RockChalkinTexas Lucky you!
I had OSU over Dayton
I had CO over Pitt
I had Cincy over Harvard
I had Iowa in the dance
I still have the following upsets, Tusla over UCLA (probably not for long)
ASU over Texas
GWashington over Memphis
Tennessee over UMass
OSU over Gonzaga
So I’m now shooting at not to be at the bottom of the heap.
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Anyone seen the 3 ks coaches getting together for a pic? I will try to copy it. It’s a little awkward.
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@Wishawk how could you have Tennessee over Umass if you had Iowa playing in?
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Is everyone pulling for big 12? Seems like they always let me down this time of year. Have you guys or gals heard of pack line defense? Announcers, pants on backwards, were saying it was pretty common in the Midwest. Duh! Did I miss something?? Ok, I looked it up. Never heard it called that before.
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@Crimsonorblue22 I “generally” root for the Big 12.
The Missouri Valley - not so much.
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@DanR Well, Tennessee made the field, but Iowa didn’t. I was rooting for Iowa to beat UMass, but… So much for B1G. Good thing is Wisconsin came through and I’m counting on them beating Creighton.
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See if this works, game day!!!
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How many had Duke losing? Not me, but great news! Madness for sure!
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Insanity! Self needs to mention to our troops games like Duke’s before our game. Maybe something about not taking anyone for granted!
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@drgnslayr so opinion on nm vs Stan?
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@Crimsonorblue22 I’ll take Stanford…lol.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Stanford over NM? They were really looking to KU. They couldn’t focus and thought Stanford was beat.
DOOK…wow
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If we lose to Stanford… OMG. They stink. But stinky teams win if they come better prepared than their opponents.
UNM… been to the tourney 12 times in the past 20 years and never once made it to the Sweet 16. I think that was a clue. I’ll always remember that big Kirk dude. He was ticked off today and he was ticked off when we played him. Maybe he should have checked his breath…
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Glad Frankamp didn’t redshirt! What a cool performance! Lyle who?
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@approxinfinity what a game! Need a cigarette and I don’t smoke, Jaybate you have one for me? Some guys really stepped up today. Way to control 2nd half! Rock chalk!
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Well I know there will be lots of hand wringing over Tharpe’s play. If he struggles, we will continue to see more of Mason and now Frankamp. Connor was key (even though he didn’t hit a 3!). Loved the energy and hustle that Jamari brought. When we went up by 7 early in the 2nd half you felt like…OK this is where we pull away. Then that quick 10-0 run and I thought…Uh oh we’ve still got a game. I finally started to breathe when we got back up by 5 again. Survive and Advance, Baby.
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@Hawk8086 I was thinking the same! Breathe! Poor Tharpe ! What can they do w/him?
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@RockChalkinTexas Good idea. for the record this is my best bracket on KU Buckets out of the two I have.
My upset picks are thus: Harvard over Cincy
Tenn over UMass
NDSU over OU
I picked a couple others that didn’t work out so well for me
Okie state over Zags
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@Crimsonorblue22 He’s out of balance.
He’s trying to impose his will on the game, or conversely, after screwing up because he’s trying to impose his will, then trying to marginalize his influence on the next moment. He needs to just be mentally present, all senses aware, and intuitively recognize the situations and what needs to be done. For all the things that we criticize of his recent performances, I’m sure he’s knows all of the specific things he’s done wrong and is trying to blacklist bad behaviors. He needs to switch to a nice clean, short whitelist of good behaviors and throw out all the junk he’s got piled high in his head, whatever it is.
That being said, I’d imagine seeing Conner play so well is at least a comfort. Conner played significantly better than anyone has backing up Naadir at point in a while, and so that’s got to give Naadir some confidence that simple sound basketball plays do in fact get the job done, and that it’s also not all on him to do it.
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Marcus smart article
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Just a"feel good" story!!!
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Ckecked our leaderboard. I’m tied for 2nd behind @dylans and another name I didn’t recognize.
Rock Chalk!
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@RockChalkinTexas I’m in 8,578,374th place.
It keeps me humble.
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@nuleafjhawk you make me laugh, keep posting, humble guy!
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Let’s see if this works.
The board doesn’t support ! [text] (url ) any more for some reason, so it won’t show up as inline video.
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@Wishawk that format only embeds YouTube videos
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@approxinfinity Thanks, Approx! That makes sense.
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Watching Michigan blow out Texas. Michigan strikes me as a team that is very jump shot happy that relies on them to win. Their defense is pretty good as well. However, I think they rely on jump shots too much and don’t have anyone to drive the lane. Its why they lost to Michigan St. in the Big 10 tournament. Michigan St. guarded the perimeter extremely well and they couldn’t score.
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Someone remind me next year, don’t rely on big 12, happens to me every year!
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http://kansas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1623411
Getting prepped for Stanford !
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From that info I’d say we do what we should do against most of the teams in this tournament… try to win the foul war!
This Stanford team is prone to foul trouble and has really no depth. We need to pound the ball inside, and Andrew needs to become alpha-dog again and drive the ball. When he drives, he gets fouled.
We need to be more cognizant of the foul wars from here on out. Most of the teams we will play have very little depth. Without depth, one or more guys in foul trouble spells doom.
Plus… when we don’t get a team in foul trouble, there is a better chance they get us in foul trouble! It is hard for players to play physical and try to draw fouls when they are in foul trouble themselves.
I’m begging our team… begging… PLEASE USE FAKES! BALL FAKES, HEAD FAKES, BODY FAKES… get your defender in the air and then push the contact and draw the foul. It’s as easy as taking a Yorkshire terrier for a walk!
And while you are at it, quit falling for fakes. Keep your feet on the ground until the shooter leaves his feet.
Basic basketball…
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Lol, bye bye Syracuse and your zone defense.
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This sets up nicely. Just need to beat Stanford.
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@Hawk8086 just?
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Got to say how impressed I am w/these bb kids, all these reporters in their face. Some dumb-a$$ guy asked Jamari how we stacked up with Stanford, smart-wise. He answered w/his act score. Somebody asked the 3 WSU players if they were recruited by Kentucky. One by one they said no. Pretty impressive kids.
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@drgnslayr good stuff! Excited
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@Crimsonorblue22 Don’t read too much into that. I didn’t say that it would be easy.
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@Hawk8086 I know!!
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Sometimes the path to the final four (or wherever) is made for you. You couldn’t ask for more than to have a 10 and an 11 seed in your path to the Elite 8. Now…that doesn’t mean we will win or that it will be easy. But whatever happens, I still prefer this path than the “chalk” path.
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@Hawk8086 me too! Not ready to go home!!!
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I’m pissed off… I wanted Syracuse. We were going to be the team that exposed how over-rated they were all year.
I’m more worried about playing Dayton.
You have to be careful when these teams come from nowhere and challenge everyone. They are hungry and playing well.
I hope JoJo is back by then… but first things first… I hope we advance that far!
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@drgnslayr I wanted them too!