Jayhawks / Bearcats 12:00 CT
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The psychology of our loss and Houston's loss are so different. I would be surprised if we even give them a battle Monday night.
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Cincy deserves a lot if credit for sure
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@ROCKCHALK2025 said in Jayhawks / Bearcats 12:00 CT:
@Texas-Hawk-10 KU as we seen today is not good enough to be looking past anyone you talk about a crap show.
Yet, they were looking past Cincy today. Not the first it's happened to a team, and won't be the last time either.
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Shake-your-head losses to WV, UCF and Cincinnati to go with shrug losses to Iowa State, UConn, Duke and UNC.
Gutsy wins against (at home) against Arizona and BYU and on a neutral floor vs Tennessee. Also guts wins (but near losses) @NC State, @TCU, @Texas Tech.
What does all of that mean?
I think, it means we are capable of beating anyone on our best day. But capable of losing to anyone with the slightest lack of focus. This team has top-tier talent but is not consistent mentally. It's a fragile team when undisciplined. In years past, we have seen these kinds of teams in the SEC and ACC.
They usually underachieved in the tournament... usually to a gritty team with less talent and more heart.
Sometimes that was a mid-major. But I remember a time with that team with a big heart was Kansas.
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Our team is as capable as 2022 of winning the tourney. There was a point in that season that felt like the wheels were falling off. We arent there yet.
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@approxinfinity Agreed. Horrible loss today, but we were all singing a similar tune after that TCU loss in early March of 2022.
Edit: and the Kentucky loss at home
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@bskeet We are definitely a high variance team. Which makes sense when you look at our best player and his availability. But the total inability to force turnovers is a real problem. Combine that with being horrible on the boards and you're just giving up so many possessions to other team. Starting 2 bigs you have to be good on the boards
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Well that was ugly.
Not so fun with the box score. where to start...
3PT FGs
KU: 4-18
Cincy: 12-31
I'm sure ya'll can do the math on that point differential.
REBOUNDS
KU: 29
Cincy: 40
Non-box score related stuff:
-- Cincy did a great job on defense. They limited Melvin and Elmarko from getting to the rim.
-- The Cincy big had a monster game. way over his average for points. 28 pts, 8 boards.
-- Flory was great. Hustled and seemed energized. But he let the big dude score 28 points. Well, he was one of a few at least.
-- I don't buy the trap game B.S. No team should not be prepared to play in any competition.
-- That's a really bad home loss. That will count against us in the NCAA seedings.
-- DP played. go figure.
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Do we suck now? Can we beat K-State?
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@nuleafjhawk In response to your question the answer to your million is will K/State beat us is drum roll please - - - -- YES they sure will if we play like we did today playing like absolute dog s = = =/ and there you have it you heard it here. Monday could get really ugly, real fast
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Anyone can beat the team that played today we are 1 hour from midnight central time. When that time hits we must all move focus forward to Monday.
