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#Notcommitted??
Brea would be the chef’s kiss on a great recruiting effort (assuming no defections).
@Texas-Hawk-10 Wow. I had not heard that. Loss for basketball.
Sweet.
Add Brea and Griffin for 24 and make a legitimate push for B12 championship and final four. Could be a super team, coached by the master.
Team is starting to take shape.
Brea would be an amazing addition from the portal. But would that impact Acuff? Or vice versa?
Am I the only one that heard Hurley drop hints in the post-game interview that he was leaving (going to Kentucky)?
@dylans He did, but to his defense, he got hammered more than most guys and rarely got a call.
That said, the game has certainly evolved and the amount of contact allowed seems to be higher than ever.
So he probably was thinking “hey, that was a foul” and it probably was… last year. Not this year.
There have been quite a few games in the tourney where I’ve been stunned with the physicality. I guess it’s time for players and fans like me to adjust.
The pool of teams I will root for is getting very thin and the pool of teams I actively root against is swelling. UGH.
My bracket is so busted after the last two days.
Man, NC State and KU are like antonyms this year. While we are crashing the last 8 games of the season, they’ve won 5 straight in the ACC tourney and 2 more in the NCAA Tourney.
Talk about peaking at the end of the season. It’s like 1983 all over again.
What happened to the lineman who had the most penalties in the league? Can’t recall his name, even though they called out his name enough on all those flags.
@Gorilla72 But when we get passed the second round, we win the National Championship. So today’s game was for all the marbles.
I will be absolutely shocked if Iowa State loses to Washington State. Frankly, I expected them to blow WSU out. That is not happening unless ISU pulls a KU second half.
@AsadZ said in Other bball games:
KU Women came from behind and won in OT.
Big Win for KU Women.
The board now shifts to focus on a Lady Jayhawks’ dream run… They will have to be the giant-killers on Monday.
in short, we shot exceptionally well in the first half and exceptionally poorly in the second half.
Gonzaga shot consistently well throughout the game.
Shame on our defense. But even with great D, not sure we could win given our abysmal shooting.
@kjayhawks said in Zigging the Zags:
@bskeet wish we could get a steak like that going
We’ve got the record streak for consecutive tourney appearances. A different but equally valid metric for excellence.
Glad we won one game. In the tourney.
First half had my hopes up.
Second half was an embarrassment. But Gonzaga has their Sweet 16 streak alive.
Good lord. Self going with the bench to finish the game.
Not thrilled with the no calls when our guards are knocked and thrown to the ground.
Timberlake has looked locked in. We should be working to get him open looks and pounding the ball into the paint.
KU: let’s settle for jump shots
Gonzaga: let’s get layups.
Hunter with 2 treys in the first half. Impressive.
Still, I kinda hope he lives at the rim in the second half.
Self: “We’ll tighten it up in the second half”
Comforting words.
Will be interesting to see what Few does. Sprinkle some Junk D?
Can we put two exceptional halves together?
Need ElMarko to play just a bit better. Nick is starting to fit into the unit and contributing. And let’s face it, this is his time — facing a big time mid major.
Boys are playing with a lot of heart.
Second half chess match will be interesting.
@Texas-Hawk-10 is that realistic? Would he want that job over UConn? Something makes me think he is cemented in Stores.
Let’s hope Parker Braun can share some valuable intel and provides a vital advantage from his experience playing against Gonzaga while at Santa Clara in the WCC.
Here we go. The games have already started in Salt Lake City while the cheerios are still in the breakfast bowl.
Thinking about this a bit more… there might be another explanation for the giving the western sites the early games. Maybe all the staff and operations people are based on the eastern time zone and they know they lose two or three hours flying back, so the NCAA does this so they can get home at a more convenient time or to reduce/avoid overtime pay and lodging costs.
If that’s the case, it’s a financial reason. I don’t like it because it seems selfish and prioritizes the organization over the players and the game. Actually that would be very consistent with the NCAA principles.
@Texas-Hawk-10 I thought the guys in the GLeague included draft picks — even lottery picks — and former starters who were rehabbing from injuries. Sorry if I’m confusing things here or simply ignorant.
Appreciate you guys who really know what’s going on.
Are there two G-Leagues?
Officiating has been suspect. That Grand Canyon game was exceedingly one-sided. Then there’s the seeding and matchups. The optics make it hard not to believe the NCAA has some agenda.
I mean, can anyone explain why they schedule the early game to start in the western-most site? Today’s games start in Salt Lake City. Makes no sense at all.
They did it years ago when the games were in San Jose. I remember grabbing breakfast and running out the house to get to the games. There was still morning rush hour traffic. I live 12 min from the Shark Tank and I missed opening tip. Arena was empty.
Utter incompetence? Or by design?
@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Recruiting Notes:
The reason Ignite was started was to allow players to earn an income while developing and prepping for the NBA. His reasoning for shutting the Ignite program down is NIL being available to those kids and in some cases making more money than of they went the Ignite route.
Yeah, this is why it’s pretty amazing and exciting. It means the college game will become the GLeague. That has enormous implications. The money and resources will necessarily redistribute to the college game. And there was a lot of money in the GLeague-- think of how much all the players were being paid.
Today, a few players are getting 6 figs. But a GLeague team had plenty of guys with 7fig salaries. The game will go there.
I think this will blow up college basketball in ways that are hard to predict.
This reminds me of how it feels in tech industry when new technology or new regulations create a disruption event. When an industry or market is disrupted, it becomes a pivotal moment that shakes up the leaders and all of the contenders. The shakeup can change the landscape and create a new hierarchy for years to come.
KU needs to be aggressive now and push its leadership position, IMHO.
About half of the games today have been supremely entertaining and competitive. The stinkers have been blowouts, but they are important to note because the teams that win in a blowout are often the teams that go deep.
@kuballin10 Funny, but painful too. Actually helped me see that it was a screening clinic that Oakland put Kentucky through.
As frustrated as I get with the team, I really don’t think that the issue is Coach Self. We don’t win that Samford game without coach Self and the older players. The team was ready to play last night and survived a very tough matchup.
That spread for the Zags is fine.
The NCAA committee threw kryptonite at us tonight and we survived.
We are playing with house money from here on out.
I’m disappointed but I don’t begrudge Kevin. He did a lot for this team and for the program the past two years.
The hardest part of this for me is the lingering “what if?” What if he was still playing? What would our record have been with him?
If Kevin wasn’t so good and so important, it simply wouldn’t hurt so much.
We would have missed Kevin at the conclusion of the season no matter what. But, the fact that he played his last game early is where the extra pain comes from.
Personally, I thank him for coming to KU and giving us some big wins and amazing memories.
@patoh3 Your blood pressure is better for that internet outage. Not sure I would want to watch that game again.