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For those unaware, the ladies soccer team unfortunately lost in the 1st round of their NCAA Tournament game 1-0 against Saint Louis.

2nd year in a row beating a top 10 team!!

Mello!!

This isn’t a game where we’re learning anything new. This is a game to work on specific things Self wants them to work on and get the bench guys some more minutes than normal. We’ll see how they look against Duke in 10 days.

I’m planning on staying up, we’ll see how late I make it. The other thing with making a low level bowl game this year is that would likely provide a lot of younger players a bunch of first team reps because I could of KU’s seniors, especially ones with NFL potential like Neal, Dotson, Bryant, Grimm, etc. opting out of that bowl game. It could in theory give KU a head start on spring practice.

Arizona had 6 assists in that game on 28 made FG’s. They also were +24 in total rebounds and +22 in offensive rebounds, and +24 in FG attempts that game.

Also of note last night and not mentioned yet, Purdue knocked off Alabama.

Right now, KU has the following situation with the roster for next season:

Outgoing Players:

Shak Moore-G

Hunter Dickinson-C

Dejuan Harris-G

Zeke Mayo-G

David Coit-G

KJ Adams-F

Incoming Players:

Darryn Peterson-G

Samis Calderon-F

Bryson Tiller-F

Eligible to Return:

AJ Storr-G

Rakeese Passmore-G

Rylan Griffen-G

Jamari McDowell-G

Elmarko Jackson-G

Flory Bidunga-F

Zach Clemence-F

With the scholarship limit expanding to 15, KU in theory has 5 more scholarships to offer.

In regards to eligible to return players who may not, Bidunga is on there for the NBA, AJ Storr has to be a consideration if the light never fully comes on for him here, same with Griffen. Clemence seems like a possibility if he wants more playing time. I also believe that Elmarko and McDowell could be possible transfers as well depending on who Self lands in the portal and who would have interest in them.

A starting caliber PG should be the top priority in the portal along with a starting caliber athletic 4. If both Griffen and Storr leave after this season, a starting wing jumps a 4 in priority because Calderon will be a nice player, but I don’t think he’d be ready yo start right away for KU. Beyond that, the rest of the portal additions are going to be about building depth.

@rockchalkjayhawk I can’t really think of a great comp off the top of my head. Tiller is multi year player because he’s not a great natural athlete. He is a very skilled player that puts in work to keep expanding his game. He is already a pretty dominant rebounder and has all the tools to become an elite low post defender. He’s an above average mid range shooter that will eventually become a 3 point threat which is going to make him great for the high-low.

If Bidunga stays, Tiller is athletic enough and has enough range to play next to Bidunga which would make it a nightmare for teams trying to score in the paint.

I don’t think many people would be all that shocked if KU pulled the upset tomorrow night. BYU is currently only a 2.5 favorite at home so it looks like many people are expecting the game to be close tomorrow night.

@benshawks08 I believe he’s never fouled out before because he’s usually not close enough to a opponent to foul them.

@wissox That game is only 2 weeks away.

@wissox said in Other Football Games of Interest:

@Crimsonorblue22 When I see BYU 38-9 of KSU I get a bit, a lot skeptical even, that we will be successful against them.

BYU only had 241 yards of offense that game. KSU just played like pure trash that game. 3 turnovers, including a BYU fumble return for a TD, and KSU gave up a punt return.

BYU is a good team, but they are beatable and have played some bad teams closely. BYU has essentially been what many thought KU would be this season.

I didn’t get to watch last night live, but seeing it this morning, the first half was KU’s A game and the second half was KU’s D game.

Everyone that was telling me over the offseason that KU’s improved athleticism would cover up those weaknesses on defense, guess what? It won’t matter with Hunter who’s going to get those key minutes down the stretch over Flory.

I don’t know why Self isn’t playing Hunter on defense the same way he used McCormack down the stretch in 2022 by having him play drop coverage on screens and be a rim protector.

The second half defense is exactly what I thought this team would look like. It took UNC 5 minutes to cut that lead from 17 at halftime down to 6 points. Coit is absolutely a high energy player, but if his shot isn’t falling like last night, then he’s not providing enough value to play bog minutes. Hopefully Shak Moore is ready to take those minutes by the time conference play starts up. Zeke Mayo had the same number of rebounds in 29 min as KJ, Griffen, and Storr had in 81 combined minutes and Coit had one less than those 3 combined. Our guards should not be getting more than double the rebounds of our forwards ever. We all know KJ can’t rebound, but Griffen and Storr combining for 3 rebounds is unacceptable because those two should be much better rebounders than KJ.

KU’s overall success this season is going to come down to AJ Storr and Rylan Griffen and whether or not they can stay on the floor for 30 mpg while providing average defense.

I think my ideal minutes distribution at this point would be Harris, Storr, and Mayo around 30 mpg, Hunter and Griffen around 25 mpg, KJ around 20 mpg, Flory around 15 mpg, and Coit/Moore around 10 mpg. I know that’s 205 minutes, it can be tweaked based on specific game needs, but I think the minutes end up close to that, KU will be okay this season.

@Kcmatt7 KJ just sucks at rebounding. I’d almost guarantee that if his wingspan was measured, it’d be 80 inches or less.

It took most people here two years to figure that KJ can’t rebound when I was saying it about him his sophomore year when he was playing the 5 and so many people here wanted to argue with me about it saying that KJ would eventually get better. He’s actually gotten progressively worse each season with his rebounding. I know it’s early and his rebounding % will probably go up slightly, but right now it’s under 6%. KJ has the same number of rebounds as David Coit on the season and 3 less than Mayo.

@jayballer67 They played at AFH in 1960, the only one campus game they’ve ever played against each other.

KU and UNC played AFH in 1960 in the only one campus game ever between them. They’ve also played regular season games against each other in KC, Charlotte, and Raleigh so next season’s game will be the first time KU has ever played in Chapel Hill.

A big part of that is Dean Smith and Roy Williams pretty much refusing to schedule regular season games against KU/UNC.

KU Women just upset 2 seed and 17th ranked Texas Tech 2-1 in the semifinals of the B12 Tournament. They will play TCU on Saturday for the B12 championship.

Not a lot to read too much into other than it looks like KU has more playable depth than they have had in past couple.of years which is good.

Friday night, we’ll have a much better idea of where this team really is at.

@kjayhawks said in Other Football Games of Interest:

@Texas-Hawk-10 Fritz is taking a team much less talented than ours and will end up winning more games in not only the conference but overall. Fritz> Leipold

Cool story bro! Let me know when UH plays a tougher non-conference and conference schedule than KU, then that argument would have some merit. Right now, it’s just you grasping at straws to find something to complain about.

@kjayhawks said in Other Football Games of Interest:

@Texas-Hawk-10 true but if Fritz is coaching the hawks this season we ain’t lost yet.

I doubt that

And weather was a very big factor today in that game.

@kjayhawks said in Other Football Games of Interest:

We need to hire Willie Fritz he beat KSU in methattan as Tulane’s head coach a few years ago. He’s a good coach Houston seems to be improving every week at this point.

And KU beat the shit out of Fritz 2 weeks ago.

@rockchalkjayhawk He’s the 2nd highest rated recruit Self has landed here ranking between Wiggins and Josh Jackson.

Peterson and Flory on the floor together is going to result in some spectacular ally-oops.

@nuleafjhawk What is your definition of competitive? It seems your definition is radically different from the accepted definitions if you don’t think this team is competitive.

Also, do you not think this team absolutely wipes the floor with any of those Weis or Beaty teams? Your words are giving that impression and if that’s the case, then I believe many people won’t take your views seriously because there’s no evidence this team is anywhere close to those levels of bad.

@wissox Peterson is a top 5 pick in 2026. He’s not making that kind of money in college.

@nuleafjhawk This team would absolutely dog walk those Weis and Beaty teams by at least 40 points. I’ll absolutely say this team is one of the disappointing KU teams of all time, but this team is nowhere near the worst KU team ever, let alone of the past decade.

@nuleafjhawk I’m just curious why you think this team is worse than the Weis and Beaty era teams that were lucky if they lost by 40 to KSU instead of having a late 4th quarter lead.

@wissox These are his exact words about this team: “Last night was the game that firmly cemented our place in history as one of the worst college football teams of all time.”

It’s not the Weis and Beaty teams that were barely beating some crappy FCS teams on occasion amd couldn’t stay within 40 of most FBS teams that’s the worst in KU’s history, it’s this year’s team that has 5 one possession losses to a collection of good teams that’s worse than any of those teams.

@kuballin10 said in Recruiting Notes:

@Texas-Hawk-10 Yeah they essentially did. Hardly ever whiffed - we know they didn’t get Wiggs but that’s about it. They get who they won’t and anyone can see that by going back through their classes

Whatever you want to believe to make you sleep at night.

Is Jalon planning on coming back next season or entering the portal after this season? That’s the first question that needs answering. If the answer is Daniels plans on transferring, then the next question becomes is Isaiah Marshall ready to play this season? Knowing that players can still appear in 4 games without burning their redshirt and Cole Ballard being the main back up in the two blowouts pretty strongly suggests that Marshall isn’t close to ready yet. Based on that, does the staff think Ballard could be the guy to replace Daniels? If so, and if Daniels plans to transfer, then give Ballard a shot because he wasn’t bad in his game action last season.

If Jalon Daniels plans on returning next season, then you gotta keep playing him because he gives KU the best chance to win at this point.

@approxinfinity Shhhh. Some people don’t understand what “Coach Speak” is.

@kuballin10 “Duke and UK (Cal most of his tenure there) - they got whoever they wanted and didn’t whiff”

Your exact words that you’re now backtracking from because you don’t know how to deal with being called out on your takes that have very little merit to them.

@kuballin10 said in Recruiting Notes:

I get recruiting happens - last minute changes - people drop bags but it sucks. Self has whiffs

Duke and UK (Cal most of his tenure there) - they got whoever they wanted and didn’t whiff

If Bill is that upper echelon now and “the man” in college bball - he can’t whiff in DP

Bullshit Coach K and Cal didn’t have major whiff in recruiting.

@kjayhawks said in Basketball Season:

@Texas-Hawk-10 absolutely no chance this team wins a title, we aren’t athletic and can’t guard to save our lives. It will look like last year a lot.

Right now, I agree this isn’t title team and probably Sweet 16 team at best. However, if Storr and Griffen buy in on defense and use their athleticism on that end, then KU can contend for a title because that’s the NBA level athleticism KU needs to won in March/April.

@wissox Quite a few of the writers for the Athletic picked KU for the Final Four and couple picked KU to win it all. Right now, I don’t see it happening, but if Storr and Griffen play to their potential, then KU will have chance to make a run.

@approxinfinity said in Beat Silo Tech! Lets save this football season!:

@Texas-Hawk-10 i’m curious how many people actually watched all of the Gill / Weiss / Miles / Beatty games? What kind of masochist does it take

Multiple trips to Austin and Waco with a trip to Fort Worth thrown in. Since I graduated in 2010, I’ve been to 3 games in Austin (unfortunately neither of KU’s wins), 4 times to Waco (going to all the Magnolia stuff was how I bribed an ex to go multiple times), I was at the Rice game in 2012 I believe whenever KU came down here amd the UH game a couple of years ago when we weren’t expecting much yet in Leipold’s second season. There was also a TCU games in Fort Worth a few years back. I’ve seen the football team almost as many times as I’ve seen the basketball team in person post graduation.

@nuleafjhawk said in Beat Silo Tech! Lets save this football season!:

@Texas-Hawk-10 I’m not one of the bandwagon fans. I’ve been watching for 60+ years. I’ve seen some good teams and a LOT of really bad ones.

If you like watching them lose close games and that makes them more palatable to you - great. I don’t. The continual close game blunders make them look laughable to me. If you tell me honestly that you thought we were going to win Saturday, I’d be surprised. I said I’d rather get blown out because there’s not much emotional “trauma”

“Last night was the game that firmly cemented our place in history as one of the worst college football teams of all time.”

Your exact words about last night. If you think a 2 point loss is what cements this KU team as one of the all time worst teams, then genuinely question how much you paid attention during the Weis/Beaty years because this team isn’t even bottom a bottom 5 KU team of the past decade, let alone and all time bad team, maybe all time disappointing, but nowhere near all time bad.

@nuleafjhawk said in Beat Silo Tech! Lets save this football season!:

@Texas-Hawk-10 whatever you think

Sorry I don’t think losing a bunch of close games makes this team worse than the Weis/Beaty teams that couldn’t even beat shitty FCS teams most seasons and was lucky to lose by less than 40 against B12 teams.

But of course, there are many bandwagon football fans here that didn’t suffer through those years because they didn’t want to watch those years and don’t know just how bad it was because all they looked at was a box score.

@nuleafjhawk said in Beat Silo Tech! Lets save this football season!:

@Texas-Hawk-10 See, you and I are looking at the exact same things and seeing them completely differently.

I’d be much more tolerant if we were getting beat by 30 every game. I’d think we don’t have the athletes or coaches (that one is still under consideration). Or if we had major injuries. But we’re loaded with talent. We have absolutely gift wrapped every loss for the opponents. Making bonehead plays.we run when we should pass. We pass when we should run. I’ve never seen what looks like a good team come up with so many stupid ways to lose.

Why the hell would you rather see KU get beat by 30 weekly instead of being competitive? We went through that for a decade. I don’t ever deal with that again. That’s what led to so much apathy wothin the program that KU couldn’t raise the funds needed to renovate the stadium 15 years ago when they forst began trying to modernize Memorial Stadium. Where KU is at now means KU is very close to building something consistent and isn’t something worth bailing on now. This is the time to keep building the program and depth and keep raising funds.

Even with the mistakes Daniels made last night. He didn’t step out at the 1 or miss a PAT. That’s 3 points right there. That’s the most frustrating thing this year. This team isn’t bad, it’s been a couple of plays here and there that have resulted in 5 of the 6 losses.

This team is so close and to see so many here quitting on this team is disappointing.

I’m not going to post who to vote for, just get informed about where the candidates you’re voting for stand on the issues you care about before going to the polls.

Also, if early voting has started where you live, go vote early and get it out of the way.

KU has lost their top recruit JuJu Marks to Nebraska who flipped over the weekend.

@kuballin10 said in Early Hearings TM:

@Texas-Hawk-10 - call your shot…Will we have a better record and go further in the tourney this year or not?

I know you think we are trash defensively but I think the athleticism will surprise you on that end

Just for you, for at least the third time now. KU will have a better record than last season because they have better players. I’ve never question the athleticism had been upgraded with Storr and Griffen, Mayo other hand is a push as he’s not athletic. Moore before his injury was an upgrade, now it’s wait and see how he recovers since he’s missing the most important part of the season.

We know what Adams, Dickinson, and Harris are on defense, good and bad. Mayo couldn’t guard anyone in the Summit League so he won’t magically start being able to guard B12 level athletes and that’s going to become obvious real quick. Storr and Griffen just don’t try on that end which is why it sounds like Mayo is the leader for the 5th starting spot right now. Unless that changes, KU’s defense is going to be dog shit this year.

KU’s lack of NBA ready talent is going to limit their ceiling this season. Who on this team is getting drafted, let alone in the 1st round in 2025? That’s a big problem.

As far as the B12 race, I think KU finishes higher than 6th, but won’t win the league. In the NCAA’s this team probably makes it past the first weekend, but they’re not a Final Four team.

That probably should’ve been offsetting on the hands to the face, lol! Happy for some home cooking with the refs today.

Holy shit! Defense did something good inside of 2 minutes!!!

UH timeout, that makes more sense.

Why is KU taking a timeout there?

I believe it’s now up to KU being outscored 69-7 in the last 2 minutes of a half this season.

The production and camera operators suck today.