Christian Braun presser:
On the way out the door he was asked if he heard about Kansas beating undefeated Arizona

“No big deal. That was expected”

Svi started and scored 23

I'm back.

@Jayhawk_69 said in Kansas Jayhawks at UCF Knights Game Chat Sat. 1/3 1:00 CT:

Unfortunately this game gives us a lot of negative takeaways and only 1 positive.

The positive: Melvin Council is the real deal. He is a stud who can hit big shots, play defense, and get to the rim at will.

The negatives:

1. DP will not play a second half for us all year. It does not matter if he is "100%". It just isn't going to happen.

2. Our defense, it turns out, was a paper tiger.

3. We have no heart. This is the only explanation for us not getting any defensive rebounds. We have the size and athleticism to be great on the glass.

4. We have no toughness. Everytime we tied or took the lead we gave up an easy basket at the other end. In the last minute with a chance to win we allowed 100% 3 pt percentage, 100% shooting from the field, and gave up 2.67 points per possession.

5. Flory has not taken the step forward needed from him.

6. Tiller is not ready to be a big 12 starter.

I suppose, on the bright side, all these issues (minus number 1) are fixable, but as of now it looks like we are a bottom half of the Big 12 team.

Overreaction city, not based on our full season of work.

1. We still don't know. I wish if he was on a minutes restriction that they'd be allocated out a bit so we have him at the end of the game.

2. Our defense is really one of the better units in recent memory. Today 1st half was ugly but 2nd half was much better. Against a tall team we had 7 blocks

3. We have no heart. Really. How is that measured? I'd say we've showed a lot of heart this season in the way we've played against really good teams, even shorthanded without DP.

4. We have no toughness. One game we were down by 1 with 10 seconds left on the road against a well coached and 1 loss team. Come on man, again how are you measuring toughness? Since the championship, this is the toughest team we've had by far, we've all been saying it. Don't let a bad result (that we win if DP plays) cloud your judgment on this team. They're a fun team to watch and have given us thrills this season we haven't experienced since 22.

5. Flory has improved in many ways since his freshman year. More minutes sure, but he's been indispensible to this team.

6. I might agree on Tiller.

There was a lot of negativity on the board today. Disappointing loss for sure. End of the world? Not ready to go there.

Never knew there was a Funny category on the Bucket. Here's a few. What are some of your favorites?

Roman guy walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says give me 5 beers.

Dyslexic guy walks into a bra.

Skeleton walks into a bar, says give me a beer and a mop.

When they installed artificial turf at KState football the cheerleaders realized they'd have to find a new field to graze in.

Nebraska stressing academics decided to put the letter N on their helmets for knowledge.

Drug dealers in Missouri not so smart. They didn't want to risk jail time so they sent one of their interns down to Mexico to get some coke they could sell. He came back with a couple of 12 packs of Pepsi saying it was cheaper.

I hate it when people use your and you're wrong. There so dumb.

@FarmerJayhawk

Yeah, even when he had an off game yesterday he got 17 points seemingly almost effortlessly.

The series was started Feb 11 1926 so we're on to the 2nd century of KU-OSU basketball!

@approxinfinity So you're saying Vitale has become a diaper dandy?

I miss RedRooster approving of every comment.

BTW, Austin Booker with 2 sacks for the Bears today.

@mayjay It's not so much about my attitude but it's that I have to protect myself from letting it ruin my day. Today after the Badger loss, I went disc golfing which I love to do, and it was the first nice day in about a month that I could get out. Had some music on and it really cleared my head.

The KU loss in 97 was one it took a lonnggg time to get over, felt like weeks. That one was tough.

There's something about a gut punch loss that makes me philosophical. Because I have to come to grips with the disappointment so that it doesn't drag me down into the dumps I look to so many people and life circumstances that prevents me from feeling sorry for myself. That fact that it could happen again tomorrow or Sunday makes being a fan of two teams all the more 'difficult'. But it is just a game and baseball starts in 2 weeks and i have spring break in 2 weeks, and well, I'll get over it. KU surviving into next week would help. Except for one massive exception in 2022, both of my teams ending the season disappointingly every season. Even the Covid year was a BIG championship for UW and fans were excited for the postseason.

Having been a fan of 3 KU champions and 1 White Sox winner is pretty good though. I consider 1988 to be my championship since I was a senior. That's a memory that has taken me through the tough endings of so many seasons. But I do hope to see a few more before I go on home to heaven.

@ROCKCHALK2025 You jinxed them.

Entered, ya'll going down in flames, you might as well save yourself the heartache and delete your brackets. I'm so confident I don't have to enter 42 brackets or whatever like some people do. 1 bracket is all this self described nostradumbass needs to win this thing. This is your last and final warning to give up.

@mayjay Oh no, all that work and I missed the most obvious one. Mrs. Mayjay it is, but it's too much work at this point to move her up in the seeding so she'll be the 16th seed and her tournament ends today or tomorrow!

Other two regions completed soon.

East Bracket
1 KU Wilt
2 Furman Susannah Lauber (my niece)
3 UCLA Jackie Robinson or Kareem
4 Ohio State Jessie Owens
5 Duke: Jay Bilas
6 ND State Phil Jackson
7 MSU Magic
8 UNI Kurt Warner
9 TCU LT
10 Uconn Meg Ryan
11 St Johns J. Cole
12 Louisville Diane Sawyer
13 UCF Tacko Fall
14 Siena Jalen Pickett
15 California Baptist Rick Warren (Purpose Driven Life) Pastor
16

Midwest

1. Tex Tech Patrick Mahomes Not sure if you've ever heard of him
2. Mich Gerald Ford
   3 Howard Thurgood Marshall
   4 ISU George Washington Carver
   5 Bama Golly it's Gomer Pyle himself Jim Nabors
   6 Tennessee Peyton Manning
   7 Virginia Edgar Allen Poe
   8 Hofstra Francis Ford Coppola. Greatest war movie ever director.
   9 Tenn State. Ed Too Tall Jones All nickname HOF. Oh and Oprah too.
   10 Georgia Herschel Walker
   11 Kentucky John Scopes
   12 Miami Oh Benjamin Harrison (Ben Roeth too)
   13 SMU Bryson De Chambeau
   14 Akron John Heisman
   15 UMBC Kathleen Turner
   16 Wright state No one famous
   17 St Louis No one famous.

South
1 Illinois. Red Grange
2. UNC. MJ
3. Penn. Wm Henry Harrison
4 Houston Akeem the Dream
5. Florida. Danny Wuerffel
6 Nebraska. Johnny Carson
7 Iowa Dan Gable
8. Prairie View. Cecil Cooper (that man could hit)
9. Tex Am. TBoone Pickens
10 St Mary's. Mark Teahen
11. Clemson. Horace Grant
12. Vanderbilt. Rosanne Cash
13. McNeese Joe Dumars
14 Idaho Sara Palin
15. Lehigh Lee Iacocca
16 VCU Mrs. Mayjay (@mayjay) One of the most overlooked picks ever in the history of sport.
17. Troy, No one famous

West.

1. Purdue. John Wooden
2. Wisconsin. Frank Lloyd Wright
3. BYU. Andy Reid
4. Villanova. Pope Leo
5. Arkansas. Bill Clinton
6. Arizona. Steve kerr
7. Miami. ARod
8. Missouri. Tennessee Williams
9. Texas Kevin Durant
10. Hawaii. Bette Midler
11. Gonzaga John Stockton
12. NCState. Spud Webb
13. High Point. Tubby Smith
14. Long Island U. Larry Doby
15. Utah State. Jordan Love
16. Kennesaw State/Queens. No one

@Tallturd1 We admire Rick for doing that? Please remove the we part because I sure don't admire him for that disgusting act and resulting abortion.

This Texas and NCState game features two of the sleazier coaches in college basketball.

@BeddieKU23 I know a good game plan for a 6 footer who throws prayers up in the lane. Have Flory swat those all the way to the Pacific Ocean.