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Hope they win. Today will say a lot about where they go for the next week's ahead.

No time to eff around. gotta come close to winning out the rest of the way to guarantee we're dancing.

@rockchalkjayhawk said in Biggest game of the year thread:

No time to eff around. gotta come close to winning out the rest of the way to guarantee we're dancing.

KU doesn't need to win out to make the tournament. Just win today and the first B12 Tournament game and KU's in. This will likely be the first time since the 2000 though that KU isn't a top 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament which might be an unbreakable record.

Today, I just want to see them play loose and free.

Literally no one asked for a ref cam

Nothings changed

No movement on O at all

Finall got in the lane

There we go

Keep it going

Lol harris

That was a lob to the invisible player.@BeddieKU23

@patoh3 if he had real scorers around him someone would have been there to throw that down.

@DanR said in Biggest game of the year thread:

No movement on O at all

This is the real issue with Rylan and AJ and why they aren’t panning out.

@benshawks08 said in Biggest game of the year thread:

@patoh3 if he had real scorers around him someone would have been there to throw that down.

Griffen went up intending to shoot it and changed his mind last second. That was 100% on Rylen.

Atta boy

Nice KJ put back dunk.

That was nasty by KJ man if Zeke hit that 3

Incredible how easy they blow momentum

Finally a made 3

3oit

Hot diggy

That’s the way Diggy

Gotta love a Coit RB.

YTes , I'll take me an order of DIGGY please

Way to many wide open looks for Oklahoma St

I do want Coit back next year. He's a great bench piece for a program like Kansas with his shooting.

@Texas-Hawk-10 I like diggy he’s a little spark plug

@kjayhawks you took the words out of my mouth.

Let’s hit some FT’s today, Juan.

Nice to see us attacking the lane.

2-2.

Huh, thought we played tonight. Glad I checked here!

The aggression on offenses is nice to see today.

Grab it hunt

Already in the bonus, nice!

Amazed they are actually calling those fouls

Love the effort

Crowd applauded hunters d for the first time all year

I personally find the chest painted cowboy fans hilarious. Welcome to Lawrence!

Juando is having a good game so far

Nice block Juan!

Much better energy today

Slama jam time

Nice pass rylan

Needed today in the worst way!

Double pump dunk

maybe a little positivity medicine today

This is a fun game so far

Three 3 pointers by Coit changed momentum

Kj dunk fest 👌

Juan D!

KJ ADAMS pogo sticks day

Wow Hunter got on the floor!!!

I do remember blowing this kind of lead this season

That was a sympathy foul KJ was straight up

@DanR shhhh

BOY how I've missed these kinds of games - - -fun

@DanR said in Biggest game of the year thread:

I do remember blowing this kind of lead this season

I’m just happy we are playing hard and together for the first time in a month or longer

@BeddieKU23 these are the kinds of things does, he brings to the game al the time

Wow this is fun

I wish Zeke could do that on the road.

Best ball movement of year

BIG HUNT

I thinks this team is pissed

Hunter playing with pride and heart = success

OMG -the Bear is awake- - -and it's hungry- - -real hungry

Playing as a team finally

I think hunter tried to kick kj after the chest bump lol

This team goes as Hunter goes. When he's playing motivated, KU is damn near unstoppable.

52 pts at half. Wowza

Easily the best half we have played since UCF round 1

Great defense from KJ and Juando.

Now we just need to keep up the intensity!

@kjayhawks Exactly - -looks sweet also when the 3's are fallin - -let it fly

@BeddieKU23 Hell there has been some games where we struggled to get 52 in a game

Juan with 6 steals in the first half-- ties career high

@SlimShaddy54 Can't sleep around him.

@Texas-Hawk-10 we need more of that, first time have seen that in awhile

you know what ? - - -I think maybe Diggy got this started for us

I have never seen Hunt get a steal and then run down and dunk it. Maybe they got the message about how their fans were embarrassed about their recent performances.

The crowd gets a fist bump!

@patoh3 Play of the half.

IMO the best half for Hunt, Juan, Diggy and KJ all season. It’s all because they are hustling, moving the ball and playing together

Out rebounding them 24- --11 ,- - -* offensive rebounds- - - -And 8-17 from the three

The only guy that didn’t do jack was AJ hopefully he gets some minutes and gets going. Playing with heart and energy is contagious

Whose jersey are they retiring at half time?

The range on the last three that Zeke made was wow!

Rylen has 6 assists

OSU sucks. Nothing to get excited about here methinks.

Unpack your bags Rylen, please. It could be like this.

It's rylan

@Crimsonorblue22 well, barely know the guy

Box score!

Rylan is year 2

@wissox said in Biggest game of the year thread:

OSU sucks. Nothing to get excited about here methinks.

They aren’t a team that will even make the NIT but the way we have played the last month we all needed this. This is something to build off of. I’m not ready to say we for sure turned a corner we all remember beat Dook and smashing UCF on the road. This is hopefully a building block to playing harder and together going into March

Ok Rylan!

Coit is hot!!!🥵

David putting the “good” in “feel good story”

When we play with urgency and have Flory lurking for rebounds bad shots from 3 become not so bad

Wow. Storr with some hustle!

Nice drive AJ.

@approxinfinity said in Biggest game of the year thread:

When we play with urgency and have Flory lurking for rebounds bad shots from 3 become not so bad

Flory hasn’t scored but has 7 rebounds and is running the floor well, give a few possessions but the lob is coming to him

I'm almost afraid to even say this BUT- -- - could this maybe , possibly be a game that bonds this team together? - -Everyone playing pretty well

I have to give Dickinson props today , the guy is workin

Nice rebound (from losses) game, but it is Okie St. After Colo, KU has Tx Tech, Az, then Houston to finish conference. Let's see if this effort holds up.

Great hustle by Flory, that should’ve been a foul

I worry about that late tip-off in boulder next week. 10:00 cst. We have not played well in late games

@DanR nor at elevation

If this effort travels.
If this effort is consistent.
If this effort and execution is the same against good teams.
If Bill doesnt pucker up and short leash non pet guys against good teams.

Then we have something.

Don’t know how quick the team gets there, but a 24 hour acclimation is suggested before exertional activity.

Passmore sighting

Almost at 80 with 9 minutes left.

Oh my ref. Coit had that

Good D David

Flory with 11 boards off the bench. Kid did exactly what he said he was going to do today which was bring energy

I do wish Bryce Thompson well. Very tough college career after all the high school accolades and promise.

Wonder what the freshman record is for rebounds

Flory #13

Storr is just not a good basketball player - can score, inefficiently, but does nothing else even halfway well...

This lineup is kinda juicy rn ngl

@stoptheflop said in Biggest game of the year thread:

I do wish Bryce Thompson well. Very tough college career after all the high school accolades and promise.

He just looks like the same guy as a freshman really hasn’t improved much

Does thompson have his feet touching when he shoots fts?

Storr is best in very small doses

Mayo with a great block.

Flory is so fun to watch

14 boards now! Feed him

This is why flory needs minutes

15 boards

Aj doesn't miss that layup last year.

Come on refs that's a freaking block

Flory is too good to believe apparently

Really bad few minutes for Passmore...

@approxinfinity said in Biggest game of the year thread:

Flory is too good to believe apparently

Next year, monster

guess if w want to nit pic about the game today , the only thing would be the turnovers- other then that

@BeddieKU23 needs wt room

Ok , the cowboy chest painters have it crossed out. I’m slow

Junior high ball right now...

Walk ons have fun love to see it

Nice of Storr to pass that to evers

@Crimsonorblue22

I'm sure that will be emphasis #1 in offseason

Play like that every game and we’ll be fine

Can we build off of this and show up in boulder with energy

Co. Beat baylor

Welp. Is everyone back on board? Does Billy still have a job?

@nuleafjhawk its a good start. Need an exorcism, maybe a eulogy for “bad bill”, bring in Bruce Weber to get the party started, wave the burning sweet grass.

thirty six points off the bench

Flory 16 boards and three blocks. With Cowboys hanging all over him.

Did Florys block/goaltending call get looked at?

That was Kansas basketball today.

@Crimsonorblue22 I don't know. I went to Whataburger.

I think we shot the ball with much more confidence today. Not a single player looked terrified to shoot it.

Unfortunately I think two things:
1. Allen fieldhouse is very good
2. ok state is very bad

We ended up playing with energy but the start was still slow. A good team could have buried us right from the tip that game. They missed some open looks early that could have made that a very different game.

It’s a good start but I’m not calling this team “BACK” yet.

@benshawks08 for sure no reason to jump to the conclusion that this team has found their calling finally. The next two games will tell us a lot about what had happened

Today was encouraging. Whether it was a one off or something more remains TBD. We didn't look like this against Colorado 11 days ago though and Colorado is a much worse team than OSU.

I mentioned it in during the game, but this team will go as far as Hunter carries them. When he's active and engaged like today, everyone else feeds off that energy. When he plays half-assed, pretty much everyone else plays half-assed as well.

Can Hunter have a Remy-like run to end his KU career and change his KU legacy? It was about this time 3 years ago that we were wondering if Remy was even going to play for KU again, but that's rarely brought up because of his run to end the season. That doesn't necessarily mean Hunter has to win a title, but making a run in the B12 Tournament, making it past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament would do a lot to change Hunter's long term legacy here.

Definitely relieved we didn’t lose out all the last games. Squeak out another conference win or two, make the Dance, win one or two there, and chalk it up to a down year then look forward to some fresh blood next year.

I was amazed to see Hunter do more than wave at a dude on defense, went after the guy, blocked it and then ripped the rebound. Hunters usually a vertical or nothing post defender.

@approxinfinity Hunter played his best game as a Jayhawk IMO on both ends 16 points and 11 rebounds in just 21 minutes

Fun with the box score! And it is truly fun this time. yay. fast paced action. exactly how we need to play.

52

First half points.

52 -- 46 -- 75

FG% -- 3pt% -- FT%

I'll take that most games!

36

Bench points!!! wow.

48 -- 28

KU -- OSU rebounds

-5

Flory's +/- That's interesting. Hmmm.

<30

Not a single player over the 30 minute mark.

18

Lots of turnovers though. Maybe from a faster pace?

Is Shak hurt or what?

Yes

@kjayhawks said in Biggest game of the year thread:

Is Shak hurt or what?

Mentioned a few games back, he's dealing with a foot injury. That's why he had been playing reduced minutes recently, nothing to do with being in Self's doghouse.

We saw what a fully healthy Shak could do on defense and how much that energized the team.

You know , just browsing around , running a crossed other teams records , Seasons Kind of ironic /funny , well funny but yet not funny if you know what I many of these other teams experiencing rough seasons.

U , Conn - - Gonzaga - - Kentucky - - N Carolina- - -Baylor etc etc . Like I was watching/reading of Baylor pod cast and Locked on Baylor awhile ago and you think it is like we are standing on the edge of the cliff , ready to jump because of the play of the team- -the players coming in from NIL ?

Some examples of what's being said by other teams like Baylor & Kentucky for example really ironic how close to verbatim it is things/phrases being si Like : ( is this our worst loss ever ? - -where does this loss rank ? - - Werre a terrible, we going to play one game in the tourney- -this team is done , these players have checked in , I think there is much more going on then we know , do these players even care -- -I mean we just lost to the16th rated team in our conference- ----

I'm telling you guys it's amazing how close these things are lol.- - -These fan bases about ready to commit harry carry. - -Is Drew gone - -do you thin Drew will leave ? -Well at least we know Drew doesn't give up on the team year, after year like Self lol--

Were not alone guys seveal teams saying same things about their teams

Someone threw out an opinion that the Utah 4700 ft and BYU 4551 ft games were significantly impacted by the altitude. Boulder is at 543o feet above sea level. Buffaloes versus Baylor +6, UCF + 11, Houston -6, ASU +5, BYU -14 (similar elevations). The NBA Denver Nuggets are tracked as having a significant home second half scoring advantage.

Just wondering if the quick turn around plus the elevation factor will show up in our energy level tomorrow.

Not KU related but All Mighty U Conn , with the All mighty Coach is finding out they too, are susceptible to down years, Hurley is Human just like our Coach.- - - Down 18 at the half to St Johns

Our next game is tomorrow night at 10 PM CENTRAL TIME, you know when many of us are heading to bed. Screw the Big 12 and their careless about the fans. Screw our AD who let this happen. I'm beyond pissed asking us to sacrifice sleep if we want to watch a game. They voted to allow this. I assume our AD permitted this. ZERO consideration for the fans, for the students, professors, the community in Lawrence and across the nation. We're not the only ones dealing with this of course, but it doesn't make me feel any better. If they did it to us on the weekend that might be semi acceptable, they did actually when we played BYU with a 9PM start time but that was a Saturday night.

SEC conference is the only one that doesn't have this concern and in basketball the Big East doesn't either. Lesser conferences remain sensible.

@wissox Ya kinda stinks. I'm watching the KSU/ASU game today and they were talking saying that because of the conference schedule and amount of teams , they wanted to make the amount of games are equal with quality officials - make sure all teams get the same Balance.

The crew that they have today one has -- three final fours - -Another has-- - eight & the other has -- fie- -still stinks

Maybe its good eyeballs aren't on our team but you can bet no one in eastern time is watching even a minute of it.

That’s still 9:00 mountain time? What the hell? I’d get it if it was full west coast pacific time because a game starting at 8 isn’t unheard of but 9 seems late add in the central time of 10:00 and it just seems silly.

@benshawks08 said in Biggest game of the year thread:

That’s still 9:00 mountain time? What the hell? I’d get it if it was full west coast pacific time because a game starting at 8 isn’t unheard of but 9 seems late add in the central time of 10:00 and it just seems silly.

The old Pac 12 After Dark time slot.

11pm for us on the east coast. No chance I can watch this one

@benshawks08 Yeah I don't even get making Colorado fans start games at 9. never used to happen when they were in the Big 8.

It’s weird to me to start a game this late for most of the country especially when they claim 65% of all sports viewership comes east of the Mississippi. Gonna be about 500k people watching watching it at that time slot.

Yea, that 8 p.m. west coast time slot (9 p.m. Colorado time / 10 p.m. Kansas time) is pretty regular out here. Somebody gets stuck with it most every week.

Gives us on the coast something to watch after dinner for sure though. Sucks for everybody else. Sucks for local Kansas fans for sure.

8pm start is already too late for many, 10pm is ridiculous. Luckily I’m on vacation in Jamaica. - I won’t “miss” the game, but I won’t be watching it either.

This will be the first KU game I haven't watched in over 30 years. Even a 9pm EST start has been troublesome for me over the years during the week due to my work schedule, but I've sacrificed a lot of sleep over the years to watch the games. If this was a tournament game, I'd figure it out but it's a Monday regular season game and I have an extremely high-level issue going on at work so I simply cannot do it tonight. This was my exact concern when the league announced taking the Mtn & Pacific time teams into the league and I expressed my dissatisfaction for what was to come and sure enough here we are.

Hopefully they will play well tonight and continue to right the ship of turning this thing around

@BeddieKU23 we will hold down the fort and try to give you a balanced account, good luck with the work stuff.

@BeddieKU23 wow, 30 years, that is some streak. Yet another long standing record broken this season.