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9 KANSAS AT 11 IOWA STATE

Tipoff: 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015

Hilton Coliseum, Ames, Iowa

TV/Radio: ESPN/KWIC-FM (99.3)

Line: Iowa State by 31/2

I have company coming for the game so I will not be able to post much, only follow the chat. Hopefully KU will not disappoint...

RCJHGKU!!!

@JayHawkFanToo I hope they are Jayhawks!!

I'm gonna try to follow this and JNewell. We'll see how it goes!

Dial it up Hawk Fans, it's tip time !!

@globaljaybird come on Perry!!! Break out game!!

Let's Geaux Jayhawks. Wondering if Fred's kid brought his hankie tonight?

Good evening fellow jayhawkers.

Finally get to watch a game from tip-off.

Go Perry!! Selden have 2 fouls?

Looking good so far...

Ugh

Has Cliff caught the ball underneath?

I don't know, I'm not seeing anything to indicate this team has played together for 16 games. Looks to me like an unranked team will be in sole possession of first place in the psuedo-Big 12 after tonite.

No

We have got to get to a point that Mason isnt our leading rebounder. That will only work for so long

Oubre's got some quick hands.

HCBS just threw and F bomb.

@brooksmd
Saw that too did ya? Lol

We need to keep feeding our big dog!

Lets see more Perry. He had the start he needed for his confidence.

Grab that ball Oubre. Come on

So far, i'm not tremendously impressed with the effort. Rebounding is really lacking.. Not getting back on D. Not enough to take a game on the road, I fear.

Shit call

Id get a technical on that

HCBS is much more composed over that foul than I am.

Didn't ISU get outrebounded badly by BU?

Maybe a Technical would get us fired up.

Id be happy going into the half only down less than 5 pts.

ISU only 3 personals. No inside effort.

@brooksmd Cliff is keeping us in there!!

Has KU shot a FT yet?

No. You have to get a foul call to shoot freethrows

ISU fans assured me that the refs were already paid off by Self...

FG 3 PT FT
KU 14-31 45% 5-10 50% 0-0 00.0%

Well. I hope he didnt give them much

We were way too sloppy with the ball in the first half. Also did not get back after a made basket early in the half which led to too many points.

And Self says we need to take it inside more in the 2nd half..

How are we down only 3 playing like that??

Will Perry have an impact when he's back in the 2nd half?

@Kip_McSmithers Luck

Feels like ISU got 10+pts easy transition buckets.

@Eric Is that all?

And now of course ESPNs mandatory Kentucky time. I turned on Game Day at 9 this morning to see what the crowd was like... well they were doing a long piece on UK.

yep.. I'm thinking about 10 points were because of fast breaks.

@brooksmd is there a way to look it up?

@Eric I'm sure it's available somewhere online but don't know where. I'm just looking at ESPN stats.

Box score says 6 pts off TO's

Not sure if the stats are right but we've out rebounded them so far. And we have one more O reb. Biggest difference is 0 FTAs to 8 FTAs. Fouls KU:8 other team:3

@Kip_McSmithers yep free throws!

@Kip_McSmithers At least we're perfect from the line.

@brooksmd If I could I'd up vote that twenty more times.

It doesn't feel like KU is winning the rebounding battle.

@Kip_McSmithers ah shucks

Self was recruiting in my area this past week and I totally missed him. He was at the Bass Pro ToC on Thursday. I was going to switch my night of call and go on the off chance he would be there watching Rabb, Monk, Giles, ect. but hadn't heard anything on the local radio (go figure, they hate mentioning KU so I shouldn't have used that as guide on going) about them expecting him. They sure did mention the other coaches that were supposed to be there though...

I'd start Cliff and Perry. Think?

@Kip_McSmithers Surprising.. would have sworn we were out-rebounded.

Where do you live Kip?

@Crimsonorblue22 Only if they draw fouls.

@brooksmd away too much home cookin from the officiating clique. Guys gotta play with a lot more passion. So far they look like Schittz..

Enemy territory... Springfield

@globaljaybird That's about what I said earlier. Wasn't seeing much to indicate they've played 16 games together.

What do you know.. a foul on ISU

I don't remember a KU team hitting as many floaters as this one..

Frank is money with the floaters this year.

Why don't we DUNK dammit.

Getting out of hand here

@bskeet cause we got blocked so much

My gf has left the room now that my yelling has started.

Well there was the points in transition stat somebody wanted.

Well the starters can't do anything, time for the walk-ons.

Oh look. Its that team that played temple and kentucky

Ugh.. dont really feel like drinking tonight.

@Eric Everything I have is too good to waste on the one.

Can we even keep this close so we aren't embarrassed like the other 2 losses?

We win close, or lose big.

Frank leaving could be the nail in this one.

Live and Die by the 3. Tonight, it may be the latter.

Yikes... any hope I had has diminished greatly.

Selden nice flop.

Learned that one from Smart

Ellis has 2 threes. If we could just get some points in paint, we'd be right in the game. But it feels like 80% of our shots have been low percentage.

Almost halfway through the 2nd half and we've hardly seen Cliff.....I'd like to see him get some of the minutes that Lucas is getting.

I am sick of seeing us get beat down the floor!

Are we supposed to walk or run back on defense?

Refs blew a call, but we are responsible for how we get back on D..

All Game....

A lot of the blocks come with a ton of contact.

We went from shooting 47? fts last game to 2 so far. LOL

Games are just called so differently. Every crew does their thing.

after getting it down to 3, it balloons back to 11. :-1: Wait, make that 14

No more time outs. 6:25 left. 14 points down. Still very possible for this to look like the Temple score.

Shouldn't it have been in the scouting report about ISU's transition game?
This is pathetic

WOW... We're shooting free throws!!!

So a call on Frank's drive but no call on Ellis getting hammered first?

Bilas, really? That's exactly why they have that rule.. It was in disgust.

Ridiculous. They are all going for the ball. Crappy home-cooked officiating. Should have been no-call if they were consistent with how they called things earlier.

At least they made the score look like it was a close game.

Ya. But too bad that wont erase the 1 in the L column

Congrats to the purple kitties for being unranked and top of the pile in the psuedo-Big 12.

Shannon cuter than Holly.

Weelllll, had this game chalked up as a L before the season started but still sucks to lose... in Ames..

Tough one Brooks. Guys were really ripping on Self on Jnews blog.

If only Wiggins was a Jayhawk and not a Timberwolf tonight...

Andrew WigginsG 39:15 11-17 4-5 4-4 +12 1 8 9 4 2 1 3 0 1 30pts

That may be the worst defense ive seen in the Self era

@approxinfinity I've been following that game tonight. He was really on fire.

Why isn't Cliff playing over Lucas? Defense?

Knew we were likely to lose 3 big 12 games on the road this year.

I think we beat ourselves with stupid mistakes-haven't reviewed the stats but my gut tells me pathetic transition defense and then zero perimeter defense. Also zero FT's in a HALF.???
Self pointed it out to the ref late in the first half-me thinks ISU got some extra help to add to stupid young player mistakes-and Selden charge in the end---you can't pull up??? You are the new bad Tyshawn.

They had to get 30 points on basically uncontested layups.

@cragarhawk no hustle, not finding ball, out toughed, no fouls called.

@Crimsonorblue22
I think Self must have gotten mad at him after a couple of bad defensive lapses

@cragarhawk just can't think Lucas is better.

BG is big time in dog house!

@Crimsonorblue22
No. Hes not. But thats Self for ya. Make an example out of Cliff. Im not saying its wrong. But honestly it has to be that. Cliff was 3 of 3 from the floor. So it wasnt offense

@Crimsonorblue22
BG should be. He played like it was his first day

Lucas had 26 minutes tonight. 0 pts. 2 ast. 4 pf. I don't think Svi could have done much worse. And at least it would be experience for someone who might be helpful in the future.

Actually im starting to believe the rumors/hear say about Svi being homesick and maybe leaving after this year. I hope im wrong. But he just looks like something is wrong. Looks out of sinc and like he isnt having any fun even when hes on the floor

Post game Self said he didn't like cliffs motor.

@Crimsonorblue22 Why do women eat ice cream when they're po'd, mad, upset ......? I just had a big bowl and didn't make me feel better. In fact had a big ol brain freeze. :icecream:

@brooksmd ha ha!!! I've been battling a migraine, good now! No ice cream for me. So upset w/our effort tonight. Think we got some pouters on the bench, maybe posters can't see.

@brooksmd you better stick to drinking!

@Crimsonorblue22 Well that may be true. But I don't have anything equal to the effort on the court tonite. Not gonna waste the good stuff on this one.

@brooksmd so how does Self get these guys to put out more effort? Even oubre wasn't hustling either.

I'd embarrass them. There were several times I would've pull the whole starting 5 and used walk-ons. At least you'd have guys on the floor with desire.

@brooksmd I heard BG threw a big fit when he was pulled last game. He didn't get off the bench at time outs and was talking crap, coach Howard had to "talk" to him. Couldn't see this on tv. I was surprised that coach gave him a shot tonight. That kid could really help the team, needs an attitude adjustment.

@Crimsonorblue22 Don't know where his head is. I figured his time was short when he wasn't watching when Frank passed to him bringing across center court.

@brooksmd I'm sure you are right. Watch the bench next game. Self said Perry got in foul trouble trying to cover for 2 guys that didn't guard their guys.

@Crimsonorblue22 I'm gonna re-watch this one and keep an eye on the bench. Perry got beat-up several times with no fouls called.

@brooksmd they sure shot a lot more throws than us! Those charges!!

@Crimsonorblue22 Just hope they get it together for Mon night.

@brooksmd OU looked really good today against osu. Texas looked good too. We have to play up to our talent.

@Crimsonorblue22 Which talent is that?

@Crimsonorblue22 Didn't get to see any other games as I was working at the shooting range today.

@brooksmd at least Perry got his mojo back.

@Crimsonorblue22 Unfortunately we've seen mojo come and go this year. And I don't mean just Perry, but seems like everyone but Mason. That's what we need is 4 more Mason energy players.

@brooksmd we have to have more from Cliff!!

The comment about Perry getting fouls covering for guys that didn't guard looked obvious to me. The last two fouls that Perry committed-- especially the 5th foul-- he appeared to be purposeful as to say "see-- your man drove to the basket and now I have to foul."

The film for this game will be particularly instructive, provided the coaches can keep from exploding as they watch it.

@bskeet coach was talking first half, but yeah that could be true too.

Here's something to ponder from the box score: Only three Jayhawks shot free-throws: Mason, Graham and Ellis.

Selden (5 for 11), Oubre (5-15), Traylor (0-5), Lucas (0-0) Alexander (3-3) -- were never fouled on a shot attempt (according to the refs.).

@bskeet The refs were really bad. That being said, congrats to Hoiberg and his kids for playing a good game, and the fans for not being awful. When Frank got cramps, the boos seemed almost of singular origin, and the majority went to a "lets go cyclones" chant. It's really impressive what Hoiberg has assembled with his transfers / recruits. That McKay kid is a beast; so is Dejean-Jones. Fred seems to be getting maximum output out of all his guys and we should have a real rivalry for the forseeable future (not a rivalry in name only like the last decade we had Mizzou).

@approxinfinity Until NBA $$$ get him to the L.

@approxinfinity I agree.. Not blaming this on the refs. I felt like we were lucky that it was as close as it was.

ISU deserved to win, given the way we played. I think we gave away more than 10 points. I like to think that bodes well for the rematch in Lawrence.

@bskeet Oh yah, we will get payback in Lawrence. It will happen.

@Kip_McSmithers

He was an assistant coach in the NBA and moved to a front office job because of his health situation. I am afraid that the long NBA season and the huge egos in the League are more than he needs health-wise. He has sweet deal at ISU and I don't see him leaving any time soon.