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Brooks is working, carry on w/out him.

Tip off at 10 minutes after.

I hope this stinking game is over-unless Texas pulls it out!

Working? He didn't call in sick? No dedication at all.

@wissoxfan83 he did tell me to start it.

We will have to pull his weight too!

@Crimsonorblue22 Hmmm, those are big shoes to fill.

Dang we look bad!

Selden

Mr. perfect time Selden...

Perry lookin strong

Get BG going

Woo hooo

Nice screen and read

Texas Tech. gave it a try but OSU and Texas did not. KU cannot depend on other teams and will have to earn the title...

Good to see penetration by Graham for the dish...

Yell loud today. Im indisposed. :) Go Jayhawks!!

Full court press not working.

Cliff!

@cragarhawk the reason?

2 on Cliff. Bye Bye for a while.

Cliff, smh. Can't figure him out!

TCU came to play. We need to take it to them.

so far the effort will resort in a loss

we need perry and mason out there

BG!!

Good defense

We need a big man!!!

Dg does that to much!

5 TO, not acceptable...

@Crimsonorblue22 I wish we would have got the big man that went to Arizona last year. Perfect fit for us.

If we r wishing, take Embiid-healthy one!

Bad calll

Wow, if u can't dribble u should stop doing it

that was just ugly

2 straight strips. Come on.

@Crimsonorblue22 agreed

TCU is bad because it feels like we're losing by 10.

The Big XII is tough. No way any team goes undefeated in this conference.

our starts seem to be ugly. I can't remember the last time we exploded out to a lead in the first half. Seems like this team chooses to play to the level --or just below -- of their opponent in the first half, and make it a 2nd half game.

Not a good strategy for March. probably not good for February.

Unfortunately, good things rarely happen when Selden is driving in traffic. He is one-handed and no demonstrated ability to switch hands, cross-over or spin.

@DCHawker He will definitely have to improve in that area.

Feels like we r playing at 1/2 speed and intensity

@KansasComet Alas, I have no confidence that will happen - has been much the same for two years now.

what are we doing?!!

Team seems lackadaisical...

@bskeet Not much of anything.

We've seen the other half or less filled gyms, why wouldn't u be pumped every home game?

Nice ball kovement

Nice pass by Greene

@DCHawker Who knows? He improved his 3 point shooting this year. Maybe dribbling the next.

Dg watching

phantom fouls

Dg finally hitting

DG for 3...

BG D's

that's a sweet move

Purty

We have to own the last 4+ minutes and break the game open...

See you on SportsCenter tonight Frank Mason!

Perry really doing a nice job at the rim!

let's see if that kind of inspired play will get the rest of the team to play up a level... we need to have something to spur a run.

Ziegler has gone right by Greene a couple of times.
Nice move by Frank.

@KansasComet Hope springs eternal.. Then his senior year he can work on rebounding - if he had another year, on finishing at the rim ;)

I really hope Mason, Graham and selden are all playing together here in 2 years. What a guard combo that will be!

AHHHHHHH....

@DCHawker good one

It's contagious! Great steal Perry Ellis!

Foul? Cliff is really on the refs' bad side

BG give it up to frank

Bad pass by Greene! That was 2 pts!
Cliff gone until the 2nd half....and then he'll have to be careful.

I hope oubre doesn't pull a Selby, he has a ways to go.

Coach Bill self has the tough task of convincing these kids that they are not ready.

money!

GREEEEEEEENE

Nice play set up for bg

Wish u all were sitting here in my family room!!

Go Perry, that game is over!

It's interesting how we worry about the freshmen leaving when the best player (Ellis) gets no attention or concern.. Weird world when the best player is not a threat to leave early.

We are in your virtual living room

If Perry could ever learn a jump stop or head fake, he could live at the foul line and would get a lot more 3 point plays...

@DCHawker he is doing better

@bskeet got that right

several missed opportunities...

Point blank Lucas?

@Crimsonorblue22 Agree that he has really stepped up the intensity - full props for that.

Lucas needs to finish

2 on Perry...he should sit the rest of the half

yes.. please: no more shots under the basket. We can't make them.

We need a new mascot: the Kansas Statistical Aberrations.

Traylor knew the higher percentage shot was 30 feet away from the basket. :-)

I was hoping we could have stretched that lead at halftime....no dice.
I love Landen and he will be a reliable player at some point.....but man he looked bad offensively. That awkward jump hook (or whatever that was) and missing the point blank layup....yeesh.

I will go and change KU sweat shirts...the only other time I wore the one I am wearing KU lost. I was hoping to break the curse but I will not take a chance.

@JayHawkFanToo Don't wear it during the tournament.

@JayHawkFanToo I can NOT believe you took that chance!!!!!!

@bskeet Yes. But Perry is a tweener....not sure how effective he will be in the league.

@Hawk8086 If Perry gets to the NBA, he's a 3

@Hawk8086 True.. So much of the draft is based on potential rather than performance... Yet when they get to the league, they seem to focus on statistics... which is all about performance. Duplicitous? Paradox?

I don't see Perry in the league. TRob was a beast in college and he's barely hanging on.

Perry Ellis will get drafted.

@Lulufulu he is improving on D too. I was on his case all last year about that!!

@wissoxfan83 Perry can shoot outside though.

@KansasComet wonder what Perry wants to do?

NBADraft,net has him as the 42nd, a long shot for staying power for sure.

@wissoxfan83 Good point... but then the other aspect that isn't given enough credit is total luck: Landing in the right place/system at the right time.

@bskeet like what TRob needs!

@Crimsonorblue22 exactly!

Where's global???

Eric?

Anyone see that through the legs dunk they just showed?

@Crimsonorblue22 Oubre is definitely gone after this year. Is KU going after any top ranked wings to replace him? I mean, We will have Greene back and Svi will be loads better next season too.

@Lulufulu Newman and Brown are still considering us.

@wissoxfan83 yes..impressive. Most impressive.

Since I live in Baton Rouge I get to see them play on occasion. WIth their recruits coming in and two studs at forward, him and Jordan Mickey they could be a tough team.

@Crimsonorblue22 I think he stays. But you never know.

No foul.

phantom foul.

Foul

Over back on oubre

Wow

Officials have been questionable lately

@bskeet What is there to question??? ;)

Not a clue!

Baking brownies at halftime took longer than anticipated. New sweatshirt on...look like is bringing good luck...

Packing brownies?

@JayHawkFanToo I hope so.

Jk

Traylor body language has been really bad all game

Every time the refs talk we lose the ball.

@Crimsonorblue22

I miss snacks...

@DCHawker is he in?

Now I see

Refs stink

I'm gonna keep banging this drum. They need to put the total fouls for the half on the running score for the game. It's important information that's on all arena scoreboards, but not on our screens.

@wissoxfan83 Agree. Drives me crazy.

We get even worse refs at home than we do on the road. KU must be the only team that gets the short end at home and away

We really stink when we get the ball down low...no other way to put it.

I think we stink all over right now!

Absolute great pass by Wayne Selden Jr.

When we run plays like that we make it look so easy that it seems like we could do that EVERY time.. and I wonder why we aren't just doing it over and over.

Mari!!!

I guess the TCU check bounced? ...maybe we have a chance after all...

Perry, what a great kid! I'm picking him big 12 player, if he makes his throws

good defense.. finally, the right call

So, we've been here before - building up a bit of lead. Can we put them away - finish strong. I would like to see a 20+pt win at home for a change. Get a chance to get some other guys like Svi some minutes.

Great defense by Selden....

Announcers aren't favoring a team, but they don't know much-names?

Just as I criticize our inside play, we score 3 straight hoops inside. Getting their front line in foul trouble has helped...we'll take it!

@Hawk8086 we have to have both.

@Hawk8086 good call

@Crimsonorblue22 yep

Self comes up w/good ones!

I called announcers on seldens charge

@Crimsonorblue22 thank you. Credit where credit is due.

Twice Mason has committed the worst foul possible.

Fans made him miss the first one-assist

@Hawk8086 Actually, just once. The first one was a phantom call.

BG got killed!

That is an effing foul....

I'd have a hard time not throwing that guy to floor after that call

Jeeze.. Officials don't seem to think they have a responsibility to protect players.

Lucky

We need to put them away.

Time for a talk by Coach Self and the refs...

That banked 3 was weak sauce.

this is some of the weakest basketball ever

Like I said, we've seen this movie before - seem constitutionally incapable of putting a foot on their throats (metaphorically of course) and keeping it there.

other than Graham's first half, and Ellis 2nd.. there is nothing positive to take from this game

@DCHawker Well! I for one hope you are wrong this time.

Beddie, we're shooting 54%. That's positive!

@BeddieKU23 Sure there is. The ability to win ugly games. That can help come March.

Time to shoot 1000 FTs all week.

Dang!

BG getting tougher!

KU on the double bonus...finally some good news.

In the double bonus - is that a good thing if anyone other than BG is at the line???

Is it just me or is Greene playing better defense?

@DCHawker Greene is out.

Golden touch is injured?

Now that was an awful call.

Perry got pissed?

@KansasComet

at home no against a 3-10 team

There we go

@BeddieKU23 TCU plays tough.

Time to make FTs....

Good job Perry, can't stop him

Nice block mari

@JayHawkFanToo Glad you said that!

KU will need to ride Perry the rest of the way.

interesting lineup

DG is on fire...

It worked

Feed him

Graham for 3, Yessss!

Selden on the bench quite awhile

just need 2 or 3 effing stops and we can put this away.

Whooohooo

Fans called that

Lucas sold that one.. but he was fouled in the previous play the same way... he just didn't fall, so there was no call.

If they don't want players to flop, they need to call it when someone is shoving the defender backwards from his position, even if he doesn't fall.

I thought it was!

Landon is actually our most fundamentally sound big, but he is so friggin' soft going up with the ball. Hudy needs to work on some hand strength exercises with him.

@DCHawker and about a million shots around the basket

Dg's mom is coming to Texas game. That should further inspire him!

I hope Graham gets 20.

anderson just throws his body into defenders on 3's

That dude was out

@Crimsonorblue22 said:

That dude was out

Definitely

sure run over traylor

@KansasComet Absolutely

Refs must have a stake on the spread...

@JayHawkFanToo said:

Refs must have a stake on the spread...

Good point

WOWZA

Look at the smile!!!

HIGHLIGHT DUNK by Perry!!!!!!

Couldn't be a better kid!

wow ellis that was unbelievable

that was sweet from every angle

He's going to the League! Not sure when. But he is going.

This Cliff on the bench thing is getting to me. Especially with Lucas so ineffective.

More animation out of Perry than I can recall over the past two years - great to see!!!!! Good for him.

PERRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Caught another smile

Green's defense.. or lack thereof.. is all too obvious.

Com'on guys keep the pedal to the metal....

Frank needs a breather

Charge!

3 KU players on the floor...foul on KU

back to a 9 pt game. We just can't keep the foot on the throat of an opponent..

Did the sweat wiper help Dg up?

Big assist

Throws😡

Could use a little help from the crowd. Kind of quiet.

we are a 2nd round team at best this year. we just don't know how to finish

Letting them get 9 straight was really bad.

Bouncing their way

Tough bi-polar crowd...up one minute, down the next...just sayin'

We got them right where we want them.

to know this team could give up 9 straight after those dunks by ellis is exactly why we don't have what it takes

Chris Washburn on TCU is the son of the NCS player who we beat twice in 1986 including the Elite 8. He's been a shady character ever since with his last arrest in 2014

Sweet

Those are jump balls on them

perry was fouled, no call

zeigler not even touched foul

@wissoxfan83 want to know more about that later

Wikipedia tells all!

Nice

Just inexplicable - p-g away a 16 pt lead to a 3 con win team at home. What is it with these guys. Give old guys like me coronaries...

One more point Graham

Mari is going to be sore tomorrow...

Scary. Traylor is tough as nails.

@bskeet nice to hear good about my man Mari!

Good job mason

The clock is your friend...use it....

@DCHawker TCU is a tough team. THis the 2nd time we've found out.

Damn lucky

our defense is just horrid against anyone that even thinks about driving

yeah.. and yet, not Tourney-bound.

@wissoxfan83

They seem to be a bad match up for KU

Where is Cliff?

@DCHawker Its Big XII Basketball. No nights off.

@wissoxfan83 You are right. They may not have the greatest talent, but they fight and they're well coached.

Do u guys know the announcers? Had them before?

@Hawk8086 Cliff had a chance and the officials took him out .. and Self never let him back in.

Selden- go to ball! Bb 101

Crimson, I keep thinking Ed Neely. Wasn't he a KStater?

They are trying to use up clock...

@bskeet

no like he deserves to be out there

@wissoxfan83 And a Chicago Bull.

@BeddieKU23 True-- didn't mean to imply that he had no responsibility for it. Much as I would like him to have looked better. However, he certainly does not get the opportunity to play through it.

Self keeping him on a very short leash.

@wissoxfan83

Maybe his son? Neeley was big guy, the announcer not so much...

Teams get into the lane with impunity against us - can't stop the penetration, and no help, let alone rim protection.

@wissoxfan83 tell me more later! Can't keep up

20 for Graham!

Game not over. But Mason is trying to seal it.

Good throws

Can we breathe yet?

Nice to know all those guys want to shoot the throws! Taking it from each other

Wooo hoooo

Mason hits his head a lot

Rock chalk............

80+ points in an ugly game. What's not to love about Kansas.

If I took a layup out there, it would have looked exactly like that.

I think that Ewing that came in is Patrick's son.

@bskeet

if he did the things he was supposed to, he wouldn't be but because his consistency to play dumb keeps happening whats the point

@wissoxfan83 Ewing for tcu

Ugly win, pretty win...a win is a win is a win...did I say is a win?

@BeddieKU23 u talking Cliff?

No Crimson, I mean our manager who came in, wasn't his name Ewing?

Have a great evening all

Oh, his name is Huey, thought they were saying Ewing.

@Crimsonorblue22 I hope Frank doesn't have a mild concussion.

Enjoyed the game with all of you! Rock Chalk!

@wissoxfan83 not even close! Ha ha

Thanks everyone. Winning feels great! Let's get ready for Monday Night!

Jeff Hawkins on post game!

Perry 9-10 from the field for 23 points. I am curious about the spin to follow.

@JayHawkFanToo would you rather have Shepard 4 years or Embiid one?

Ha

@JayHawkFanToo love it

@Crimsonorblue22

Shepperd is overrated; I would take Mari over him.

P.S. Don't tell HEM!

TCU player super respectful!

@JayHawkFanToo trying to keep u out of trouble

@Crimsonorblue22

Can't watch post game interviews. I still hate Zenger.

Sorry!!

@Crimsonorblue22

As you know, that is a tall order... :)

Perry just had a great game!

Just saw on the screen...as per RPI SOS, MU is #4, probably because every team they play is so much better than they are. ROTFLMAO :) :) :)

Really like coach Johnson!

@Crimsonorblue22

yees

@BeddieKU23 u watching post game?

@Crimsonorblue22

no what is being said?

Just got home and have it on DVR.. Do I watch?

@JayhawkRock78

only if you want to be really mad in stretches, ellis & graham great games. The rest well yeah

@JayhawkRock78 watch it! Some pretty cool plays that will make u smile!

@BeddieKU23 TCU player super nice, Johnson respectful and funny! Perry, Dg and Mari. Perry said that might be his #1 dunk!! Dg and Mari talking about Huey kid deserving to get in, even has had stitches going 5 on 5. They were very happy for him. Talk to Mari about dribbling and quickness and him driving on their bigs. Self not in yet. Hawkins a good guy too!

Dg said he probably got lucky in his shooting, they were helping on others giving him open looks. Played him as driver not shooter. Coach j said they had to pick their poison, said Perry would be playing for good money some day. Self coming up

Dg got haircut- from self

Best anybody got in paint all year-Dg

Of course reporters bringing up Perry's missed wv shot- moving on

Most easy baskets Perry's got. Only 10 shots- I think

Talked about scarecrow playung

All 140 lbs of him

Worried how long Christian Garret's senior speech will be

Coach thinks TCU's worthy opponent

Reporters thinking it shouldn't have been so close

Ksu game will be juiced, even though I say ksu sucks

Hilton and bramledge, 2 toughest courts

Kids not being aggressive all the time, keep telling them!

Use aggressiveness to make shots, not opposite-we shouldn't have to wait to be aggressive, rebounding and d should make us aggressive

Devonte and Perry were tremendous. I think TCU is an up and coming team, so I'm not worried about the margin. On to AFH West to take out the wounded Kitties. It's actually like having three home games in a row on our schedule.

Cliff not playing cause of injuries-self said he's fine

They asked if team needs xtra motivation to get up for ksuck. Coach talked how good ISU is playing and conference title on line, should be motivated

Kstate hungry too-hi stakes

W/mizzou gone kstate biggest rivalry

Over.

BG good at interviews!

Interview Chris Huey-who ee

BG said they wanted to attack ksu take away their confidence early and let them know they can't hang w/us. Something like that!

@Crimsonorblue22 had to travel to kc. Daughter is playing in a volleyball tourney

@cragarhawk u were missed! Maybe Eric had a baby too?

@Crimsonorblue22 But misery swallows !! Sorry couldn't resist.

@globaljaybird

...and therein lies the question, does MU suck or blow? And the quintessential answer is that the are the "shop-vac" of the college basketball world...they suck and they blow. :)