It turns out Greg Marshall likes to win ugly, too.
The Wheat Electrocutionists beat the Indiana Izzo Lites by going positively Medusan.
You remember Medusa. Wikipedia says, Medusa "...was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as having the face of a hideous human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Medusa looked like this.
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15% from 3.
40% FG overall.
The Wheat Electrocutioners won by winning the TO stat by 6, the strip stat by 6, and getting 15 more FTAs.
Sound familiar on the FTAs? They shoot them about as well as KU does, too.
MEDUSA BALL is like BAD BALL, only with protection and with all of the driving being done by two guards, not spread all around guards, wings, and mobile big man attack platforms.
MEDUSA BALL does share one more thing in common with BAD BALL: perimeter guys shag a lot of rebounds.
When KU and WSU square off, if you don't like a lot of perseverative driving and ugliness, I suggest you watch with a blindfold on.
If you want a work of aesthetic grace, I suggest you go to the Joffrey.
If you want some beauty, I suggest you catch a Kate Hudson photo shoot.
You aesthetes out there, you basketball purists of the run like a gazelle and shake and bake off a ball screen, and run some action to create space to impact in school might as well get a case of Murine and plan on serial eye dropping.
This KU-WSU game is going to be Close Encounters of the Worst Kind for you Percivals and Julius's.
Now there is a man who is going to have the time of his life watching this matchup and his alias would be @drgnslayr.
His only complaint about this match up is that it is going to be held in a big time arena in a small time town, instead of some asphalt playground in south of Eight Mile in Detroit with chain link fences woven with barbed wire and metal nets filed into razor edges by some sadististic hit men tandem putting on their silencers under the Fist Statue in downtown Detroit before driving their Black Mafia Staff car to the play ground to shoot the losing team in honor of the second coming of Meso-ball.
Oh, and there won't be enough head fakes.
@drgnslayr's wife is NOT, I repeat, NOT going to be using the P word to describe the guys playing this asphalt dance of Thunderdome Death.
To steal from PAUL m!@#$%^ f!@#$%^& STEWART ANDERSON, THERE WILL BE BLOOD!
AND OIL!
AND FRACKED COAL GAS!
AND WHAT EVER ELSE BELCHES AND ROILS UP OUT OF THE BOWELS OF BASKETBALL HELL IN THIS CONFRONTATION OF THE GET CLOSE PITBULLS OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL.
You remember the guy in Vegas that used to shout, "Let's get ready to rumble!"?
Well, that guy was a pussy and Vegas was a church retreat.
If the right guy were announcing this KU-WSU game it would be Vin Diesel in a chain vest, ammo belts, and black leather pants and tactical boots wielding an M-240 at the score board, shouting "LET'S BRING THIS F!@#$%^ING CRIB DOWN, and shooting the scoreboard until the lights go completely black and then after another belt firing the whole flipping scoreboard comes crashing down on mid court and they play the Neo-Meso Ball game AROUND the cratered scoreboard!!!!!!!
JUDGEMENT TIME IS AT HAND IN THE LAND OF JOHN BROWN.
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