Only 5 more hours!

It's Christmas morning everyone. Merry Christmas!

Off topic for starters, but go NMSU and Louisville!
Gotta get my bracket started off right...

And Rock freaking Chalk! (Please make it out of round one)

Going to be a long 3 hours.

focojayhawk said:

It's Christmas morning everyone. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas lol

@Woodrow REAL LONG my friend lol - - just watching the others right now

@jayhawkcsg I always cheer against the evil empires of the SEC and ACC. LSU making Yale look not so smart lol. I hope every ACC team is done this weekend.

Louisville getting away with some major trash talk right now trying to goad Minny into acting stupid. Not surprised with their classless head coach.

Too bad Murray and Marquette are the same time as our game. I would've made time to watch that just to see the dual between Howard and what's his name from Murray. Anyone who doesn't think the NCAA sets up these matchups for TV's benefit is greatly deceived.

NMSU was up 7 early now down 10 with 5 to go in the half.

Another off topic stat -streak We lead the Nation for the most consecutive streaks in 20 game win seasons: - KU - - Duke - - Gonzaga - -& Louisville - didn't say how many but we lead the Nation in that also - - another little streak to keep

@jayballer73 Wikipedia has a huge list of things that KU is near the top in among all programs. Pretty interesting stuff. The consecutive weeks ranked streak is our next relatively big one to break. It will be broken provided we stay ranked through most of next season.

I hate cheering for Minny

Semi big replay review here. Will refs overturn this call when it appears they should?

Wow replay officials just ignored evidence in favor of an ACC team. What a shocker.

@wissox I didn't think they could reverse the call. Too close

My perfect bracket is now wrecked.

New Mexico St only down 1, closing in on half time

BeddieKU23 said:

New Mexico St only down 1, closing in on half time

They turned it around for sure. Some suspect calls have been made in favor of Auburn.

As usual Louisville proving how mediocre they were this year losing to a very average Minnesota bunch

My bracket is still perfect (I didn't fill one out this year).

@Kcmatt7 I admit it was close, but it seemed to be touching his hand when the light lit. Not hearing sound as I watch so not sure if that's part of their review.

NM St down 3 at half, giving them a game at least..

The good news is that Louisville still doesn't have a prayer.

Yale only down 7 with about 7 minutes to go against LSU. LSU had a 15 pt lead at halftime

That Bill Murray Joke about the Gopher's always beating him was absolutely fire.

In a pickle with the FSU/UVM game. Either rooting for my home-state school or fav college football team school. Early its a 1 pt lead for FSU

BeddieKU23 said:

In a pickle with the FSU/UVM game. Either rooting for my home-state school or favorite football team' school. Early its a 1 pt lead for FSU

Hard to imagine Leonard Hamilton struggling in the tournament...

BShark said:

BeddieKU23 said:

In a pickle with the FSU/UVM game. Either rooting for my home-state school or favorite football team' school. Early its a 1 pt lead for FSU

Hard to imagine Leonard Hamilton struggling in the tournament...

They seemed to have weathered the early shooting of UVM.

Yale had the lead down to 5. Back up to 7 with 2 to go

Missed fts and rebounding killing Vermont as FSU starts to assert some control.

LOL JK GAME TIED

BShark said:

LOL JK GAME TIED

Their 3's are on today

If Yale could make anything they'd be ahead.

Refs helping FSU twice in a row.

wissox said:

My perfect bracket is now wrecked.

you wait and watch - -I'm gonna have that perfect record - - - -a perfect record of ZERO correct lol

didn't we play New Mexico State earlier this year?

@jayballer73 Yes we barely beat them 63-60 in KC. Sure looks like the refs are not gonna let Auburn lose here, about 5 very questionable calls go their way.

Saying Auburn is a ba match up - - is an under statement-- -they love that fast paced and shoot the 3 - not good

If Bradley wins, and they are my dad's alma mater, my bracket will be wrecked all the way to the final as I had them winning in my bracket.

Auburn literally doesnt do anything but Jack 3s

Hitting 40% though. That’ll play

Can't say I'm a big Auburn fan. Never liked Pearl and their guards seem really cocky.

Agbaji starting over Garrett.

Whatevs nm st

Vermont hanging in there against Florida St. Let's go Catamounts!

Lol 10 minute timeout to determine who the ball is off

And mccants on nm st literally losing the game for them at the ft line

What is Auburn doing?

I get that they will play well and poised against KU if we advance but lol.

BShark said:

What is Auburn doing?

Being coached by Bruce Pearl.

OH

MY

GOD

Blew the game

HOW DO YOU MISS 2 FREE THROWS AS A 78% SHOOTER.

CHOKE CITY

@BeddieKU23 Should have taken the lay-up lmao

@BShark

Yeah now it looks bad

BeddieKU23 said:

@BShark

Yeah now it looks bad

I mean it was always bad. Take OT, Auburn's best player has already fouled out.

Lol airballed the winner. My god

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Oh NMSU. You had it.

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Oh NMSU. You had it.

Multiple times over. My word.

Barkley confirmed dead lmao

That game was a which team wanted to lose the game more. NMSU wanted it just a little bit more.

FSU pulling away

@KirkIsMyHinrich

Man they wrote the book

Both teams just so scared of KU

New Mexico St just blew that - -3 free throws and you can only make 1. -- Auburn gifted you the game - -and you said no thanks - - Sad. - -

The way I'm hearing from so many different people including Coach Self just saying they can really stroke the 3 -we are not gonna have it way against Northeastern for sure. - -defending the 3 is sure not a strong point for us. - -Oachi is starting off the guy which is suppose to be their stud gonna be guarding him to start - we shall see. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

BeddieKU23 said:

FSU pulling away

Looking over.

FSU player just killed some guys on a monster dunk.

@BShark

Kabengele is a monster

Let's go #Jayhawks
We need to come out fast and play inside. I don't trust our 3 point shooters.

RockChalk

BeddieKU23 said:

@BShark

Kabengele is a monster

Trying to imagine his numbers if he played for Billy...

@RockChalkinTexas

Which 3 pointer do we have?

RockChalkinTexas said:

Let's go #Jayhawks
We need to come out fast and play inside. I don't trust our 3 point shooters.

RockChalk

let's just hope D Lawson doesn't go alligator arms again in the 1st half and shoot 2-11 - - again

@BShark

Hes a NBA guy. Gonna be good too.

He would put up 20 and 10 here. Comes off the bench at FSU and is their leading scorer

@BeddieKU23. Not Chuck. Hoping Ochai is the one to burst out

what a ridiculous ending in the Auburn NMSU game. Bonehead decisions by everyone involved, started off by Coach Big Oyster deciding to foul up three with 16 seconds left.

@RockChalkinTexas

We can only hope chuck doesnt have to play other then emergency or blowout purposes

Is there a game thread?

Vermont just not physically capable of guarding FSUs athletes

@RockChalkinTexas This one

Kcmatt7 said:

Vermont just not physically capable of guarding FSUs atetes

Yeah, huge mismatches all over the court.

Anyone nervous to see which team shows up?

@BShark

They dont have these guys in the America east conf. FSU is a tough match up for everyone

NMSU gave that away 5 missed FTs in the final minute

RockChalkinTexas said:

Anyone nervous to see which team shows up?

Absolutely we will know in the first 8 minutes

BeddieKU23 said:

@BShark

They dont have these guys in the America east conf. FSU is a tough match up for everyone

If it weren't for Leonard Hamilton I would think this team has a legit shot at a FF.

BShark said:

BeddieKU23 said:

@BShark

They dont have these guys in the America east conf. FSU is a tough match up for everyone

If it weren't for Leonard Hamilton I would think this team has a legit shot at a FF.

They have beaten themselves all yr. The Duke loss was the difference in them being a higher seed.

They dont shoot it well

Kabengele was a +200 recruit. Hard to fathom seriously

The NCAA app blows to watch games on

Man...the committee almost didn't put this Belmont team in. And I get it, it's hard to put in two OVC teams but yeah this Belmont team definitely belongs.

You know wouldn't surprise me in the least to see North Eastern to come out in a zone defense - try and make us beat them from the outside. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY

BShark said:

Man...the committee almost didn't put this Belmont team in. And I get it, it's hard to put in two OVC teams but yeah this Belmont team definitely belongs.

It shouldn't be that hard tho. They beat Murray st if they had their center. Good team

@BeddieKU23 The committee hates mid majors, even really good ones.

Dude on CBS says KU has no pro-caliber players.

Buckle up boys

DanR said:

Dude on CBS says KU has no pro-caliber players.

Well he's wrong in what he said, but if he meant NBA guys then I would tend to agree.

Let's Gooo

Hope there's a big crowd. KUalumni said 900 #Jayhawks live in salt lake

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Haven't been this nervous for a first round game in a long time

DanR said:

Dude on CBS says KU has no pro-caliber players.

Good thing it's college basketball then. Also he's wrong.

That visca guy who guards him

@RockChalkinTexas

Garrett when he gets in

Cerrano's looking for some extra power tonight. He's wanting to sacrifice a live chicken.

Why dave

Dedric

Come on Dotson nobody wants chuck in besides his mother

NE is packing the paint on D. Going to have to make some shots, boys

Dedric getting points early big

Type of game Dedric should go for 25

Yeah D

Kcmatt7 said:

Type of game Dedric should go for 25

Agree. Next game if KU wins is NOT a good Dedric match-up game.

might need 40 from dedric since the rest of the team is afraid to shoot

More bricks

Damn, Dot was wiiiide open

@DanR With good reason - none of their shots look like they have a chance of going in...

Maybe a foul?????????

looooool refs plz

Grimes with an airball on a drive to the rim. Or was it a pass to Dedric?

Nice job, Ochai

@wissox You know the answer to that....

Bill Self kryptonite... just going to have to hope we out athlete them

13th make of the year sure why not

Ugly defense. It's all dedric

Better start rebounding a little better. If they get 2 or 3 cracks per trip, we're in trouble.

So...Let's not get into a 3 pt shooting contest, guys.

Drive it down hill

"Just his 13th 3-pointer of the year. You don't expect it from that guy."

Every. Damn. Time.

Scary 3 point shooting

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

"Just his 13th 3-pointer of the year. You don't expect it from that guy."

Every. Damn. Time.

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Marcus layups!🤣🤩

kJ?

YOU GUYS WE FOUND AN OPPONENT THAT HAS PLAYERS GRIMES CAN GET BY WITH HIS "SPEED"

Well, NE only has 7 guys, so maybe we'll wear them out chasing KJ around.

Grimes has missed 11 straight 3's if my calculations are correct.

Hot take

We suck at 3s

Dotson MAKE YOUR DAMN LAYUPS

Stop shooting 3s

No Fran is REFRESHING

I cannot fathom how we ended up making 35% on 3s over the course of the year. Almost any HS team in America can make shots better than we do...

@RockChalkinTexas

It's the best

@kjayhawks Exactly. We are settling for 3s!!

DCHawker said:

I cannot fathom how we ended up making 35% on 3s over the course of the year. Almost any HS team in America can make shots better than we do...

About 50% or more are wide open too

kjayhawks said:

Stop shooting 3s

Normally I would disagree but...

Finish that, Dotson.

We should shoot 75% today and be making layup after layup. I’d rather us go two bigs and just pound it down low.

Hawk8086 said:

@kjayhawks Exactly. We are settling for 3s!!

Eh, a lot of good looks in theory but I say make this NE team PROVE they can stop you inside first.

@KirkIsMyHinrich weird he didn't go all the way in!

@KirkIsMyHinrich

Not sure why using the glass wasnt the first and only option there

Can we get some buckets please

Mitch could probably be an offensive threat today tbh

@Kcmatt7

Agree should see him soon

Why kJ?

If DMac is loose with the ball I'd just leave Garrett in. Keep driving it, though, I agree.

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Why kJ?

Bill does this when he thinks we need an “athletic” Big in lol

Get ball inside

Kcmatt7 said:

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Why kJ?

Bill does this when he thinks we need an “athletic” Big in lol

That's gonna be a YIKES from me. The poor athletic state of our bigs. Mitch is the most athletic don't @ me.

Bill also might think KJ can hit a 10 footer against their zone. Which I doubt.

Nice pass

There's the Dot we all know and love

Every play should start with dotson

That's what I said

I think we win by 30

Dude looks beat

Attaboy Dot

I'd be happy if we just pushed up the court and didn't run our offense at all.

NE has NOTHING for Dot's speed lol

Damn dot break

Oh boy, chuck on the loose

Just no 2nd fouls

CHUUUUUUUUUCKY

See what happens when you listen to KJ.

air foul

wtf

Imagine taking your best player out of the game so early. Idc if the opp is NE.

I've seen enough of KJ

KJ taking over.....or something

Awwwww

And just like that we suck

Wow.

BeddieKU23 said:

And just like that we suck

It's simple. No Dot.

Subs suck

Mitch coming in

:face_palm:

Night and day when Dotson is on the bench

"It's KJ Lawson time" - KJ Lawson

KJ and Charlie = March Sadness.

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Subs suck

KJ and Chuck are really super bad.

Grimes is terrible

What is this, the JV?

WTF is going on. Slow down.

This is as bad of a KU team as I’ve seen in my life. I’m young thankfully

We are damn lucky they aren't making many shots...

wissox said:

What is this, the JV?

Yes actually. Bill's fault for thinking he could afford it.

Shoot ourselves in foot here.

Load em up on the bus at halftime Bill and get em to the airport.

WEAK FOUL YO

I fully expected a 7-8 man rotation with 40 minutes of Dotson

Dotson is back in the game and the offense doesn't suck. Bizarre.

oh jesus.

LOL

Awwww

It’s sad when I wish Chuck was as good as Nadiir Tharpe

Kcmatt7 said:

This is as bad of a KU team as I’ve seen in my life. I’m young thankfully

You aren't that young. I know you remember 1999-2000.

PUT TWO BIGS IN BILL

Jesus

I'm happy that the Lawsons are out, now get the third transfer out.

D dot

I'd rather have Mitch take a three than Chuck.

Connect the Dots, son!

Who needs bigs when you got Dotson? :)

Is this a CBI tournament game?????

Lol chuck

Why is Dedric sitting for so long?

Marcus just pooped?

Even the crowd is sleeping

@DCHawker You mean college basketball incompetence?

So I heard we had a guy named Dave.

This is flat out awful basketball

BShark said:

I'd rather have Mitch take a three than Chuck.

I'd rather have my grandma in too

Woodrow said:

Why is Dedric sitting for so long?

I'm sure Bill has his reasons but...

Self will be happy that we are making them miss...

Letting them stay in the game by settling for 3s. Need to get Moore out of there. I don't know why we don't keep attacking the basket.

We look completely discombobulated out there. Almost Biddy ball level.

@BeddieKU23 She can shoot better than anyone on the court....

Subs need to learn what gets them xtra time! Not bad shots and bad D. How do they not know that?

We're not sweating too much yet, but the Spartans are. DOwn 1 to Bradley with 8 minutes left.

@Crimsonorblue22 he got poked in the gut

I'll never understand why we took Charlie or let him play.

approxinfinity said:

So I heard we had a guy named Dave.

Bill and his lack of trust in young big men bites us in the ass again...

@BeddieKU23 I think Bill lost a bet

grandma knows what to do with teh rock

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Is Dave really a worse option than Charlie or KJ? At least Dave hustles and tries hard.

Hot take: 1-9 from three won't get you ahead vs Auburn.

@nuleafjhawk

Adidas blackmail?

All day

I wonder if 5 years from now we'll all be sitting at Memorial Stadium reminiscing about when we had a good basketball team

KU only 3 turnovers so far which is kinda surprising but man, those missed threes.

Self out of a timeout. Redic

We have 2.5 bigs in!!

Whaddya know, Dedric comes in we get an easy postup basket.

Crap

Let the big boys play

BShark said:

KU only 3 turnovers so far which is kinda surprising but man, those missed threes.

Those were so bad I’d call them TOs

Crap again

Kj with his good game.

Banks and drives, wide open🤣

@BeddieKU23 yeah, the last shot went in, but it was anything but a good shot....

KJ with a lucky shot...but we'll take it!

OK SURE WHY NOT LOOOOL

Sometimes it’s worse when KJ makes a couple

Gotta take what they give u

DCHawker said:

@BeddieKU23 yeah, the last shot went in, but it was anything but a good shot....

I'm just happy it went in. I hope we start banking 3s

Sure is fun when we make three or four baskets in a row. Now prepare for the drought....

Need more BUCKETS

Ugly but we’ll take it. Because we’ve done just plain ugly enough already.

Kcmatt7 said:

Sometimes it’s worse when KJ makes a couple

I promise you Auburn's walk-ons wouldn't have allowed the lay-up he got. NE just doesn't have "dudes".

@BeddieKU23 Banking 3s may be the only way they go in....

DanR said:

Sure is fun when we make three or four baskets in a row. Now prepare for the drought....

It's like you know this team?

Altitude getting them?

Our defense has actually been good this game I'd say.

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@BShark payback for all the lucky 3s we have had against us

I’m not sure why AO looked to struggle defensively while in.

@RockChalkinTexas exactly

The NE coach was probably like, "Help off of KJ because he's slow and can't shoot and that Dotson guy is killing us." And KJ just got a free layup out of it lol.

Bwag said:

I’m not sure why AO looked to struggle defensively while in.

Still in his FR funk/slump I guess.

No easy buckets over Mitch

Come on that's a block

kJ almost had a steal

I’m sure getting film on OA changed things. Probably very tendency heavy considering how young he is

We should be able to score 80+ easily on these guys...

@KirkIsMyHinrich That looked like NBA defense on that drive of KJ's

I like that guy shooting

DCHawker said:

We should be able to score 80+ easily on these guys...

10-14 from two so far. Need to stop attempting treys.

BeddieKU23 said:

Come on that's a block

Ball don't lie

Another 3

run it up guys

Lucky there

glad they missed that second three... whew.

Dedric looks tired. working hard though

@DanR cause it would've been your fault!😡

@Crimsonorblue22 I was yelling "MISS IT!", so I don't think so!

If Sparty loses as a 2 seed again I don’t know how Izzo loves it down

This game reminds me of the Wofford game.

@DanR you called it though

Really lazy defense the last few possessions. Lucky they only made one 3.

Kcmatt7 said:

If Sparty loses as a 2 seed again I don’t know how Izzo loves it down

THE ACTUAL WORST TEAM TO MAKE THE TOURNAMENT BRADLEY.

But it looks like MSU should hold on.

Per Jesse Newell

KU is 9/13 at the rim. Northeastern is 1/7.

@KirkIsMyHinrich Dedric fall down

East is definitely the worst region and I have no idea why everyone is complaining about MSU being the 2 in Duke's bracket. I'd rather play them than I would Kentucky, Tennessee, or Michigan.

Hold on to defense last 3 minutes

Lawson has 14 and I have no idea how

@BeddieKU23 He has our only two 3s...

Great foul Dedric love it

Looking better when we play smoother and make shots

Mom and Dad Lawson in the house. That might explain KJ's big minutes

Our ball!

Grimes. Man. Make 1

Grimes needs to work on his close outs.

Grimes is so unatgletic at times it hurts

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Our ball!

Atrocious call by the refs how do they miss that

Tell him D travels

B schools giving a run today

@Kcmatt7 I approve of that appropriate typo on "athletic"

goaltend.

Yea they can’t stop Dedric. Going for 30+ today

They cant stop Dedric, just feed him

approxinfinity said:

goaltend.

Another joke call

Kind of crazy that they've called twice as many fouls on us as NE.

No reason for Dedric to settle for 17 footers

Take his legs out

Sleepy walking at points

Would have loved the lob

wissox said:

Kind of crazy that they've called twice as many fouls on us as NE.

Especially when you consider that NE can't stay in front of any KU player lol

Poetry in motion

A foul on an alley oop isnt a shooting foul?

My God Dotson is redic fast

Great half by Dotson and Dedric on both ends of the court.

BeddieKU23 said:

My God Dotson is redic fast

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Keep going Big, Bill. Think Big.

Dot needs to realize he can get closer to the bucket than that with his speed...

That would have been nice.

That announcer is right. Self getting a 4 seed considering everything that happened is quite good.

It feels like we should leading by more as many shots as NE has missed....but you have to like a 12 pt. halftime lead.

Our perimeter guys are 0-8 from deep -- make anything - not that they should shoot anymore -- and we could be up 20

Good effort Bradley. I’m sure Minnesota thanks you for at least forcing them to use some effort

Just snuck away from work... I’ve seen worse first half scores from us. The bad guys probably won’t miss as much from 3 in the second half tho

People would have been arguing Kansas as a 3 seed if their name was Duke. They played the hardest schedule in the country, have 11 quad 1 wins, and are 8-3 against Top 25 teams.

I'll take +12 at halftime.

Oh geez, act like they're shocked about d dot and Dedric

NE is lucky this ain't a 25 point game IMO but I'm pleased

Belmont up 1 with 441

Now they talking nice about us!

Orange Vanilla Coke. NOPE.

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Oh geez, act like they're shocked about d dot and Dedric

Before the game: Kansas has no pro prospects.

At Halftime: Dotson is a pro prospect.

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Oh geez, act like they're shocked about d dot and Dedric

Best two players on the team are good? SAY IT ISNT SO!

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Crimsonorblue22 said:

Oh geez, act like they're shocked about d dot and Dedric

Before the game: Kansas has no pro prospects.

At Halftime: Dotson is a pro prospect.

Dotson is 100% playing pro ball just not sure how long he sticks in the NBA.

@BShark

He will stick. Just hope he sticks here enough to round his game

They never give us credit and I don't want it from them, keep the chip!💪🏻 I'm such a hardass🤣

Also, please play anyone else on the roster before you play Charlie again. Garrett, Mitch, Dave, KJ, Luinstra. Anyone else.

Nice quote from the halftime guy to sum up the half... “They fought the Lawson, and the Lawson won” ha!

Odds we come out sucking and let them get back in it?

Kcmatt7 said:

Odds we come out sucking and let them get back in it?

High. Young team.

Go Dedrick!

There's a former Jayhawk coaching on tru. I loved Turg as a player, but don't care for him much as a coach.

I hope we see Mitch a lot in half 2. He's been playing very well lately and I like his haircut.

Great. My cable is flaking out.

DanR said:

Great. My cable is flaking out.

You can stream online.

March madness app works well

@dylans As long as we keep winning.....

effing ESPN box score has SDS in the game credited with an assist...lol....

@KirkIsMyHinrich Is that cleverly disguised sarcasm, or are you really the only person on the planet that likes his haircut?

BTW, I also would like to see a LOT more of Mitch on the court. He brings energy, enthusiasm and defense. And bad hair.

DCHawker said:

effing ESPN box score has SDS in the game credited with an assist...lol....

Getting box scores reported correctly is not important. Only Zion and Duke are important.

Belmont within one, 59 ticks left.

Mitch with the 2nd half start!

nuleafjhawk said:

@KirkIsMyHinrich Is that cleverly disguised sarcasm, or are you really the only person on the planet that likes his haircut?

BTW, I also would like to see a LOT more of Mitch on the court. He brings energy, enthusiasm and defense. And bad hair.

No that is not sarcasm. Lightfoot has a haircut you can set your watch to. I'm a fan.

Belmont screws up a possession that would have won them the game.

Does their coach talk?

wissox said:

Belmont screws up a possession that would have won them the game.

Unbelievable decision to run clock down 1.

Jeez guys

Sterling start to the second half....

@BShark Yeah it was strange. They had a TO too and the possession was falling apart.

DCHawker said:

Sterling start to the second half....

Predictable sadly

Time out too late as always

Ochai falling apart

4 TOs all first half - 3 bad ones already this half. Zero energy or focus right now...

apparently Bill unlearned them how to play ball at the half

WOOF.

Turning it over against NE at an alarming rate this half...

We make it look all to easy to come back

If Doke got hurt the first game of the season would we be playing in the dance?

What’s wrong with AO?

We’ve passed to them twice this half

I’ve seen better starts to second halfs...

Not the way we needed to start

wissox said:

If Doke got hurt the first game of the season would we be playing in the dance?

Barely. Thanks to the PAC 12

@wissox Or if LV had pulled his head out at any point.........

@wissox We might be OU then....

Mid majors so far are executing poorly in end game situations. Let's hope that doesn't balance out some with NE playing well...

@DCHawker In an hour or so we might wish we were OU

We're not going to lose this game. Not sure we'll win the next.

Grimes streak ends at 11 missed 3's.

two threes in a row whoo hoo!

I missed his first one

Ha, 3s falling for us now and still not them, i like it!

Grimes and Dedric

Self whatever you said. Remember it. It worked

Thx

If dedric plays like this. We can beat anyone

Okay much better

What just happened

@DanR don't call runs for opponents any more ok?!🏀🏀🏀😇

@BeddieKU23 you betcha

@Crimsonorblue22 I didn't call their run, I called our drought.

Gotta keep it up

@DanR sometimes I get mixed up🤔🤩

We need to save the rest of our 3-point makes for Auburn.

@KirkIsMyHinrich hit our quota!

She said runs 🤣

Put Charlie in the game, he won't make any.

@BeddieKU23 He's able to play like this because its Northeastern. Against athletic guys as big or bigger, it won't come so easily....

RockChalkinTexas said:

What just happened

I just checked two different stat trackers and neither one knows.

@KirkIsMyHinrich no!

BShark said:

RockChalkinTexas said:

What just happened

I just checked two different stat trackers and neither one knows.

Shot clock

DCHawker said:

@BeddieKU23 He's able to play like this because its Northeastern. Against athletic guys as big or bigger, it won't come so easily....

I know. When he makes shots though he plays with a lot of confidence.

Just thinking, how has Bruce Pearl not gotten more press in the FBI investigation? Basically a given he was involved. I’m just shocked more hasn’t come out

Aren't the game guys sitting right there?

DCHawker said:

@BeddieKU23 He's able to play like this because its Northeastern. Against athletic guys as big or bigger, it won't come so easily....

Auburn's bigs are problematic.

I love that guy

Need to get big Dave back out there to improve his confidence, IMO

LOL at no foul call on that wow. Glad Dot made it

NBA continuation on that one...

Frick dotson

Woah! Go KJ

Woodrow said:

Woah! Go KJ

Only against NE...

BeddieKU23 said:

Frick dotson

I'm scared.

Shoved

Sit him and ice him. I think we’d be better with 5 bigs than Chuck

Grimes got hammered.

If Dotson can't play we're an NIT team.

@Crimsonorblue22 Yeah, but he is so fricking weak.....

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

If Dotson can't play we're an NIT team.

And not the winner of it

Ochai

KJ

Charlie has good vision when he wants to

How does Self allow KJ or Chuck to ever shoot? Like period

Run up the score before the team realizes Dotson is hobbled

I did not see this outcome coming at all. Fun to watch though!

THAT'S MY TEAM

🤐 no more about kJ for this game🙏 let d dot be good!

Kcmatt7 said:

How does Self allow KJ or Chuck to ever shoot? Like period

I like KJ as a big.

BShark said:

Kcmatt7 said:

How does Self allow KJ or Chuck to ever shoot? Like period

I like KJ as a big.

Yea If he had Mitch’s offensive mentallity

We've always been this good, just super young and always hurt.

Kcmatt7 said:

BShark said:

Kcmatt7 said:

How does Self allow KJ or Chuck to ever shoot? Like period

I like KJ as a big.

Yea If he had Mitch’s offensive mentallity

Fair. Though honestly I wish Mitch would take a few more super wide open threes.

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Like I really can't express how happy I am that we are not playing Murray State.

This Kansas team playing with less pressure than Kansas teams usually do probably helps. They seem pretty loose today.

BShark said:

Like I really can't express how happy I am that we are not playing Murray State.

No joke. 8/11 from 3. I think the committee made a mistake and we should have been playing them.

nice bump by #11 on Dave

Bad pass to Dave

Thx chuck

Give it to hm

He got the ball first. Stop wasting time.

See that✋🏼Chuck? He wasn't waving at u?

Uh...please be okay Dot.

We know Grimes wouldn't intentionally make hard contact

Now I know why he doesn't talk

I thought they'd play zone

DOT BACK IN

🥰

KJ!

🥰

Ha Morant actually has guys to pass to unlike Curry had at Davidson

looked a little slow for Dotson on that one

Dang! Guys slow

I say get Dotson out of the game unless they get it under 15.

So tired of Moore

And dang Dotson is fast

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

I say get Dotson out of the game unless they get it under 15.

Idk, it'd get there pretty fast.

Think Baylor game

What do we do, I dont think thet are coming back

Dave is a puppy. He'll be good soon.

I’d go ahead and leave Dedric out and take Dotson out.

They've had bad body language all day

Please take Devon out.

That was a SICK pass from KJ

BShark said:

That was a SICK pass from KJ

Wheres he been for 35 games?

He had that one really good game

How about a Teahan 3 in 5he NCAA tournament? Get Dot out soon

I'm not sure if both of Vick's ankles together are as thick as one of Dotson's.

Lmao at the sad Husky.

Wow Chuck trying on d

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

Lmao at the sad Husky.

These announcers have me laughing that's for sure. It's hard for them when a game is this bad.

Hats off to the squad. Prepared well.

Game over! Time to rest everyone. Wonder if other teams will gameplan for Kj and Chuck.

It's been said already, but I'd like to reiterate that this non-Fran commentary is fantastic.

RockChalkinTexas said:

Hats off to the squad. Prepared well.

Agree. I will also say again this reminds me of the Wofford game. People freaking out about their three point offense but aren't factoring in that their lack of athleticism means KU can eat them up in the paint and run them off the line.

Garrett is being a serious pest

So that Brandon Lang dipcrap that said Self is leaving also said KU had no chance in this game against Northeastern. Food for thought. :joy:

Auburn might be like Marquette.

From 37-30 to 66-36... Is that good?

I've often wondered in a situation like this. We're up by 30. Self pulls the starters, puts the intramural champs from KU in. 6 minutes left. Can they hold the lead?

Not sure why we are still playing key guys

What are you doing, Bill?

Woodrow said:

Not sure why we are still playing key guys

Yeah, I'm confused about this at this point as well. Game is super over.

Maybe Bill is sending a message? Idk.

You guys think KSU will win tmrw?

Man I hope hes okay

@Crimsonorblue22 Unfortunately, ya.

Northeastern isn't going to score 30 points in 5 minutes. Pull Dedric.

Dedric is so tired lol. Not even trying in D

Grimes, terrible pass

@Crimsonorblue22 KSU is going all the way! (That's what my neighbor kid told me)

KSU is losing round 1

@DanR yuck!

Kcmatt7 said:

Dedric is so tired lol. Not even trying in D

I'll allow it up 30

Remember when the seeds were revealed and the ACC panel was like, "I don't even know if they'll get passed Northeastern, lol."

I hope Duke loses early.

Dedric padding his tournament stats now

UK is just due for a huge mess up in the tourney. Cal is overdue

Chuck foul out?

@Crimsonorblue22 he's 8 years old and doesn't know better. His parents are from the Hutch area

Kcmatt7 said:

UK is just due for a huge mess up in the tourney. Cal is overdue

Praying. Would be poetic justice for how bad we thought they would be lol

@DanR that's me, lots of KSU people here

Bill WYD?

Chuck fouled out

BeddieKU23 said:

Kcmatt7 said:

UK is just due for a huge mess up in the tourney. Cal is overdue

Praying. Would be poetic justice for how bad we thought they would be lol

The way they started I just though it was going to be just like a year ago. Reid Travis was better than I thought and Haggans really turned it up a notch

Getting the starting five some playing time together I guess

BShark said:

Bill WYD?

Seriously though.

Major spanking today, I like it!

Bill Self putting everyone in the toughening box

Easy now

Send in the subs

I'm rooting for big 12, except, you guessed it, ksu

Crimsonorblue22 said:

I'm rooting for big 12, except, you guessed it, ksu

I'm also not rooting for Baylor. I hope they get blown out.

Better be a redhead on the court after this timeout.

Ja Morant 15 pts 10 ast 6 reb and still 16 minutes to play.

@Crimsonorblue22 I didn't pick KSUcks for any WINS in any of my brackets 👌

@BShark It's why he may go #2 in the draft...

Ja morant is crushing marquette

Remember when svi was a frosh and drew ran in the locker room, ncaa's, and wrote something on the the board like go big 12 and ran out, svi said, who was that? 🤣

Ochai has a nice midrange shot

Wind took that 3

Drew wrote on Twitter earlier they were rooting for KU today

@DanR

You called it!

Unleash the Teahan.

Mitch still trying to get blocks after whistle

Another bad pass attempt by OA

Och got a few shots to fall here late. Hopefully that gives him some confidence.

13 straight years with a tournament win for KU.

@Bwag it's like he's forgotten, like chuck, they have arms!💪🏻

Nice to see agbaji scoring

Glad he’s made some shots here though

Wow mitch

More games like that!

BeddieKU23 said:

Wow mitch

He's been coming on lately. I like what I'm seeing from him.

I'll take 5 more please. Nice to see the guys get an easy one

No upset there. Now Next.

That announcer likes saying that foreigner's name. Been practicing it!

Let’s make Bruce cry.

My lord murray st

I'm so used to the round of 64 game being a stressful nightmare. That game was a leisurely breeze.

Kcmatt7 said:

BeddieKU23 said:

Kcmatt7 said:

UK is just due for a huge mess up in the tourney. Cal is overdue

Praying. Would be poetic justice for how bad we thought they would be lol

The way they started I just though it was going to be just like a year ago. Reid Travis was better than I thought and Haggans really turned it up a notch

Oh yeah I was right there with you. I missed bad on that prediction

Half of KJs shots, I was no.... oh ok yes lol

@BeddieKU23 I picked them to elite 8

BeddieKU23 said:

My lord murray st

How are they this good? Morant is insane obviously but Brown and Buchanan are really nice players too. Like, surprising roster for an OVC squad.

KANSAS WAS THE FIRST FAVOURITE TO COVER SO FAR. GOOD TEAMS WIN GREAT TEAMS COVER.

9/15 on 3-pointers is getting it done.

Anyone remember the old days when the games were only on CBS and you had to just watch for the score in the corner of the other games? Frustrating as I never lived in Kansas and I was always hoping they'd switch over to the KU game.

Now don't go getting big heads squad. Just get rested for next. Has to give them some confidence.

@wissox The "Can't Broadcast Sports" long-form was popular for CBS at that time.

wissox said:

Anyone remember the old days when the games were only on CBS and you had to just watch for the score in the corner of the other games? Frustrating as I never lived in Kansas and I was always hoping they'd switch over to the KU game.

The current format is fantastic thankfully.

I've never seen a kid like Morant

One big negative for the game - major regression or maybe reversion to the mean for Grimes - 3 pts on 1-6 shooting and 1 RB and general lack of aggression....

So I don't know how many of you are familiar with Nikola Jokic, but he's a really good comp for Dedric Lawson right now. Dedric is like the college version of Jokic.

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

So I don't know how many of you are familiar with Nikola Jokic, but he's a really good comp for Dedric Lawson right now. Dedric is like the college version of Jokic.

lol stop

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kJ after game

@BShark Nein!

@BShark let’s be great next game

@KirkIsMyHinrich @BShark Dedric actually may have a better vertical than Jokic I think. I watched a game where they were suggesting Jokic couldn't dunk. Jokic is 7 foot though ... a touch taller.

Crimsonorblue22 said:

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kJ after game

“Lol, come on bro!”

Anybody hear how d dot is feeling?

@dylans well, they haven't been here before??🤣 you can't say act like you've been there

@HighEliteMajor Ya he's not as tall or as good. I just meant that their play-styles are similar. And also that neither of them can jump.

Every year since 1986 except the probation year and the two OAD years of 05-06 KU wins their first game of the tourney. If my math is right that's 30 of 32 tourneys we've won the 1st game. Not sure who else can claim that. Forget the conference streak, that one is equally or even greater.

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RockChalkinTexas said:

Now don't go getting big heads squad. Just get rested for next. Has to give them some confidence.

It's gonna be a big jump - -another team that can spread the floor - - only better athletes. -- just gonna have to defend the three like today

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

I'm so used to the round of 64 game being a stressful nightmare. That game was a leisurely breeze.

kind of nice for a change lol. - -Northeastern defense was horrible. - hope the guys don't think they are going to be able to drive the lane time after time after time like they did today. - but ya it was nice to just enjoy and not stress lol

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@kjayhawks good one

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Syracuse has only committed one foul through fifteen minutes of this game against Baylor....Yeah right.

@kjayhawks so good! lololol
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Still real to me damn it!

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Some dude from Wofford just set the career record for 3s in a career. He went 0-9 against us. At the 11:16 mark of the 2nd half we were ahead 43-41. At the 2:30 mark Wofford made a 3 pointer to make it 70-44. That's right, we scored 27 straight points against the team is trying to move into the 2nd round of the tourney right now against Seton Hall. 27-0 Imagine that!

Syracuse just knocks over 3 point shooter in the act of shooting. 6 eyes on 3 refs didn't see it. I'm no Baylor fan, but I will pull for league teams against the east coasters. It's almost hard to watch it's such a bogus contest.

This is hilarious. Baylor guy gets knocked over rebounding. Then the Syracuse guy trips over the guy on Baylor he just knocked to the floor. Then they call a foul on the Baylor guy laying on the floor. ACC teams get the whistles.

Hard to believe Fletcher Magee went 0-9 against Kansas.

@BShark That was back when were humming along with Doke and Vick and company.

Baylor overcomes some strange (normal) officiating to win impressively

wissox said:

@BShark That was back when were humming along with Doke and Vick and company.

Doke and Vick were non-factors in that game.

Seems like Self had the same gameplan for each game though. I love that KU always seems to schedule tough mid majors in the non-con.

Yeah, at the time sounded like a gimmee type game, but now they're a nice win as is some others who've won today like Baylor, but Marquette is a loser.

@wissox Our schedule person is good, I forget their name (it's late) but they do a great job identifying mid majors that will do well in their league.

KU ended up playing the winner of these conferences in the regular season: America East, Southern, WAC (who happened to give Auburn all they wanted today).

BShark said:

@wissox Our schedule person is good, I forget their name (it's late) but they do a great job identifying mid majors that will do well in their league.

KU ended up playing the winner of these conferences in the regular season: America East, Southern, WAC (who happened to give Auburn all they wanted today).

Jim Marchinoy (sp)

@Woodrow no

@Woodrow I think his name is Larry keating, or close to something like that. Marchiony doesn't do that. He's an associate AD. Guessing close to retiring.

Who had the most minutes against NU ? Grimes at 31 ... 3 points , 1 rebound, 3 assists

any second now mr NBA is going to carry us and pull a Malik Newman !!
Final four baby!!

(Ok.. let’s have him make me eat my words on Sunday...)
😀

Grimes remains completely puzzling. So many minutes, and so little production sometimes.

Some including me complained about our personnel choices vs ISU. Self clearly made the right moves in this game and deserves high credit for the switching strategy out high to help defend the three. Switching can be used against you when you employ it in such a broad manner — offenses can create the match-ups they want. Here, Self must have felt that risk was limited. It worked quite well and gave us a 30 point win over a team some analysts seemed to think might beat us.

I think analysts forget that while a team like Northeastern may play like ISU, they just aren’t as good as ISU.

Crimsonorblue22 said:

@Woodrow I think his name is Larry keating, or close to something like that. Marchiony doesn't do that. He's an associate AD. Guessing close to retiring.

Yes , I think that’s right. Just got those two mixed up.

Bosthawk said:

Who had the most minutes against NU ? Grimes at 31 ... 3 points , 1 rebound, 3 assists

any second now mr NBA is going to carry us and pull a Malik Newman !!
Final four baby!!

(Ok.. let’s have him make me eat my words on Sunday...)
😀

He was not very good yesterday , but he did hit the biggest shot of the game in my opinion. Northeastern scored 5 straight to start the second half and KU looked disinterested and like 💩. Lead was down to 7 and Grimes hit that 3 and it was all over from there.

I also don’t think he shot again after that.

All of our great scheduling, though, and the strength of our schedule really did nothing for us .. maybe gave us a four seed over a five? No, we clearly deserved a four or better.

But it didn't get us to the three line. Houston has a really good season .. beat Cincy, LSU, Oregon; but did they play near our schedule? LSU got a three seed with 6 losses (we had 9) but look at their schedule. Their non-con sucked. They lost to FSU and Houston in the non-con. Also lost to Oklahoma St. And Purdue? Good grief. They lost 9 games. Their non-con sucked too. And they lost to their two good non-con opponents (FSU and Va. Tech), and lost at Texas.

My point is that I don't think our excellent schedule gains us much. Otherwise, we would have jumped Houston, LSU, or Purdue for a three seed.

@HighEliteMajor They just changed the formula this year. It used to help when one of the worst teams in recent memory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball_team) ↗ got a 2 seed.

@HighEliteMajor It has battle-hardened us. After a tough schedule there will be no faltering to the likes of Northeastern. We chewed them up and spit them out and moved on. How hard was our schedule the years we lost to the double Bs or Northern Iowa? I'm curious, I have no idea and can't dig in now. i wonder if it spooked Self and contributed to the impetus for making the schedule ultra-hard every year.

@DanR but his head is.....

KU now leads the all-time series with Northeastern, 1-0 😂 favorite line of the KUSports article.

dylans said:

KU now leads the all-time series with Northeastern, 1-0 😂 favorite line of the KUSports article.

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Apparently we played 27 games against teams that made the dance including of course Northeastern last night. That is a stout schedule for sure.

@wissox I like the way Kansas schedules. I hope it doesn’t change too much for NET purposes.

@dylans It's an interesting strategy. You get two really good teams with the champions classic and the SEC challenge which usually is Kentucky. Then it's a bunch of good major conference teams. These are teams we would presume we should beat like Arizona this year, but teams that are going to be competitive none-the-less.

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/vahe-gregorian/article228303544.html ↗

@approxinfinity I got the link below for 2009-10. We actually played 4 true road games - UCLA, Temple, Tennessee, and Nebraska. Hosted Michigan and Cal. Neutral site vs Memphis.

We haven’t lost a first round game since Bradley. I just don’t think our schedule gained us anything as far as NCAA seeding or tourney benefits this year.

Maybe because of losing Doke and Vick, our early wins were minimized. We had the toughest schedule though and it got us nothing .

It seems like a team like Houston getting 30 wins got more out of that. And Purdue?

http://m.kusports.com/schedules/mens-basketball/2009-10/kansas/?templates=mobile ↗

So Garrett is fighting a cold, maybe the flu and Dotson tweaked the ankle and was a bit sore Friday. Yikes

@HighEliteMajor Wasn't it the bad losses that got us the lower seed than usual? WV, UT. And getting kind of blown out in some games?

@Hawk8086 KU’s after Dok record wasn’t pretty and I’m sure a factor.

@Hawk8086 I don’t know. I was referring mainly to the tough non-con. Look at Purdue. Their non-con amounted to three losses against only three decent teams they played.

LSU played a zero non con and lost to Okla St by 13 and lost to Houston.

I still don’t know ...

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/2509/purdue-boilermakers ↗

@HighEliteMajor thanks for looking that up. I see your point. Here are all the pros and cons to a soft non-con.

Pros:
Higher seed

More total wins (chasing UK all time total)

Maybe less stress and Vick doesnt implode?

Cons:

Less intense games (at the time, did we really appreciate what this team was doing ?)

Less battle hardened (leap of faith here that overall being battle tested is a good thing, even if Northern Iowa is a piece of data to the contrary)

Less conference wins, i.e no streak?