It's due to KU' home court advantage being bad for business for ESPN. That's one stat I will dive into and have numbers to back, that KU gets put on the road on Big Monday more then any other league team.
This year the matchups on those Big Mondays has been disadvantageous on paper and worse when faced with the realities of this teams performances on the road so far and the lack of depth/injuries they are facing.
No Kev or Jamari again
Juan will play most likely tonight on one good leg.
Should be lots of fun.
Regardless the schedule is what it is but it's always good to point out what's been scheduled in a manner to put KU in a tough spot. I'd love to find the time to statistically prove some of what I'm saying.
Hopefully our 6 healthy + 1 injured can find a way to keep the game competitive. Tonight could be one of those nights where it could look worse then expected because of things outside their control.
It's done to drive the entertainment value of the Big-Monday slot to have KU on the road on Mondays. They have said in the past that a home game for KU doesn't sell as well as a road game so that's what we get now. This is what the NBA calls a "scheduled loss". Even at full strength the cards are stacked against you traveling on the road 1 day after a big home game. With possibly 2 starters down and a role player as well it will be just about impossible to avoid. The back half of this schedule certainly felt intentional this year with how it was drawn up. There's no way someone can straight face the schedule and say KU wasn't biased against due to its reign on the conference under Self.
2 Big Monday games on the road after big home games on Saturday (Houston/Baylor). Play Kansas St (Rival) on road after known big game against Houston- intentional. Play Texas Tech on road after Baylor Gameday- Intentional.
2 road games in consecutive weekends against Baylor/Houston to end regular season- Intentional.
If he's back yeah. Not good still.
If without Juan we are talking Elmarko handling the ball with Timberlake and walk-ons. Doesn't get any worse then this
No doubt the portal was a miss outside Hunter. Braun hasn't caused a lot of damage yet..
Self said after he didn't know but that he definitely did something to it good. Tough kid so we shall see
Appreciate your optimistic view. So much going against us tomm
I see ESPN scheduled another loss for Monday. Thanks
Supreme enigma here for sure. Sucks how his tenure ended
I'm not sure Cal spends 3 minutes in practice on the other side of the ball. Boy they are Swiss cheesy
I really did try. Rewrote several times. You have Kev out, Juan get injured and then you have a 6th year guy that should just get it, but he doesn't
Wish we had another option besides Nick. 3 mistakes in the last 14 seconds and lucky they didn't cost them. Shouldn't be in this situation with him. You wouldn't know he's been in College this long with the kind of mental errors that he continues to make
Ha luck
And the hits just keep comin
@wissox said in McCullar out vs Baylor:
@wissox said in McCullar out vs Baylor:
Anyone watching the Super Bore tomorrow night?
Oops, I meant Bowl :)
Yes, will you?
There we go
Damn furph was nervous there
Gonna be a long few weeks folks
Getting ugly fast
Unacceptable
Timeout was needed. Guys are gassed already
Maybe nick should shoot a 2. He clearly can't make 3s
Defense is locked in so far
And the hits just keep comin
A foul for getting the ball
Would love to see Johnny make something here. Been too quiet
Nice dunk kj
Furphy just didn't go for it
Sure
Wow what a rigged sequence there
Joke of a call
Adams has 5 missed layups it seems
Oh boy
Of late he's shot hunting
Of course
Wtf
No thank you to kev bricks
Guys throwing up a prayer and you foul
Ha wow
Not making anything. Ugh
Hunter never makes it now
One of those kind of nights
Gotta capitalize out the timeout. Espn has stats for how good self is. We need one
We do some of the dumbest stuff I've seen
Yes I think the kitchen thing worked
Big to see Kev make some 3s, been struggling a bit in conf play
Whatever bill said it worked
Turnovers continue to be the Achilles heal