Come on kev
BeddieKU23
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9 turnovers and 8 steals for tcu is the only reason this isn't close to a blowout
Hunter eatin
Defense by Furphy there was real good.
Kj that was sick
All sped up
4 turnovers
Why are they taking a timeout
215
TCU likes to score. This one could be a game our Offense is going to have to step up
CBS broadcast. Raftery on the call, saw him post a video inside Allen yesterday.
Ernest Udeh returns to KU for the first time. He isn't lighting the world on fire for TCU so far but you can bet today will be different.
Conference opener. Let's start this gauntlet the right way
The conference might be a bit down overall from a talent perspective but collectively the league has won nearly 77% of their games to date (and that's including 5-8 West Virginia) so it's clearly going to be difficult to win this conference once again.
There's a bottom to the league in West Virginia, Oklahoma St & UCF but KU has to play all 3 of them on the road so none of them will be easy on paper. I think there's 3 or 4 more that aren't that good but have good records until the meat of conference play exposes their weaknesses. This league will have at minimum 6 NCAA bids, possibly 10 or 11 depending on how it goes. It's still crazy
11-2 currently. They lost consecutive games at the ESPN Events Invitational to Virginia Tech & Texas A&M. They have wins against VCU, Depaul & Iowa but really haven't played anyone that great outside of A&M. I think they will be average this year in conference play. No star on offense imo, Lipsey, their PG is their leading scorer & hitting the 3 at a good clip so far. Outz getting the most out of his group once again.
Update before Conference Play
Kenpom:
13th- Offense #37, Defense #4.
Torvik:
17th- Offense #53, Defense #9.
PER's:
Hunter and Kev are elite (29 & 25).
Other stats:
Harris is closing in on 10th place all time for assists. He is currently 7 away from tying Sherron Collins who has 552. At his current rate of just under 7 dimes a game, Harris could end the season #3 on the all-time list with 1 more year to go to try and break Aaron Miles record of 954. It's within reach next year which is crazy to think.
Harris already sits at #10 for career steals with 182. With another year he has a chance to finish #2 passing Mario Chalmers.
Hunter Dickinson is poised to break the single season record for rebounds held by Thomas Robinson (350). At his current rate he'd break the record before the conference tournament.
The New Year is here. Happy New Year fellow Bucketeers.
Conference play starts Saturday against TCU if you can believe it. The non-conference part just flew by and again KU is in a great position to win the league but it will be very tough as always. Just saw the graphic this morning that KU has won 21 of the last 27 Big-12 Championships so we know how to win these. We still have Billy Eugene roaming the sidelines ready to feast on fellow Big-12 brethren. We have a team that's capable of winning it.
Some changes of course due to the non-stop conference realignment greed-fest going on. The Big-12 welcomes Houston, UCF, Cincinnati & BYU to the league making it the Big-14, for a year. Next year Texas and Oklahoma go bye-bye-bye to the SEC. More teams join with Arizona, Arizona St, Utah & old friend Colorado reuniting to make it a 16 team league in 2024-25. It's hard to keep up. How long will it be the Big-12 with 16 teams before the next round happens. The ACC collapse is next which is Jim Phillips new baby.
With 14 teams comes a new 18 game league schedule. Gone are the glory days of playing all the teams twice which created this crazy tough league if you ask me over the last several years. What remains is 5 home and homes and the rest (8 games) KU is playing everyone once.
KU plays these teams twice - Baylor, Houston, Kansas St, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St.
It's clear Houston was made the lone newcomer we play twice for TV purposes. Facing OU twice in their last year in the conference is appropriate. It appears they have their best team in several years as well.
KU plays these teams once at home- TCU, Cincinnati, Texas, BYU. KU's last conference game against Texas unless they meet in the Big-12 Tournament will be in Allen Fieldhouse on February 24th. At least we can send them to their new league the proper way, losing. BYEEEE
KU plays these teams once on the road- UCF, West Virginia, Iowa St, Texas Tech. UCF is a giant unknown as far as tough places to play. The other 3 have certainly given us fits over the years when we come to town. Will feel odd not seeing Iowa St coming to the fieldhouse and only going to Hilton Tragic.
Game breakdown by Month:
8 games in January (4 home, 4 away)- Oklahoma is the lone ranked team (#11th) KU faces the entire month although TCU and Iowa St certainly look like they are tournament teams. KU, if they take care of business should win all 8. Perhaps there's a road lull with back to back games against West Virginia & Oklahoma St that's possible but both of these teams are not good so there's optimism we can leave both with W's.
7 games in February (4 home, 3 away)- If January is easy, well the rest of the schedule is a nightmare. The final 10 games of the season KU will face 5 ranked teams and play 7 total games against ranked opponents. Two of the 3 non-ranked teams are against Kansas St. The action picks up immediately in February with Houston coming to Allen Fieldhouse on Feb 3rd. 2 days later ESPN needs those views for Big Monday so they put KU on the road in the Octagon of Doom with Tang's Gang. The next game Baylor comes to town for the first of two meetings where Scott Drew tries to figure out why Bill Self is his master. Two road games in a week follow that crazy 3 game stretch going to Lubbock and Norman. They follow that up with home games vs Texas and BYU and both are ranked so you know they won't be easy at all. If there's a tougher schedule in America post it because that's just an insane stretch yet again.
3 games in March (1 home, 2 away) - You can tell the schedule was intentionally backloaded this year with how it's setup & it's hard not to see the bias against KU here as well when looking at other Big-12 team schedules. The last 3 games of the conference season are @Baylor, home vs Kansas St & @Houston to end. Those 3 games seem like they will decide who wins the crown. I don't know how you predict what's going to happen.
If you don't believe that KU got the tougher schedule then others look at Houston's. Only Texas school they play twice all year is Texas. Don't play Baylor, TCU or Tech twice which makes zero sense. They get home/homes with Cincinnati, Iowa St, UCF, Texas, KU.
Baylor has KU, Texas, TCU, BYU & Texas Tech for their home/away tilts for another example.
So what's everyone feeling coming into Conference Play with the new format and teams? Will KU hang another banner? What are the keys to doing so? The guantlet of February/early March will make every game in that time period feel like the most important game. So crazy!
Good dub before the war
Just don't understand
Frustrating
Wide open brick laying fest
Jeesh make some shots
Awful
Nick really blew 3 great passes from guys to get him a shot and he didn't come close on any
My lord KJ punishing that rim today
Nice hunt
Wow how does KJ not get an and 1 there?
Elmarko makes shots like this on the regular. We have a damn good team
Well that was a nice start there. bottle it!
KJ is the best athlete that's come thru KU in a whiles
Big time
@RockChalkinTexas said in KU vs Wichita game chat:
@BeddieKU23 said in KU vs Wichita game chat:
We always get someone's superbowl game
Well when you're the best........
Still it's uncanny how it's one guy that can't miss every tough shot he puts up
Love the response since the 2 big elmarko plays. Seemed to wake them up
We always get someone's superbowl game
HELLO
Kevin Defense is fun to watch
Need some shots to go in. Get some layups or get to the line. Gotta get Wichita out of this sag d
Lots of bricks
Nice to see Harris launching
Could be up 10 if we made open ones
And he's capable of being that 4th guy but it's not going to be every night. We get what we get which is a heck of a point guard. Personally would like to see his 3 point attempts go up. His shot has looked really good so far and has come a long ways.
Crazy stat.
When Harris scores 10 pts or more, KU is 28-1
Years ago this would have been the game to talk about. Oh how they fell. Hopefully we play well. Would be nice to get a good win before conference play.
Vernon says no KU players associated with Shannon's mess.
The NIL era is ushering lots of potential issues and concerns. The money some players are getting puts them in a different league of their own.
If this somehow gets connected to the basketball program then yeah you told me from the beginning that this was a concern. I didn't see that point of view when posting but now I can understand why there is something to talk about. I hope this is nothing but Shannon's problem.
Between this and the Morris situation what is going on in Lawrence..
Should we also start questioning Kevin for rooming with him at Tech and question why he's still close with him? Tbh that's just unfair and uncalled for but that's my 2 cents.
I haven't read why Shannon is in the situation he is in but i will. I haven't heard of him being an off the court issue prior to this now very public suspension. Perhaps I don't recall any issues but maybe there are. Being suspended for what he is facing is a bad road if true. Illinois already has more balls then Alabama last year who had a star player be connected to killing someone and didn't turn an eye. It's crazy that so much crazy stuff has happened where I forgot about that whole situation.
Interesting point of view there. Shannon is not a young kid from a college experience, he's probably 22-23 at this point so I'm not really sure he gets sympathy at this point on navigating the college experience. He should simply know better from a right vs wrong perspective. He's been a star player his entire career.
I think your perspective definitely has merit as far as the culture that's created around star athletes and the situations that can arise. Just not sure Terrance is covered under it at this point. Interested to hear your take though
oh my, what an idiot. If true, rot.
Furph back in town for those wondering.
KU moved down 3 more spots to #16 on Kenpom for winning. You cannot make this up
Big time end. Kev is an All American
Kev enfuego