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Can't stand weasel

He's a great shooter, we have to think about putting Oubre on him with length 2nd half

Lucas has easy basket and we miss and th e get that. Come on guys

Dam jok3

Jesum

No he wasn't fouled but he Def turned it over because of lack of handles

That 3 by weasel was Lucas fault. He dogged it after missing that bunny

Greene you politely suck

Watch they won't even look at that

Well I'm hoping kelly can make one ft? what yal think

Well both teams playing d and we will have to wait for 2nd half for things to open up

Close to Kelly's third

No help d

Calm down th calls have to even at some point but right now we are getting straight jacked

Oubre and bg now with 2

What a joke man how much cleaner of a block can you get

@drgnslayr

A monster game from Ellis would be fitting. I'm hoping the emotion of playing Wichita makes him forget his knee ever took a tumble. He needs to see the ball go in the hoop, those close range shots have looked off.

I would love to see us play with a chip, national pundits don't give us a lick of a chance of going far. Most don't even expect us to win Sunday. The last time that happened was the Davidson game with Steph Curry. Maybe their has been other times but that one sticks out to me with the David and Goliah type feel that Sunday has.

@drgnslayr

I certainly understand that your worried about what might happen, what has happened but at this point we just have to trust and believe in Self and the players to get it done. Myself, I've had problems believing in them for more than 2 minutes at a time. But tourney time can erase every negative thought you might have had if you win games. We have a chance to shut up an entire fanbase full of whining little brats.

@drgnslayr

Would you have wanted another nail biter?? If that was the case we would probably be signing a different tune going into this game. It's a good thing we finally had a breather of a game and now with proper rest, we can really bring it on Sunday.

@drgnslayr

yes their defense wasn't good but they missed a lot of shots, some were wide open so you take a team who shot well (KU) and a team who shot poorly and there ya go 19 point difference.

I'm just glad it was us that saw the ball go in the hoop. We had struggled mightily in first round match-ups in the last 5 years so it was releaving just to see us take care of business.

Anyone that doesn't think VanVleet is good has not watched him enough or has a bias against him. He made a final 4 as a freshman and played well. Last year he ran into the Kentucky train. Without him this whole Wichita hoopla wouldn't be anything, Baker couldn't do it on his own they wouldn't even be a tournament team. Just like KU, they wouldn't have won 27 games without Mason he's that important to the stability of this team.

@drgnslayr

I personally think yesterday's game helped our teams confidence tremendously.

1. We didn't let the lead go away for once.

2. We made shots. Even more importantly Greene made 3's, Mason made shots which he was struggling with. Fresh legs definitely could have been the reason for that.

3. We played great defense and really bothered their bigs with traps.

4. We didn't let Thursday's games in the Big 12 rattle our belief that we could win games in this tournament.

Now we didn't play flawless but we are battle tested.

@KUinLA

It will be a grind type game. But Indiana has one of the weakest inside games in the entire country. They have a perimeter attack on purpose because they don't have anyone inside. Indiana has shot like that all year and had one of the most efficient offenses in the country. Wichita's inside game looked great and the drives looked great because everyone did that to Indiana. KU will not be as easy to score on and if Self game-plan's right he will try and shut down the perimeter and try and kill them insides when we can. We might be a small team compared to most KU teams we've had but in this game we have an advantage.

@Crimsonorblue22

he's quick and he knows how to put up shots in the lane for his slight size. He can also take games over on the perimeter if needed but it's his skill leading the team that is the hardest thing to match-up with him.

We all know that Mason is still learning the PG spot and that's something VanVleet has already mastered. It's kind of like in the NBA for example VanVleet is the Chris Paul of his position and you have the young gun John Wall (Mason) who's coming into himself as one of the best in the league/country. Nobody should underestimate these 2 guards on Wichita plus Cotton, they are seasoned vets and have plenty more tournament experience than we do.

If we contain the perimeter we should beat them up inside because Indiana made their inside game look great. We should take advantage of our interior players and make enough outside shots. UCLA's big man went nuts today against a smaller inside team in UAB. I'm hopeful Lucas, Ellis & company can do the same.

The only matchups that matter are VanVleet vs Mason/Graham & Baker vs Selden/Oubre.

I'm sure many watched Wichita yesterday to see what we were up against and while Baker didn't have a great shooting game he is equally as good as VanVleet. VanVleet is the engine and Baker is the horsepower. Cater & Cotton make nice complementary roles just like Lucas & Traylor do for KU.

This game will be won by who plays better defense. Wichita plays good defense, Indiana is just a hard team to slow down and because of that they had to play at the pace of the Hoosiers. KU while it likes to run when it can, is a mid-tempo team at best that lets the opposing team dictate pace. So I expect Wichita to try and control the pace of the game and force us into a half-court team.

Mason has his hands full, we will need him to play good enough D to keep VanVleet in check. We saw KU double the post, KU should seriously think about forcing the ball out of his hands anytime we can. Offensively I hope he looks to be aggressive to score and pass as that was a big factor in how we played yesterday. I'm hoping Mason looks at this matchup as a chance to prove himself.

Ellis I'm hoping takes this game personally like he does the K-St rivalry. We need him to be better than was yesterday. Self pointed out that its all mental now with his knee which i was afraid of. Hopefully the rest he's able to get between now and tomm afternoon is sufficient to progress him even more. We need his offense because they don't have anyone who can stop him.

shockers up 6

we match up better with Wichita

All Indiana does is gun 3's

hack a devonte again

FRANKY

finally finally

@sdkujn amen

joke

JOKE

need mo mason

nobody stops the ball ever

@DCHawker agreedd

how can you miss that

omg lucas

elbow foul

they've clearly shown which side they are playinhg for trying to keep the game close for tv

@Hawk8086

not with these ref's

such a joke, there guards are all over us, oh then we breathe and its a foul

sure graham is killed and then that you got to be kdding

OMG

these refs have it out for us man

joke let a guy score who's got 8 points on the year

resting ellis or what???

next 2 minutes get it to 20, do not give up a dang 3

@Crimsonorblue22

me too but you just don't miss like that without a call either way it goes

so its okay to push oubre to a missed dunk and to the floor whne he makes a 3

FOUK