Cool tribute to Craig Seger with the mic covers. This was his normal crew as well. Wish he was still with us.
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Didn't even see the ball bounce off the ref at first
@HawkChamp Purdue shoots too well from outside
Gotta get a 2 for 1 here and try to stretch the lead to 5 or 6 before half.
I'll take that all day
@approxinfinity LL isn't NBA material, but he can be a pro in Euroleague or CBA in China.
Rim didn't block that one.
Why the hell do you double Lucas?
Edwards is done for the half
@Eric-san Picked up his pivot foot when he fell. Always been a travel.
Don't like this line up
Lucas and Bragg ready to check in
People that size shouldn't spin that quickly.
@DanR He'll have to with this whistle.
Gotta take advantage of Swanigan being on the bench.
Bout time they missed a 3
If we want the Final Four, we gotta go through the B10 and P12 regular season champs.
Coleby's in before Bragg
@DoubleDD Purdue shoots over 40% from 3, no guarantee they go cold.
Can't leave these guys open behind the line. Purdue shoots too well for that. Probably the best shooting team we've played all year.
Liked that defense LL played on Swanigan, keep forcing him into tough shots.
@DanR He weighed about 350 in HS.
@tundrahok said:
Anybody remember the last time we played Purdue in the Sweet 16? Glenn Big Dog Robinson scored 30 in the first half and 44 for the game. 23 years later, it's time for revenge!
Missouri's new coach also sank 8 3's in that game as well.
@BShark I'd rather play UNC over UK or UCLA in the Final Four. Roy doesn't have the heart to beat KU so KU would beat him for the 4th time in the NCAA tournament.
@Statmachine I would not be opposed to KU being in the opposite situation as last year where a referee from Philly worked a Villanova NCAA tournament game. Give us a KC based ref with no ties to KSU or MU and I'll take that.
In a less formal setting, that's a perfectly fine question to ask that probably gets a really good sound bite. Big 12 Media Day is an example of a more appropriate time and place where that question gets a better response.
Trying to stop Swanigan will get KU beat. Doubling him leaves a 40%+ 3 point shooter open which equals a KU loss. Best way to defend Swanigan is to let Landen and Coleby guard him one on one and prevent their 3 point shooters from getting good looks.
The other way is to see if they switch on screens and force Swanigan to guard Mason or Jackson while they drive on Swanigan and try and get Swanigan into foul trouble
@JayHawkFanToo CBS has no say in which games they broadcast at this point. All they have is the time slot blocked out and the NCAA determines which game goes in which time slot. Go look at the other 3 regions and there are two inconsistencies with the Mid West. One is that UCLA and Arizona are in the late time slots and the highest seeded team left in the other 3 regions all play in the early game to maximize rest time.
I will just about guarantee that the Oregon/Michigan game is going to be the lowest rated of the 4 Sweet 16 games on CBS because of the 4pm West Coast tip time. No matter what, there's going to be an EST team tipping at 9:30pm on Thursday, but flipping those two games puts KU at a 6pm local tip which isn't a problem for most fans, and would put Oregon at a 6:30 local tip which again, maximizes West Coast viewership. Instead, you have 1/4 of your viewing market that will miss the majority of a game because of a 4pm local tip, and another big chunk of the viewership that will likely be asleep before the end of the second game. Tell me how the current tip times maximizes viewership instead of hurting viewership and therefore hurting the bottom line because companies can point to the crappy ratings that are getting ready to happen and say we're not paying full price for a Sweet 16 advertising slot on Thursday because your ratings were crap.
@JayHawkFanToo You're right, the tip times are determined well in advance. What's not determined well in advance is which game fills which time slot. All we knew in advance was KU would play on Thursday after they beat MSU. We didn't find out until after every Round of 32 game had concluded that KU was in the late time slot on CBS.
Since you're so deadset on that NCAA knows what they're doing (I call BS on that by the way), tell me how Oregon tipping off at 4pm is maximizing West Coast viewership?
@JayHawkFanToo Oregon (west coast team) will be tipping off at 4pm local time. That's not maximizing viewership. Flipping tip iffs and having KU tip a 6pm local time and then having Oregon tip a 6pm local time is maximizing viewership.
How much would we be bitching if KU had a 4pm local tip off in the Sweet 16? If I'm an Oregon fan, I'm pretty pissed off about that tip time because if I work a normal 9-5, I'm missing most of that game.
The NCAA/CBS flat out screwed up the tip times for the Midwest region.
@wissox It's weird they don't care about ratings since ratings determine how much they can charge for advertising.
@BShark Bridges dad is the only one right now saying Bridges will be back next year.
@BShark Not a single MSU fan I know (about 5 of them) thinks Bridges is coming back.
@drgnslayr This is not the typical low scoring, grind it out Purdue basketball team. This team likes up tempo (they average 80 ppg, 35th nationally) and they can shoot the 3 almost as well as KU (Purdue is 9th in 3FG%).
The key for KU is to keep Purdue from lighting up the perimeter because that's how KU will lose. Let Lucas and Coleby bang with Swanigan and let whatever happens there happen. KU cannot let Purdue shoot lights out from deep if they want to win.
@BeddieKU23 CBS apparently doesn't care about ratings based on the Midwest tip times. Those games should be flipped since the Oregon game is tipping at 4pm Oregon time.
Looks like UCLA is starting open it up a little bit.
9 bids, only 1 survives the weekend. That's a big time choke job by the ACC.
@kjayhawks I'm not saying Duke hasn't gotten some whistles, just the Kennard call looked like a bad call against Duke.
I will say that appeared to be a bad call on Kennard.
That close up of Duke's logo was the epitome of the smug, arrogance of someone who paid the refs.
@approxinfinity He's also been at Duke longer than Perry was at KU.
SC took a step forward last second, good call.
And Jones is gone
Duke with 18 turnovers and SCar with only 8 is why the officiating isn't impacting the outcome.
@JayHawkFanToo said:
Still getting most of the calls...
Doesn't matter when you can't keep possession if the ball.
SCar definitely has the home court advantage with their fans and the UNC fans that stayed cheering against Duke.
@Crimsonorblue22 They're not the fastest team, but you don't average 80 ppg playing slow either.
@BShark Swanigan also originally committed to Sparty before decommiting and signing with Purdue.
@ralster We're not out running this Purdue team that's averaging 80 ppg. This isn't a standard Purdue team that grinds out wins. This Purdue team is 9th nationally in 3FG% and has taken more 3's than KU. Doubling Swanigan and kicking out for an open 3 has been a large part of their offense this year.
Purdue has 5 guys that play big minutes that shoot over 40% from 3. This is a dangerous game for KU because Purdue is really good against one of KU's biggest weaknesses.
@drgnslayr Doke did a one handed dunk with his right hand which is his non injured hand/wrist. Doke is not playing in this tournament.
@dylans But Michigan is starting to remind me of UConn's 2014 team that caught fire in March and won it all.