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I don't want to ever hear a Kentucky fan complain about the calls not going their way. Potentially gifted 6 points in a 5 point game in OT

SEC officials are jobbing the game in new and creative ways.

A&M pushing UK.

Now my focus shifts to root for the Chiefs. Is it greedy to hope for 2-0?

Perhaps a double-digit win over top 10 team would please the analytics gods?

Hunter knows!

just dunk it KJ!

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Land Thieves Shooty Hoops:

@bskeet said in Land Thieves Shooty Hoops:

My takeaway from UCF is that our kryptonite continues to be a long athletic team playing zone.

Hunter being in foul trouble killed KU against that zone. Hunter is the perfect guy to beat a zone but he was on the bench too much for KU to be effective at disrupting their zone.

good point. maybe they don't beat us without that.

@FarmerJayhawk said in Land Thieves Shooty Hoops:

SEC chants are tacky

made me laugh. But yeah, a bit cheeky.

My takeaway from UCF is that our kryptonite continues to be a long athletic team playing zone.

UCF was an anomaly, mostly.

I really don't understand why the analytics don't like this team.

Hunter has been brilliant.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Land Thieves Shooty Hoops:

@bskeet said in Land Thieves Shooty Hoops:

@AsadZ said in Land Thieves Shooty Hoops:

@Texas-Hawk-10 Yea, I forgot about Jeff W, he was a monster

I mean, Rex Walters, Jared Haase... Also candidates, but that was a long time ago.

The original question was best transfer of the Bill Self era and those two are Roy transfers.

Ah. I gotta read more carefully.

@AsadZ said in Land Thieves Shooty Hoops:

@Texas-Hawk-10 Yea, I forgot about Jeff W, he was a monster

I mean, Rex Walters, Jared Haase... Also candidates, but that was a long time ago.

OU will switch to zone here.

racking up the fouls now. sigh

Kevin now doing what he needs to do. Drive and force the foul

Finally got to double digit lead

@AsadZ said in Land Thieves Shooty Hoops:

Is HD best transfer Self has recruited here at KU

I think so. We only have half a season and we don't know how it will turn out.. With Remy, we know how the story ended and he deserves consideration. But just pure consistent impact, it has to go to Hunter.

Shudder to think what would this team be without him.

this stretch!

Block party Hunter!

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Land Thieves Shooty Hoops:

College basketball TV scheduling doesn’t work the same way as college football. CBB TV schedules are announced before the season starts and OU wasn’t expected to be any good this year so it was relegated to ESPN+ since every B12 team has to play a minimum number of games on ESPN+.

Yeah, I realize that. Doesn't mean that it's a smart strategy for scheduling. You'd think they would learn.

@BeddieKU23 They are only watching the contact in the paint on one side.

He'll get better at the defense.

Furphy is overall an upgrade. Nothing against any of the others.

So the officiating continues to be one sided.

Garbage call

One thing that is constant is how beautiful Lawrence and the hill looks in the snow.

Well, the basketball-loving public can enjoy VCU and LaSalle.

Peacock is slightly better. Which is not a compliment.

This is the only game between ranked teams today. And, it's a top 10 matchup. So naturally the geniuses at the networks put this on ESPN+. SMH

frantic sloppy but effortful end to the half

McCollum is having that out of body experience that at least one player has when playing KU.

A bad break and then a great play by KJ

wow. That's a break.

cmon refs. call it the same both ways.

physical in the paint. Officials calling every other foul.

We look so much better when DeJuan shoots some threes.

OU has weathered the storm fairly well. Need to keep up the intensity and not give them help.

I thought it was sold more than a dumb foul

Also, I'm officially looking to see when the last KU game is on ESPN+ so I can cancel immediately after the game. The service is garbage. The worst of every streaming service I've used... and I've used many.

UCF was a disappointment, but I still really like this team's chances. The margin for error is slimmer this year with every team. They've just extended the survive and advance from March to January.

Adams is so strong and athletic. He's the kind of player that makes the difference in a 6 game run at the end of the season.

@kjayhawks I used the photo tag -- so it's a URL pointing to an image.

ISU freshman coming up big. Wow. Welcome to the B12 Houston.

File this under "How to be under the radar and the #2 team in the country at the same time."

Let them say what they want. Quad 1 wins are Quad 1 wins.

IMHO, It's bigger BS than simply signing up and cancelling.

I'm a Comcast/Xfinity customer who is entitled to have complimentary access to Peacock. But because I only use Xfinity for internet (I use YouTube.TV as my streaming and I don't use the Xfinity cable offer), I don't get access to Peacock -- unless I let them install a cable box on my network (presumably so they can mine all my viewing data). It's 'free', they say. Yeah right.

Thank you. I had not seen that. Feel like that's pretty important. Hope they don't bury it just because it's 100+ years old. I think the historical aspect of our campus is an asset and honoring those who have served should not be pushed downstream, to a footnote or token acknowledgment.

This game will be much easier to evaluate at the end of the season.

My personal opinion: Hindsight will show that our turnovers are as much a credit to TCU's defense as to our sloppy play. Good defenses cause TOs. And TCU is well coached, so they have an edge on anticipating actions and lanes.

I think this will look like a good win in March.

Also, this was a 50-50 game throughout and we won. Neither team got or gave up a big lead. Winning that kind of game is always good!