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@ParisHawk Good question.

ESPN recap, discussing stars for KU, started with Cole: "Aldrich stood out, swatting three shots in the first half and altering more after coming off the bench en route to his eight-point, seven-rebound night. His highlight came after KU missed just its fifth shot of the game, more than 10 minutes into the first half, and he outgrappled Hansbrough for a rebound that resulted in two free throws. That made it 33-10."

Watching a Youtube replay of the first half, Aldrich entered the game with 14:34 left in the 1st half when Kaun got his second foul with the score 13-6. The lead got up to 38-12 at 7:30, when Billy Packer p.o.ed the suits by declaring the game over. Got up to 40-12 at 6:38 before UNC started their comeback at 4:40. The half ended at 44-27.

Before that game, in the 4 prior tourney games, he had a total of 6 fouls, 4 pts, 4 rebs, 1 block, and 0 FTs in 20 total mins.

For the game against UNC, Aldrich, in 16 mins, had 8 pts (4-4 FTs), 7 rebounds, 1 steal, and 4 blocks with 1 pf. Almost all of that was in the first half. (Hansbrough, in 36 mins, had 17 pts, 9 rebs, 0 blocks, and 2 steals.)

The praise for Aldrich isn't that he played so stupendously or that he single-handedly defeated UNC. It is that he came off the bench in a crucial situation as a freshman in the biggest test of his life until then, played the POY of the year evenly, and gave the rest of KU's players the room to move on offense and take risks on defense by giving KU much-needed rim protection.

He played like a veteran, helping KU totally dispel the notion of UNC being invulnerable. What other relatively unused bench frosh has done that in a Final Four?

@ParisHawk So, UNC was the top ranked team with Psycho T the national player of the year. Aldrich comes out of nowhere and plays Hansbrough to a standstill, not letting UNC run their offense in the first half. They adjusted at halftime, but the advantage was too great.

If that isn't evidence, I can't help you.

http://mweb.cbssports.com/ncaab/ncaa-tournament/brackets/viewable_men ↗

For those of us with crappy newspapers who are too cheap to buy the ridiculously priced USAToday and don't want to print one. Has schedule and channels, too.

But they left off the schedule info for games like KU playing against any of the First Four round winners!

The times for me show up as EDT. You Centralites will want to see what time zone your devices are showing.

@bskeet said:

They didn’t distribute the KS teams very well (KSU and WSU face each other if they get past their 1st round opponent)

Not unusual. Kentucky plays N Kentucky first round, and Florida St is playing FGCU.

Interesting matchup possibilties: Kent State could play Kansas State in the second round, for KSU vs. KSU.

And in the branding rematch, South Carolina could play USC in the Sweet 16. A few years back, USC won a major trademark battle, forcing SC to give up having USC on their hats and apparel. But in common parlance, it could be USC vs. USC.

@Fightsongwriter said:

@JayHawkFanToo Any idea what time on Sun. I can't find anything and we are coming back from spring break trip.

Here is the full tournament schedule with the times bracketed for future rounds. You won't know which slot KU will be in, but by looking at who plays early Friday you should get some idea who plays early Sunday, etc. You can see that there is a single game in the first slot at noon, another at 2:30, then several time slots with more. It will be interesting to see who gets put in the two isolated game times.

Remember to look at the Sunday times as pairs of games in each venue. Since we play early evening on Friday, I would guess that we play mid to late afternoon Sunday, but that is just a guess. Maybe 2:30 would be a good guess, but that could be Duke

http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/bracket-beat/2017-03-01/march-madness-2017-tournament-schedule ↗

@jaybate-1.0 I carefully bought my Samsung TV in the version without a camera or microphone. I think.... And the microwave is still in the box.

@jaybate-1.0 said:

So long as Wikileaks does not reveal the Deep State is running D1, I am happy with every season.

If the Deep State is running D1 through the NCAA, no one has anything to fear from the Deep Staters.

@BShark said:

El poyo would get to post I told you so if that happens.

He only gets to do an I-told-you-so if it is Wiggins' fault again. Let's cross up his obsessions.

@Blown has nailed it with the bifurcated answer!

But I have to split each segment further:

Season? Happy with results and drama on the court, but not the results or drama off the court.

Postseason? TBD (not happy so far, but the Big 12 Tournament is only 5% of the total.)

Us eternal sunshine people always have the ability to peer between the clouds to find those rays that keep us going. (Sometimes it is necessary to go way out into orbit, but let's hope the skies are clear to Phoenix!)

@JayHawkFanToo On the apparel issue, remember we had a guy who got sanctioned for a country music CD? Luke Axtell wasn't allowed to market it until he was no longer eligible. Maybe the NCAA changed their rule.

@jayballer54 said:

10 kids and like 20 plus grandkids

Pretty good score for being only 31, like you said!

@Texas-Hawk-10 One of the Academic All Americans this year is Canyon Barry, Scooter's brother.

4.0 in Nuclear Engineering at a public school, UF.

Of course, he shoots free throws underhanded like his dad, so there is that.....

@Blown So you missed all the instant commentary!

@wissox Hollywood conspiracy 40 years in the making!

@JayHawkFanToo The dad is a first class ____ (insert controversial "Brannen Greene Move" word here). That is my learned professional opinion.

Can't opine on drink throwing because don't have all the facts. Sounds like simple battery.

@approxinfinity No.
:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Like I said, here is what I get to do since KU is out of the conference tourney.

How do you like the innovative toilet-in-the-tub bathroom plan?

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@wissox said:

(in)frequent attender of their [LSU] games

You and everybody else, if that!

Nice post.

@CRH107

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Couldn't capture the exact moment that Vick was below the ball, but he is jumping -- late, tho. The ball is the orange blob to the upper right of the Phillips 66 sign.

@wissox said:

Heck, every team every year worries me.

PHOUT! (Posting Hall of Universal Truths)

@HighEliteMajor said:

The KC Star’s story on JJ and the “restitution” issue had no perspective from any attorney on what attorneys do, or why a discussion might have gotten to that point.

The article and Keegan's comments demonstrate concerns that underlie a rule of evidence in most civil lawsuits: Statements made in conjunction with offers to settle damages are considered "protected" and are not admissible. The reasoning is that we want litigants to settle their differences out of court if possible. Attorneys know this and they usually don't go blabbing publicly or no one would ever trust them enough to enter a negotiation.

Unfortunately, it doesn't stop a client from blabbing to a newspaper about what his attorney told him about the negotiations. I suspect Calvert's attorney has cringed a bit through this process. We called it "lack of client control."

@jayballer54 said:

I knew someone could put logic to my ramblings

I'm usually good with other people's ramblings, but it is my own that may be questionable.:smirk:

@dylans yes

@dylans I never want to see UCLA in this tournament. Good versatile bigs, you-know-who point guard, great 3 pt shooters, obnoxious family members..... Recipe for disaster. I think their losses reflected growing pains only.

@jayballer54 No biggie. Vick just violated the energy/hustle/effort rule.

It was at 12:03 in the TCU timeout after Svi's layup. If you start watching (on Youtube) from at least 13:45 on, you will see Vick getting beaten by Fisher on a made layup while fouling him for a TCU 3 pt play. Then on the next defensive possession you will see Vick not deciding who to block out. He hesitates and gets neither candidate, and they get an offensive rebound and basket. Meanwhile, on offense, Vick just seems to be shuffling around looking lost, going through the motions, no effort to get open and didn't look ready for anything, during the sequence that had a KU turnover and 2 baskets.

The chewing out only lasted about 3 or 4 secs though.

@jayballer54 Don't stress! You will never see other teams the way you see KU.

@KUSTEVE Money back guarantee?

@RockChalkRedlock The lesson is for the other and future players, not Josh.

@HighEliteMajor said:

Does this by implication mean that the other seven no. 1 teams WON their conference tournaments?

And how many of them won the national title?

You raised an interesting question. And I think you might be shocked by the answer.

Only 4 teams ranked #1 in the final AP poll have won the championship since 1985. 9 made it to the championship game. (See the screenshot.) I checked the dates, and the final poll is the one after conference tournaments are over. Presumably, most teams who were no.1 after a tournament probably had won it.

I haven't finished how many of the actual champions had won their tournaments. Still compiling that.

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@chriz That must be the one I thought said first round. As Dan Quail said, "A mind is a terrible thing not to have."

@DCHawker said:

But a short bench doesn’t explain the blow-bys, the poor blocking out, not closing out on 3 point shooters, and poor transition defense.

FWIW, precisely what do you think does explain these things? And do you think they happen to KU more than other teams?

@JayHawkFanToo He is just the most seen.

Wow, did I get that wrong on UNC and UK! Oh, well, the sunshine was too bright so I must have read it wrong! Good thing we will blow everybody out from here on!!! :sunny:

ESPN noted that the last two NCAA #1 seeds to lose in the opening round of their conference tourneys were UK in 2011-12 and UNC in 2008-09.....

.......both of which went on to win the NCAA title.

(Edit: not in their opening rounds)

Buck up, Bucketeers! All we can do is try to cheer our guys on. Bitching and moaning afterwards never changed a loss into a victory, and being spiteful about guys who have been working their butts off for KU is just ugly, really ugly.

Three days for me to actually get some work done on the bathroom reno that has to be done before 8 days from now or I might not be very welcome in my own home....

@DoubleDD Not my worry!

@Crimsonorblue22 said:

@DoubleDD why are we talking wsu?

Because it is fun, apparently, to stress about one team out of some 85 we conceivably could still play this season!

@BShark said:

@JayHawkFanToo

Ankle indeed. Maybe it's my own bad knee history that had me overly worried there

I thought hyperextension when his leg was straight and snapping down over LL's back, plus at the beginning of the play, the TCU guy almost sat on DG's knee. Ankle tweak much less likely to be bad!

@BShark 2:06 Central tip it says

@kjayhawks @dylans

Update to my other post: I am in the Eastern time zone as you know. CBS scoreboard showed all games as Eastern but with no designation of what zone.

I reset my phone's time zone to Central rather than Eastern, and when I opened up the scoreboard on CBS again, the times first showed Eastern, and then every game started switching to an hour earlier. So it is based on phone setting for them, too.

Might want to check your setting before the big tourney begins. Seems odd they can't just add the time zone itself.

@Crimsonorblue22 said:

@jayballer54 can he drive?🚙

I think next year we might have better public relations if we have fewer kids who drive, and who altogether avoid parking areas.

@dylans said:

CBS bracket showing its east coast bias with an eastern time zone listing of a central time zone event.

One thing I noticed on my trips to Hawaii and Chicago this winter was that the times listed for games on the ESPN.com Scoreboard would change to my local time depending on where I was regardless of where the games were played. But only if my phone Time settings were set to the local Time Zone. If I was on Automatic, the scoreboard showed ET for all games. I doubt that the CBS schedule is done the same. (Edit: It is, apparently. See next post.)

I don't think it is East Coast bias except insofar as it is an outgrowth of the original style of network schedules where they always said on national broadcasts, for example, "9 Eastern time, 8 Central." With the web, not knowing where people are when they read it, for consistency, I notice most programming listings on national sites use Eastern and then everybody can adjust depending on where they are. Mountain and Pacific use different delays than Central. (ESPN's must use a system that plugs in the time zone based on feedback from my phone.)

For sports listings involving live broadcasts rather than the delays in TV programs, I think they should base it on the venue site, but the people doing these things seem to enjoy proving that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Unfortunately, when they don't add the time zone designation, it can look dumb and be confusing, as with that CBS one.

@Statmachine Best indicator yet!

@HawkInMizery said:

@chriz yeah i just looked he's not even listed as a DNP on ESPN's box score

The New Orleans Times-Picayune box score shows both him and Diallo as DNP-Coach's decision.

He might have gotten there too late to practice and work in.

@wrwlumpy Surprised no one has realized it had to be Jake Tap-per who ran the op on Trump Tower for CNN's buddy Barry.

@wissox I was thinking it gives the assistants long enough to contact a slew of recruits. But maybe not.

@wissox
Most of the coaches in the Big 10 are probably happy with both locations' recruiting potential at least.

Not an overreaction to be really disgusted by him running away when, at the time this happened, he was already on double secret probation for the December incident.

Our youngest son, a week after he got his license, got jammed trying to go down a gradual incline in an ice storm. Even at less than 5 mph he slid sideways on a hairpin turn in a housing development that had cars parked on both sides. He called us, really upset. I told him to put a note on the car with our number

He said he didn't need to. He had gone door to door to 6 houses, without a jacket in the storm, and found the owner. Never prouder of him in my life--except maybe when he adopted his stepdaughter.

@Crimsonorblue22 said:

Josh is definitely learning the hard way.

I am afraid there is little evidence he is learning anything. And he is hurting his teammates with this crap.

I am just afraid he thinks he has Self over a barrel. Our OADs have been really good about completing their schoolwork, so they haven't hurt the KU Academic Performance Index. But any one of them could pull a Ben Simmons and cause all types of problems.

I doubt if HCBS feels he has the same range of options as he has for someone who needs KU more than KU needs him. And that is one of the many issues with having your program depend on getting those guys--once the season winds down, they no longer feel as vested but they are still as stupid as other freshmen.

@jayballer54 Williams-Goss could be POY next year if he doesn't go pro. But this is the Senior Class Award. I don't know if he is eligible--he is in his 3rd year of playing but his 4th year of college. He transferred from Washington and sat out last year. He is a 2nd team Sporting News All American this year.

When I watched the WCC semifinal game the other night, he was really impressive. Lots of baby hooks.