So hard to watch, no matter who you're rooting for. Neutrals have probably all tuned out by now...unless they're got money down on the game.
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How in Hades are we this close after a performance like that? Worst I've seen since that "Topeka YMCA" game vs. TCU.
If UT manages to lose this one, they should fire Shaka on the spot.
@Texas-Hawk-10 Me too. It sends a message to Vick, and the extra energy helps keep the crowd (such as it is) out of the game.
Just saw the latest Joe Lunardi prediction of the NCAA brackets. It has us as a #3 seed in the Midwest region, with KU playing first/second round games in Des Moines. Obviously a good place to be, what with that regional being at Sprint Center.
Realizing that we're still six weeks out (and that yes, even the sainted Lunardi can't totally predict what the committee will do) and that a #1 seed is just about out of the question, I want to pose this question to everyone:
Are we better off hoping for a high 3 seed instead of a low 2, which might get us sent out of the KC regional? This would probably mean we'd lose 2 or 3 more games down the road, and likely break our string of Big XII titles.
Your thoughts please.
Watched Osetkowski walk off the court really pissed off and yelling at his teammates. Couldn't tell why.
Another ugly win.
@BeddieKU23 They usually interview whichever coach is leading at the half. Still would've rather heard from Self though.
That ESPN3 feed is kinda weird...overhead camera shot with no announcers. Kinda like watching the game live in AFH with really bad seats.
Watching the game on ESPN3...better yet, it's Fran-free!
A bit ragged at times, but I like the intensity
@KirkIsMyHinrich Well, there goes the redshirt year. Not sure it'll make us that much better.
Tough finish. Still, it took a course record to beat him.
He's now 0-for-7 when going into the final round with a lead. Not a good look.
Aaand...yet another trey from the Clones. Seen this movie way too many times before.
I was hoping today we'd open up a can of whup-ass on ISU.
So far, it looks like a can of dumb-ass.
Can't bring this kind of game to Ames Saturday.
EXHALE
kjayhawks said:
Some where Larry Bird is shaking his head
...and Sikma, and AK-47...
Hope these refs swallow their whistles down the stretch, but I'm not hopeful.
KirkIsMyHinrich said:
Grimes!
Grimes covered his butt there with the D.
Shooting too early!
It's Hack-A-Doke time.
Boy that OU clip was REAL original. Never seen anybody else do that bit before...
Manek looks more like Jack Sikma than Bird.
Nice D tonight, and our shots are starting to fall. Like the inside play too.
Nice run
Watching the pregame highlights, it's still weird to see Nebraska-Maryland as a Big Ten conference game.
By the way, Happy New Year everybody!
Okay, time to put this one in the rear view mirror. The holiday is approaching.
Think I'll kick back with a warm holiday libation. (NOT Remy Martin!)
In case I get too busy to post during Chiefs-Seahawks, MERRY CHRISTMAS to my fellow KU Buckets board rats. Hope the coming year brings you health and happiness.
And. as a respite from all the gloom, the Chargers did get beat tonight.
Funny thing is, except for the last few minutes, I thought we looked better than we did in our last few nail-biters.
Something for the players to chew on along with Christmas dinner.
Ballgame. Damn.
StLJhawk said:
That distraction curtain don’t work too good, we look good at the line for a change
Yeah, we should borrow it for a few games.
THREE! AND ONE!
Did he just say Duke in front? Walton must've lent him some of his weed.
"If you got a hot hand, you gotta milk him." Huh?
Typical goofy Walton quote. Mr. Mixed Metaphor,
A bit sloppy at the end, but I'll take a halftime lead on the road.
Relying a little too much on the quick three.
@Crimsonorblue22 Hudy.
There ya go!
@DoubleDD Our secret weapon.
Nice fallaway shot.
Arrgghhh! Walton!
Sadly, I can't unsee that picture...
Also, he single-handedly beat KU in the third-place NCAA game in 1974. He wasn't even going to play after losing the semi in overtime to David Thompson and NC State. Too bad Coach Wooden talked him into playing us.
Finally, an end to the JV game. Time for the main event.
On this date in 1891, Doc Naismith staged the first basketball game at the Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA.
A description of the scene, from "The Basketball Man" by Bernice Larson Webb:
"The first basketball game in history...was played in a YMCA gymnasium with a total floor space approximately forty-five feet wide and sixty-five long, and a playing field approximately thirty-five by fifty feet. Lights set into the ceiling were dim. Boundary lines of the basketball court were imaginary ones, with Indian clubs, dumbbells, and all the other gymnastic apparatus shoved hastily out of the way against walls and into corners. The equipment was simple - a ball and a pair of peach baskets...The uniform was long trousers and short-sleeved jerseys.
"There were nine players on each team...a goalkeeper, two guards (right and left), three center men (right center, left center and center) two wings (right and left) and a home man. or goal thrower, stationed in this order from the goal...equivalent, in modern terminology, to three guards, three centers and three forwards.
"Although Naismith rules called for both a referee and an umpire, he served as the sole official in this game, and probably found that more penalizing was necessary than one man than could handle fairly. Fouls, indeed, far outnumbered scores in this first trial game of basketball.
"Furthermore, because the bottoms were left in the peach baskets, a scoring ball would remain in the basket, ten feet above the floor, until someone got it out. Naismith, undaunted, asked janitor Stebbins to get a stepladder and take care of that problem. Stebbins was on hand with his ladder, therefore, to recapture the one ball that tumbled into a peach basket, effectively aimed by William R. Chase from near mid-court for the single point of the game."
HAPPY NAISMITH DAY !!!
And when most of the national media sees the score, they'll think it was a blowout just like Duke-
Princeton.
Took a while, dinnit?
Good grief! It's a Charlie Moore Christmas!
I'm gonna miss Joe Dineen. Can definitely see him playing at the next level.
@Texas-Hawk-10 That's one thing I think Les Miles will bring to the program...respect, from the refs as well as other coaches.
It may take him a little while longer to get it from the fans, seeing as we've been burned by hiring a big name coach before.
Wow. Normally I give the refs the benefit of the doubt, but that was a definite late hit.