@BeddieKU23 Wow, that's a bombshell. Do you have any evidence? Pics? This is big!
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Miami/MSU in the 2nd round makes me nervous. One a traditional power, one a pretty tough out which has some good wins this year.
Oregon's big man is out, right?
Fairly tough draw on the top half.
Of course, I've got to say the Badgers will knock them off!
@BeddieKU23 Except Duke might solve them or Virginia.
Setting up some geography matchups. Possible all texas game with SMU and Baylor and VTech and Virginia if things get to the sweet 16.
Well we're not playing Duke until the final four at least.
Wow, badgers drop all the way to 8.
I don't mind talking to myself, do it all the time.
Expecting some whining today. That's ok it's a KUBuckets tradition!
Who do you all got in your Masters pool? NIT pool? JUCO pool?
Hoping to have SW punxatawny State as the 2 seed in our region, Missouri as the 4 seed, LSU as the 8, and Haskell as the 16. That should help. Hopefully they put Duke, UNC, Villanova, Arizona, UCLA, Kentucky, Gonzaga in the same region. That should help.
The bracketologists are all just waiting like us to see if they're right.
Tulsa, KC looking good
We're #1 and we're going to win it all.
@Crimsonorblue22 That's true! I don't read between the lines very well. I don't understand all of your little cartoons you put on here either, but that's ok! By the way, not sure my post implied I'd rather have the movie instead of another KU championship.
@Crimsonorblue22 Did I say something wrong? I don't get your comment.
Why didn't they go to the replay? Just think, if they don't mess up that call there's no movie!
I turned it on at the end. Anyone know why Huggie only used 1 TO the entire game? They made it a little close with a minute or so left, but no TO's even though he had 3 to use.
Groce out (see what I did there?)
Jones gets declawed in Baton Rouge.
Gottfried defanged.
Kim Anderson declawed as well.
The poaching of mid major coaches who make deep tourney runs begins. Hello Chris Mack. Hello Gregg Marshall.
The wooing of power 5 coaches on the upswing. Chris Collins, Richard Pitino,
Steve Prohm was mentioned as a potential LSU coach.
Tony Bennett back closer to home in Big10 country?
I don't pay close attention to every hot lead, but I know there's assistants who will move up as well, but I don't have any clue whom will make the big jump.
Illinois has absolutely got to get a guy who can recruit Chicago.
Missouri has absolutely got to get that program back into the best team to never have made a final four.
LSU, doesn't matter, the locals will enjoy the diversion from their annual football soap opera, but they won't really care all that deeply.
NCState, the annual bronze medalist in the research triangle cup. Really tough place to go and be relevant.
I have some connections to three of these four. Grew up an Illini fan as a Chicago kid. Hated Missouri of course as a KU student and fan. Living near LSU and (in)frequent attender of their games. I'll be paying attention.
@HawkChamp You don't think there's a chance they won't be up for any game from now on?
@HawkChamp Do we have better players? I'd venture you'd say yes. Then we should beat WSU. I know better players don't always win. You don't think after the smackdown two years ago Bill Self wouldn't give our guys something to play for? Wow, I know it's your opinion, but....
@wrwlumpy Why are we afraid of Wichita? If we can't beat them we don't deserve to win anything.
You got to go to the stats man, especially the advanced stats. Listen to JNewells podcast. He breaks it down. Statistically we do some things superbly, a lot of things. Kenpom type stuff is what I'm talking about. It shows us doing pretty darn well.
A less scientific answer is when you're casually watching another team you see the plays they make and which are nice and all, but you don't worry when they didn't make the previous 3 plays. Their fans notice the previous 3 plays and are thinking their team sucks too.
Playing in Sprint makes this road easier. Purdue worries me with their size a bit.
Heck, every team every year worries me.
Wisconsin would have a chance to eliminate Arizona for the 3rd time in 4 years if that bracket holds true.
He's got Syracuse in as a play in game. Syracuse doesn't deserve to dance this year, but I guess unless they lose every game Syracuse will get in the dance.
After another Badger beatdown of Crean today I think the Hoosiers would take him back.
@brooksmd That was a fascinating read to me. Just to see what was a total unknown then and how it worked out.
@JhoxinSanD Cool to read that. Some of us were there commenting, Jack Wilson, @brooksmd @jaybate-1.0 @wrwlumpy @REHawk all showed up, and all had high praise for the pick!
Don't listen to the 'experts'. Just relax and enjoy the #1 seed which is the best route to get to the final four.
@Blown Missed that one! I think my point is with Josh playing I don't think all this handwringing is happening.
@Blown You forgot sit a 2nd team all american and possible #1 draft pick.
@BShark Stat padding is a favorite tool of high school statisticians!
@wrwlumpy Or you could title your post, "3 days til anti KU conspiracy starts" or "3 days until we find out we got the toughest road to the Final Four since Texas Western" or "3 days until some KUbucketeers begin their annual whine party about our draw" (no names mentioned of course!) or "3 days until kubucketsaggedon".
@nuleafjhawk I had the same thought, but I still have the Badgers, maybe they'll get bounced early too!
Glad I was at the four letter word this afternoon and couldn't participate in the chat. Watched it on DVR, was chagrined, but not overly worried about the result. I love to see us win, but I don't think this loss hurts us a whole lot.
@kjayhawks Frank scored 29 points with 6 assists, 3 boards. Don't think that hurts a POY resume!
@mayjay I don't know. Izzo in the article I read was pretty vehement against it. Not sure how big of a recruiting tool it'd really be.
Duke continues to be in our head!
@JayHawkFanToo I agree, but I was shocked, like a what the heck type moment, when I heard the Big10 was in DC. Expansion is what made that happened.
I'm surprised at myself for not paying attention to this, but I somehow missed this.
This year the Big10, of which I am a fan, is having their conference tournament in DC. I knew that, wasn't too thrilled about it, but it is what it is. Maryland will have a nice home court advantage because fans from Minny, Iowa, Wisc, Nebraska etc, won't drive to DC, while driving to Chicago or Indy, where the tournament has always been, is much easier from most Big10 locations.
In 2018 however, and this is a biggy, the tournament will be in Madison Square Garden. A WEEK EARLY! MSG is being used by the Big East the next weekend. So you've got a tournament being played in a location that a likely 1st round loser, Rutgers is the only local tie, and where fans from perennial finalists/semifinalists Wiscy, MI, MSU, Indy are 1000 miles away! If you are Big Dance bound and get knocked out in the quarterfinals on probably Friday afternoon, your next game in the Big Dance will be 2 weeks later. I can't see how a layoff like that can lead to a productive tournament.
The Big10 is obviously trying to expand their footprint to the east coast, despite that their fans aren't too thrilled about it. But to do so and then make a foolish plan is just crazy.
Now, the Big12 of course is oft discussed in expansion. I'm starting no rumors today, but would/could they expand to some other part of the country might this same thing happen where the league tourney is being played in a location that makes no geographical sense? Add another Ohio Valley school like Cincy and suddenly you've got two teams from that region and voila, the Phillips 66 tournament from Cincinatti, or Louisville, or PIttsburgh. I like the big12 tourney in KC, or OKC, or Dallas for obvious reasons. I'd hate to see the day that it weren't so.
Boy if Henry Ford hadn't invented the car we' never have anything to talk about with Josh Jackson.
Not much in the news about all of this nationally.
Leading the league in 2 pt%. Not many of us would have predicted that several years ago when he was a bunny missing machine if that's even possible!
What is burning and where? They haven't talked about it on the news here at all.
John Scheyer was coached in High School by Bruce Webers brother. Slam dunk easy recruit for Bruce Weber, right? As you all know John Scheyer went to Duke.
Think of all the talent to come out of Illinois during Bruce Webers tenure. How many went to U of I?
Derrick Rose, Anthony Davis, Patrick Beverly, Wayne Blackshear, Sherron Collins, Evan Turner,
The residual effect has cost them Jahlil Okafor, Cliff Alexander, Jabari Parker among others.
Unfortunately his weakness as a coach cost Illinois a lot of wins over the years. The few top recruits he did get were head cases like Jerome Richmond and Brandon Paul. Meyers Leonard blossomed in the NBA after he left the U of I.
Forget Grayson. I hate Duke.
No parade pics please :smiley: You know the topic is Royals/otherMLB, of which I represent the other!
@JayHawkFanToo I saw that earlier. Who is Sam Mellinger? Is he a known KU hater? Just curious.
@drgnslayr PHOF!!!
@ralster Seriously? He's the Jazz HC? Wow! (obviously I don't pay much attention to the NBA)