I bet Bill Self was giddy when he got Frank Mason to sign. He knew what he was getting and apparently no other schools recognized it.
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Still fouling a lot, and they're not calling them on them. Ellis got hacked on his shot, no call.
The announcer said this is the where KU needs to pick it up. We are winning by 4 while scoring 31, so I'd say we should pick it up at the other end.
@joeloveshawks Our biggest rival at Wisconsin was Minnesota, so my tubby hatred is from those days.
Not sure if that was a foul on JT
The last time we played an ugly half like this was...........?
6-13 FTs for them. Our FT defense is superb
I got to stop reading this, ya'll way ahead of me!
Greene's 6'7", couldn't he go up and dunk that ball instead of the fancy pass?
I just knew BG was going to make that.... thanks to being a half minute behind real time on ESPN3
This is like the 5th-6th grade game I reffed today
The commodore settles things down.
This game has Tubby Smith written all over it.
CBS box score has a cool shot chart where you can see where everything is working and it's not. All of our makes are from the bench side of the court.
3's not working. Self gonna start talking fools gold?
This is ugly
5 fouls on us thus far
Looks like a lot of blue shirts in the crowd
@brooksmd Well I hope you chose the numbers 52, 88, 2008 then
@brooksmd You'll be able to go to all the KU games when you win.
@brooksmd That's the same reason I'm not buying one of those lottery tickets tonight
@DanR I like it, but I can't change it now.
I'm feeling good about Frank tonight.
Who's your Hawk to rock?
That's huge for another conference title for us!
@DinarHawk They haven't been very good this year.
I tried to watch the replay on ESPN3 of Wisconsin game, but it malfunctioned and fast forwarded to a minute before the end and I saw the score, which i guess is ok, because who cares at this point? When a team has only two players who have played significant minutes in a college game, and 8 who have never played, it makes for a long season.
And so now I just saw that UW must have made a furious comeback and nearly forced OT but Tremble made a big time play!
@wrwlumpy That's a nice arena they built there.
I never thought that there had to be a traditional game day meal. I'm going to have to start one though. Probably would be brats, or burgers.
It was @jayballer54 who fell down the stairs and bumped his head and now he's posting crazy stuff. Sure is fun watching him trying to climb out of this hole he's in!!!
The original post is deleted, which I didn't see. Must have been a doozy.
For whom does the bell troll? It trolls for thee.
@cragarhawk I sat through my daughters jr hi games for two years who sounds like the same guy. I spent many games wanting to just go down there and offer to help because we would have had a decent chance to be better, not great, I'm no Bill Self or even Scott Drew, but we would have been better.
Wiggins is still younger than Buddy which is kind of strange to think about, by almost two years! I imagine as a 22 year old college basketball player Wigs would have dominated almost every game.
@drgnslayr I liked what you said about the USA Today article. The media jumps on more bandwagons than a junior high boy! We got a home court boost against OU, otherwise, do we lose? Maybe, more likely? Even though OU lost, to go into our gym and come as close as they did makes them the team to beat!
@wrwlumpy We want to be the team to beat in April!
I don't care if Kentucky is ranked highly or whatever, it'll feel good to beat them. We weren't very good last year when they beat us, but the way they acted, their fans more specifically, they'd just beat a national champ.
@BeddieKU23 Any road game worries me although we're better equipped than the past few years. OSU is always a tough place to play, as is Texas, although the injury to their big hurts them a lot.
What I like about it is this hasn't turned into a jack up a three all the time team. I know Bill Self wouldn't allow it, but we are developing an insurance policy in case the threes aren't falling. My biggest worry for our team is that we get into the dance and there's a trey lid on the basket. So we keep learning the inside game, play bad ball, or whatever we called it last year. Just in case.
@nwhawkfan Cool memory!
I should have a nice double header that day, although I wish it were switched. Oklahoma plays at LSU, which I plan to attend unless it conflicts with our game. So far game times aren't posted, but I doubt they'd have the two marquee games of the Big12-SEC challenge run at the same time.
Here's the Kirk article. I have no account with them, but I see some articles, not sure why.
Kirk Hinrich aging well, shooting a career-best from 3-point range
Doug McDermott turned 24 Sunday, one day after Kirk Hinrich turned 35. What did McDermott give his fellow Iowa native?
"A bunch of you know what," McDermott said, laughing.
Razzing equals respect in pro sports, and plenty of it exists inside the Bulls' locker room for Hinrich, who quietly has crept up to prominence in several all-time franchise categories.
In his 11th season with the Bulls and 13th overall, Hinrich trails only Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen in games played at 737. He's the all-time leader — by a wide margin over Ben Gordon — in 3-point field goals made. He's fourth in minutes played behind Jordan, Pippen and Jerry Sloan. He's third in both steals and assists behind Jordan and Pippen and eighth in points.
"The big thing with Kirk is he's always going to be solid," said coach Fred Hoiberg, another Iowan. "You're going to get a great effort on the defensive end and he's not going to make mistakes on the offensive end. He can get you into something. He's very cerebral coming down the floor based on where the players are and getting us into one of our actions."
Hinrich likes talking about his own play about as much as a teenager likes listening to parents. But he entered Tuesday night shooting a career-high 47.2 percent from 3-point range, albeit on limited attempts, and provided solid minutes in three straight starts for Derrick Rose before Rose returned to the lineup in the 117-106 victory over the Bucks.
"I feel good," said Hinrich, a free agent after this season. "I don't feel any different than the day before (turning 35)."
@nuleafjhawk Someone the other day posted a great picture of Allen Field House which I posted onto my facebook. I put the caption with it, "The greatest venue in all of sports". One of my friends said "can't be, it's only basketball". Well I should say one of my former friends! He's one of these southern SEC fans who think the only sport is college football. I tried to set him straight. So I saw that line in the article, and on Sportscenter the guy said it's the best venue in sports!
Here's the text of the article:
The only shame when Monday night's Kansas-Oklahoma game ended was that we didn't see a fourth overtime.
Everything else was perfect.
The setting: Allen Fieldhouse, the holiest of college basketball arenas.
The circumstances: No. 1 Kansas against No. 2 Oklahoma. (Or, if you consider the coaches poll, it was the writers' No. 1, Kansas, versus the coaches' No. 1, Oklahoma.)
The atmosphere: The crowd was still rocking at 11 p.m. Central time as the game spanned into a third overtime. The ESPN broadcast duo of Dick Vitale and Brent Musburger could barely hear one another. ESPN reporter Holly Rowe said Kansas players were straining to hear coach Bill Self in the huddle.
The result: Kansas' 109-106 triple-overtime victory against the formerly undefeated Sooners.
Self and Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger, who have coached 1,668 combined games, struggled to come up with a better game they've witnessed or participated in. Like most sportswriters, I've racked my brain and can't come up with a more electric regular-season game in college basketball.
Oklahoma at Kansas
Wayne Selden and Frank Mason celebrate the Jayhawks' 109-106 triple overtime win at Allen Fieldhouse. (Rich Sugg / TNS)
The games we revere the most weren't played during the regular season. "The Shot" game between Duke and Kentucky happened during the 1992 NCAA tournament. The six-overtime game between Syracuse and Connecticut took place in the 2009 Big East tournament. North Carolina State's 1983 buzzer-beating win against Houston was in the NCAA tournament.
Up until Monday night in Lawrence, Kan., the best regular-season games in history were usually upset victories.
Indiana defeated top-ranked Kentucky 73-72 on a buzzer-beating 3-point heave by Christian Watford at Assembly Hall in 2011. Notre Dame ended No. 1 UCLA's 88-game winning streak on Jan. 19, 1974.
For longevity purposes, Gonzaga's triple-overtime game against Michigan State at the Maui Invitational stood out in November 2005, but many of us have forgotten about that game.
I suspect we'll remember the Kansas-Oklahoma game forever.
The players were gassed at the end but still smiling, and nobody seemed to beam so brightly as Oklahoma star Buddy Hield, despite being on the losing side. He finished with 46 points, having played all but one minute of a 55-minute game.
Hield told reporters afterward that he planned to watch the game immediately to help himself get better.
The rest of us? We were fortunate to have witnessed a game so special even once.
This theme has been bantered about on all the different posts today. I think that we had a good thing going and coach didn't want to break it up with multiple substitutions. I've told kids in games before I've coached that I'm not putting them in because we're playing so well, I don't want to break it up. I could be way wrong, but it's what I saw.
So what you're saying is guard Hield with one guy, and I think it was @drgnslayr or @VailHawk who said that Frank actually did a good job on Hield, so that several other sooners don't beat us. OK, I like it.
So what you're saying is Self and Lon decided to hack away so that the refs would finally get tired of whistles and let them play. If so, it worked better for us than them.
So what you're saying is that, well, RCJHKU! What a game!
@DanR 1988 14 bench points for KU, 0 for OU. We have a history of outscoring their bench!
@RockChalkinTexas Except knowing about Wayne what I've read about him is he wouldn't cuss at all due to his devout religious beliefs, but he may have thought it. ")
@globaljaybird PHOF!!
@JRyman KMHOF!! (key moment hall of fame)
That was enough of a disruption on the play that it prevented Hield from squaring up with a good look. Good key moment in a game with too many to really count.