Vanderbilt has Festus Ezeli back and has maybe remembered how to play basketball? At least they've stopped shooting 60% or w/e from the FT line.
In the most predictable turn of events this season, Methzou gets exposed as a mediocre team yet again as soon as they play a real team on the road.
I've never seen anyone with as much "lean muscle" as TRob. I mean, I've seen the ultra-bulked roid addicts who are bigger than him, but that's not "real" muscle. He is skinny but absurdly ripped.
Mizzou/Baylor game was pretty exciting. Just goes to show that Baylor's 17-0 start was smoke and mirrors. EDIT: rock chalk
god damn it guys, this loss hurts. Hopefully this should be another wake up call for us even though this is way worse than the K state loss. At least our coach was getting furious at our players. They just didnt show up to play tonight. We'll be ok in the long run though.
I would like to thank the Missouri Tigers for pissing off Jeff Withey and turning him into the greatest player in the country.
welp, this sucks. louisville outplayed syracuse pretty much all night but loses by 1 because a) we can't hit FT, and b) pitino not calling a timeout when we have the ball with 30 seconds left. really?! horrible loss. we should have beat them by 10, honestly.
holy FUCK i am so furious at the refs at the end of the first half. Two made up fouls in a row gave missouri a lead they did not earn. FUCK MISSOURI
Upon second viewing, the only of the 3 disputed calls that was actually questionable was the last one, sending Taylor to the line at the end of OT. The foul on Robinson's and-one with 16 left in reg was clearly a foul - Pressey slid sideways into him, hitting him in the back while he still had the ball in his hands and knocking him onto his back. In the block at the other end, Robinson clearly got all ball. He and the shooter did collide in mid-air, but only because of their momentum, and not until after the shot was good and blocked.
Mizzou blew it, but those calls were still brutal. Robinson might have gotten all ball, but plenty of contact was made with the body, which is still a foul. Rest assured that had Mizzou touched Kansas like that, it would have been called a foul. See, this is why I hate basketball sometimes; you can almost guarantee that the home team is gonna get call after call after call. It's ridiculous.
Sure there was contact, but there's contact on nearly every shot. In that case, Robinson went straight up, and the shooter's momentum took him into Robinson. It would have been charging if Robinson hadn't jumped. In other words, the contact was the shooter's fault.
But Robinson DID jump, so therefore it is a foul on the defense. That happens all of the time, where a shooter initiates contact to draw a foul. Put it this way: had that been the exact same scenario, and it had been a Kansas shooter and a Mizzou defender, a foul would have been called. I'd bet everything I own on it.
lol So after I day of thinking about it I realized this loss isn't the end of the world. I still believe we are a final four team, just have to remember that a game of basketball is 40 minutes not 25. You guys are really good this year and I hope we get the chance for a rematch in the tournament. I'm pretty excited for the big 12 tournament actually because anybody could win it. I still think the big 12 is the best conference and will do the best in the ncaa tournament.
There were some poor calls back in Columbia too, hell there were some poor calls against Kansas in the first half of Saturday's game that basically set up the 19-point deficit (T-Rob's charge, Withey's 2 fouls, one or two of Elijah's 3 in the first half were questionable too). Point is this was the best game ever.
If you fall behind by 19 at home and get bailed out by a series of home court calls at the end of the game, you don't deserve to win.
Can we seriously reflect on this, what other sports program can claim the dominance Kansas can for the past decade? Eight straight Big XII conference champions. A few were shared, but they were still at the top. Doesn't necessarily mean they were the best team each year the past decade, but definitely a top 5 team year in and year out. Bill Self is a basketball god.
The amazing thing is that at least 3 of these championship years were after they'd lost 3 or more of their best players to the draft/graduating. See: 2006, 2009, this year. Just incredible.
Anything less than the sweet sixteen (honestly probably the elite 8) will be disappointing for Vanderbilt. Too much talent and experience both. I hope tonight's win (along with the valiant effort at Rupp) indicates that they have finally turned that elusive corner.
i was happy for the vandy win because it should elevate louisville's rpi also, go hoosiers! i have always disliked michigan state, so the beatdown was very pleasurable to me
well, lunardi has them as a 6 seed playing 11 arizona, and then if they win they'd most likely play 3 michigan for a sweet 16 bid. obviously the bracket will look different in a few weeks, but it's not totally farfetched. they'd have to beat 2 duke to get the elite 8 bid though (fuck duke) however i dont think florida is that good and the sec in general is pretty mediocre so who knows for sure.
Outside of the top 8 teams there is such a huge drop-off that realistically any team in the tournament could get to the sweet 16 this year.
UNC scored 1 more point in the first half than Louisville scored in their entire game. Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to be a fan of a skilled and competent basketball team.
