2 dunks missed by Ochai this game now.

Also two games this season where they've been completely outplayed by a non-tournament team. The first one ended in a loss.

Bill's probably reminding them of that little fact right now. Time to get frickin' serious. Remember where they're playing.

Up 9. Would prefer being up by 25 with the streaky nature of this game.

Now up by 4. C'mon guys!

Absolutely pathetic stuff.

The Dayton loss was the worst loss quality wise since 2012 TCU, but this would be even worse. A true home game at AFH? Are you kidding me?

Reminds of too many losses to teams we never should've lost to.

Ochai is so bad defensively. The fact that he's getting talked up as a POY candidate suggests people aren't looking at anything but his scoring totals.

Remy saves us.

True...
That said, I think we'll get out of this one now, with 26 seconds left.
Hope I didn't jinx us.

Let us never speak of this one again.

No shit.
Rock Chalk.

Yeeeeeesh

He really was a pretty inefficient scorer last year. He just got to shoot at the end of shot clocks since he was the only one who could do it
.

He had a 102.5 ORtg last year compared to 92.2 ORtg this year. 51 TS% last year compared to 38 TS% this year. Shot 32 percent from three compared to 7 percent this year (1 for 15).

He’s basically gone from being an average shooter/scorer to being absolutely horrific offensively this season.

Mitch looked pretty solid in the 1st half. Its too bad Dave has regressed so much that Lightfoot may actually be better.

He is the weakest big man I've ever seen in my life. Biggest dude on the floor and gets owned regularly by guys 2 inches shorter and 50 lbs. lighter. They need to put him on one of those Marvel actor regiments to put on some muscle.

I'm nominating him for this thread's pile on the crap player. He deserves it so far....

Everyone wants to see McCormack's minutes decrease, but, like it or not, he's a very important piece. Self is going to give him every opportunity because he knows that he needs him, even defensively. And he will likely turn it around eventually, like last year.

McCormack's issues are mental, not physical. He does not have an aggressive mind set. It is obvious. A guy that big should want to out-physical defenders in the paint and dunk EVERYTHING. Instead, he fades and tries to hit jump shots 5 to 6 ft from the basket. Soft.

That's the perplexing thing. He did this SAME SHIT last year and then turned it on.

It's like bizzaro world. Most dudes feast on shit teams and then wither against better opponents. It's super weird.

I mean, it's possible he doesn't turn it on and last year was an aberration. I hope not, but it's possible.

He's soft (which isn't going to change at this point) and he's got a really bad feel/mind for the game (which is also not changing either). The team does in fact need him, though, but not for scoring.

Sure looks like I didn't miss much last night with this one. Jeesh

Looks like they trailed 3 times all game and never by more than one possession, but if you read this thread it was the worst effort ever by KU basketball and should never be spoken of again.

After seeing posts Thursday night about how the Chiefs are screwed at QB for years, I was waiting to read the fire Bill Self posts.

But it did change though. He was far better in conference play than he was early. And it was all toughness/effort from my seat.

Fumblllllllllllllll titans

Uhhhh. Wrong thread LOL

Forgot i checked the KU thread :)

That's true, but that change wasn't permanent. He needs to be this team's Landen Lucas instead of whatever he's trying to be right now.

Lucas is why I'll never discount Self's ability to get major mental growth from his bigs, Udoka as well, actually.

I can’t wait to see how we stack up against Baylor(on ESPNU lol) Jan 1. And obviously my return trip to the Field House Jan 11. I’m still a little hesitant on expectations, but damn our defense should keep us in any game.

I also still can’t believe I bought Iowa State at Kansas tickets for ONLY $25 on Black Friday. I thought I got a deal a few years ago when I got them on sale for $84 my first trip there lol

Big12 is the best basketball conference right now, and it’s about to be better in a few years.

There go my plans for the evening

Well crap!! :cuss:

Yep. No game. Pisser.

http://www2.kusports.com/news/2021/d...program-leads/

COVID-19 issue within Colorado hoops program leads to cancelation of KU-CU game in Boulder

Shit

Sucks they wasted time traveling out there

what a late announcement. Glad it ended up not working out for me to go. I would have been halfway to Boulder.

Will the season be next?

We would have gotten over it if we just took 3 weeks off

Yeah that would’ve been really annoying.

I probably won’t be traveling to any sporting events for awhile for that very reason.

Yep. Seeing Spidey might be my last outing for a while.

Will not be surprised if I catch it at the job, though. Was around 140 people today, some were coughing, and 2 coworkers went home.

Does CU really have COVID issues or is this another Tarleton State situation. For those who may not remember lest season Tarleton State canceled a game with KU supposedly b/c of COVID but then played Kentucky 2 days after they were scheduled to play KU. (Me thinks KY offered a bigger guaranteed check.)

Are you under the impression we are paying Colorado to play us??

No, but IMO the timing is a little suspicious. I did check their record to see if a L might give CU bubble "issues" come March with a certain cmte.

We will never catch UK if they cancel all the games.

If they forfeited why doesn't it count? Argh. Damn it Buffaloes

WTF are you talking about? A school just made up some game against Kentucky mid-season for a larger payment?

They were scheduled to play Baylor two days later and that game was cancelled, too.

Never return there.

At that time I thought it odd that the school had to cancel its game w/KU 48 hrs before it was to take place but could play another school 2 days after KU was scheduled to play them. (At that time, before vaccines, COVID was considered to be a 10-14 "thing" as far as being contagious.)

I think KU player and alum Tad Boyle is still the coach at Colorado.

Game versus Harvard cancelled. Harvard is banged up + COVID. Kansas is looking at adding a non-conference opponent.

Harvard sucks anyway. Find someone more interesting + better.

Call Creighton

Just up the road

Let’s call up Wichita State and beat the **** out of them. Already embarrassed Missouri. Why not the Shockers too?

Well, dang!

This would be great.

Clemson is now available (I think)

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...e-covid-issues

Per Barstool Sports via Twitter Nevada has agreed to play KU on the 29th.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">KANSAS BASKETBALL HEARINGS:<br><br>Hearing Kansas vs Nevada on the 29th as a replacement game. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KUbball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KUbball</a></p>&mdash; Mike Vernon (@M_Vernon) <a href="https://twitter.com/M_Vernon/status/1475505135778353152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Current Big12 Rankings:

1 Baylor
6 Kansas
8 Iowa State
12 *Houston
17 Texas
25 Texas Tech

Oklahoma and West Virginia receiving the most votes after Illinois(so basically #27 and #28).

Looks like the TCU game on January 1 has been postponed now as well.

Nevada at Kansas, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 29th, 7:00 PM!!!!

https://kuathletics.com/jayhawks-to-...en-fieldhouse/

Ugh, ESPN+. I've got it, I just hate it.

ESPN+ is terrible all around. Video, audio, and production.

That's funny as I was just looking at an email from KU advertising tickets for the TCU game on New Year's Day for $15. :banghead:

http://www2.kusports.com/news/2021/d...da-dec-29-pla/

"The rapid remake of the 2021-22 Kansas men’s basketball schedule continued late Monday night, when KU officials announced that Saturday’s Big 12 home opener versus TCU had been postponed because of COVID-19 issues within the Horned Frogs program."

Yeah, COVID is wrecking games again this year. I hope we don't end up getting the tourney canceled again.

NCAA are reactionary twats, so it would not surprise me in the least. :grr:

It doesn't really seem possible that the NCAA could cancel 2 tournaments in 3 years. That's just too much money to give up.

They won’t cancel the tournament. Teams should probably stop testing asymptomatic vaccinated players if they ever want to get any games in though.

They said that shit the first time they cancelled it

Literally everything shut down in March 2020. I can't imagine the backlash if the NCAA or any sports league continued to play back then.

I don't want to turn this political but the cdc updated their protocols

Picked up another game. George Mason on New Years Day. No relation to the great one Frank Mason.

Need those wins to overtake Kensucky.

Well, that's good. At least they will still be playing games rather than sitting around all winter break.

Look at who George Mason's coach is. This will spark this one up.

Kim English. Oh boy. I hope we pound them into sand.

That might be the fastest I’ve ever seen a team get 3 fouls

And 4 fouls

That’s a good start

Yeah, every time ku is on offense, Nevada fouls

Damn, remi with the flop