His performance at Iowa State was insane. He completely overmatched them.

His stats weren’t too absurd in that one, but that doesn’t tell the whole story.

He was clearly on a completely different level around that time.

Embiid would’ve caused a lot of problems in March if he stayed healthy.

Freshman Embiid blows freshman Josh Jackson out of the water. Before he got hurt, he was becoming a two-way monster.

He sure as hell wasn't higher than Frank Mason, who Id put at 3 on your list.

Graham is probably the most misremembered KU player. So many people think he was some consistent scoring guy, but he was actually extremely streaky and prone to really bad stretches.

That's a pretty good list. Though I might have put frank Mason in there before Josh.

Early, yes. He was very consistent as a SR though, and not nearly as streaky as a JR.

I'd still like to kick the officials in the nuts for how they allowed Texas to literally beat him up on the court. That was some super dirty basketball.

I can't really agree with that. People seem to forget his clunkers because we won so much. No one remembers his dreadful SR year second round game against DePaul where he went 1-7 and we got bailed out by Dokes return. Or even the Duke game we won and he had all of 11 points but Newman stepped up. He shot 9-29 in the run to the final four excluding the 16 seed game. His JR year he had a 5 game conference stretch where he went 14-52 and lost to TCU in the first round of the big 12 tournament where he shot 2-10. I don't say all of this to bash the guy, I like him, he's just more volatile than people remember.

I definitely agree. Very good player but nowhere near on of the all-time greats. He was a TERRIBLE scorer efficiencywise on 2FG. Hes so bad at it he almost should just only shoot 3s which hes elite at.

It's a little remarkable Texas Southern started the season 0-7 with losses to Air Force and Louisiana State and then beat Florida in Gainsville for their first win of the year.

I should mention for old time's sake that we caught a bad draw in Texas Southern beating Texas A&M CC. They are a far better overall team than them (particularly defensively) and have one of the best shot blockers by block rate in the NCAA. We went from having by far the easiest opponent in the tournament (think 99% chance of winning) to only the easiest opponent in the tournament by a small amount (think 95-96% of winning). Need to be ready.

How are we feeling guys?

I haven’t watched much coverage, been working my ass off. Nonetheless I feel like nobody is giving us much of a shot (rightfully so - I’m not heaping expectations on this group). Hopefully that leads to playing loose with nothing to lose.

I think we played pretty good ball in the tournament. We laid some real stinkers in the regular season, but we won the toughest conference. We won the toughest conference tournament. You gotta like our chances, unless we draw a physically dominant team, which I think beats us regularly.

Maybe this is the year we surprise people.

Relatively low expectations, yet if they make it to the Elite Eight or beyond, I'd most likely feel as if they have just as good of a shot as anyone else... it doesn't seem like there's an goliath matchup waiting for them, but of course they have to get past the craziness of the first few rounds first.

I mean sure, I'll be fake terrified every time KCC tells us how every game is a goliath matchup and the worst possible team to play against ever, but I like the low expectation years (and as a 1 seed LMAO)... easier to just sit back, enjoy the wins, and laugh at the TV if they put up a stinker.

Same. We'll have a better idea after this weekend, but we should enjoy this weekend. This is THE best weekend for college basketball IMO. :popcorn:

Yep, today and tomorrow are the only days CBS can't possibly have all games at commercials at the same time, once it really gets going in a couple hours... even after all these years of watching the tournament it's still crazy to me that it goes from 64 teams today down to 16 by the end of the weekend.

And it always starts right as Arizona moves to Pacific time, so it starts at 9am here and the "late" game starts at 7. :D

Any guesses?

I’m going with Self being older.

Nope! Guess again!


My FF: Aub>Kent. (Tech, AZ)

You’d have to get pretty specific to know.

I like our draw. I like how we've been defending lately. I like that Martin looks healthy and that Bill was giving him some run in the Tourney title game.

I don't like that Ochai has been off from deep. Or that David McCormack can only defend bigs like him.

FF team easy

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That's gonna be an oof from me dawg

What a bunch of ****ing morons

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I'm too old for 9pm tips on a work night

I will eat my crow... never thought I would see this team go 6/29 from 3 point range... Many wide open and uncontested. They choked.

At least you don't live in EST

That's what she said

I hope it's over by 9.

St Peters up on Kentucky with a minute and change.

**** you!

ROFL

Shit, Creighton came back and might go to OT... might be looking at like 9:30. :(

Amen

Welp...RIP :D

Creighton game into OT

Man I'll be asleep before tip lmao

Could be Double, Triple OT

Now an injury...Channeling the spirit of Mike Hargrove

I remember being told that Iowa and Kentucky were our worst potential games.

That mean we are good to go now?

That's what it says now. KU game is at 9:30.
Ugghh

Well SDSU is the worse rd32 game we could ever ask for in the tourney history.

Might be datin' Creighton

But but. SDSU is a nightmare.

McDermott not calling timeout at the end of regulation or when up 2 with 40 seconds left is just so incredibly dumb. Didn't matter, though.

Bluejays it is

Looks like their guard Couldn’t stand the pressure.

I’m still worried about SDSU kenpom defensive rating.

Possibly missing that tall tree too.

You should be...until 0s hit the clock.

Gene Steratore is the CBB rules analyst? LMAO

Now to worry about Texas Southern and their defense.

I looked this up yesterday and apparently he was a CBB ref too. Who knew?

He seemed to be in some pain

Yeah... maybe closer to 9:45.

I hope to see him doing baseball as well.

The Jesuits

10:45 where I am.

It's now saying approximately 9:40.

KCC, the Creighton guard just said they work harder than any team in the nation. Should we be worried?

To be determined, but almost certainly. I'll do a deep dive around 1AM if we're fortunate enough to get by Texas Southern.

I’m ready for the boat racing. Hope we can keep it competitive until half at least.

The humble approach

I hope they cancel the game because it’s too late and just flip a coin to determine a winner. Much better chance of advancing that way.

I already am. I’m sure there’s a Kenpom rating we should be worried about.

And the fact that Bruan is still playing.

I just hope McCormick can make a layup. Seems all year his name and missed layups we’re one in the same.

Perimeter D? Can we survive?

This will be Bruans breakout game

For me, it’s:

1. Jeff Boschee
2. Sasha Kaun
3. Darnell Jackson
4. Terry Nooner
5. Jeff Withey

We can only hope.

I’m sure they have a weird looking unathletic white guy who will have the game of his life.

So is KU still deserving of that "Watch out they lose in the first round a lot!" honor?

Bill Self has never lost to a 15 seed. Can't say the same for Kentucky and Puke.

We're two games back I believe in all time wins.

Did Duke lose today?

Hang on to your seats.

Wouldn’t be March madness without that usually lonely on a Sat. Night appearance of the male species on national TV.

They once lost to a 15 seed

Which is funny because the team currently with the longest streak of first round wins is...KU.

Oh. My apologies

I haven’t really pid attention til now.

Birthday. Been doing family stuff all day and hanging with the grandkids.

Thought I missed something.

You know what happens when you assume