Now we know why Duke slaps the floor, they're testing the structural integrity of the floorboards.

At first I thought Duke was down 56 to 6...

***** Official '21/'22 KU Men's Basketball Repository Thread *****
 

https://www.eagletribune.com/mike-bi...e3b5b2132.html



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**** people clicking on that bullshit.

Zion.

That's all I have to say about any grandstanding mother****ing **** blathering on about this ****ing shit.

Everybody was soooooooo quick to suck K's cock this tournament. But it's on the ****ing wire tap that Zion wanted 100K and we didn't land him. But he played for free for K right. Literally ****ing **** every****ingbody that is carrying on here.

Kentucky and Duke fans embarrassing themselves. Can’t stop posting Ls. Humiliating themselves publicly.

Man, if we get a completely free pass on the Adidas thing, this will be glorious.

Not exactly “free” - Zion’s family got to live in a 950K luxury home on campus owned by an alum.

https://fansided.com/2020/06/11/zion...-duke-scandal/


Nike execs on text discussing payment plans for Zion, calling the push to get elite players to their schools is a “war”.
“Texts and emails allegedly detail Nike’s willingness to pay high schoolers, including Zion Williamson”

https://sports.yahoo.com/texts-and-e...l?guccounter=1


Dook did an internal investigation of this matter and concluded they did nothing wrong.
https://www.si.com/college/duke/bask...r-doubles-down

TigerBoard expects the title to be vacated:
http://www.tigerboard.com/boards/vie...ssage=18098957

Why do UK & MU fans think that IF something were vacated it would be this year..... that has nothing to do with the probe?

Oh, I just answered my own question. Both fanbases are filled with idiots.

I haven't paid attention to it, are there specific Kansas players or past recruits tied to the Adidas stuff?

DeSousa.

Who was cleared twice by the NCAA.

Oh right, forgot about him... don't know how I did that, he was so vital to this NC.

Would’ve been even better if somehow Chattanooga was the team to knock UK off

LMAO LMAO LMAO You're such a pathetic loser

I assume you are originally Canadian or currently live in Toronto. Is that correct?

And if so, how did you become a Chiefs and Jayhawks fan?

I think I read or saw an interview or something the other day that said McCormack was still to decide on that. He was just concentrating on the game. So, he could still decide to come back for all we know.

I have also seen it suggested recently that Braun could leave for the NBA. That was news to me as the last I knew, only Ochai was considered an lottery pick. I can't imagine Braun would get drafted. Or if some team did draft him then it would be at the end of the 2nd round.

Haven't heard anything about Wilson leaving early.

To me, both Braun and Wilson would greatly benefit from doing exactly what Agbaji did last year. Go get feedback from NBA teams and work on those things in the off season.

Yes and yes.

Family in Kansas City area so grew up a Chiefs fan. Was routinely down there for portions of summers as a kid. Attended and graduated from KU as well.

Braun was projected 28th overall in an ESPN mock draft today, which was pretty surprising to me considering I don't see him as a particularly good prospect at all (he's not a good enough shooter for the NBA level at the moment and his athleticism, while great for college, is average to below average compared to most guys in the league). If he's got any shot of being a 1st round pick, he should probably go right now. I'm skeptical on that front though.

McCormack is not going to ever be a NBA guy, so it comes down to whether he can make more money in Europe next year than he could through NIL at KU.

Wilson has not been considered a 1st round pick, but I do like his upside more than Braun. Doubt he's ever going to play in the NBA unless he can improve his shot considerably though.

Oh, that is rich. Especially considering their own HC has had NCAA titles vacated not once, but twice with 2 different schools. Do they think he just quit cheating when he got to Kentucky? ROFL GMAFB Cal is the biggest snake in college hoops. The other biggest one just retired.

If he doesn't show up soon I'd say he deserves a lifetime ban. :p

if you're gonna blast KU for infractions, you gotta blast everyone and blow it up and start over....which is fine if that's what people want.

But dont you dare act like the Rat is immune (esp with the Zion situation)........and let's not forget UNC's "academics" for their players.

People need to accept the reality that everyone plays the same poker game (some have better starting hands than others) or hate the whole thing.

So if you come after KU, you better make sure you go after everyone else and stop pretending some are saints.

I was in Montreal when Toronto won the NBA title. Apparently there is a bit of a rivalry between the two cities, but Montreal was partying big time in celebration of the Raptors win.

Too early to talk about it?

Not Seniors: Harris, Braun, Wilson, Yesefu, Pettiford, Clemence, KJ Adams, Cam Martin.
Freshman: Gradey Dick, MJ Rice, Udeh, Ejiofor.
That's 12.
Who leaves early? Wilson and Braun as you all have been discussing.
Who enters transfer portal? Yesefu? Pettiford?

Speaking of transfer portal. I saw Nijel Pack has entered. I hope he doesn't transfer to Texas Tech or Baylor!

Mods, I think you need to take out the trash.

I'd love to see Braun and Wilson back, but if they have any shot of being a 1st round pick, or just making an NBA squad in Wilson's case, they should go.

Does anyone know what mocks are usually the most accurate? This is one I've always used and it doesn't have any KU player other than Ochai.



https://www.nbadraft.net/nba-mock-drafts/

I’m hoping we get 2 of 3 back of Braun, Wilson, and McCormack. The more I think about it, McCormack might be a possibility. He can clean up with NIL and improve his stock for overseas by playing healthy for a year. I think NBA is out of the question entirely.

Let’s say Braun declares. Agbaji, Remy, Lightfoot, JCL are also gone.

Starters:

Harris, Dick, Rice, Wilson, McCormack

Pettiford was much better pre-injury, so I’ll assume he’s the back up point guard. Yesufu transfers. Cam Martin also transfers. Ejiofor takes JCL’s minutes.

Udeh and Clemence are the bigs off the bench. Self can manage Dave’s minutes more by using more than 1 big off the bench.

Adams is a utility/gadget player. Kinda like Jamari Traylor was early. Technically a 4, but comes in for energy minutes.

So basically:

Starters: Harris, Dick, Rice, Wilson, McCormack

Bench (in order): Pettiford, Clemence, Udeh, Adams, Ejiofor

I like that scenario. If Dave leaves, we’ll need a big from the portal. If Wilson, Braun, and Dave leave, it’s a full on youth movement.

Winning a title this year makes next year really fun regardless.

When I was kid, my team had some deal where we played a basketball game in Kemper arena and then we stayed and watched the Kings play afterwards.

It might even have been when the Scouts hockey team was also playing in Kemper (remember them?), not sure. But the floor was designed to be picked up quickly and I'm not sure that system back in the 70's was as good as today.

But the floor, to the extent that I remember, was four by four foot (5X5?) floating panels that seemed, to me anyway, to rock as you ran down the court.

It had a little bit of give when you jumped and landed, which was nice, but the rocking motion was horrible.

The absolute worst court I can ever remember playing on and this was a professional NBA team. I suppose a lot of it was just not being used to a hard court with so much flex in it.

What are the percentage chances Cam Martin is on this roster next year?

I'm not sure who makes up next year's roster can really be speculated, other than Harris and maybe Yesufu. Wilson/Braun might leave early, Pettiford/Clemence could transfer, and in reality if sanctions come down who knows what freshmen actually end up on campus.

I didn’t write the column you ****ing bundle of sticks.


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I’m terrible at projecting NBA, but I don’t think much of Braun as an NBA prospect. Like you I don’t think he’s athletic enough and his shot isn’t good enough. And just looking, the stuff he does in college won’t work in the pros. But if he can get that money he should do it.

I’d view Wilson as the better player. But his 3pt shooting got worse. I know teams look at that. But just body, athleticism I’d say he’s the better prospect. Who the hell knows. Selfishly I’d like them back but if they can get paid they need to get paid.

McCormack is kind of a weird career. He’s got a pretty nice shot and at one point he was making 80-something percent from the line. But he never showed any interest at all about being the stretch 4 kind of skillset. And now with his injury trouble I gotta think he won’t get even a passing look at the league. But at one point in his career, maybe.

Get outta here mutt. Who let you in the house?

Wow that's the worst message board I've ever seen. Truly terrible in all regards.

Hes absolutely right. And when all your body weight is on the edge of your shoe. Also a factor.

Knowingly spreading herpes isn't any better than inventing it.

I spent like 13 years on there before they banned me for good. (Well, the year 2040.


They did the exact same thing in 08: cling to the desperate hope the Darrell Arthur HS transcript would be the smoking gun that takes out trophy. They were like sleuths trying to unearth all the missing Info the MSM missed.


I know they’re going back to the well. But I never believed a once-proud Kentucky would slither to Mizzouche lows

ROFL

I will let you know ahead of time: I'm stealing this.

Oh man. That Missouri board is hilarious.

A lot of talk about how teams should boycott the tournament next year if we aren’t stripped….from Missouri fans.

Sure…if by some miracle Missouri made the tourney next year, apparently Missouri fans will want the team to decline the invite out of protest.

Brauns going in the second round

Why? He’s not NBA athletic. His shot is not ready.

His season average for 3's was just shy of 39%.

Rams Famnorix

Hope not. I want him to come back for another year.

Dude is by far my favorite player on this team with Wilson second.

At least winning a title makes an exodus much easier to swallow.

If we get Braun, Wilson, AND McCormack back, we’re going to be better next year than this year.

Our post depth will be much better and improved. I really believe Dick and Rice will be big time contributors.

Athleticism isn't his problem. He isn't Ochai but for a 6'7" wing hes plenty athletic. The problem is he can't score in the half court. I'd say hes actually raw if anything. Slow release on his shot too. If he had Wilson's ball handling and footwork he would be a lottery pick.

Not going to happen!

But you did post it here, jackhole. GTFO, MUron!

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For me, it's hard to pick a favorite player on this team. But if I had to, I'd pick Braun as my favorite followed by Ochai as a close 2nd - sort of 1a & 1b.

Remy

Kansas Basketball National Championship Parade
 

Jalen Wilson was my favorite player. I honestly think he was the most important piece on the team.

Having a stretch 4 who can do so many things well was really valuable this year.

That is going to be a zoo.
There are still rooms available at The Eldridge (surprisingly). May be an option...

I’ve posted this before, but early on in the season I thought Remy was the X-factor who could take this team’s offense over the top. He seemed like such an atypical Self guy when he was brought on board, with his reportedly explosive offense, lackadaisical defense and propensity to play hero ball over setting up the offense - but it felt like Self bringing him on was an acknowledgement that he had the gear this team needed. Add in his regular season injury, rumored tension with Self, disappearance and then ascension as a passer, defender, and delivering as an explosive offensive spark plug in March and his redemptive arc this year will always be legendary.

In the title game he was just electrifying. Remy picked us up when our offense and defense hit an understandable lull after that 31-10 run and Dave was pulled to catch a breath. Remy then single-handedly willed our offense under the 8 minute mark til the game’s end, There are some crazy things to look back on with Remy’s performance, namely that he hit three tiebreaking second half threes each time North Carolina had chipped into our lead - it was like every time we needed an answer, Remy was there, inventing shots on his own and nailing them each time. On defense, the side of the court he had been heavily scrutinized on as a transfer and benched for this season, he came at Carolina’s players with ferocity, culminating in what may have been a championship swinging block at the very end. He was present all the way to the end, when he passed it off to Big Dave down-low to finish off the Tarheels.

Ochai was the heart of this team, but I will always remember Remy ascending this team above classic March KU losses against the red hot 3 point shooting Creighton, when the rest of our offense couldn’t buy a shot against Providence and of course, how clutch Remy was in the title game. I always dreamed KU would get a player who could take over a game like that when the lights were brightest and Remy absolutely delivered.

It took a lot longer than I had hoped, but Remy turned into the player I thought he would be for this team when he came to KU.

Man, lots of good comments on the various players. Like I said, it's hard to choose because they all contributed important minutes and plays. And yes, Remy was the guy we needed to help get us over the top.

It's just amazing that this all came together like this. I am so happy with this team.

I just finished another order at Fanatics.com. I'm getting just about as bad as I was 2 years ago with the Chiefs in buying championship stuff. :D

Seth Greenberg goes all over the map:


I don’t think he separates himself. Obviously, the second championship separates him. Alright, that’s rare air.

But I look at college basketball today, Bill Self is probably in that conversation, Jay Wright is in that conversation. Don’t forget about John Calipari. He’s not going anywhere, he’s still in Kentucky. Kentucky will always be in that conversation. And then a guy like Hubert Davis, I think he’s going to emerge as a voice of college basketball.

But right now in this moment in time, Bill Self has separated himself as a coach.”

Don’t forget about a guy that had a 9 win team last year and just lost to a 15. Lolololol

Saw this on Phog.
 

This is very interesting. And very relevant to the recent "blue bloods" discussion, IMO.

Tournament Wins In The Modern Era
https://johngasaway.com/2022/04/05/y...he-modern-era/

Bought a pilsner and rocks glass last night and shipped a t-shirt to my dad (as much as I hate $30 shirts)... and of course bought a wine bottle to place next to the 2020 NC. :D

Bryce Hopkins anyone? Was ranked #31 last season coming out of high school.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lexington you will always have a special place in my heart���� <a href="https://t.co/YCfZhhr1oy">pic.twitter.com/YCfZhhr1oy</a></p>&mdash; Bryce Hopkins (@BryceHopkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/BryceHopkins/status/1512058564407447553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I agree, he's the most fun to watch.

There are 2 things in my life that I don't force myself to be financially conservative about:

- Championship gear
- Toilet paper

Seems like UNC is in good hands with Hubert. I wonder how Duke with do with Scheyer. I honestly just can't see that guy as a HC. He was such a limp noodle as a player. <-- I retract that statement, I must have Scheyer mixed up with someone else.

One of the KC sports radio stations had a Duke reporter on a few weeks back. He said that it’s basically been known that K was just a figurehead these last few seasons. He apparently didn’t handle much of the player development, X’s and O’s, or recruiting unless he needed to.

He seems to think that there won’t really be much of a transition at this point.

That's too bad.

Just want to throw this gem of a Rupp Rafters post out there. I mean, if you take away his time at UMASS & at Memphis, he's 100% correct.

I started with a couple of Final Four shirts last week. I bought 2 Championship shirts on Monday from Fanatics. I went into Rally House yesterday and bought a couple more shirts and a Koozie. Today, I got back on fanatics and ordered a license plate, pilsner glass, garden flag, shot glass, bottle wrap, and lanyard (for my son). I think I may have a problem. :D

I agree. Wilson’s contributions are undervalued.

Hard to argue with this. The team when it had energy was a mother****er. When they were flat, they were average at best. Remy was instant energy. Agbajis dunks and big 3s and stuff helped some, but nothing like what Remy would come in and do.

He just had a level of **** you that is difficult to find. Even defensively. He can’t go get a possession like Releford or Garrett could. But he just went out there and out worked the offensive guy. Got some fouls and missed some plays but he made a lot of plays defensively. The impact he had on the 2 tournaments was enormous. It also speaks to the teams makeup and lack of ego to let him step in after so long and be him. I’m going to venture a guess that not many teams in the history of sports the Remy play works like that.

Just a really special group.

You’re goddamned right you have a problem. You haven’t bought enough shit.

Wilson does a lot of things well




Shooting threes isn't one of them

Yeah, he was better last year. That ice cold start really held his percentage down.

If he comes back, I wouldn’t be shocked if he bounced back and improved to around 35%. Not elite, but good enough to demand respect.

He actually has a decent looking shot.

Ya know, Barry Bonds never actually tested positive for PEDs.

We have seen the pics. As an adult you’re head doesn’t get bigger. Welll unless you take steroids.

LMAO

I was eyeing the license plate frame last night and wondered if getting the shot glass on top of the others was too many... and would have grabbed the lanyard if I didn't work from home.

If nothing else, it's fun scrolling through all of that stuff to see what all they'll slap a National Champions sticker on.

It's actually HGH that makes your noggin grow, not the juice.

Settle down. You gotta buy stuff for tailgating next year.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">✨ <a href="https://twitter.com/KUHoops?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KUHoops</a> only had 2 players in its rotation that were top 100 recruits per RSCI<br><br>Since 2001 when the service began, no national champion had ever had less than 4 top 100 players in its rotation (h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheAthletic</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/CJMooreHoops?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CJMooreHoops</a>) <a href="https://t.co/QUZQnh99ai">pic.twitter.com/QUZQnh99ai</a></p>&mdash; FOX College Hoops (@CBBonFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBBonFOX/status/1512143420214677505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Celebrating a national championship is never a problem.

I don't shell out the money to travel, stay in hotels, and go to these games, the least I can do is to buy a few trinkets to remind me of it.