Week of 2/5 Other Games

[aceboon]

I've had enough

 

[superjohn]

Embarrassing. They’re being offered this game and just refuse to win it.

This is really pathetic, can't believe what I'm watching. Don't think I've ever seen a team play this terribly and beat the #4 team in the country.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

McCuller, an 83% FT shooter, goes 1/5 including the front half of a one and one to tie with 20 seconds left. Brutal.

 

[AzHusky]

KST has 16 turnovers.

 

[alphasigko]

Here comes Nick Who

 

[87Xfer]

big FTs here.

 

[87Xfer]

that should do it!

 

[Rico444]

Another top 10 road loss to an unranked team.

 

[AzHusky]

Looks like they are going to storm the court

 

[HooperScooper]

brutal turnover there

Which one? Lol. If this was UConn trying to close out a game we'd all be going nuts.

 

[BigTenFan]

Tough to win on the road in such a hostile environment.

 

[alphasigko]

KST has 16 turnovers.

18/26 on FTs

 

[superjohn]

KSt is stupid. The pg from last year might’ve masked Tang as a coach

Tang is 11-0 in overtime, that's pretty good.

 

[aceboon]

Tang lost Nowell, Johnson, Tomlin, and Massoud from an E8 team, you're not gonna reload in one year at KState, portal or not.

 

[AtlantaHusky]

Kuck Fansas.

 

[Rocktheworld]

That was indeed a brutal finish. KState did not want to win but somehow did. That prayer of a scoop layup saved them

 

[JungleLobo]

Miami scored 38 points in a loss to Virginia

Poplar 3-12. Pack 0-8. Omier had 11 but that was nearly 1/3 of his teams points

What happened to this team? Did losing Wong ruin them?

Something Wong?

 

[caw]

Tang lost Nowell, Johnson, Tomlin, and Massoud from an E8 team, you're not gonna reload in one year at KState, portal or not.

They do really well in the portal, just mostly with non-fifth year guys. Their top five all started somewhere else and transferred in in the last two years. 6 and 7 are freshmen.

 

[gsmooth]

They were a solid team last year (and probably a bit underseeded) but they lost their two best players and really didn't replace them.



KU is just a different beast at home, and they aren't. They really should have at least two more losses that Phog granted them.

This is correct. They lost Isiah Wong and Jordan Miller.

 

[pj]

Tang is 11-0 in overtime, that's pretty good.

But he can't win the blowouts.

 

[Palatine]

Are Kansas losses good or bad for us?

They beat us. Does it hurt our NET or Kempom? Or does their loss help our chances of getting a high seed by eliminating a contender? I don't know who to root for anymore.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

Are Kansas losses good or bad for us?

They beat us. Does it hurt our NET or Kempom? Or does their loss help our chances of getting a high seed by eliminating a contender? I don't know who to root for anymore.

Over the years I have been conditioned to root for teams we've played out of conference. But this year UConn has been so good I don't think it matters for our seedline

 

[FLDawg16]

Tang is 11-0 in overtime, that's pretty good.

I feel like that has to be some sort of NCAA record right??

 

[Tenspro2002]

They were a solid team last year (and probably a bit underseeded) but they lost their two best players and really didn't replace them.

This is kind of my point -- Miami, by virtue of overachieving in the Tournament last year, was given undue benefit of the doubt that they would have no problem replacing that production. This often happens to teams that have unexpected runs.

In 2022 UNC almost (and should have) won the championship as an #8 seed. They were given credit for that 6 game run more than they were downgraded for a mediocre performance over 30+ previous games, and assumed that the 6-game run and not the larger body of work would carry over into the following year. Well, look what happened.

Frankly, we this year are the rare exception of a team that unexpectedly dominates, is ranked highly the following year mostly on reputation, and then actually outperforms that ranking.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Are Kansas losses good or bad for us?

They beat us. Does it hurt our NET or Kempom? Or does their loss help our chances of getting a high seed by eliminating a contender? I don't know who to root for anymore.

I go back and forth on this, but I think at this point Kansas losing is good.

If we had beaten them, I think there'd be more of an argument for wanting them to succeed to boost that quality win (sort of like for UNC). But "quality losses" don't matter quite as much for the subjective resume evaluation, and I think there's more at stake in a head-to-head comparison versus them than in boosting our computer numbers a few tenths of a point by having them win.

Them losing makes it much harder for them to overtake us for a #1 seed. This is the most important thing.