December: Other NCAA Games

[AllHusky]

Kentucky not impressive

 

[aceboon]

Ohio St better keep playing, too much time left to start taking the air out of the ball

 

[jibsey]

SEC SEC SEC SEC. It’s all the narrative I hear on tv and this board, yet unranked Ohio State has been up on big #4 Kentucky at home all game.

 

[RuffRuff]

Kentucky struggling against Ohio State - but being helped by a 16-1 FT advantage to keep it within 7.

UK gonna lose this one. Always entertaining watching the meltdown. Not watching but would be curious as to the defensive strategy by OSU, UK 15-51 from floor is brutal. Are they extending pressure and being physical?

Could be the one team we bump in the rankings.

 

[BFieldHusky]

UK gonna lose this one in Rupp. Always entertaining watching the meltdown. Not watching but would be curious as to the defensive strategy by OSU, UK 15-51 from floor is brutal. Are they extending pressure and being physical?

MSG.

 

[superjohn]

SEC SEC SEC SEC. It’s all the narrative I hear on tv and this board, yet unranked Ohio State has been up on big #4 Kentucky at home all game.

Cool, now do all the other teams.

 

[aceboon]

SEC SEC SEC SEC. It’s all the narrative I hear on tv and this board, yet unranked Ohio State has been up on big #4 Kentucky at home all game.

It's at MSG not home and the SEC literally picked up two other big non-conf wins today relatively easily. It's not a narrative, as a whole the conference is ahead of everyone else this season.

 

[RuffRuff]

Auburn getting lots of praise after todays shellacking of Purdue as being this years UConn.

 

[jibsey]

It's at MSG not home and the SEC literally picked up two other big non-conf wins today relatively easily. It's not a narrative, as a whole the conference is ahead of everyone else this season.

Yeah but it’s portrayed that it’s etched in stone for the season. Teams move up and down, improve and some get worse. Time will tell.
Look at Florida, #7 have they played anyone really good?
They will all start beating each other now and the number of ranked teams will drop by half by the end.

 

[aceboon]

On the women's side UConn women playing perimeter defense like the men in Maui, 2nd time this season they played a team on or above the talent level and they can't guard a soul

 

[aceboon]

Yeah but it’s portrayed that it’s etched in stone for the season. Teams move up and down, improve and some get worse. Time will tell.
Look at Florida, #7 have they played anyone really good?
They will all start beating each other now and the number of ranked teams will drop by half by the end.

They're going to be playing other ranked SEC teams, you know they're not going to get dinged much if they're losing to each other

 

[HooperScooper]

Auburn getting lots of praise after todays shellacking of Purdue as being this years UConn.

That's not a good ranking to include Auburn. The top 5 teams have a season's worth of games. Auburn has 12 games worth with a good percentage of those games against lesser competition. Come back and see me in late March.

 

[storrsroars]

That's not a good ranking to include Auburn. The top 5 teams have a season's worth of games. Auburn has 12 games worth with a good percentage of those games against lesser competition. Come back and see me in late March.

Only two of those top five won Natty's.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

UK gonna lose this one. Always entertaining watching the meltdown. Not watching but would be curious as to the defensive strategy by OSU, UK 15-51 from floor is brutal. Are they extending pressure and being physical?

Could be the one team we bump in the rankings.
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Looks like the BY after Maui

 

[caw]

That's not a good ranking to include Auburn. The top 5 teams have a season's worth of games. Auburn has 12 games worth with a good percentage of those games against lesser competition. Come back and see me in late March.

Fully agreed. Way too early to make these silly comparisons.

Only two of those top five won Natty's.

True but those were all very good teams.

Duke 1999 made the NC
Duke 2001 won it
UK 2015 was a FF team with one loss?
Gonzaga 2021 made the NC (a bit fluky with their conference perhaps)
UConn 2024 won it

If you were to tell Auburn fans they had an 80% shot at making the NC game and the other 20% was a FF, I think they would take it.

 

[caw]

Kentucky not impressive

They are very similar to UConn this year with how they play. I think it goes to show how open it is this year. I don't see a truly dominant team this year, both Purdue and UConn last year would run this year.

 

[storrsroars]

True but those were all very good teams.

Duke 1999 made the NC
Duke 2001 won it
UK 2015 was a FF team with one loss?
Gonzaga 2021 made the NC (a bit fluky with their conference perhaps)
UConn 2024 won it

If you were to tell Auburn fans they had an 80% shot at making the NC game and the other 20% was a FF, I think they would take it.

Any fan of any team would. But in the end, only one thing really matters, and while a projected 40% chance of an NC is damn good, it's still less than 51%.. No point in any analyst slobbering over them at this point in the season.

But credit to Pearl; he did give Danny some material to stoke his competitive fire:

“We beat a good team, but we beat a great basketball program,” Pearl said. “Nobody does it better than Purdue. Period.”