which team was younger? UCONN '11 or uk this year

[UConnSwag11]

about the same? uconn younger?

 

[dogfan96]

about the same? uconn younger?

I would say UConn.. last year it was Kemba (junior), AO (soph), Okwandu (senior), and 5 freshmen that got the majority of the minutes. Kentucky has Miller (senior), Jones (soph), Lamb (soph) all with Final Four experience from last year.. plus 4 freshman

 

[UConnSwag11]

yeah i thought so

 

[champs99and04]

Probably about the same, but we had a junior PG who happened to be the best player in the country, so the situations aren't exactly comparable.

 

[UConn5]

UK starts 2 sophs and 3 freshman consistently.

UConn's starting lineup fluctuated more. They started Kemba (Jr.), Lamb (Frosh), Oriakhi (Soph), Olander (Frosh), sometimes Chuck (Sr.) or Roscoe. Shabazz didn't start but played starter's minutes.

It is close and I am inclined to call it a draw, but at the same time Chuck made a major contribution and obviously the Kemba was the main force there. Kemba was a junior, Chuck was a senior, so was Donnell. UConn was slightly older...although not by that much.

 

[caw]

UK goes about 7 deep

Teague - Fresh vs. Walker - Junior (+2)
Lamb - Soph vs. Lamb - Freshman (-1)
MKG - Freshman vs. Roscoe - Freshman (-1)
Jones - Sophomore vs Oriakhi - Sophomore (0)
Davis - Freshman vs Chuck - Senior (+3)

UConn +3 years for starters.

Miller - Senior vs Napier - Freshman (-3)
Wiltjer - Freshman vs Olander/Giffey - Freshmen (0)

UConn -3 years for bench.

Pretty even when all added together. UConn probably played beyond the first 7 more often and depending on the night could have been younger (Olander/Giffey) or similar (Jamal Coombs-McDaniel/Beverly). I guess UK's 8th man is their senior center.

Their key player is younger than UConn's though. Davis versus Kemba. It is amazing how reliant UK is on Davis. They get so many bailout points by having their guards/forwards drive and at the last minute through the ball in the air for an alley-opp.

 

[UConnSwag11]

UK goes about 7 deep

Teague - Fresh vs. Walker - Junior (+2)
Lamb - Soph vs. Lamb - Freshman (-1)
MKG - Freshman vs. Roscoe - Freshman (-1)
Jones - Sophomore vs Oriakhi - Sophomore (0)
Davis - Freshman vs Chuck - Senior (+3)

UConn +3 years for starters.

Miller - Senior vs Napier - Freshman (-3)
Wiltjer - Freshman vs Olander/Giffey - Freshmen (0)

UConn -3 years for bench.

Pretty even when all added together. UConn probably played beyond the first 7 more often and depending on the night could have been younger (Olander/Giffey) or similar (Jamal Coombs-McDaniel/Beverly). I guess UK's 8th man is their senior center.

Their key player is younger than UConn's though. Davis versus Kemba. It is amazing how reliant UK is on Davis. They get so many bailout points by having their guards/forwards drive and at the last minute through the ball in the air for an alley-opp.

yeah but we did that with thabeet and stix

 

[UofCT]

about the same? uconn younger?

I don't understand threads like this... why don't you just do the research?

 

[UConnSwag11]

I don't understand threads like this... why don't you just do the research?

I don't understand comments like this. Don't read and comment

 

[UofCT]

I don't understand comments like this. Don't read and comment

You started a thread because you are too lazy or stupid to do simple research. Why can't you google last years rosters and find out the answer to your question?

 

[UConnSwag11]

You started a thread because you are too lazy or stupid to do simple research. Why can't you google last years rosters and find out the answer to your question?

You mad bro?

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I don't understand threads like this... why don't you just do the research?

For some people, this *is* research. And, apparently, some people are happy to provide the answer. Maybe now you understand threads like this . . . but dislike them. (For the record, I wouldn't look it up and provide the answer, but I'm happy to have the answer provided for the person who asked and for me . . . and thank those who answered.

 

[Kitaman]

I don't understand threads like this... why don't you just do the research?

Well people like me sometimes wonder the same thing and won't do the research. Plus its a college board and many smart/crafty people can get an answer in 2 minutes, where it would take others hours.

Google will give you tens of pages of answers, the BoneYard can answer it on less than a page.

 

[caw]

yeah but we did that with thabeet and stix

Perhaps it came off as complaining but it was meant as an observation of how athletic Davis is. UK can almost literally throw the ball anywhere around the basket and Davis is the first to react and the kid can get up with his insane wingspan. He is a 6'10 Jeremy Lamb (body-wise).

 

[UConnSwag11]

Perhaps it came off as complaining but it was meant as an observation of how athletic Davis is. UK can almost literally throw the ball anywhere around the basket and Davis is the first to react and the kid can get up with his insane wingspan. He is a 6'10 Jeremy Lamb (body-wise).

yeah i get what you're saying

 

[UofCT]

You mad bro?

Yeah my bad dude.

 

[auror]

There is an actual answer, and like usual, KenPom has it.

Experience:​

Uses eligibility class weighted by minutes played. A freshman has no years experience, a sophomore has one year experience, etc.​

Kentucky this year has a minutes adjusted average experience of 0.77.
UConn last year had 0.94. Kemba played a lot of minutes.

To take it further, last year we were the 332nd oldest team in the country, whereas Kentucky is 340th most experienced this season.

 

[dogfan96]

I said Kentucky simply bc they have 3 players with Final Four experience from last year that played heavy minutes. I weighted that more heavily than Beverly, Coombs-McDaniel, and Okwandu being upperclassmen who didn't really get a lot of minutes (comparatively) throughout the year.