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***Official '22/'23 Defending Natl' Champion KU Men’s Basketball Repository Thread***
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https://kuathletics.com/sports/mbball/roster/ The Schedule: https://kuathletics.com/sports/mbball/schedule/ |
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07-16-2022, 05:07 PM | #271 |
Would an idiot do that?
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07-16-2022, 11:40 PM | #272 |
Time Keeps On Slipping
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07-17-2022, 07:37 AM | #273 |
Here We Go Again
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THis championship just feels so much better than 2008. Don't get me wrong, '08 was fantastic. However, I expected to win that year.
This year things seemed to be falling wrong all year, but Bill got the team together and guys got healthy at just the right time and it all came together. I had zero expectations beyond winning a couple games in the tourney. |
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07-17-2022, 08:54 AM | #274 | |
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07-17-2022, 08:57 AM | #275 |
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Grady Dick is 6'8" on the official roster.
MJ Rice 6'5". Zuby 6'9". Udeh 6'11". McCullar 6'6". |
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07-17-2022, 09:00 AM | #276 |
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6'11 for Udeh is a welcome surprise, I'm not sure how much I trust that but *ahem, big if true
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07-17-2022, 09:06 AM | #277 | |
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07-17-2022, 09:10 AM | #278 | |
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This one was a pleasant surprise, but I’m guessing it is how other schools feel when they win it. There were no stakes. No prospect of disappointment. It makes it easier to take in the unbridled joy as a fan, but it is different than getting one you’re supposed to win after 20 years of should have won. Plus 08 was some of the best basketball I’d seen played. 2022 got hot and it was a hell of a lot of fun but 08 has a special place in my heart. |
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07-17-2022, 09:13 AM | #279 | |
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Even in 2012 when that team wasn’t very good I viewed that as TRob and Taylor dragging that team through rounds with sheer “**** you.” I can’t think of another team that just got hot. I guess an argument could be made for 88 but i was small enough I couldn’t argue it effectively. |
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07-17-2022, 09:23 AM | #280 | |
Would an idiot do that?
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Definitely cases of higher stress/higher reward... 2008 meant more, but I probably enjoyed this one far more game to game. Even Providence was more or less "hey guys, maybe get your heads out of your ass" instead of the stress of the Davidson game and losing their grip on the Memphis game. And before the comeback in the Memphis game, I had a deep sinking feeling..... down at halftime against UNC, I said **** it and grabbed a favorite beer that I was keeping cold for a possible victory and drank it in the 2nd half anyway. |
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07-17-2022, 09:23 AM | #281 |
Perpetual Mediocrity
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They're both different. The 2008 team was/is one of the best teams in college basketball history (beating some other great teams along the way in Davidson, UNC and Memphis) and was super rewarding as a result. It also contained the best moment of all of them (Mario's Miracle). The 2022 team obviously is nowhere near that, but its win/run was about fortuitous as it gets. The improbable nature of it kind of made it arguably more fun.
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07-17-2022, 09:31 AM | #282 | |
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'04 was shorter lived, but I do remember everyone picking Pacific as the sexy upset that year, then everyone picking UAB, then everyone picking Georgia Tech... and they at least got it to OT. Not that they got hot of course, but at least that was a lower expectation year from what I remember. And then '18 with that prick Grayson Allen's last second attempt bouncing around on the rim 400 times and then out was pretty damn glorious, as everyone expected Duke to advance. |
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07-17-2022, 11:12 AM | #283 | |
Sometimes it's black and white
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07-17-2022, 11:59 AM | #284 |
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According to 538, they use ELO ratings a lot to determine sports analysis (just a version of your scoring martin adj for opponent quality). The two best 16 seeds in history both played Kansas
2018 Penn (lost by 16) 2008 Portland State (lost by 24) |
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https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/show...8#post13461578 I don't post these things for no reason. |
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