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I think it would help the nation perception of the Big 12 if UT can find a way to win this one. Should KU win, UT would all out of the Top 15 and would fall into a 4 way tie for 4th in the conf. Neither of those would help our dreams of being a power conference.
pittsburgh has a nice skyline.
Illinois has a very small student section... wow.
How much does Southwell just keep the new york area open? Saw an interview with Southwell saying he's trying to spread the emaw word. I think maybe just pulling him from New York helps keep KSU a name, albiet a small name, in the NYC area. Kelly, JHR, Southwell.... New York is a good area to have to inroads to.
IMO the whole "Saw them on TV and really wanted to be a part of it" really only works on 3 star or less caliber players
you have it backwards. recruits don't see crap on tv and want to be part of it. they go to teams that are on tv a lot because they want to be on tv.
elite recruits don't go to teams that aren't going to play on natl tv. sub-elite recruits only do if they can't get offers from a team that's on tv more.
looking at the "history" with NUbb ISU and tech is dumb.
....the loss has no bearing on the future.
Every team has around 5 or 6 key areas that are indicators of whether or not they stand a good chance to win a game.
IMHO, Sutton's PT, 3pt%, fg%, oreb, fta, ft% are the key elements to a KSU victory. You could say that TO's caused and other would factor in but I think that the first I listed are key. Obviously against tougher competition you are going to be successful in more areas than against weaker competition. For instance if we were to play Kentucky we would most likely need to be successful in nearly every area to win, against Ark PB, we might only need to be successful in a few areas. Also the degree of difficulty with which success in each area is acheived also goes up when facing better competition.
OSU is in my opinion a "good" team, they are a solid 5 or 6 team out of the Big 12 conference and will most likely be in the NCAA.
So let's look at the highlighted areas of performance.
Dom Sutton PT - We needed Sutton in the game to chase around James Anderson. Sutton only played 18 minutes in the ball game, mostly due to foul trouble and was therefore unable to be utilized in containing Anderson. I don't have stats for JA while Sutton was guarding him, but I would expect they were worse than when other drew the assignment.
3pt% - The rest of the stats are more straight forward, beginning with 3pt%. We shot 27.6% from 3 on 29 attempts. That might seem like a lot of 3's but OSU played different zones most of the night and we just missed a ton of open shots. We shoot 35% for the year, which is not great, but the additional 2 three pointers would have helped immensely. Just think if we would have shot 40%??
fg% - Again we shot only 35.6% from the field against OSU. This is mostly due to our bad 3pt% but still another area where we failed. We were 13 for 30 on twos against OSU. If we were only average in this one area it could have been a big difference. For the year we shoot about 46%.
Oreb - We were decent on the oboards but I'm guessing our Oreb% wasn't outstanding. Still you don't have to fail at everything to lose a game.
fta - We were right on average as far as FTA/game are concerned with 33 shots attempted. but.......
FT% - When you shoot 8% worse than average it is going to cost you.
Enough rambling, OSU, while a good team should not be able to hang with us. Looking back it makes sense that it took subpar performance in nearly all key areas for the Cats to lose on Saturday. Also, worth mentioning that we didn't make up for it in any areas eg. post play vs. UT. Every team has bad games, I don't think it spells doom for the next few games.