K-State will be tough to beat from here on out if Martin stays and he just signed an extension. They play like their hairs on fire.
Be prepared for the grapes to dominate the north the next few years. What ever Martin does, works.
Just finished watching KSU finish off BYU... and there was one minor difference between our games--intensity. KSU played like their lives depended on it, literally. They were maniacal on both ends. We went through our typical motions in the first half and figured to come out in the second 20 and run off from UNI. Lesson learned should be obvious, 40 minutes makes a game guys. Playing cool will beat Tenn Tech, and Alcorn, but we needed the Temple and KSU games tonight. Hope they can get the giant turd off the court in Okie City before the next event takes place.
The reason why I'm so down in the dumps right now is because i normally hate teams like our team this year. Only give about half assed effort until the end of the game and normally pull it out.
KSU winning it all and returning all but 1 starter is not good for KU. You don't want to add K-State to the schools we have to recruit against.
They could be flat out SCARY good next year- and here's betting they outrecruit KU to add even more to a ridiculously deep team.
I agree with this post. They play hard. I admire that in their team. I also think they could go all the way, especially now that we're out of their way. If we played that hard we'd be awesome.
The KSU team this year always plays hard. I just don't understand why this KU team could never do that.
The grapes can go straight to hell. I hope they lose and I hope their bus breaks down.
In KSU/BYU game with 4 minutes left, same exact play as Collin's in 2nd half; except they got it right with the blocking foul call on Kelly. Refs had an agenda in our game.
Self has never been one of the better X's and O's coaches. NEVER.
Self has never been a good game manager. It goes back to his Illinois days.
the actual rule is what you are describing. the secondary defender is not supposed to be allowed to slide under the offensive player. unfortunately, the refs today blew this call consistently in UNI's favor
There were some weird calls tonight. IMO, if there's contact, there's a foul. When KU was defending in the last few minutes, there were 2-3 times where a UNI player plowed into a KU defender. If we're not set, fine. If it's not a charge, fine. But there damn sure was contact and there damn sure was a foul. Call it. Not calling it makes it seem like they were letting a team get favors.
If these asshats call the game properly, there is no meltdown, because those thugs (yeah, I said it!) wouldn't have gotten away with half of the crap they pulled and KU might have been able to pull this out by 5-6 points. But EVERY charge/block was for UNI, regardless of its merit. So, f*** them and the NCAA. Crooks.
the lack of charging calls at the UNI end when the guy runs directly over Reed and gets a and1 then we get a charge call every time we drove to the basket late!
The teams in the Big East and Big 12 rely on help from the refs, that's why they don't produce in the NCAA Tournament like the ACC and Big 10 do.
If you think the ACC doesn't rely on refs and the Big 12 does, you have problems. In fact, I'd argue the other way around. You consistently see Cole, Morris, Collins, and Henry take massive amounts of contact uncalled because they're used to it and don't go flailing. They don't get bailed out by refs.
Ali was a close runner up, but the MVPs for this game wore stripes.
This KU team and Self were on cruise control for the whole year. I think the coaching staff was counting their bonus money a ltttle too early and the players were a little busy figuring what their NC rings would look like.
This season for KU has all the earmarks of a team and coaching staff too arrogant to get better and too arrogant to believe other teams could beat them when it mattered. No sense of urgency and just too lackadaisical.
Officials: Mike Nance ,Bob Donato ,Joe Lindsay I have never seen a single one of these guys before and I watch literally hundreds of games a year.
Surely I am not the only one that thought they had more moving screens than 5th graders!!
Unbelievable amount of chicken wing screens as well (the ones we get called on consistently). I have also never seen as many ball hacks (arm coming straight down across arms/ball) under the basket that were called all ball as I saw tonight.
finally the truth - I have never yelled foul so much at the screen. Hacking is not a defense. What do you want to bet Norther Iowa fouls out of the next game. Ten minutes into the game 6 fouls on us none on them. Total valley crap.
"Mutton chops" didn't get called once for his continual moving picks, hip-checks, etc. The Morris twins consistently got whistled for less all year long!!!!
Worst coaching job by a Kansas coach EVER!!!!! And that says alot.
This Loss Is 100% on Self and Collins!!!!
Self = Rick Barnes with better players
Self is a great recruiter and that is about it. If he doesn't have a team with NBA draft picks like Roy he can't win.
Re: If 2008 never happened...
Yeah. That last missed shot by Davidson means so much. It's strange, really.
Got a message from a UNC fan (not an alumnus) that said congrats on being #2 in the MVC. Good stuff.
I doubt KSU or the mu'tards care if their teams win or lose going forward. Their season are complete when KU is eliminated.
