you failed to document 0-9 to start the 1st half and 0-6 to start the 2nd half. I thought fan support was great. It was loud when the Cats closed the lead to three (twice or three times). Would have been louder had they grabbed the lead at any point. Have to hope for one more shot @ them.
I really don't know who in their right mind would really think this. I think this is the one team in the entire field I want no part of. I feel pretty good about our chances against every single other team in the entire nation. But they've got one of the best collections of talent assembled in the last 20 years, and the sooner our fan base realizes this fact and quits trying to measure our team against ours, the better off they'll be.
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I hope they get upset by some random team shooting 60 percent in Round 2 or 3.
We make fun of ku fans' belief that their second 5 could win this conference, and for good reason. Anyone who thinks that a guy coming in off the bench to score 15 would necessarily do the same if depended upon night in and night off doesn't know basketball very well.
The fact of the matter is, however, that ku is one of the deepest teams I've seen in quite a while. They have 4 or 5 guys on their bench that can come in and chances are, on any given night, at least one of them will be able to contribute 15 points. These guys do a nice job of scoring when they get the opportunity thanks to the attention that guys like Aldrich, Collins, and even Marcus Morris get now.
We don't have that kind of depth, and that's made ku a poor matchup for us this year, on top of the usual disadvantage due to officiating.
KU's best opportunity to lose before the Final Four will probably be in the Sweet Sixteen. We saw KU play kind of casually in the first couple of games in the Big 12. Sweet Sixteen may be far enough from the Final Four that some of KU's players don't get up for it quite as much, but far enough along that the team they play has sufficient talent to really push KU.
We'll see how these KU bench players perform next year when they're depended on for scoring night in and night out and are focused upon by the opposing defense.
