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Miguel Paul is the face of this team: Redux

A while ago, I posted that this team belongs to Miguel Paul, and the more I watch them, the more I think that. It's a

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Miguel Paul is the face of this team: Redux

Posted by Doc Nice on March 14th, 2010 under Basketball

A while ago, I posted that this team belongs to Miguel Paul, and the more I watch them, the more I think that. It's a team that show great athleticism and effort, but loses focus for crucial stretches, and makes questionable decisions sometimes. When I first posted this, Hiphopopotamus said that this was a back-handed compliment. In a way, he was right. I pointed out that often Mizzou doesn't know who to go to
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KU Preview: Senior Day

Posted by Boo Radley on March 6th, 2010 under Basketball

There really is not a whole to preview at this point in the season. Everyone pretty much knows the drill now as we have exhausted the probabilities of how we can get a first round bye in the tourney.  That doesn't really matter at this point.  Its KU and its Senior Day. As far as the game today goes, its pretty much as previewed last game. If KU's big guys play well or Sherron plays well,
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KSU Post Mortem: F’n UGLY

Posted by Boo Radley on March 1st, 2010 under Basketball

That was ugly. I was really at a loss for words watching that game. Not sure I can ever remember watching a basketball game with that much talent on the floor in which it looked liked for the first 20 minutes that no body knew how to make a basket. KU and Kentucky played a game a couple years ago that I thought was the worst big time basketball game I had ever watched, but
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KSU II: Same Game, Bigger Stakes

Posted by Boo Radley on February 26th, 2010 under Basketball

If you would have told me that back in January when they first played that these two teams would be meeting the last weekend in Feb for the #2 seed, I would have been pretty surprised. Not that I didn't think that both teams were good teams, but I assumed Texas would be a solid #2 and our biggest fight would be just to get the first round bye. We are still fighting for that
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Texas Preview: What will Texas Do?

Posted by Boo Radley on February 17th, 2010 under Basketball

Euclid pretty much outlined what has to be done the next few weeks, and this is clearly a monster game for Conference seeding and NCAA Tourney bids. While I don’t want to jinx it, a win gets us to at least 9-7 in the conference which I think is on the right side of the bubble, but 8-8 is clearly on the bubble. Chet should have more on that soon. So what can we expect
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Iowa State Post Mortem: Lucky Chuckers

Posted by Boo Radley on February 11th, 2010 under Basketball

Is it wrong for me to think that the Missouri Tigers are now the Missouri Chuckers? Everyone has seen the Seinfeld episode when Kramer calls George “a Chucker” because he just chucks it from everywhere. It's one of the best episodes because it is also the Keith Hernandez episode. Every time I watch the Tigers now I wonder if this team is just a bunch of chuckers who play great defense, because they are not
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OSU Pokes Preview: FU Travis

Posted by Boo Radley on January 29th, 2010 under Basketball

I hate Travis Ford. I mean really hate him. I know we were going on probation. I know Rick Pitino and his home state school came a calling. I get all that blah, blah, blah. Doesn’t make it any better. See Travis Ford was my favorite Tiger in 1989. He was on the Big Eight Conference All Freshman team. He hit a monster game winner up in Ames. He was going to be the point guard
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Kansas Post Mortem: The Expected

Posted by Boo Radley on January 26th, 2010 under Basketball

Okay, I am not going to dwell on this game too much other than I hate losing to them more than just about anything. We just simply do match up with them very well in any way shape or form. Aldrich kills us, and when you add in the Morris twins, we have no answers. When Sherron Collins goes 2-11 with 6 points and we lose by 20, well that just shows that they are
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Cole Adrich dedicates season to charity

Posted by Doc Nice on January 25th, 2010 under Basketball

Cole Adrich announced today that he is dedicating the rest of the season to charity. With every grunt on a rebound, blocked shot, dunk or free throw, Aldrich will help raise money in the fight against Venereal Disease. "As an experienced grunter whose life has been affected Sexually Transmitted Diseases, it seemed a natural fit. Next year, I heard Lotrimin will sponsor the 'Scratch Your Balls to fight Jock Itch
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Kansas Preview: Shock the World

Posted by Boo Radley on January 25th, 2010 under Basketball

Okay we know they are good. In the dump that is Allen Fieldhouse they are really good.
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OU Postmortem: Five minutes of greatness and then 35 minutes of suckage

Posted by Boo Radley on January 18th, 2010 under Basketball

The Tigers were due for a game like this, but it sure didn’t look like that at the start. A 10-0 lead turned into a painful 66-61 loss in a matter of 35 minutes. For the first five, which I did not get to see thanks to Xavier and Dayton, I guess the Tigers pretty much dominated as OU had seven turnovers during that stretch. After that, other than Bowers, the rest of the team
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Texas Tech and stats that matter

Posted by Gene Claude on January 13th, 2010 under Basketball

I think I've made it abundantly clear that I have a disgusting man-crush on Ken Pomelroy and his basketball "computer rankings." And, while my unrequited love is at least partly motivated by KenPom's own Mike Anderson man-crush, I am also fascinated by his methodology and what it says about future Tiger matchups. Pomelroy's system identifies "four factors" (that are really eight factors as each applies both on offense and defense) that he
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Ken Pomeroy hearts Mizzou basketball

Posted by Gene Claude on January 11th, 2010 under Basketball

For those of you living under rocks (or, more likely, those of you with social lives outside of perusing esoteric basketball stats), Ken Pomeroy's college basketball computer model once again has an early season crush on Los Tigres.  As you can see here, he ranks the Tigers 8th in all the country through yesterday.  Last year, KenPom was the first nationally recognized stathead to jump on the Tigers bandwagon.  We first noticed him
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Thoughts on the KSU win

Posted by Gene Claude on January 10th, 2010 under Basketball

That was fun, in a "I like to cut myself" sort of way.  I turned the channel at least 14 times, introduced my children to several hypothetical creative new ways for referees to pleasure themselves with foreign objects and had my typical anti-JT Tiller midgame sililoquy. But the Tigers pulled out an almost must win game against the sort of team they aren't supposed to beat:  Two experienced guards and a slew of big men.  They did it
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KSU Preview

Posted by Boo Radley on January 8th, 2010 under Basketball

So much for an easy conference opener. Here comes Frank Martin and his #10 Wildcats (13-1), and if you think they are overrated, you are smoking crack. This team is big, physcial, and can defend well in the half court.

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  • Ibas water bottle commented on the blog post Because We’re Dedicated To Doing Stupid Things – Tiny Gallon Reportedly Took Payout   2 hours, 26 minutes ago

    At what point do A.Ds stop hiring Duke people? At a certain point former coach K players stop being successful college players and start being coaches with shady recruiting results right?

    Oh and God bless the crime rate in Stillwater. The simple odds keep the shit from hitting the fan regularly for us.

    Who

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  • Nate Heupel commented on the blog post Oklahoma Sooners – Recruiting So Far   6 hours, 10 minutes ago

    BOC: Neither has visited, yet we hold ’ships open for both.

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  • Nate Heupel wrote a new blog post: Because We’re Dedicated To Doing Stupid Things – Tiny Gallon Reportedly Took Payout   6 hours, 18 minutes ago

    TMZ reports that Tiny Gallon took a $3000 payout from an agent. My God, Capel has no control over this team whatsoever. This is 2007 offseason Texas football levels of embarrassing. You can’t let a half dozen bad apples spoil a bushel of 10 apples…that analogy sucked balls, but you get my

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  • Sailor Ripley commented on the blog post Previewing Jimmer and the Cougars   7 hours, 30 minutes ago

    Great stuff, bear. really looking forward to this game.

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  • Nickel Rover commented on the blog post Barnes worst team   7 hours, 30 minutes ago

    06_UT: you are probably right. I thought about changing the post description to “least favorite Barnes team” because that’s more accurate but I didn’t feel like it.
    That said, I’m not sure this team would beat those other two. They would lose Abrams and let him go 7-15 on 3s and the Abrams team played better

  • admin commented on the blog post Nike U in Turmoil   7 hours, 35 minutes ago

    Aren’t they building some sort of super duper hoops arena? Most expensive ever bilt or something?

    Who will the get? Mark Few?

  • Sailor Ripley commented on the blog post Nike U in Turmoil   7 hours, 35 minutes ago

    Aren’t the building some sort of super duper hoops arena? Most expensive ever bilt or something?

    Who will the get? Mark Few?

  • srr50 wrote a new blog post: Nike U in Turmoil   7 hours, 52 minutes ago

    10 weeks ago, Oregon played in the Rose Bowl as Pac 10 champions. Since their loss to Ohio State, the program has been in some kind of bizzaro parallel universe where every headline concerns a player arrest, a firing, or now a resignation.

    Mike Bellotti, the Duck AD and former head coach earlier this week

  • Luke commented on the blog post First Round: Clemson Tigers   10 hours, 3 minutes ago

    Prescient comment, Doc.

    I think we learned today that no team is really a mirror image of Missouri, even if Clemson is about as close as it gets. Unless you have significantly better/more talented athletes, if you try to run with the Tigers, you will lose. This team is so much fun to watch in games

  • srr50 commented on the blog post March Madness Open Thread Part Deaux   10 hours, 17 minutes ago

    Good to see that Tom Penders still believes in the weave offense. Maryland finally figured out that if you pass quickly, the middle is always open.

    37-29 Maryland late in the first half.

  • Luke wrote a new blog post: Previewing Jimmer and the Cougars   10 hours, 18 minutes ago

    Kansas State is going to be under a lot of pressure tomorrow night in primetime at the Ford Center.

    Not only are the Wildcats the favored #2 seed going against #7 seed BYU, but if the Wildcats lose, they may sentence hundreds of boys to nonstop harassment from all the kids who think that “Jimmer” was

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  • Ibas water bottle wrote a new blog post: Georgia Tech post mortem   10 hours, 30 minutes ago

    We came up short.

    Credit to Georgia Tech they worked the ball inside where they had the advantage and played great D on the perimeter. Matt Pilgrim is the most athletic big man we’ve had in years around here and he was irrelevant. When we tried to drive they collapsed like Chris Farley on a

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  • Phenomenal Smith commented on the blog post First Round: Clemson Tigers   11 hours, 6 minutes ago

    Doc, the turnovers seemed to do the trick – there were great big chunks of time when Mizzou didn’t even have to get into a half court offense.

    Great to see Ramsey have such a good game and pretty stifle Booker. As Euclid said during the game, even when Mizzou doesn’t play well

  • dick commented on the blog post Barnes worst team   11 hours, 45 minutes ago

    “Also because those other teams gave great effort almost every game. This team’s effort was questionable. Dumb and lazy, not a good combo…..”

    This is what made this season so bizarre for me. This has never been a problem for Barnes’ teams. But I actually questioned this team’s heart and desire to play together

  • srr50 commented on the blog post March Madness Open Thread Part Deaux   11 hours, 59 minutes ago

    Travis Ford spent the 2nd half channeling his inner Rick Barnes — lot’s of standing around on offense while one player tries to generate something off a ball screen — then taking a forced shot.

    So the Big 12 goes 5-2 in Round One.