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  1. [quote name='Jason' post='725883' date='Nov 20 2008, 04:20 PM']You forgot the team that plays in the Shoe at 5/3rd Arena.[/quote] Let's not get hasty! UC's Big East B-ball schedule is a LOT more brutal than their football schedule. And they haven't proven anything yet. You know, it's funny...I always hated UC's b-ball program but I kinda like their football team.
  2. [quote name='Go Tory Go!' post='725415' date='Nov 19 2008, 02:23 PM']The only winners in town right now play at Nippert Stadium, and they'll be taking on Pitt Saturday evening with the Big East title and a BCS bid on the line. Come early, be loud, wear red.[/quote] I'm rooting for them to win the Big East. Especially since as you say, they're the only game in town.
  3. [quote name='CTBengalsFan' post='725295' date='Nov 18 2008, 09:45 PM']I think Kentucky just doesn't have the talent, straight up. They'll be an #8 - 10 seed in March, at best.[/quote] 28 turnovers from a UK squad...jeez, that's bad. The kicker is two of UNC's best players were on the bench! UK has talented players, but some of them are very young, and as a team they just don't look like they're on the same page with each other. Damn. I just had to be a Bengals, Reds and UK fan this year. The Reds better not suck next season dammit! When do pitchers and catchers report?
  4. [quote name='CTBengalsFan' post='723756' date='Nov 15 2008, 03:34 PM']You guys also lost to Gardner-Webb last year in the beginning of the season. Not saying your season is shot or anything close to it, but for me that would be a red flag for Gillispie's coaching ability. Not showing up early for teams you have no business losing to is not good.[/quote] Not totally disagreeing with the part about losing to what's supposed to be an inferior opponent and all, but in fairness, UK will be in the NCAA tournament this season and VMI will not. We would also beat VMI 9 out of 10 games. UK has loads of talent right now, but some of that talent is pretty raw and young and won't be reliably consistent until the second half of the season. I agree that it sucks, but these types of upsets are becoming more and more common in collegiate sports. It's also only one game out of many. We'll be allright.
  5. [quote name='Jason' post='723672' date='Nov 14 2008, 11:40 PM'][b][size=5]VMI????? at home????[/size][/b] :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:[/quote] I didn't even bother to follow this game, but I have to assume that UK lost based on your reaction. More to follow. Really? Fuck...
  6. I hate you UC fans having an active thread in the offseason while there isn't a peep from the UK thread. Fuckers.
  7. [quote name='#22' post='647819' date='Apr 1 2008, 04:57 PM']Marvin Stone died today as well, at the age of 26. Also, Hopson committed to UT.[/quote] Stone died? Really? Wow. RIP.
  8. Well, there went that idea. Those Lopez twins now will never know the guard rage that is the UK 2008 squad!
  9. [quote name='#22' post='643990' date='Mar 16 2008, 06:23 PM']Nah, we're all man-to-man. I love Perry Stevenson and think that he has become much better over the course of the year, but the Lopez twins could declare for the draft the day after the game with UK and both be picked in the NBA Draft. And they each have 5-6" on Stevenson IIRC.[/quote] Does Jared Carter even play? Besides him and Stevenson (now that Patterson is out) whom are our big men? Is that it?
  10. [quote name='#22' post='643983' date='Mar 16 2008, 05:10 PM']Marquette will be a good game (revenge for the D Wade game! Fuck Tom Crean!), but now it's my turn to be chicken little. Their losses this year have been to teams like Georgetown, UConn, and UofL. Teams with a great inside presence. Something we don't have. IF we win that game, we get Stanford and the Lopez Twins. Unless Jared Carter eats Bill Russell's heart and gains his strength, they will tear us up inside.[/quote] Yeah but we have enough guard depth to play fast-tempo ball and the bigger they are the harder it is for them to get back or shot block quicker more athletic guys. Plus we have Perry Stevenson who's a decent shot-blocker in his own right. And I hear our new defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer is working hard to develop our new 2-3 defense for the tournament...
  11. [quote name='#22' post='643946' date='Mar 16 2008, 03:51 PM']That's not how it works. There isn't a set # of SEC schools that could get in. An UGA win bumps a bubble team, but Kentucky is not that, according to Joe Lunardi. He says we are the 9th or 10th team away from being out, and has only missed 10 teams over the last 8 years.[/quote] I knew that wasn't how it worked, but I just thought that if Georgia gets in that it would make it easier for the committee to overlook UK in favor of someone else. Happily, I was wrong and we drew an 11 seed and play Marquette the 6th seed in Anaheim.
  12. We'd better hope that Arkansas beats UGA for the SEC Champ game...because Arkansas is one of four SEC teams automatically in already (TEN, VANDY, Miss ST) and I doubt that if Georgia gets in the committee will have room for a 6th SEC team, namely, Kentucky.
  13. [quote name='Go Tory Go!' post='643739' date='Mar 15 2008, 06:50 PM'][img]http://uk.gizmodo.com/ChickenLittleSing.jpg[/img][/quote] Ha! Whatever. I don't think we make it. If we do, we could mount a run. If, if, if....it's a big IF to me making it at all. To each his own. I don't think we deserve it.
  14. [quote name='#22' post='643730' date='Mar 15 2008, 05:08 PM']UNC went to the sweet 16 in 2002? with 18 wins. Georgia got in a few years back with 16 wins iirc. Our SOS and Last 12 figure heavily into the discussion, and Rivals.com still has us as a 9 seed. I've also heard that because of the snafu in Atlanta, the NCAA selection committee aren't going to place very much weight on these games. When is the last time a team with [b]12[/b] wins in a power conference didn't get in? We're 2nd in the SEC East and if they send 4 teams, we HAVE to get in. Quit worrying about it.[/quote] I don't think that the SEC is all that much of a "power" conference this year. If we had a 12-4 record and were in the Big East, I'd say no worries. I think we're getting left out in the cold this time. Look at this from ESPN's bubble watch: Bubble In (11) Arizona (19-14, 8-10 Pac-10) Baylor (21-10, 9-7 Big 12) Illinois St. (24-9, 13-5 MVC) Kentucky (18-12, 12-4 SEC) Oregon (18-13, 9-9 Pac-10) S. Ala. (26-6, 16-2 S. Belt) St. Joe's (21-11, 9-7 A-10) St. Mary's (25-6, 12-2 WCC) Temple (20-12, 11-5 A-10) UNLV (24-7, 12-4 MWC) Va. Tech (19-13, 9-7 ACC) Only Oregon and UK have fewer than 19 wins. We didn't show up today, and I think it sinks us. We are going to be last year's Syracuse. If we had won that game and lost the second tonight, then I think the committee gives us the sympathy for having had to play two games in one day. But, we didn't win that first game, Georgia sucks and we should have beaten them, and I think that's going to ice our NIT cake.
  15. [quote name='#22' post='643698' date='Mar 15 2008, 01:17 PM']Hard to say, but I like their NCAA chances. They got absolutely fucked on calls in that game, though[/quote] What other team in the nation would get in with an 18-12 record despite their good conference record? I think there are just going to be too many 20-win teams to justify giving UK a bid. I personally think that if they get a bid, it should be in the play-in game. Make them prove they belong on merit rather than reputation. But, I honestly think we miss the tourney for the first time since Eddie Sutton left us on probation. Somewhere, Tubby and the Gophers are laughing at us.
  16. Well guys, we're 18-12 and going to the NIT. I cannot justify them getting into the tournament this year with that record and losing to Georgia in the quarterfinal game.
  17. [quote name='#22' post='643504' date='Mar 14 2008, 06:00 PM']I'm about 99.9% sure we (justifiably) get in[/quote] I hope we win the whole shebang and eke out a 6 seed in the NCAA's.
  18. I am still only cautiously optimistic that we get in. We simply cannot lose tonight or I don't think we make it. It might even be a stretch to say that we'd get in if we win tonight and then lose tomorrow. We'd be 19-12 if that happened, and despite our 12-4 SEC record, there would be hell to pay if we got in and say a Syracuse did not (they got f'd in the a last year IIRC) with 20 or more wins, and people would be screaming that "we only got in because we're Kentucky!" and they may be right in their sentiment.
  19. [quote name='#22' post='643231' date='Mar 13 2008, 09:10 PM']I loved Heshimu Evans back in the day. Didn't he go to the same High School as Shagari Alleyne? I have to disagree, here. We aren't anything-"heavy." Ramel, Joe, Jasper, and Porter is not the deepest backcourt in the world, and we don't play very fast, either. The UT game was agonizingly slow, but that was CBG's strategy to beat a fast team (and it worked pretty well), If you look at the athletic, 6'6" passing guards that Gillespie is recruiting and bringing in, though, you can see that he is trying to build a stable of horses like Memphis has this year. I'm pretty excited for the future.[/quote] I loved Heshimu too. He was one of my favorite players. So was Rodrick Rhodes, although he flamed out. If I had to pick ONE favorite player from any UK team (and I've only been a fan since about 1992), I'd probably say Derek Anderson. He was my guy, and I was heartbroken when he was hurt in the 1997 season. Him being trotted out to shoot a couple free throws in the ARI game bummed me out although I agreed with The Rick's decision to not play him. I think he could have made a world of difference guarding the Mike Bibby's of the world in that 1997 game. I also really liked Tay-Daddy. Unique height, dribbling ability, frame and outside shot. But there are so many that I liked. I even liked Jules Camara, when he wasn't cross-country skiing his way along the court during a fast break. I may have misspoke regarding team speed. I guess I meant "fast" as "faster" than what we'd become accustomed to under Tubby. I always hated Tubby's deliberate style of half-court offense, especially with the goddamn center always handling the ball at the top of the key. It never worked, especially when Tubby had a lack of true outside shooters (Kelenna Azuibuike, Keith Bogans) for the most part and undeserving scrubs playing for our team (Bobby Perry and Saul Smith immediately spring to mind). Now we have a team. I love it. And the recruits are lining up, too. Glorious. I also liked Gerald Fitch, fwiw.
  20. I also hear that Heshimu Evans suddenly found another year of eligibility and is rejoining the team...
  21. The thing is, teams CAN win without a true big man presence. Look at Duke this season. We have two very exciting and excellent players at guard/forward in Ramel Bradley and Joe Crawford (hard to believe now that he was about outta here a few years ago, huh?). I have cautious faith. I think teams don't want to play us now. We've suddenly become pretty damn good. There was that Vandy meltdown, to be sure, but...anything can happen. A Sweet 16 appearance would be astronomical given the odds we've overcome with injuries to key players and a very poor showing the first half of the season. You never know, boys and girls...sometimes teams "peaking" at the right time can do some damage...and we are "peaking" right now. I recall when we were the overall #1 seed a few years ago and were beaten by a faster UAB team in the 2nd round of the tourney. I was so disappointed, but now I think about how loaded we were with big men and we played a s l o w halfcourt under Tubby. Now we're guard-heavy and FAST. Anything can happen. You don't always need a true big man under the rim. My biggest concern would be foul shooting and foul trouble. We looked like shit from the charity stripe against FLA, and had we done better, the game wouldn't even have been a contest. And we need to make our share of threes, too, which never seemed to click all that well under Tubby after being spoiled as a there-shooting team under Pitino, Tayshaun Prince excepted. Of course, a poor showing in the SEC tourney may take some wind out of our sails...or give us that mythical loss that we "need" in order to be grounded for the Big Dance. Stay tuned!
  22. [quote name='IKOTA' post='643129' date='Mar 13 2008, 01:49 PM']A little different "rebuilding modes" going on here. Try losing 2 years of recruiting and having 3 different head coaches in a 3 year span, try having to pick up JUCO's who otherwise wouldn't have been recruited by any major schools just to fill your roster. The only "rebuilding" UK is doing is getting adjusted to a new coach.............yeah pretty similar situations there fickle Steve [/quote] Now now, don't get salty just because even when you had your glory years of Bob Huggins' JUCO-stuffed rosters the best you could muster was one Final Four, a bunch of one and dones and one year of "We would have won it all if Kenyon hadn't gotten hurt!!!1111" I'm just giving you grief pal...don't take it personally. I'm just excited that we are even getting into the tournament because UK was so dead in the water not so long ago, and pulling out a 12-4 SEC record after a sub .500 nonconference schedule is pretty damn amazing.
  23. [quote name='steggyD' post='643063' date='Mar 13 2008, 10:34 AM']Have you seen them play the last few games? They could've beat Tenn without Patterson. It comes down to one play, the 3 hits and it's OT. Plus it was their first game without Patterson, took them a few minutes to figure things out. They have it down now, they can do it. And in case you forget, Tenn was #1 team in the nation at that time. If UK comes out without jitters, they can handle any other team out there on the court. The game can go either way.[/quote] Yeah, I agree, they've really seemed to "figure it out" and buy into Gillespie's system, with or without Patterson. Speaking of which, Perry Stevenson has stepped up HUGE in Patterson's absence. And the caveat to my friend Ikota is, of course, [i]even when we're in rebuilding mode[/i], we're still in the tournament. UC--
  24. What happened to all my bretheren? We're as good as in the NCAA's, motherfuckers! Buncha old ladies, I tell ya. And we are a team nobody wants to play as an 8 or 9 seed, SEC Tourney results depending...cuz we be gooder than the rest of the 8 seeds, nigga!
  25. And the Gator Monkey is off our back! 12-4 in the SEC baby! NCAA's, here we come...[size=1]provided we advance a couple rounds in the SEC tourney[/size]
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