What sets Kobe Bryant apart from everybody else is his footwork. Sadly Mclemore is nowhere close to Kobe in that regard

Why? I want them to be ranked #1 as much as possible. Gets our team exposure and gives us the opportunity to play every game with a bullseye on our back and learn how to play w high expectations.

Agreed. The incredible success of KU's basketball program rarely gets the respect it deserves from the national media, so I'd have no problem seeing it. Also can't be scared of that success and being the best.

I agree with all that. But in reality I don't care until it comes time for seeding.

@ESPNLunardi: Final top line/s (thru 1/26): Kansas/SOUTH (w/Gonzaga), Michigan/MIDWEST (w/Syracuse), Duke/EAST (w/Indiana), Florida/WEST (w/Arizona).

Just out of curiosity, I decided to look up KU's average seed since Bill Self took over. It's 2.2.

It's an astounding 1.5 in the last 6 years. LMAO

Let's look at other traditional powers just to compare (last 9 years, a.k.a. The Bill Self Era):

Duke: 1.9

North Carolina: 2.0 (missed the tournament in 2010, however, so let's just imagine they made it as an 18 seed that year and the average drops to 3.8).

Syracuse: 3.1 (missed the tournament twice in that time period, so the new average using the above logic is 6.4).

Kentucky: 4.5 (missed the tournament in 2009, so again, let's imagine they made it as an 18 seed and the new average is 6.0).

UCLA: 4.8 (missed the tournament a whopping 3 times making their new average a dismal 9.2).

We haven't even reached our potential yet. We haven't been playing our best basketball. Soon.

God, I love KU basketball. It brings us KU brethren so much joy. Even when we lose in the tourney... it's ok... we have a great, fun ride every year. I feel blessed to be a Jayhawk.

That'd be fantastic...This Kansas team would wipe it's ass w/ Gonzaga.

Shoulda won that MichSt game.

Oh well...I don't like it when Kansas is #1 in the reg season.

It's just nice to actually root for a team that has success in some way or another in a town that has their choice of the Royals or Chiefs...and I just don't care about SKC or what they bring to the table.

I mean up until 2007-08, while living w/ STL Cardinals fans when they're winning WS and going deep into playoff runs, I thought I'd never see any of my favorite teams win anything. I was too young to remember 1985 not to mention I wasn't even living in KC at the time, I was living in Peoria IL, and again, too young to remember the 85 Bears, but my dad remembers, he went to many games that season. Certainly not old enough to remember the Chiefs SB's in the 60's and 1970. And I was living in KC during Jordan's Bulls so I didn't feel that hometown/state connection like I would have if I stayed in Peoria, even though he was my favorite player, it just didnt feel like it was "my team" I've been to a couple of Bulls games when he played, but I didn't grow up going to those games like I did the Royals and Chiefs.

Then Mario Chalmers hit that 3 pointer. I knew they'd win the game when that happened and sure enough they did. After all of the letdowns from the Roy Williams era, having one of the best teams in college history (1996-97) only to fudge their pants in the tourney....after being Bucknelled and Bradley'd and McNamara raining 3's and KU's inability to hit a FT in the title game against Syracuse.

God damn that was a fantastic feeling when Chalmers nailed that 3. Too bad I didn't get to feel the love w/ hundreds of other people in the bar....I was in a bar in Columbia, MO at the time.

Sideny NE. I went to a bar for the first half of the UN****s game. I couldn't ****ing take that. I had to go home and watch it at my home.

Then when Chalmers hit that three I must have sprinted a mile inside my house. It's a good thing I lived in the country or I'd have disrupted the entire town.

I always think Gonzaga is over-rated every year.

This year I think they're pretty legit. They've got NBA size and talent in the front court.

KU HAS JEFF ****ING WITHEY!!!! :evil:

Thanks! :thumb:

I had no idea!