***OFFICIAL: (1)Kansas vs (4)Southern Illinois- Sweet 16***
 

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6:10 p.m. CT, Thursday
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Who ya got?

Jesus Helena Christ, 28 hours before gametime?

WOW, is this a record or something? A little anxious arent we?

I had to do it now. Won't be around tomorrow.

I see, Well I guess I better get in on this thread...

Will be in FL tomorrow night, wont be posting til after the game.

KU WILL LOSE



I cant wait to be like your mom and rub it in everyones nose...

SIU has a good defense. But I dont think theyve been in a position where they have to worry about 4 guys that can score on the floor at any time (minus Kaun).

KU plays just as good defense, and the talent there is better. KU is a much bigger team and I think SIU will have major troubles in the paint, Wright has a HUGE game IMO. KU dominates on the boards.

KU 80
SIU 63

Your mom is like playing man-to-man defense agianst KU, Everybody gets to participate in the lay-up drill.

Jeez, KU fans suck at everything. :shake:

Dont be hating, It wasnt that bad!

You Kayak alot?

Hey, you two, your moms just leaned up from under my desk and said to try and get along. At least that's what I think it was. Hard to tell with their mouths full. Maybe it was "We're trying, but you're too long".

I dunno.

Oh damn, one just bumped her head. Thank god it wasn't in her mouth. Could've been a disaster. No worries, though. I slapped her on top of her head and told her to get back to it, and she seems to be okay. Eyes are a little bugged-out, but that's normal.

It's amazing he's even snapping on KU fans, considering all the stuff his mom does nekkid as a jaybird.

:bravo:

That is Rep Worthy!

It was bad.

I canoe more than kayak...I enjoy ample room for my beer cooler.

All right, who bought Redrum's mom some teeth?

Sorry my bad...

Well, I've been paying her a quarter a day for her services for 15 years. Out of generosity, of course. She never asks for money.

Okay, it was worth a shot though...

We have Ocean Kayak Prowler 13's, Nice spot on the back for a nice cooler.

Uhhhh, you do know she just turned 26 years old don't you?

Well, my cooler is usually 20 lbs heavier than me, so that might mess up the weight distribution.

For the third time, judging by the way she looks.

Thank god lights come with 'off' switches.

How do you think he got her locked in for a quarter?

Crack babies do that to an ugly womans looks.

Funny thing is, reerun's mom pays me a quarter for her services.

The things you learn as you grow older. *sigh* All that money wasted. If only I'd been that smart 15 years ago.

KU should crush the puppy dogs.

Thats right, she was one that really never saw the benefit for over paying for such small and short jobs.

You know, ah, that's admitting that your mom pays guys so she can suck them off...

You know what? It is a message board and a joke. Whats the big deal?
Just rolling with the flow.

Not my johnson, but you already guessed that.

You know I just like to post to drool over the girl in the black shorts in my signature...

WOW, that is so very very nice.

WOW!!!!! :clap:

Hopefully we will see a good game.

KU:( 52
SIU :) 59

We'll see if the KU can get DAWGed.... The new Bucknelled/Bradleyed.

KU :( 58
DAWGS :) 63

Damn, what the heck kind of game thread is this?

A game thread of flatlanders.

Hey good luck, Heading out for FL...

KU 83
SIU 58

Maybe SIU might be good enough for people to be remembered by these kind of phrases "Bucknelled/Bradleyed"....

Keep your head up and in 100 years you might have the history that KU has and someone can make fun of your "short term failures"

Thank God for the NCAA tourney, or my arrogant KU ass would never of known SIU even existed.

Enjoy the game, I know I will!

A horrible one that, as usual, has been hijacked with dumbassery about Redrums mom, etc.

Which helped the thread

:shake:

Speaking of which, that thread hanging out of your mom's hey-nanner-nanner isn't fooling anyone. That garden went the way of the Sahara long ago.

Waahhh!!! I come to Chiefs board for quality college BB game talk more than a day before the game, and some a-holes are farting around. . . waaahhh!!!

%(/

Thats because assholes like you forgot to turn the water hose off and ran up the bills

Sorry to ruffle your feathers... ROFL


Here a link to SIU website and about the school, there is a world outside of Kansas. (KU) :deevee:

http://www.siu.edu/hp/aboutsiu.html

if the Jayhawks lose, Its concrete shoes for leviw and redrum's mom.

Has there been any interviews from either team about a game plan. How Ku plans use keep the transition game intact while playing yet another valley team with decipline defense... How SIU plans to guard a very athletic and deep KU team?

I was thinking that too, since your official thread's are usually Winners....

I like the omen :D

I thought "Your Momma" went out of style a long time ago. So far ago that KU had won a first round in the NCAA.

KU Stats
Scoring Offense
12 79.5
Scoring Defense
29 61.6
Scoring Margin
3 17.9
Field-Goal Percentage
9 49.4
Field-Goal Percentage Defense
2 37.3
Three-Point Field Goals Per Game
188 6.3
Three-Point Field-Goal Percentage
18 39.6
Free-Throw Percentage
242 66.6
Rebound Margin
6 7.3
Assists Per Game
16 17.2
Blocked Shots Per Game
6 6.6
Steals Per Game
21 9
Won-Lost Percentage
3 88.9
Turnovers Per Game
110 13.9
Personal Fouls Per Game
187 19

SIU
Scoring Offense
276 63.1
Scoring Defense
3 56.1
Scoring Margin
50 7
Field-Goal Percentage
135 45
Field-Goal Percentage Defense
61 41.3
Three-Point Field Goals Per Game
195 6.2
Three-Point Field-Goal Percentage
72 37.1
Free-Throw Percentage
162 69.2
Rebound Margin
124 1.5
Assists Per Game
270 11.6
Blocked Shots Per Game
144 3.3
Steals Per Game
178 6.6
Won-Lost Percentage
12 82.9
Turnovers Per Game
121 14
Personal Fouls Per Game
260 20

5 days, eh? That is old.

When I start the game thread this season, KU is 9-0 --27.11 avg. margin of victory.

IF this game was going to be solely on Stats, the game is already over... Good luck SIU....:rockon:

SI-Who?

Hahah I'm hoping for a crappy game. I want a KU blowout and a UCLA blowout. I've already got my tix for both the sweet 16 and the elite 8 games so here's hoping. :D

In all that history you managed 2 national championships, one you won in your own backyard.

What a pussy.

I cant belive u wasted your first post on this piece of shit garbage you just wrote. Is 2004 really that long ago?

Yeah I totally forgot the Kansas has the ability to determine where they want the Final Four to be played. :rolleyes:

Forget the point spread on this game, the over/under is 126 points. Hell, if the Salukis even manage to slow down the game a little, score their average number of points and bring Kansas closer to their level the game will still blow right over that line. Even if SIU wins it would probably be like a 69-66 game at the lowest.

Combine that with the injury to Shaw and a rumored injury tonight to Freshman G Joshua Bone, and I think it could be a good idea to mortgage your house, get a title loan on every car, pawn all your possessions and bet that money on the over.

wouldn't it be more like KU got Southern Illinoid?

Do you mean Superdope should bet the whole $13.48?

Help me out here, who was it we beat for that one? I remember they were highly touted and expected to roll over KU. Whatever happened to THOSE pussies?

I was just thinking about that today. Why did Tubbs leave OU? Humiliation?

Does anyone else see the irony? :rolleyes:

Things i've heard around the office today:

"We are going to kill Illinois!"

"What is a Saluki??"

"Did you know Bill Self coached at Southern Illinois?"

"When is the Final Four?"

Yes, all true.

Never fails, the rivial pussies always have something to whine about.......

Saul, you know that there are always going to be over zealous fans of any successful team. I would think that people would be a little wiser after the past couple of years, though. And if they have followed college hoops this year, they would know that SIU has been a very good team. And they should at least know that the MVC is a decent league after last year's tourney.

As for me: I believe the Jayhawks can win this game. I believe if KU plays their best, they will win, period. However, if SIU manages to frustrate KU or if KU is just not hot like they have been, SIU could pull off the upset. And even if SIU wins, I won't consider it much of an upset. Nothing is guaranteed in the NCAA tournament. In a one and done tourney, anything can happen.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't expect anything. I believe my Hawks have it in them this year. But I've learned over the years that the best team doesn't always win. In order to win the NCAA tourney, you have to be hot for those 6 games and even a little lucky sometimes.

SIU 53
KU 09




Heh. Reverse mojo, baby. :PBJ:

Nope. ;)

Dyslexic Reverse Reverse Mojo. :)

SIU 66
KU 55

Yeah, your score is more realistic...hopefully. I suppose reversing the 0-9 in my score works too though. Heh.

Sport Headlines around the internet.....

Bucknell’s 1st NCAA win a big one: Kansas KO'd

No. 14 seed Bison make eight threes to down No. 3 Jayhawks 64-63


Vealy's 3-point arsenal lifts Oral Roberts to upset of No. 3 Kansas
DePaul upsets KU, 64-57

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66 - 59 No. 1 Seed Kansas falls to No. 4 Seed Southern Illinois in NCAA Sweet 16 Game Thursday Evening. Proving once again the Jayhawks mighty regular season punch falls short in the big dance.



ROFL

SOMEBODY IS WISHING ..............

Are you a fan of SIU? MU fan?

:mizzou::banghead: Tigers fan..

It proofs something...

Ah, I see. That explains a lot. I suppose you were one of those MU fans that went right out and bought a Bucknell shirt after they beat KU. :rolleyes: :shake:

Caywood: Robinson quietly becomes a leader
 

Posted by
Kurt Caywood in Sports, CJ sports columnists, KU

Author
Kurt Caywood
SAN JOSE, Calif — About a month into the season, Kansas was waddling along ranked 12th in the country, dragging a couple of bad-looking losses, and Bill Self sensed the Jayhawks needed something.

He sensed they needed young Billy Self.
So he called out Russell Robinson.

"I think a lot of it's leadership — or a void of leadership," Self said at the time. "Our guys are yearning for it. They want it. It's gotta be Russell. It's gotta be. Nobody else has a chance to do it."

Self had been that guy, the Eddie Attaboy, pat-ya-on-the-butt coach on the floor back in the day at Oklahoma State. He thought he needed that guy to make the talented but unfocused Jayhawks gel. In Robinson, he saw a player with authority, seniority, credibility and know-how.

He saw a guy in position to be that guy.

Now, fast-forward three months to the NCAA Tournament. With 13 consecutive wins, Kansas has banked the Big 12 regular-season and tournament titles, climbed to second in the country, and tonight, as the top seed in the West Regional, faces Southern Illinois at San Jose's HP Pavilion for a spot in the Elite Eight.

Self must have really lit a fire under Robinson and, subsequently his team, huh?

"I screwed that whole deal up, to be honest with you," Self said.

Now I'll be honest: This whole deal was a set-up. I sensed quickly after Self put that onus on Robinson that he wanted to remove it, realizing the New York City junior never was going to become an extroverted hoops quarterback and that asking him to do so was like asking Jacque Vaughn to give up poetry and become a street tough.

It wasn't going to happen. It wasn't him. It wasn't what he grew up to be.

Robinson was asked Wednesday if he got in fights when he was growing up. He said yeah, it was part of growing up. He was asked who he would avoid fighting, if he could.

"I was always scared of the quiet ones," he said. "Those are the most dangerous ones — the ones who are sneaky, who really don't care."

But who were you, Russell?

"I was one of the quiet guys," he said.

That's not an accident, and that's not to be abandoned.

Not that he couldn't change. He could. He did. He met with Self. They talked. Robinson pushed himself to be more vocal, to take more interest in guys' emotions and be more active in maintaining good morale.

"I think I did kind of step out of my comfort zone," he said, "but I think my teammates stepped in and started handlin' their business a lot more. It took a lot of pressure off me, and I think it all started to work together."

That's when it started to happen. The key wasn't just for Robinson to be someone he wasn't. It was for each of the Jayhawks to be a little more of who they really were.

They met in the middle, and that's where they gelled.

"We don't have a vocal leader, still," Self said. "I was trying to express that we needed one, and the bottom line is what we needed was for everyone to just pull the rope a little bit harder. I do think this: We do have a team of leaders."

Make no mistake: Robinson is first among equals.

Last week in Chicago, when KU still had first-round jitters from the Bucknell and Bradley hangover, it was Robinson who uncharacteristically fired away and knocked down a couple of big 3s.

"He brings a mentality that he's not scared of anybody," junior forward Darnell Jackson said. "We just follow Russ' attitude."

He may not bark, but he has expectations for his teammates and a way to make sure they're met.

"When he gets mad in practice," Jackson said, "he picks up the tempo and we have to keep up with his pace."

One of this season's subplots has been the emergence of freshman point guard Sherron Collins and the dynamic it's created.

During the conference season, the lift Collins gave KU off the bench and the fact that he scored 40 percent more points than Robinson raised questions about who really should be starting. And in the harsh light of NBA potential, the freshman probably projects better onto an NBA roster than the junior ahead of him.

"The reason we're doin it the way we're doin it," Self said, "is that Sherron wasn't ready and he's played so good off the bench that we know he can do that. I don't think it'll be a situation where Sherron comes off the bench forever."

But for now, it's still Robinson's team, and he quietly and effectively has led it to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament.

"Here's a guy who averages seven points a game and I can't afford to not have him on the floor," Self said. "Percentage-wise, he's not a great shooter, but gosh, he seems to make big shots. I love him. I love how tough he is. I love the intangibles he brings to the table.

"You should judge a point guard by only one statistic and that's wins and losses, and I think he's handled that very, very well."

Kurt Caywood can be reached at (785) 295-1288 or kurt.caywood@cjonline.com.

http://blogs.cjonline.com/index.php?entry=2527

Thanks.... It's been a long day....

Corrected original..

In case you didn’t know, Salukis are the oldest pure-bred dogs in the world. Until 1951, Southern Illinois’ mascot was the Maroons. SIU staff members suggested a mascot name, and the student body picked Salukis.