**** OFFICIAL NEW 2011-2012 Kansas Basketball Repository Thread ****
 

Old thread needs to die. KU on to the final four.
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ROCK CHALK BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In.

ROCK CHALKIN ALL THE WAY TO NEW ORLEANS MOTHERTRUCKERS!!

KU up on the presser now.

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Thomas Robinson has been named the Most Outstanding Player of the Midwest Regional

I am so proud of the University of Kansas.

TITTIES AND BEER MOTHER ****ERS!!!!!

just ****ing amazing

ej hits the 3 and our balls grew 3 sizes that day

I echo the sentiments of all in this thread.....FInal Four BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MALE BIRTH CONTROL PILL BITCHEZ!!!!

rock chalk

Feels good. Feels real good.
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Bill: "This shit is tiring"

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Just a little KU tidbit ...
Kansas has won three national titles in basketball. They occurred in 1952, 1988 and 2008. What do those years have in common? All leap years. Could this be the year for another championship??? Hope so! Rock Chalk!

Hmmmm

Or EJ???

Election years and leap years, baby! This is good mojo on our side!

Congrats to all the KU fans. Rock Chalk.

I'm taking the kids to the Fieldhouse tonight.

Still can't believe just how much of a lift the team got from Elijah hitting that three. Everyone just went next level on Roy's bunch, amazing stuff.

I love Mass St.

I'll be watching the game all week :)

Oh Mass St...

I miss u mass :(

Braincase.....awesome rep!

i am so drunk

I'm working on it....

I'll admit I never saw this season coming. I knew we could be quite good but when you lose the five guys like KU did, you just don't come back and win the conference yet again, go 31-6 and make the Final Four. Not to mention you might also have the POTY in T-Rob? Bill Self's best coaching job to date and he has been a ELITE coach for quite some time now.

Kenpom hasn't released his final four odds yet, but with only 4 teams left, it is not difficult to do the math.

KU's odds against:

Kentucky: 37.78%
tOSU: 37.78%
Louisville: 63.58%

Louisville's odds against either tOSU or Kentucky: 25.8%

Kentucky vs tOSU: 50/50 tossup (both have same pythag, and its a neutral site)

Given that, you can calculate all the possible outcomes and reach this for national champion odds:

Kentucky: 40.53%
tOSU: 34.99%
Kansas: 16.79%
Louisville: 7.69%

Although Kentucky and tOSU are rated roughly evenly by kenpom, Kentucky has the better odds because Kansas is tougher to beat than Louisville.

Self and the team deserved this. There were a lot of doubters, but I figured this team was about the 3rd or 4th best team in the country when they played to their potential. I'm not sure they're better than either UK or OSU going forward, but at this point anything is really possible. Let's win it all.

What a year for the Hawks.....
And Self is proving to be one of the best.

And MUrons have to hold their breath for another week.
Praying to GOD KU doesnt win it all!!!! LOL

Bill Self's record is 2-0 in Final Four games. :-)

Nate Silver gives us 39.6% and 16.7%.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/12/sports/ncaabasketball/201203-nate-silver-march-madness.html

Very proud of this team. Rock Chalk!

Jay Bilas, "Self is a Hall of Fame coach. This is probably his least-talented team he has had since being at Kansas...and he gets them to the Final Four. Amazing."

Congrats. I did not want to see this happen. But, some of you are good dudes.

Congrats, and farewell. (rivalry-wise)

Great season. Unbelievable what the team has accomplished this year.

Coach Self has really done a fantastic job especially with losing so many veteran players.

How did this team get to the Final Four?


What a great day...

NC State -- 6/21
UNC -- 2/17

Perimeter defense.

:D

I am at the 3 minute mark of the 1st half...

I had to fly today, But Denver, Kansas City and Ft Worth Center kept me updated up until the 3 min mark of the 2nd half...

We lost :(

:hmmm:

ROFL

Also Prez election & Summer Olympics years

Time to get set for Jack Smack....talkin' bout them Tigers..

Congrats KU fans. I am sure another trip to the final four is only more sweetened by the fact of beating Ol' Roy to get there.

Thank you, I feel bad for Roy. At first i thought it was an act, now i think he's torn and probably has some regret at leaving KU. We have Bill Self, we have the better coach.

We're one helluva team for an 8 seed! ;)

so should i start next weeks thread too?

Yeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh....

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A no brainer that there is.

Guys, I gotta tell ya...This is probably the most emotional and excited I've ever been about a KU squad. This (and it's only the F4) feels even better than 2008. We took a squad of wonderfully great, but equally frustrating "kids" and somehow made it to the Final 4.

Shahon needs to go to Bill and say, name your price and it's a lifetime guarantee. Good Lord boys, we are in the Final 4. ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!



It's never felt so good to say that.

This week is going to drag enormous amounts of ass.

Glad KU loosened up and continue to do so. Playing with house money.

How's my (#@$ taste, North Carolina?!?


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if that would have went in, that would have damn near been the best dunk i can ever think of seeing

UNC has a load of talent but they sure are finesse. It's like flag football

1st UK - UL meeting in Lexington, UK wins 69 - 62 ,opens up at a 8.5 favorite.

1st KU - OSU meeting in Lawrence KU wins 80 - 67, opens at a - 2.5 underdog.

Just what KU needs, being the underdog again.:)

No way, i'm going to enjoy every bit of this week. It will end one way or another next weekend so I really want to soak it all up. ;)

YEA HAWKS .....

AFH waiting for the team to arrive..

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now thats a crowd!!!!!!

Defense confuses Heels
KU’s triangle-and-two surprises North Carolina late in the game.
By RUSTIN DODD
The Kansas City Star

“Everywhere you went, there was help defense right there and ready,” Barnes said. “I remember the one time: I caught it on the left wing, pump fake, Travis Releford goes in the air. I take one dribble and Elijah Johnson or Tyshawn Taylor is right there.”

Inside the North Carolina locker room, there seemed to be some confusion on what defenses the Jayhawks were playing in the final minutes — or if they were even in the triangle-and-two at all.

Barnes indicated that the North Carolina players didn’t know that the triangle-and-two scheme was part of Kansas’ defense repertoire.

“They haven’t done it in the past,” said Barnes, who finished with 13 points while missing all five of his three-point attempts. “But they tried it out against us.”

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/25...#storylink=cpy

No doubt.

Self belongs at the top of his game

ST. LOUIS -- As Kansas players danced around the locker room with pieces of the Edward Jones Dome net pinned behind their ears, one of the greatest coaches in basketball history was stuck in traffic.

Hall-of-Famer Larry Brown -- the only man in history to win an NCAA title and an NBA championship -- hustled up the steps and out of the arena after the Jayhawks advanced to the Final Four by defeating North Carolina 80-67 Sunday.

As the cars backed up on Interstate 70, Brown had time to reflect on what he'd just seen from his former team -- and his former pupil.

When talking about Bill Self, Brown almost seemed in awe.

"I can't imagine how he's done it," said Brown, who hired Self as a graduate assistant at KU back in 1985. "The eight straight Big 12 titles, getting this team to the Final Four, I just can't imagine ..."

Brown paused.

"Our game has a lot of great coaches," he said. "But right now I can't think of many who are better than Bill."

That's because there aren't any.

All throughout Sunday's 13-point victory over the top-seeded Tar Heels, and even for a few hours after it, I kept asking myself the same question: Who in college basketball, right now, is better than Bill Self?

Not "Who has the best resume?" Self is more than 10 years younger than legends such as Rick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, Jim Boeheim, Roy Williams and Mike Krzyzewski. So comparing his Final Four count to theirs is unfair.

Instead, I tried to think of the No. 1 candidate I would target if I was an athletic director who had been given millions of dollars to start a basketball program from scratch. If I could have my pick of any coach in America, who would I choose?

To me, the answer is obvious.

Self.

"There's no one I'd rather play for," Kansas guard Elijah Johnson said. "He's the best coach in the country."

Or at least he has been since replacing Roy Williams at Kansas in 2003-04. Since that time, no one has been more on top of their profession more than Self, who has gone 268-52 in his nine seasons at Kansas. No coach in America has won more games during that span except for Kentucky's John Calipari (281-52). But 38 of those wins were vacated because of NCAA rules violations, so officially, Self is the leader.

Even more impressive is that Self's Kansas teams have won eight straight Big 12 titles, the longest streak of consecutive league crowns by a major-conference team since UCLA won 13 in a row from 1967-79.

"Year after year, we lose guys and people wonder if we're going to be down," fifth-year senior Conner Teahan said. "Yet, year after year, he finds a way to get it done. He just instills so much confidence in us. He makes us believe we're capable of doing anything."

It certainly helps that Self coaches at Kansas, where fan support and the ability to lure recruits enhance his chances of winning. Still, even the most tradition-rich programs experience dips.

UCLA has missed two of the past three NCAA tournaments, and Indiana returned this season after a three-year absence. One season after winning the 2009 national title, North Carolina was in the NIT. That's not as bad as Florida, which won it all in 2006 and 2007 but then failed to earn a bid the next two seasons.

Then there's Duke, which lost to No. 15 seed Lehigh in the first round of this year's NCAA tournament.

At Kansas, though, there has never been any slippage under Self.

Not even close.

The Jayhawks have never been lower than a No. 4 seed in the NCAA tournament under Self. They've earned a No. 1 seed the past two years and this season they're a No. 2. That, in itself, was a phenomenal feat for a program that lost four starters -- plus key reserves Mario Little and Josh Selby -- from a squad that went 35-3 last season and reached the Elite Eight.

"A lot of people didn't think we'd be in this situation," point guard Tyshawn Taylor said. "No one knew how good we could be."

Indeed, there's no question that Self has done the best coaching job of his career this season.

He has a fourth-year starter in Taylor and one of college basketball's top post players in Thomas Robinson, who has blossomed into a Wooden Award candidate after playing just 14 minutes off the bench last season. Otherwise, though, Kansas entered the season with a roster full of obscure players who had played minimal roles. Starters Jeff Withey, Elijah Johnson and Travis Releford (all juniors) struggled to get on the court last season.

In five months, Self has turned them into stars.

"Guys get better when they come here," Self said. "Guys go from playing 7 minutes a game to being a national player of the year candidate. You've got a guy [in Taylor] who was as criticized a player as there's been at KU since I've been here, and now people are saying he may be the best point guard to play here in a long time.

"It's amazing to me how much these guys have gotten better. I take pride in that."

It didn't happen easily.

After Self lost to Davidson in December, Self said he was genuinely worried that the Jayhawks wouldn't make the NCAA tournament. But Kansas got tougher, found its groove and went 16-2 in a Big 12 conference that featured two other top 10 teams in Missouri and Baylor.

No moment, though, illustrated Self's worth quite like Sunday.

read the rest here

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Yeah, Self is the best basketball coach in the NCAA. We already knew that before today's game, though.

Some of us did, others questioned his ability to get past the Elite eight and some even considered 2008 a fluke...No more. ;)

I don't count the Laz's of the world...they'll always find something to nitpick.

There's nothing fluky about consistent dominance in a power conference over an entire decade.

I know he's still raw, but the if he still dominates in the next game and hopefully the one after that, would he be an NBA lottery pick?

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WHITE ON WHITE

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:eek: I understand a quick turnaround in the tourney makes it tough to do too much scouting, too much prep, but shouldn't there be a staff member at least watching the games of the teams they might play? Wow.

Roy about talking about what killed their momentum.

Roy, put yoa shoes on.

I don't think that is necessary. One of the reasons Bill is so successful, is that he loves his job, and KU.

When is KU moving to the Mountain West?

:LOL:

KU has used this defense a few times this year. Nice scouting, UNC.

Hell, KU used it almost exclusively for an entire half just a week before.

What a game. Thank god the acted like they had actually seen a basketball before. Unlike the previous two games. It is a great day to be a KU fan.

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