Yeah, between curb stomping Marquette and not having to worry about Texas, I was absolutely positive they would beat Syracuse... I soaked up everything about the Final Four games and NC game, and drove ~2 hours to Lawrence with a couple of friends who are from there to watch the game.

That game and the Chiefs/Colts playoff game several months later forced me to 'grow up' as a sports fan quite a bit (the Chiefs going downhill and Self's first few teams after the Elite Eight helped, too).

I had to be on the road for work during the 2003 game. Sucked watching that by myself in a hotel room somewhere in western Kansas

Preseason top 10 next year according to KenPom.

top 10: 10) Virginia, 9) Indiana, 8) Wisconsin, 7) Oregon, 6) UNC, 5) Kansas, 4) Villanova, 3) Duke, 2) Kentucky, 1) Louisville

We'll be somewhere in the top 5 once again. Like a well-oiled machine.

Man, this Maryland game is huge. They just get harder and harder every time out now. But I'm really hoping the whole team is reading how they're going to be upset - that's usually worked in the past.

Louisville? WTF? Weren't they largely shit this year?

23-8

They weren't in the NCAA tourney because of a self imposed postseason ban for recruiting violations.

They are ranked #9 in Kenpom.

Hmmm. It seemed like every time I watched them they were trash.

Was the recruiting violation the thing that the hick wrote a book about buying sloots for recruiting trips?

Kentucky deserves about 17 of those self imposed bans on the postseason

@KUHawkRecruit THE .@jerrymeyer247 has changed his CB pick for Josh Jackson to Kansas. Recruiting is about to get very interesting within the next month!

JUCO star Josh Jackson, Rusty lol

usatodayhss article out today

http://usatodayhss.com/2016/top-sf-j...t-ncaa-openers
Top SF Josh Jackson not worried that 2 of his final 3 schools lost NCAA openers



Josh Jackson has plenty on his plate — forthcoming appearances at the McDonald’s All-American Game and Nike Hoop Summit, an impending decision on his collegiate future and the minor detail of finishing high school — he’s still been sure to check out plenty of the NCAA Tournament. That might concern fans of Michigan State and Arizona, two of the three schools still vying for Jackson’s services at the next level (Kansas is the other). According to the star himself in an interview with USA Basketball, they shouldn’t be concerned about their teams’ early exits at all.


“I saw,” Jackson said of the losses. “Just watching college basketball all this year, there have already been so many upsets during the regular season. I could just tell how March Madness was going to go, because so many teams were already losing. So, I knew it was going to be a pretty ugly year.”

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He plays with an absolute nastiness.

...in high school.

Shit changes real quick at the next level.

So if we get the #1 overall again, they'll probably put us in the west next year.