This one feels a lot like the 08 loss in Stoolwater. Hope they can refocus and play good in the the tourneys.

I dont know....This is starting to look a lot like the year we lost to Bradley.

I sure as hell hope not.......but I'm seeing trouble on the horizon.

Especially if our tourney draw has us facing excellent guard play.

Well, that was a shitty way to end the season.

But I guess if shitty is still winning 26 games, 9 straight Big 12 championships and a probable 1 seed then I'll have to live with it.

I just know better than to worry about the tourney. I'll just put faith in Bill to get the right guys to do the right things and make a good run.

ROCK CHALK

That two point loss at te end felt like the 23 point blowout yesterday?

Whatever the score got inflated when bill put the scrubs in.

My question is how in the world did that Baylor team lose 13 games. If Self had that team they would go 29 - 4 and get a number 1 seed

It's pretty sick. To do this in the modern era is just wow. I don't think my parents were born when Kentucky last won 9 straight. Dominance.

I can't wait for the big dance now. I relax through the conference tournament and hope we just win at least a game. The important thing now is mentally and physically preparing to win ANOTHER national title. How sweet it is. Love this time of year.

Pay Heed!!!

Uh.....serious? We were down 20 when he took out our starters

Regular season's over. We got our share, and the guys to the west are having a pretty good time. Let 'em have their fun, they know who they are compared to KU. Might be another 3 decades before they see the top of the mountain again.

Now we need to get another roll on...

KU's certainly didn't. 3 points over the last 5+ minutes? Woof.

Possible for Creighton to be the #8 or #9 seed in KC.

Shirts are out. :)

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Haha, that shirt if ****ing amazing.

where do I sign up?

@RedAndBlue_KU: Every Head Coach at Kansas since the inception on the NCAA Tournament has led the program to the Final Four #RockChalk

Legends.

Well I would hope so, since Phog helped create the Tourney.

31 games in. EJ has shot 12 times or more in 5 games. We are 1-4 in those games, the exception being his explosion in Ames.


In the 26 games he shot fewer than 12 times, we are 25-1. (The one loss was at OU where he nearly hit the 12 shot limit, going 3-11).

With a shared conference championship,Our lil' brothers to the west just might out do their last 3 CD set of excitement in just season? This one should be at least 3 1/2 CD's full, at least, maybe squeeze a full 4 CD's if they show preseason highlights.

man what a ****in stupid STUPID loss that was Sat. jfc.

hope that shit doesn't carry over into the tournament.

This... If we get up against some one with solid guards and outside shooting early, We are done quickly this year.

So I was at state HS basketball Saturday. The game is on DVR, but I haven't watched it yet. Is there anything worth watching in it? I can't bring myself to read the game thread.

If you like seeing your team lose by 23, then watch it.

I know the final score. Did KU do anything? I heard Perry had a nice game. Is that stuff worth seeing?

I dunno. You can go crawling thru a dumpster to find a decent piece of bread but I wouldn't recommend that, either.

No, move along.

Trying to look on the bright side of life nowhere near our best team but another title.
This team just doesn’t seem to bring their A game unless they have their backs against the wall or it is a big name opponent that gets their attention. Their A game is good enough to get to a final four and their C-D game could have them going home in the 1st or 2nd round. Last year’s flawed team made it to the Championship game so who knows. Another year another Championship, rinse and repeat.

Perry played w/ heart....and he was the only one. McLemore played good as far as stats go...but he had his fair share of flub ups as well.

This is pretty much it. I'm shocked that you are saying this, TBH. I think you are starting to warm up to Perry Ellis. :)

THere really hans't been anything wrong with Perry, he's been aggressive all year and it's starting to pay off. He has a very High ceiling if you ask me, what is not to like? Best part about frosh is they will be sophs...

I watched it and it was a complete "we have something to play for, so lets just shit down our pants" game.


First team we run up against in the tourney that can shoot from the outside and has decent guards. They will kick the shit out of Kansas.

Mac and Withey both make 1st team Big 12.

Withey is Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year for the 2nd straight year.

Marcus Smart takes Big 12 Player of the Year.

Crazy that KU lands two guys on the first team the year after losing 2 NBA picks.

Saturday, March 9, 2013
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Opinion: KU’s edge missing against Baylor

By Tom Keegan


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Photo by Mike Yoder
The KU bench watches the final seconds of KU's 81-58 loss to the Baylor Bears Saturday in Waco.



The ghost of Peter (Arness) Graves popped into my head and told me Saturday night that my mission, should I decide to accept it, is to try to make Jayhawk Nation feel as if Saturday’s shellacking at the hands of a Baylor team that had lost five of its previous six games isn’t cause for concern heading into the Big 12 tournament, an entertaining bridge to the best event in all of sports.


OK. Here goes:



Had Kansas won Saturday, instead of losing 81-58 at Ferrell Center — where Baylor coach Scott Drew went onto the floor, took the microphone and told the students to storm the court after security personnel had lined them up neatly — and then won the Big 12 tournament, it would have had to finish the season with a 17-game winning streak to win the national championship.


Really now, does this or any other team in this season of parity that faces power-conference opposition nightly strike you as one capable of winning 17 games in a row? No? Not helping?


OK, consider then that every team gets really unlucky once in a while and runs into a player who for the first time in his life shoots as he never had before in a game. Six seasons ago, Marchello Vealy made seven of eight three-pointers to lead Oral Roberts to an early season upset of Kansas in Allen Fieldhouse. Vealy had made one of 13 threes the previous season.
Cory Jefferson, one of those long leapers who loves to power dunk that Baylor always seems to have, had attempted seven three-pointers in his career before Saturday and missed them all. He shot three in this rout and made them all on the way to matching his career high with 25 points. The odds of something like that happening to Kansas again this month are astronomical, so it’s good the Jayhawks got that bad-luck bite out of their systems.


None of that worked, did it? OK, how about trying the truth, which is where Kansas coach Bill Self will go with his players, with whom he clinched a share of his ninth consecutive Big 12 title Saturday because Kansas State lost at Oklahoma State.


The truth is for Kansas to have any shot of making it to Atlanta for the Final Four, it must play with a sharp edge, an in-your-face competitive spirit. That was nowhere to be found Saturday, except from the opposition.


It was clear which team was in single-elimination mode and which had clinched something earlier in the day.


Thrashing Kansas the way it did drove Baylor from a seat on the wrong side of the NCAA Tournament bubble to the right side. In recent seasons, Baylor has resembled NBA teams in more ways than having high-leaping long bodies all over the place. The Bears (18-13, 9-9) tend to play with an NBA regular-season jog during conference play and pump it up to another speed in the postseason and twice have advanced to the Elite Eight under Scott Drew.


When locked in and turned up, Kansas can look fast, quick, explosive and anchored by a beast of a shot-blocking defender.


When he’s tuned in, senior power forward Kevin Young disrupts opponents with hustle and explosiveness and spurs teammates to greater heights. When he’s at less than his best, such as Saturday, he looks too frail to play with the heavyweights, too unskilled to merit playing time.


Point guards Elijah Johnson and Naadir Tharpe had been playing so well until Saturday. One game does not a regression make, but it served as a reminder of just how ordinary Kansas can look without the point guards collapsing the defense.


KU’s seven-game winning streak ended. The streak started after a three-game losing streak that started with a home-court loss to Oklahoma State.


How tough will it be for the team to put this one behind it and start anew?
“I don’t know because I thought when we lost to Oklahoma State, I thought we’d react fine, and we didn’t react very well to that,” Self said. “I may take a little different approach this time. I’m not sure what yet. The bottom line is our second season is done. Everybody’s is done. Now the third season starts and everybody’s starting fresh. I can’t imagine we won’t be fresh and excited and confident moving forward.”


He also put it this way: “We got punched in the mouth today without question, but we’ll get up.”


If hearing a coach who has won nine consecutive Big 12 titles say that doesn’t make you feel better, I’m out of ideas.

From my perspective they're truly "capable of anything". That runs the complete gauntlet from cutting down the nets in Atlanta to being the first #1 to lose to a #16.

All BS from the past few days aside, this isn't intended as "talking shit". I really believe that on a given night they truly are capable of beating or losing to anyone.

The Liberty Flames tied the 2007-2008 Coppin State team for most losses for a team entering the NCAA Tournament.

We all know how that tournament concluded!

Except for K-state.

Well they did beat TCU...

Unlike Kansas...

To be fair they did beat them the next time


Sat, Feb. 23 TCU at Kansas (W 74-48)

KU scoring margin in conf: +9.7
KSU scoring margin conf: +6.3




Scoring Margin
## Team G OFF DEF Margin
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1.Kansas.............. 18 72.4 62.8 +9.7
2.Oklahoma State...... 18 73.6 66.2 +7.3
3.Kansas State........ 18 70.1 63.7 +6.3
4.Iowa State.......... 18 78.7 73.6 +5.1
5.Oklahoma............ 18 73.6 69.1 +4.5
6.Baylor.............. 18 70.5 66.1 +4.4
7.West Virginia....... 18 64.1 68.0 -3.9
8.Texas............... 18 67.1 71.1 -4.0
9.TCU................. 18 53.3 67.9 -14.7
10.Texas Tech.......... 18 58.4 73.1 -14.7

enjoy fellas, you earned it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVP1Z5JqyV0

LMAO

Looks like your hook needs some sharpening Mikey......

JayhawkSlant‏@JayhawkSlant

Jayhawks come in at 6th in latest USA Today/Coaches Poll

Right where Sagarin has em!

I'm reminded of the expression, "To be the man, you have to beat the man."

Never heard anybody say "To be the man, you have to avoid losing to so and so".

KU and KSU are at the top of the standings of the Big 12. Which one is "the man"?

I would say the one that didnt get its ass whipped in Ft Worth on a mid Feb evening....

You lose to TCU, you dont deserve it...

BC, you're just not very generous. KSU doesn't make the rules. We just <strike>enforce</strike> celebrate 'em.

I can get you into the pep rally at the Fred, BC. Interested?

LMAO

Everyone knows the conference title goes through TCU.

Always has, always will.

LMAO

Actually it went through Baylor on Saturday....

ROFL

I cant help it... I just have to ROFL

I'll pass. Too much work to get done. Say hi to Uncle Joe and the Bradley girls over at The Shady Rest.

most KU fans don't seem to get the irony that by mentioning that you swept KSU means that by definition KU lost to 2 lesser teams (just so happens to be the worst team in the conference, and according to KU fans, the worst coach).

You're pretty funny.

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It was a good season....minus one week....no problem in sharing the title with KSU. It's obvious they deserved it. KU had the opportunity to win it outright and didn't.

Such sour grapes from a guy that just won a conference title.

Yep. Don't care that we have to share it. It's still nine. It would have been great to grab it outright, but oh well. I'm still pleased with the season. Warts and all.

Point is... we beat you.... and you still keep talking shit.

Ok, then if you lose to 4-5 Baylor you don't deserve the football share either. Glad we established that.

Lol KSU fans are funny. They know who's conference this is.

By the way, did anyone watch the Manning and the Miracles documentary? It was pretty sweet reliving that again. Loved it.

9 straight and can't wait for 10...

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I know that according to some, KU is the "little brother"... but in a non-basketball related story, looks like Kansas is doing just fine doing what Universities are supposed to be doing, at least if you are classified as a 'Research University'.

#KU conducted $256.1 million in externally funded research in FY2011, more than all other Kansas universities combined.#KUFacts

Nice news from that audit, eh?

Just bought two tickets for Saturday's game...we better be there.

Nooooooo! Never do that.

They were a steal. I couldn't pass it up. A colleague can't make it, so he offloaded them to me for cheap.

Well, it is a great event here so you should at least have fun regardless if we make it. I've been stung too many times by KU not advancing that I never assume they will. Of course, I did go to San Antonio in 2008 not knowing if we'd win either game. Great decision!

The only game that worries me is if we hook up with Iowa State in the semis. They are going to be out for blood after the way the last matchup with them ended.

The last two you mean? :)

Could work both ways. Bill wasn't too happy with the accusations of cheating/fraud/didn't earn it.

TCU beat you, and yet you keep talking shit.

Only once. Had we lost both games, we’d have no choice to but to call them our daddies.

still spending more time in the KU bball thread than your own, i see.

Now if you choose to harp on the worst game played that is fine but, if Delaware or North TX State is your best Non-conference win one shouldn’t get too uppity.

Ehhhh.......psssttt.....they beat Florida. ;)

Such a sad guy. Can't even enjoy your title. That's too bad.

I'm not talking shit on TCU. I'm talking shit about you... you know, the team we swept.

And sweep most every year.

I got no problem with acknowledging that KSU earned a share of the Big 12 title. Frankly, if KU wanted there to be no doubt then they should have beaten Baylor on Saturday. Or at the very least they definitely should not have lost at TCU.

KSU has a right to celebrate. Can't blame them for celebrating their first conference title (shared or not) in 36 years.

But I do have a problem with Bruce Weber and his weak sauce comments at their pep rally.


Can't even celebrate your victory without that lame nonsense. STFU

It was addressed to a Kansas State Crowd. Not at a press conference. I think you lost your sense of humor Lzen:-)

It's kinda sad that a coach had to rely on another team to do his job for him.

Crap I forgot that.I really don’t know how because I was impressed when they did it.

Naw. I get that he was just playing to the fanbase. I just don't see a coach like Bill Self or any other top coach doing something like that. It's Bush League. You guys just won a share of the league. Be classy. Joke or not, it was lame.

Do you think Bill Snyder would ever say something like that?

People forget that KU was in almost the same position in 2006, 2008, and 2011. Each of those years KU trailed Texas late in the season and needed other teams to beat them to grab the title.