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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
I say that based on a few things:
1) watching kU play and watching MVC teams play. I've seen SMS play... I've seen UNI... I've seen Creighton... I've seen SIU. And none of those teams has the sheer talent level that kU does. I pick kU as a dark horse because of the crop of extremely talented young players on that team; because of the Jayhawks ridiculously good defense; because it is a team that appears to be peeking, and the kids are growing up. The big-time talent is "taking off the diapers" so to speak.
2) reading and hearing what basketball experts—people paid to break these teams down for a living—have to say about kU. And what I'm reading and hearing jibes with what I've seen with my own eyes.
It has nothing to do with the name on the jersey and everything to do with what I've seen on the hardwood.
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By all means, you'll get no disagreement from me. KU has a talented group of players. Far more McDonalds All-Americans. But fans, and analysts, get too caught up in that sometimes. Sometimes there's more to it than just running and jumping and flying around like KU can.
Northern Iowa is a good basketball team. They beat Iowa, who leads maybe the most competitive conference in the country in the Big 10. They went into LSU and beat an athletic LSU team, that is 10-2 in the SEC, which is always a feat. They just took out that same Bucknell team that beat Kansas. They can play. As can some of these other Mo. Val teams.