**** OFFICIAL 2014-2015 Kansas Basketball Repository Thread

[ArrowheadHawk]

11 straight Conference Championships!

Ranking #9 (26-8,13-5)

Non-Con Schedule (11-2)

Spoiler!

11/14/2014 UC Santa Barbara Lawrence, Kan. W 69-59 (1-0)
11/18/2014 Kentucky Indianapolis, Ind. L 40-72 (1-1)
Orlando Classic
11/24/2014 Rider Lawrence, Kan. W 87-60 (2-1)
11/27/2014 Rhode Island Orlando, Fla. W 76-60 (3-1)
11/28/2014 Tennessee Orlando, Fla. W 82-67 (4-1)
11/30/2014 Michigan State Orlando, Fla. W 61-56 (5-1)
12/5/2014 Florida Lawrence, Kan. W 71-65 (6-1)
12/10/2014 Georgetown Washington, DC W 75-70 (7-1)
12/13/2014 Utah Kansas City, Mo. W 63-60 (8-1)
12/20/2014 Lafayette Lawrence, Kan. W 96-69 (9-1)
12/22/2014 Temple Philadelphia, PA L 52-77 (9-2)
12/30/2014 Kent State Lawrence, Kan. W 78-62 (10-2)
1/4/2015 UNLV Lawrence, Kan. W 76-61 (11-2)

Conference Schedule

Spoiler!

1/7/2015 Baylor Waco, Texas W 56-55 (12-2,1-0)
1/10/2015 Texas Tech Lawrence, Kan. W 86-54 (13-2,2-0)
1/13/2015 Oklahoma State Lawrence, Kan. W 67-57 (14-2,3-0)
1/17/2015 Iowa State Ames, Iowa L 81-86 (14-3,3-1)
1/19/2015 Oklahoma Lawrence, Kan. W 85-78 (15-3,4-1)
1/24/2015 Texas Austin, Texas W 75-62 (16-3,5-1)
1/28/2015 TCU Fort Worth, Texas W 64-61(17-3,6-1)
1/31/2015 Kansas State Lawrence, Kan. W 68-57(18-3,7-1)
2/2/2015 Iowa State Lawrence, Kan. W 89-76(19-3,8-1)
2/7/2015 Oklahoma State Stillwater, Okla. L 62-67(19-4,8-2)
2/10/2015 Texas Tech Lubbock, Texas W 73-51(20-4,9-2)
2/14/2015 Baylor Lawrence, Kan. W 74-64(21-4,10-2)
2/16/2015 West Virginia Morgantown, W. Va. L 61-62(21-5,10-3)
2/21/2015 TCU Lawrence, Kan. W 81-72(22-5,11-3)
2/23/2015 Kansas State Manhattan, Kan. L 63-70(22-6,11-4)
2/28/2015 Texas Lawrence, Kan. W 69-64(23-6,12-4)
3/3/2015 West Virginia Lawrence, Kan. W 76-69(24-6,12-4)
3/7/2015 Oklahoma Norman, Okla. L 73-75(24-7,12-5)
Big 12 Championship
3/12/2015 TCU Kansas City, Mo. W 64-59(25-7)
3/13/2015 Baylor KC, Mo W 62-52(26-7)
3/14/2015 Iowa State KC, Mo W 66-70(25-8)

Fri, March 20 NMSU at Kansas Omaha, NE CBS at 11:15a.m. CT

Players

Spoiler!

New Players
Hunter Mickelson - F Transfer
Cliff Alexander - 5 Star C
Kelly Oubre - 5 Star F/G
Devonte Graham - 4 Star PG
Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk - (Not Ranked but equivalent to 5 Star) G

Players Lost
Tarik Black - Graduation
Andrew Wiggins - NBA Draft
Joel Embiid - NBA Draft
Justin Wesley - Graduation
Niko Roberts - Graduation
Christian Garrett - Graduation
Naadir Tharpe - Transfer
Andrew White - Transfer
Conner Frankamp - Transfer

Returning Starters
Wayne Selden, Jr. - G - Sophmore
Perry Ellis - F - Junior

[saphojunkie]

I'm going to be in town for the Baylor game. Anyone know where I can look for tickets?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by DJJasonp

4 losses we win outright.....5 share.

I dont see ISBOOOO or WVU going through second half with only 1 loss.

They won't, but OU? Very possible. They have the easiest schedule left in the B12 (road games at TTU, TCU, KSU, and ISU) and are playing the best basketball of anybody outside of KU in the conference.

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

They won't, but OU? Very possible. They have the easiest schedule left in the B12 (road games at TTU, TCU, KSU, and ISU) and are playing the best basketball of anybody outside of KU in the conference.

But the also lost to KSU at home... OU is a decent team, they will knock someone one off then drop the next game because... well Boomer Sooner!

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

But the also lost to KSU at home... OU is a decent team, they will knock someone one off then drop the next game because... well Boomer Sooner!

Hope you're right, but that was a month ago now and they've looked a ton better of late. Still see them as the primary competition with that schedule.

KU won't play them again until the last game of the season. Ideally, that game won't mean anything by then.

[Prison Bitch]

That Baylor road win is looking better by the day. They're 16-5 and right behind us in KenPom. Had we lost on that last play they'd be in the conversation. Or if OU had pulle off the win in Mecca (since we will lose there).


Pomeroy has us as the luckiest team in college basketball. 1/351. We could've lost the GTown, Mich St, Utah, etc etc game and we cleared them all

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

That Baylor road win is looking better by the day. They're 16-5 and right behind us in KenPom. Had we lost on that last play they'd be in the conversation. Or if OU had pulle off the win in Mecca (since we will lose there).


Pomeroy has us as the luckiest team in college basketball. 1/351. We could've lost the GTown, Mich St, Utah, etc etc game and we cleared them all

The difference is their defense. I don't know what the deal is, but they don't just suck terribly defensively like they used to. Maybe Coach Drew is learning on the job?

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by BWillie

The difference is their defense. I don't know what the deal is, but they don't just suck terribly defensively like they used to. Maybe Coach Drew is learning on the job?

I think he got some buys that aren't dumber than a bag of rocks.

To run D, you have to have 5 guys that have a brain. I'm not sure he has that.

[Prison Bitch]

I think it's his rebounding that's winning Bay games. Gathers looks like a poor mans Charles Barkley on the glass. He had somethin like 25 in a game earlier this year. Nobody can get any easy stick backs vs them. They won't be fun in March

[Pablo]

Baylor always has a nice group of talented players. We all know Drew is a great recruiter. Agree with PB; their length and tenacity on the boards will be a real bitch in a month.

[Prison Bitch]

Bay played ATM earlier this year, who's having a pretty nice season. Bay allowed....zero offensive boards. Nada. Espn said they've never seen that.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Bay played ATM earlier this year, who's having a pretty nice season. Bay allowed....zero offensive boards. Nada. Espn said they've never seen that.

That's pretty nuts.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by BWillie

The difference is their defense. I don't know what the deal is, but they don't just suck terribly defensively like they used to. Maybe Coach Drew is learning on the job?

Drew has slowed the pace of the game down completely to TCU's level in order to reach that point (the game they played against KU earlier this year had the lowest amount of possessions for a KU game in the Self era). And the last thing college basketball needs is more teams like that.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

I think it's his rebounding that's winning Bay games. Gathers looks like a poor mans Charles Barkley on the glass. He had somethin like 25 in a game earlier this year. Nobody can get any easy stick backs vs them. They won't be fun in March

In one game, he had like 5 more OREB than DREB.

You're right, rebounding is a big part of what they do. Heck of it is they're doing it with the shortest team in a long time.

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Texas loses again. Dropping their fourth in a row and got sweeped by OSU.

I hope Texas is paying you well, Myles Turner. You deserve this suckage though for choosing Rick Barnes over Bill Self, idiot.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Chiefs Pantalones

Texas loses again. Dropping their fourth in a row and got sweeped by OSU.

I hope Texas is paying you well, Myles Turner. You deserve this suckage though for choosing Rick Barnes over Bill Self, idiot.

Why anyone would ever go to anywhere besides Kansas or Kentucky is beyond me.