**** 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

[KC_Connection]

Self sounded optimistic that Ellis would have a chance to play in Big 12 tourney. Too early to know yet, though.

— Jesse Newell (@jessenewell) March 4, 2015

Don't really need him to.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I don't pretend to be able to decide twitterese but I think they mean that the MRI results, whatever they were, indicated good news.

This.

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Self sounded optimistic that Ellis would have a chance to play in Big 12 tourney. Too early to know yet, though.

— Jesse Newell (@jessenewell) March 4, 2015

Don't really need him to.

We don't need to play in that waste of s tourney. Conference champs should be exempt.

[Prison Bitch]

I sorta agree with the exemption idea

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

We don't need to play in that waste of s tourney. Conference champs should be exempt.

I think its really sad the conference tournament champion gets an automatic bid,....and not the regular season conference winner. To me, that is bush league and makss absolutely no sense except sell newspapers

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by BWillie

I think its really sad the conference tournament champion gets an automatic bid,....and not the regular season conference winner. To me, that is bush league and makss absolutely no sense except sell newspapers

Especially hurts the actual good teams in the small conferences. A team like UC Davis, for example, may get beat in their conference tournament and not make it. Really diminishes the value of the regular season.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Especially hurts the actual good teams in the small conferences. A team like UC Davis, for example, may get beat in their Big West conference tournament and not make it. Really diminishes the value of the regular season.

Yep. Its ridiculous. Give the conference tourney champs a NIT berth if they want it, give reg season conf champs NCAA berth. Thats how you get 12-20 16seeds that get stomped in the first rd

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Yep. Its ridiculous. Give the conference tourney champs a NIT berth if they want it, give reg season conf champs NCAA berth. Thats how you get 12-20 16seeds that get stomped in the first rd

Beyond the drama of conference tournaments, part of it I suspect is that the NCAA doesn't want its 1 seeds knocked out in the 1st round. If berths were given out to conference regular season winners, a 16 would have won by now.

[KC_Connection]

Started watching the 2nd half/OT of this game after Self mentioned it in his presser as probably the only comeback win that surpassed this West Virginia game for him.

A few takeaways:

-I miss Tyshawn, A true gutsy winner. The guy just found a way to make the right play in the big moments.
-TRob's greatest attribute as a player might be just how hard he played. So much energy.
-Connor Teahan certainly picked the right time to have the game of his life.
-Releford and EJ were tremendous role players (Selden in particular should watch tape of Releford...he has the natural talent/size/skill set to be better than him in every area, but isn't at all yet).
-Marcus Denmon is cold-blooded (I have no idea how he held his nerve and made so many big shots under that pressure in that situation...ridiculous level of respect for that guy).
-I was too hard on Kevin Young in retrospect. He'd probably be starting for us right now and be a better rebounder/defender than any big we've had all season (we were just privileged to have a run of elite bigs including Aldrich, the Morrises, TRob, Withey so it was hard for him to measure up to that standard).

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Beyond the drama of conference tournaments, part of it I suspect is that the NCAA doesn't want its 1 seeds knocked out in the 1st round. If berths were given out to conference regular season winners, a 16 would have won by now.

Dunno what you're basing that on. Conferences make the decisions on whether to host tourneys at all. Most do because coaches and players like then and because they bring in $$$.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Dunno what you're basing that on. Conferences make the decisions on whether to host tourneys at all. Most do because coaches and players like then and because they bring in $$$.

It's obviously always about the money. Doesn't mean the NCAA doesn't encourage them too, helps it in that regard as well.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Started watching the 2nd half/OT of this game after Self mentioned it in his presser as probably the only comeback win that surpassed this West Virginia game for him.

A few takeaways:

-I miss Tyshawn, A true gutsy winner. The guy just found a way to make the right play in the big moments.
-TRob's greatest attribute as a player might be just how hard he played. So much energy.
-Connor Teahan certainly picked the right time to have the game of his life.
-Releford and EJ were tremendous role players (Selden in particular should watch tape of Releford...he has the natural talent/size/skill set to be better than him in every area, but isn't at all yet).
-Marcus Denmon is cold-blooded (I have no idea how he held his nerve and made so many big shots under that pressure in that situation...ridiculous level of respect for that guy).
-I was too hard on Kevin Young in retrospect. He'd probably be starting for us right now and be a better rebounder/defender than any big we've had all season (we were just privileged to have a run of elite bigs including Aldrich, the Morrises, TRob, Withey so it was hard for him to measure up to that standard).

Agree on all counts. I was pretty frustrated with Taylor his junior year, but even when he was having turnover problems early in his senior year, it was easy to see that the boat didn't float without him. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, him and TRob drug a team that started Conner Teahan to the national freaking championship. Dude was great.

Releford was one of my favorite jayhawk players. I was really disappointed he redshirted. I wanted him to play instead of Brady Morningstar. I had no idea he would come out of his redshirt year as the best defender in the country. My God I loved watching that kid defend.

Kevin Young was a decent player. Early on my wife and I (her moreso than me) would scream at the TV when they'd give him the ball because he'd have his head up his ass, but as he got comfortable in the uniform, he became very good. Really, there's no reason Traylor (this year's energy guy) shouldn't be making all of those plays in addition to the crazy dunk type plays he made last night. Traylor has so much more to work with than Young, it's not even funny.

That game is probably my favorite regular season game. Man, it was fun to watch. Probably took 5 years off my life, but still.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Started watching the 2nd half/OT of this game after Self mentioned it in his presser as probably the only comeback win that surpassed this West Virginia game for him.

A few takeaways:

-I miss Tyshawn, A true gutsy winner. The guy just found a way to make the right play in the big moments.
-TRob's greatest attribute as a player might be just how hard he played. So much energy.
-Connor Teahan certainly picked the right time to have the game of his life.
-Releford and EJ were tremendous role players (Selden in particular should watch tape of Releford...he has the natural talent/size/skill set to be better than him in every area, but isn't at all yet).
-Marcus Denmon is cold-blooded (I have no idea how he held his nerve and made so many big shots under that pressure in that situation...ridiculous level of respect for that guy).
-I was too hard on Kevin Young in retrospect. He'd probably be starting for us right now and be a better rebounder/defender than any big we've had all season (we were just privileged to have a run of elite bigs including Aldrich, the Morrises, TRob, Withey so it was hard for him to measure up to that standard).

That was so much fun. Tyshawn and TRob would not allow us to lose. Man, I miss those guys.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

It's obviously always about the money. Doesn't mean the NCAA doesn't encourage them too, helps it in that regard as well.

You're talking out of your ass. The NCAA has 351 member programs and all get a shot to make the tournament. They don't put them in to create "gimmes". They do it because they're full members of Division 1.


There is no basis for what you're arguing unless you can prove it.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

You're talking out of your ass.

Oh, I think you're more familiar with that than most here. Always nice to have you picking another pointless fight in another one of these threads, though.

The NCAA has 351 member programs and all get a shot to make the tournament. They don't put them in to create "gimmes". They do it because they're full members of Division 1.

There is no basis for what you're arguing unless you can prove it.

You said yourself that the money was the primary reason for the existence of conference tournaments, no? It's only reasonable to conclude the NCAA would want those tournaments around for the same reason. Helps bolster their main moneymaker in more ways than one.