**** OFFICIAL 2012-2013 Kansas Basketball Repository Thread ****

[ArrowheadHawk]

#1 Seed South Region (31-5,14-4,5-0)

Roster

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1 Naadir Tharpe Guard 5-11 170 So.
2 Rio Adams Guard 6-3 190 Fr.
3 Andrew White III Guard 6-6 210 Fr.
4 Justin Wesley Forward 6-9 220 RS Jr.
5 Jeff Withey Center 7-0 235 RS Sr.
10 Evan Manning Guard 6-3 170 Fr.
11 Tyler Self Guard 6-2 165 Fr.
15 Elijah Johnson Guard 6-4 195 Sr.
20 Niko Roberts Guard 5-11 175 Jr.
21 Christian Garrett Guard 6-3 185 So.
23 Ben McLemore Guard 6-5 195 RS Fr.
24 Travis Releford Guard 6-6 210 RS Sr.
31 Jamari Traylor Forward 6-8 220 RS Fr.
32 Zach Peters Forward 6-9 240 Fr.
33 Landen Lucas Forward 6-10 240 Fr.
34 Perry Ellis Forward 6-8 225 Fr.
40 Kevin Young Forward 6-8 190 Sr.

Non-Con Schedule

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Fri, Nov. 9 SE Missouri State at Kansas (W 74-55)
Tue, Nov. 13 Michigan St. at Kansas Atlanta, Ga. (L 64-67)
Thu, Nov. 15 UTC at Kansas (W 69-55)
Mon, Nov. 19 Washington State at Kansas Sprint Center (W 78-41)
Tue, Nov. 20 St. Louis at Kansas Sprint Center (W 73-59)
Mon, Nov. 26 SJSU at Kansas (W 70-57)
Fri, Nov. 30 Oregon State at Kansas (W 84-78)
Sat, Dec. 8 Colorado at Kansas (W 90-54)
Sat, Dec. 15 Belmont at Kansas (W 89-60)
Tue, Dec. 18 Richmond at Kansas (W 87-59)
Sat, Dec. 22 Kansas at Ohio St. (W 74-66)
Sat, Dec. 29 American at Kansas (W 89-57)
Sun, Jan. 6 Temple at Kansas (W 69-62)

Conference Schedule

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Wed, Jan. 9 Iowa State at Kansas (W 97-89 )
Sat, Jan. 12 Kansas at TT (W 60-46)
Mon, Jan. 14 Baylor at Kansas (W 61-44)
Sat, Jan. 19 Kansas at Texas (W 64-59)
Tue, Jan. 22 Kansas at Kansas State (W 59-55)
Sat, Jan. 26 Oklahoma at Kansas (W 67-54)
Mon, Jan. 28 Kansas at West Virginia (W 61-56)
Sat, Feb. 2 Okla. St. at Kansas (L 80-85)
Wed, Feb. 6 Kansas at TCU (L 55-62)
Sat, Feb. 9 Kansas at Oklahoma (L 66-72)
Mon, Feb. 11 Kansas State at Kansas (W 83-62)
Sat, Feb. 16 Texas at Kansas (W 73-47)
Wed, Feb. 20 Kansas at Okla. St. (W 68-67)
Sat, Feb. 23 TCU at Kansas (W 74-48)
Mon, Feb. 25 Kansas at Iowa State (W 108-96)
Sat, March 2 West Virginia at Kansas (W 91-65)
Mon, March 4 TT at Kansas (W 79-42)
Sat, March 9 Kansas at Baylor (L 58-81)

Post Season
Thu, March 14 TT at Kansas (W 91-63)
Fri, March 15 Iowa State at Kansas (W 88-73)
Sat, March 15 Kansas State at Kansas (W 70-54)
Fri, March 22 (16)Western Kentucky vs (1)Kansas (W 64-57)
Sun, March 24 (8)UNC vs (1)Kansas (W 70-58)
Fri, March 29 (4)Michigan at (1)Kansas Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX 6:37PM

[TLO]

Ugly basketball but a win is a win. But hopefully we are just getting into shape for tougher conference games and the tournament.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Kansas is great, but you'd be hard pressed to argue they're "hands down" better than Duke. Whose coach by the way has a 2nd job winning gold medals for the US national team.

Eh. I suppose. KU's better though. And from what I hear Jabari Parker is the second coming of Shabazz Muhommad. Completely overrated.

[Bambi]

Where is that guy who likes Florida and claims to be a Chiefs fan? He told me the Heat were trying to trade Chamlers.

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=400278268

[CoMoChief]

One thing you gotta like about Kansas over the past couple seasons is that they can win ugly games where they are just playing like absolute dogshit. It's almost like a lightbulb flashes off at the 2min mark left in the game and they think "oh shit" time to get our shit together and pull this win out of our asses.

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by Wickedson

Where is that guy who likes Florida and claims to be a Chiefs fan? He told me the Heat were trying to trade Chamlers.

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=400278268

I wouldn't doubt it....Chalmers is like the black sheep on that team

[CoMoChief]

I wish Duke and Kansas would play non-con series.

I'd love to watch KU go into Cameron Indoor and wipe the floor w/ Duke.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

I wish Duke and Kansas would play non-con series.

I'd love to watch KU go into Cameron Indoor and wipe the floor w/ Duke.

They punked us last year. And I think it was even neutral court.

That's the game that TT had like 4,327,835,388,323 turnovers and it is my estimation, that's when he started to turn the corner to lead us to a national championship.

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

They punked us last year. And I think it was even neutral court.

That's the game that TT had like 4,327,835,388,323 turnovers and it is my estimation, that's when he started to turn the corner to lead us to a national championship.

That was a close game until Duke nailed a ****ing three that led to KU fouling at the end...and even then it was only a 7pt game.

Kansas never plays well at the Maui invitational anyways....been forever since they won the damn thing and they play in it every other year it seems.

I just wanna see Duke play at the Phog, and I wanna see KU play at Cameron Indoor...because I can't remember the last time either had occurred.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Wickedson

Eh. I suppose. KU's better though. And from what I hear Jabari Parker is the second coming of Shabazz Muhommad. Completely overrated.

How is KU better than Duke?


How is Shabazz "completely overrated"?


Do you even watch college basketball games outside of KU?

[DJay23]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

That was a close game until Duke nailed a ****ing three that led to KU fouling at the end...and even then it was only a 7pt game.

Kansas never plays well at the Maui invitational anyways....been forever since they won the damn thing and they play in it every other year it seems.

I just wanna see Duke play at the Phog, and I wanna see KU play at Cameron Indoor...because I can't remember the last time either had occurred.

The only true road games Duke plays is in the ACC/Big 10 Challenge and I believe that's every other year. If they came out this way they would insist on playing in KC.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by DJay23

The only true road games Duke plays is in the ACC/Big 10 Challenge and I believe that's every other year. If they came out this way they would insist on playing in KC.

No, they won't even do that. They don't avoid Allen Fieldhouse because it's Allen Fieldhouse. They avoid it because they get no cut of the $$$ and the KC area is a black hole for their recruiting base, which is mostly Eastern seaboard.

[KC_Connection]

Average KenPom position of programs over last decade:

KU: 6.1
Duke: 6.5

Wisconsin: 14.7
North Carolina: 15.2 (three #1 ratings over this time, but 2010 season where they missed the tournament and 2013 season holding them back from KU/Duke).
Louisville: 16.0
Pittsburgh: 18.4
Florida: 18.5
Kentucky: 18.7 (blame Gillespie, they're 6.7 in four years under Cal)
Michigan St.: 19.1
Syracuse: 21.5
Texas: 22.7
UConn: 23.9
Ohio St.: 25.4 (13.7 under Matta)

Gonzaga: 30.1
Georgetown: 33.1
Arizona: 34.9
West Virginia: 36.9
KSU: 41.5
UCLA: 44.3
Missouri: 48.6

Indiana: 71.2


I got bored this morning and added this up. It's obviously an inexact way to rate programs considering the changing in coaches over the last decade in many of them (and KenPom's system also seems to overrate Wisconsin consistently due to the way they play), but I think it is a pretty good measure of consistency. Only KU and Duke have been consistently elite over the last decade without any real significant down year. Everybody else is a step behind them.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

I wish Duke and Kansas would play non-con series.

I'd love to watch KU go into Cameron Indoor and wipe the floor w/ Duke.

They play next year in the Champion's Classic.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Average KenPom position of programs over last decade:

KU: 6.1
Duke: 6.5

Wisconsin: 14.7
North Carolina: 15.2 (three #1 ratings over this time, but 2010 season where they missed the tournament and 2013 season holding them back from KU/Duke).
Louisville: 16.0
Pittsburgh: 18.4
Florida: 18.5
Kentucky: 18.7 (blame Gillespie, they're 6.7 in four years under Cal)
Michigan St.: 19.1
Syracuse: 21.5
Texas: 22.7
UConn: 23.9
Ohio St.: 25.4 (13.7 under Matta)

Gonzaga: 30.1
Georgetown: 33.1
Arizona: 34.9
West Virginia: 36.9
KSU: 41.5
UCLA: 44.3
Missouri: 48.6

Indiana: 71.2


I got bored this morning and added this up. It's obviously an inexact way to rate programs considering the changing in coaches over the last decade in many of them (and KenPom's system also seems to overrate Wisconsin consistently due to the way they play), but I think it is a pretty good measure of consistency. Only KU and Duke have been consistently elite over the last decade without any real significant down year. Everybody else is a step behind them.

This is nice. Thanks for researching.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Only KU and Duke have been consistently elite over the last decade without any real significant down year. Everybody else is a step behind them.

Excellent research. KU has always done phenomenally in KenPom. DOesn't surprise me that they and Duke are so far ahead of the pack. I would've figured Mich State and OSU woudl've been higher than they were in the raw data.