**** 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

[chiefqueen]

Originally Posted by Chiefs Pantalones

Lol is this a serious post?

Well, IF the contact was made in Aug. that would have made Cliff ineligible the entire season. Teams are usually asked to vacate wins that ineligible players participate in.

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Originally Posted by chiefqueen

Well, IF the contact was made in Aug. that would have made Cliff ineligible the entire season. Teams are usually asked to vacate wins that ineligible players participate in.

Lol troll harder.

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Despite 31-0 swag, Kentucky fans are scared that Wisconsin is likely gonna end up in their bracket. I'd be, too. Badgers can beat them.

And no awards for KU, except for the one that says Big 12 champs on it.

Big 12 awards from the coaches:

COY: B. Huggins
POY: B. Hield
Frosh: M. Turner
Newcomer: T. Thomas
Defensive: J. McKay

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Chiefs Pantalones

Despite 31-0 swag, Kentucky fans are scared that Wisconsin is likely gonna end up in their bracket. I'd be, too. Badgers can beat them.

Arizona is the only team within 3 of Kentucky IMO. I'd be tempted to go even odds if they matched up. I've seen AZ 4x and they are DAMN good.

Big 12 awards from the coaches:

COY: B. Huggins
POY: B. Hield
Frosh: M. Turner
Newcomer: T. Thomas
Defensive: J. McKay

Hield stepped up huge yesterday with that 5-19 abortion from the floor, including the late turnover to set up Mason tying it. He was more valuable sitting out that game than playing it.

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Kinda odd that a team that had a swiss cheese defense (ISU) has the DPOY on their team. Big 12 is weird. So what, ISU would've given up 90 points instead of 85 without him? Lol.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Chiefs Pantalones

Kinda odd that a team that had a swiss cheese defense (ISU) has the DPOY on their team. Big 12 is weird. So what, ISU would've given up 90 points instead of 85 without him? Lol.

I'd have given it to one of the UT bigs probably. Maybe one of the WVU guards

[Chiefs Pantalones]

I wonder who we will get in our first game. Northeastern?

[Bambi]

The girls coach got canned. Keegan wants that dude from UConn who has won like 10 national titles. Get it done SZ.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Bambi

The girls coach got canned. Keegan wants that dude from UConn who has won like 10 national titles. Get it done SZ.

Whaaa? Why on earth would Geno Are-whateverthe****hisnameis leave UCONN?

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Whaaa? Why on earth would Geno Are-whateverthe****hisnameis leave UCONN?

So glad you asked.

Keegan:

The Kansas University athletic department is in the beginning stages of another coaching search, this time for a women’s basketball coach.

As with any fantasy GM and/or real athletic director, I have five a list of five names of potential candidates in my pocket. They range from the best in the business, to an extremely inexperienced but promising coach, to a living legend, to more main-stream profiles.

In order, here’s whom I’d call to test their level of interest:

1. Geno Auriemma: No active basketball coach can match the UConn women’s coach’s résumé. Not in the NBA or any other league. Without even leaving his office, Geno could pick up his phone and recruit the best player in New York City, Dallas and Kansas City every year. His first national title would come in his third year, and many more would follow. Allen Fieldhouse would be packed for every game, and he already has tons of friends in Lawrence who used to work with him at UConn.

He has three years and a guaranteed $6.85 million just for showing up remaining on his contract. If in each of the next three seasons he wins the regular-season title, conference-tournament title and national title, he will take home $10.275 million in the next three seasons. It would take topping that to get him, but don’t count out KU from having the capability to do so. After all, football coach David Beaty’s annual salary of $800,000 is closer to that of a top-tier women’s basketball coach than a football coach. So KU can pay its football coach competitive women’s basketball wages and pay its women’s basketball coach football wages.

Endless stories about Geno and feel-good quotes from his KU players talking about what it’s like having a living legend dropped into their gymnasium would promote the program so extensively a women’s basketball ticket would become a hot item overnight. There wouldn’t be much competition for media attention since Beaty has placed a gag order on his players throughout the entirety of spring football, with no media access to the athletes either before or after the spring football game, assuming there are enough bodies to actually have one. (Even legendary Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, notoriously stingy with media access, allows reporters to interview players in advance of spring football, then in advance of the spring game, then after the spring game. And he doesn’t need any help during the fall in filling the stadium named after him.)

Naturally, you can’t insult Auriemma by interviewing him, even one-on-one, much less over the phone by a committee. Any question anyone might have can be answered by his résumé. The man has won nine national titles and been to the Final Four 15 times. Offer him $3 million a year, plus incentives that could bring it to $4 million. If he says, “No thank you,” or even if he says, “Bleep no!” move on to the next phone call and pat yourself on the back for trying.

[Buehler445]

FWIW, though, Bill had nothing but great things to say about Bonnie. Not just the typical coach speak. He went out of his way to compliment her.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

FWIW, though, Bill had nothing but great things to say about Bonnie. Not just the typical coach speak. He went out of his way to compliment her.

They were saying on the radio yesterday that she had an uncanny way of not only making the tournament right around when she was going to get fired but actually getting pretty far.

I think they were sweet sixteen last year.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Bambi

So glad you asked.

Keegan:

The Kansas University athletic department is in the beginning stages of another coaching search, this time for a women’s basketball coach.

As with any fantasy GM and/or real athletic director, I have five a list of five names of potential candidates in my pocket. They range from the best in the business, to an extremely inexperienced but promising coach, to a living legend, to more main-stream profiles.

In order, here’s whom I’d call to test their level of interest:

1. Geno Auriemma: No active basketball coach can match the UConn women’s coach’s résumé. Not in the NBA or any other league. Without even leaving his office, Geno could pick up his phone and recruit the best player in New York City, Dallas and Kansas City every year. His first national title would come in his third year, and many more would follow. Allen Fieldhouse would be packed for every game, and he already has tons of friends in Lawrence who used to work with him at UConn.

He has three years and a guaranteed $6.85 million just for showing up remaining on his contract. If in each of the next three seasons he wins the regular-season title, conference-tournament title and national title, he will take home $10.275 million in the next three seasons. It would take topping that to get him, but don’t count out KU from having the capability to do so. After all, football coach David Beaty’s annual salary of $800,000 is closer to that of a top-tier women’s basketball coach than a football coach. So KU can pay its football coach competitive women’s basketball wages and pay its women’s basketball coach football wages.

Endless stories about Geno and feel-good quotes from his KU players talking about what it’s like having a living legend dropped into their gymnasium would promote the program so extensively a women’s basketball ticket would become a hot item overnight. There wouldn’t be much competition for media attention since Beaty has placed a gag order on his players throughout the entirety of spring football, with no media access to the athletes either before or after the spring football game, assuming there are enough bodies to actually have one. (Even legendary Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, notoriously stingy with media access, allows reporters to interview players in advance of spring football, then in advance of the spring game, then after the spring game. And he doesn’t need any help during the fall in filling the stadium named after him.)

Naturally, you can’t insult Auriemma by interviewing him, even one-on-one, much less over the phone by a committee. Any question anyone might have can be answered by his résumé. The man has won nine national titles and been to the Final Four 15 times. Offer him $3 million a year, plus incentives that could bring it to $4 million. If he says, “No thank you,” or even if he says, “Bleep no!” move on to the next phone call and pat yourself on the back for trying.

That's it?

I'd say there is a -86% chance he comes here.

[KCCHIEFS27]

Tom Keegan is one of the worst sports writers I have ever come across. His columns are real pieces of junk.

[ArrowheadHawk]

Yeah, that isn't happening.