Yep. I don't think Michigan matches up poorly with KU at all. Just eliminate Burke by sending him into Withey and the rest of the team falls.

Of course, even getting to that game is going to be a serious challenge tomorrow.

I'm not optimistic about such a game, but it would probably depend on whether EJ bothers to give a damn. He didn't last night. The focus just wasn't there at all. One would hope we'll see good EJ now that the competition is getting better.

Who else is going to be at Sprint Center tomorrow?

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You truly never know which KU team will show up tomorrow... but I assume both teams will be fired up. I expect a good game tomorrow. But, I don't expect a win. I think we have a good chance. This team has been too inconsistent for me to be 100%.

In my brackets, I have Florida going to the final four from our region. You'd think with 4 seniors, we'd be rolling. This squad just doesn't know how to put their foots on their opponents throat.

We could easily win this game, too. It's really hard to say. I'm so wishy-washy about it.

This will certainly be a KU crowd, with KSU losing to LaSalle. LOL. So, that insures less haters in the crowd.

Someone needs to get the thread staRted!

Is there going to be one? Didn't we win it all in 08 in the Repository thread?

I assumed there would be one.

I won't be upset if there isn't.

I don't really care either way. I'm not really superstitious but I just assumed that's why we didn't have one for the WKU game.

What is everyone's thoughts on tomorrow's game? You feel good? Bad?

Kansas plays up/down to their competition many times...I think they play MUCH better this game against UNC than they did against WKU.

Sprint Center is gonna be rockin' with Roy coming back to town. It's the closest thing KU fans are going to see to a home game against UNC because Roy won't ever "come out of the visiting locker room at AFH".

Get Ready...

Good, a 10 pt win if we defend the outside shooters and not turn it over.

Everybody climbed on my threads that year!

We will win our bracket and beat Ohio State a 2nd time & get Louisville in title game.

After reading this I feel pretty good.

http://www2.kusports.com/weblogs/fiv...-carolina-doe/

1. Pace: UNC plays the 18th-fastest pace nationally, and KU is a team that plays much better offensively when it can get into a running game. UNC coach Roy Williams said Saturday his team wasn't going to change its style against KU, which means the Tar Heels are likely to play a high-possession game against a better team.

2. James Michael McAdoo: A lot of people have been concerned that the four-guard lineup could give KU's defense problems, but there is one big difference between UNC's small lineup and Iowa State's: UNC has an anchor in the middle in McAdoo. The sophomore has only shot two threes all year, and while he has shot a lot of jumpers (unsuccessfully), his range won't be enough to take KU center Jeff Withey away from the bucket. Much like Kansas State forwards Thomas Gipson or Jordan Henriquez, McAdoo should allow KU to "anchor" Withey in the lane defensively, which is where he is at his best blocking shots and rotating as a help defender.

UNC will have stretch 4s in Bullock and Hairston, but KU has a better lineup to counter that this year compared to last. A season ago, a four-guard look was tough because KU had two true post players in Thomas Robinson and Withey. Robinson is gone now, and Kevin Young is one of KU's best players at closing out on three-point shooters.

3. UNC's struggles against big teams: Since going to the four-guard lineup, North Carolina's worst games have come against bigger teams in Duke and Miami. As mentioned above, UNC was dominated on the glass in those games, and KU also should have success scoring if it's able to get the ball inside to allow Withey, Young and Perry Ellis to go after undersized defenders.

The one wildcard is UNC's three-point shooting, but barring a Wichita State-like effort there, I see KU — in front of a fired-up crowd — winning this one going away.

Well hell , we may as well go ahead and warm up the bus then huh? :D

All it means is that it's a good matchup for KU and if we can take advantage we should win. But KU has been so inconsistent with effort this year it's hard to say whether we will take advantage.

I stole this from over at the phog. I know most of this know all of this, but it's still kind of cool to see it all lined up. I think you could even add in that Wilt was so devastated by the loss to Carolina in the '57 title game that he wouldn't return to KU until being invited back to have his jersey retired for the 100th anniversary by Roy Williams.



It's interesting to see the way the history of these two great programs has interwoven through the years. Here's a little timeline to display the history.

1891: James Naismith invents the game of basketball.

1898-1907: Naismith serves as the first head basketball coach at the University of Kansas.

1904-1906: Phog Allen plays under Naismith at Kansas.

1907-1909: Naismith stops coaching and Allen serves as Kansas' second head basketball coach before leaving on a medical school hiatus.

1919: Allen returns to be the head coach at Kansas.

1951-1954: Emporia native Dean Smith plays basketball under Allen. He then serves as an assistant head coach during the '53-'54 season.

1961: Smith is named the head coach at the University of North Carolina.

1961-1963: Larry Brown plays under Smith at North Carolina.

1978-1988: Roy Williams serves as an assistant coach under Smith at North Carolina.

1980-1984: Matt Doherty plays for Smith at North Carolina.

1983: Brown is named the head coach at Kansas.

1985-1986: Bill Self serves as a graduate assistant under Brown.

1988: Williams is named the head coach at Kansas following Brown's departure for the NBA.

1992-1999: Doherty serves as an assistant coach at Kansas under Williams.

2000: Doherty is named the head coach at North Carolina.

2003: Doherty resigns at North Carolina. Williams departs Kansas to take the head coaching job at North Carolina. Self accepts the head coaching job at Kansas.

You may want to take another look at the bracket. Ohio state match up can only happen in the title game.

Oops, I goofed because I thought we had them in that bracket.

Oh well, I still think we will make it back to the NC game.

Undecided. Bill has owned Roy, but the other side of that is you might say Roy is due.

UNC is not awesome. They haven't beat anybody very good. Their personnel are down some. But they have personnel setup that has given us problems in the past.

This team should beat them pretty hard. But they've laid so many eggs it's hard to have any confidence at all.

I have a good feeling about it I think. I'm a little anxious because it's lose and go home, but for some reason I see a "good" KU game coming.

We need to see the KU that has "swag" come out today.

Handle the press
Shoot the ball well

Unc is 0-6 vs rpi top 25. KU is 5-1. If unc won today it would be a surprise. Vegas favors KU by 6.

Do those two things, get the boards and be efficient inside, and this game is won.

The tournament is full of surprises.

I'll go ahead and say I expect a great effort from the team today. And if that's the case I think we win by double digits. I'll say KU by 12.

But, that's why they play the games.

Thanks. That's deep.

You guys got us when you won the National Championship and the time after that... No excuses

Last year though, losing our starting point guard and having to use a player that is on a redshirt year because he is on a mission trip is not an own game...

This year we have an unranked team that I thought would not even make the NIT about 15 games ago... they are better now but there is no pressure whatsoever on us, no one is picking us to win...

UNC is 6-4 against KU all-time... so we still owe you a couple. :-D

I'll say this again.

KU in many ways this season has played up/down to their competition.

They will most certainly be up for this game. It's against another blue blood school, it's against Roy. They'll be up for it against a home crowd that wants to see Self kick Roy's ass again.

I expect EJ to have a hell of a game, same w/ McLemore.

Couple that with the fact UNC plays horrid defense.

Already looking for a excuse ? ;):Poke:


No offense, I hope you guys lose !:D

Prior to the Tourney, Sagarin releases his predictions. He had KU over unc by 1 in the Elite 8. Pomeroy had them even. Yes that is with Marshall. The idea Unc was obv better with Marshall is a myth. White even had 7 assists and 0 turnovers vs KU. Hard to pin the loss on him.

We're all that's left, Let's get us a Rock Chalk Championship!!!!!!!!!

Dude you are on ****ing crack :LOL:

@tyshawntaylor for real though. Seen Craft play #kubball three times in two years and didn't even notice he was in the games.

You don't have to cover a guy who does not score, White did not get any attention, nobody had to come out and pressure him all game and deny him lanes...

White did a bang up job..

Fighting back...

You just got Witheyd!

Finally, a lead!

How sweet it is.

withey jam gif

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Oh, Kimmie. You just don't know when to shut up.
 

I have no clue how Jeff Withey scores or gets O boards.. By far the easiest of all the Big men I had to guard last season.
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ROFL

Can you say, obsessed?

I like how that dude changes his mind and leaps out of the way. :D

I love the bench's reaction.

Who exactly does Kim English think he is to make statements like this? The guy choked against KU in the biggest game of his career on the road and then was a complete non-factor (as he was for much of his MU career) against Norfolk State.

When he's not trashing KU, Kim seems to occupy himself by alienating MU fans by defending Frank Haith on Tiger message boards.

Thoughts on KU/Michigan? Self is 8-0 against them for his career.

I was going to ask whether any MU fans even like Kim English (what with his ridiculous defenses of Haith and his coming up small in every big moment in his college career), but there are more important things going on here than beginning a discussion about how pathetic that guy is.

To get this conversation back on track, what are your thoughts surrounding the next matchup?

Michigan at their best is just as good as KU. They're perhaps the best offensive team in the country. But I like the matchup for KU. I think you can limit Burke's effectiveness by funneling him into Withey and having the rest stay on their men on the perimeter (similar to what they have done when they play Craft on OSU, although Burke is an entirely different and far more difficult challenge). I believe elite defense beats elite offense most of the time, especially in the tournament where grinding games are often the norm. If KU can play like they did in the 2nd half today (and not like they did in the first 3/4 of this tournament), they should win.

Soren fat-ass claiming Releford wanted to go to UNC but wasn't offered. I recall Travis being a KU lean ever since he hit high school. He committed right after his junior year. I've never heard this about Travis so I'd like somebody to call up fat ass on the radio tomorrow and ask him to prove his statement.

Have never heard anything of the sort, but then again, I don't follow recruiting of these kids that closely. Who really cares, though?

Honestly I'm more scared of Hardaway than I am Burke. Burke is stupid explosive but also makes a lot of dumb plays. The game against OSU, Craft made him look silly even though there is no way Craft could stay in front of him of Burke makes a move, but no. Burke would catch the ball and wait for Hack Attack Craft to come and beat on him.

I'm sure Burke will make us look pretty stupid at times, but I thong Withey can offset some of that if he stays out of foul trouble. Hardaway is the one I'm worried about. Dude has ice in his veins and it seems like he never ever misses.

I'm excited, but Michigan is uber talented and if they hadn't had a few dumbass attacks through the year should have been #1 overall. We are going to have to come out swinging. And McLemore needs to find his game. Like yesterday.

When's the S16 game?

He's full of crap.

Releford posted a pic of himself and his family on twitter a couple weeks ago when he was in junior high and he was wearing a KU shirt. He said 'can you tell I knew where I wanted to go to school for a long time.'

Don't be to hard on Soren. He admits nearly everyday that Self is a God amongst men. Hard to argue.

Friday at 6:37.

Awesome.

Glad I'm off Friday and Sunday too (fingers crossed).

This is life for MU.

Inferior since 1854.

I'm off Friday too!

Nasty start time. Primetime mutha-****a.

6:37 CST

Friday.

**** yeah!

Elijah makes all this happen. He's so ****in good.

Friday off. Three three-day weekends in a row for this guy.

And I will be off for the Shox game on Thursday.

Man, I ****ing love March.

Found it...

@T_2releFOUR: #repost tbt...jr in high school!lol as you can see by the shirt I already had my mind set on what school… http://t.co/V5bG3Tuv9C

bwahahaha. KU owns so hard

They are going to have to figure out a new pregame ritual, especially for McLemore.

He really is rattled by the big stage, wonder if NBA scouts have noticed how he disappears on the road and in prime time.

I'm sure playing at Jerryworld will fix all that.

Every game that Michigan lost this year (with the exception of one vs. MSU) involved a subpar game for Burke. So this one will likely come down to how effective Burke is/how effective KU is in stopping him. McGary's development as a player makes it a bit more complicated, but Burke is the guy that makes everything run for them.

Putting up points against Michigan's mediocre defense may also prove to be important. They simply cannot afford to go through those long stretches of awful play against top level teams.

I don't see anyone that can beat KU at this point.

Maybe it'll happen but who cares. Nights like this are why we love it.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

He has really disappointed. The bright spot is we've won without him.

Damn, KU is blowing by both UNC and UK in all time prestige in just a couple years. Crazy