No Kentucky This Year?
 

What a shame.....

A tourney without Kentucky is like living a life free of herpes.

This deserved its own thread.

A+ thread.

Would read again.

This!!!

I tried to fit it in the "Add Three Words" or "WTF Argo" threads, but couldn't relate it to them.

Uhhhhh......wait.....what? Did they already do the NCAA tourney selections and I missed it? :doh!:

Apparently so. I feel like Kansas got snubbed. I realize that the TCU loss was bad, but they still should have made the dance. I guess the selection committee saw it differently.

I predict a KU/Missouri NIT championship game.

GET EXCITED!

Kentucky is not officially out yet, but Georgia sealed their RPI last night.

Mizzou might actually do well there.

1. Check front page of ESPN
2. Make a thread on CP
3. ???
4. Get ****ed

:LOL:

Oh, I see. Well, I can't stand Cal and most UK fans so I would laugh hard if this happens.

Observations from Thursday night
March, 8, 2013
Mar 8
12:35
AM ET
By Jason King | ESPN.com

John Calipari has tried numerous tactics in recent weeks to light a spark within his Kentucky basketball team. One afternoon, he even staged an impromptu dodgeball game to loosen the mood and improve chemistry.

Nothing has worked.

Thursday’s 72-62 loss at Georgia marked the fourth defeat in the past seven games for the Wildcats, who will probably need to beat Florida in Saturday’s regular-season finale to have any shot of making the NCAA tournament.

Center Willie Cauley-Stein shrugged his shoulders when he was asked what Kentucky could do to turn things around.

“Have faith?” he said. “Go to church? Maybe that’s what we need to -- go to church as a team and pray for each other.”

Even divine intervention might not be enough to help the Wildcats at this point. If Kentucky can’t beat Arkansas and Georgia, there is no reason to believe it can get past a Florida squad many pundits have tagged as a Final Four contender.

The Gators defeated Calipari’s team 69-52 in Gainesville on Feb. 12. Nerlens Noel, Kentucky’s best player, tore his anterior cruciate ligament in that contest and UK hasn’t been the same since. Granted, even before Noel’s injury, the Wildcats weren’t very good. Kentucky’s résumé includes very few quality wins -- and a bunch of bad losses.

“I’m mad,” guard Archie Goodwin told reporters after Thursday’s loss. “There’s no way we should lose to Georgia. There’s no way we should lose to Arkansas.


The rest on http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebaske...y-observations

What will Randle and Wiggins think?

Cal sold his cheating soul to the Devil last season... it is only fitting.

My brother-in-law is a huge Kentucky fan. He hates KU and isn't shy about saying it, even when he's in my house.

Because of him, I root against Kentucky. Kentucky being so crappy this year is freaking awesome!

Kentucky will just have to cry themselves to sleep with their 8 national titles.

Cool story.

Do tell it again, bro.

I would dig up the body of Adolph Rupp and kick it directly in front of his great grandchildren.

I love when they lose almost as much as when Indiana wins.

Winning the NIT will really liven up that trophy case.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, bro.

This couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Shucks.

**** kentucky

My thoughts exactly. Kentucky brings in people like Calipari and it makes it that much easier for me to disrespect the school each year.

and **** john calipari

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I would laugh if Kentucky had to play in the First Four.

LOL, even better.

I think the tickets are free.

Great EBayer!!!!! Would sell to again.

The Only Basketball in Kentucky this year is LOUISVILLE!!!! WOOT!!

But! But! But! Mizzou fans told us all how great Kentucky is. How they are the dominant most bestest great thing ever invented. And SEC! SEC! SEC! is the best because they have two teams who won titles last decade.


Who will Mizzou fans hide behind now? Florida I'm guessing.

Why couldn't it be Kansas? :(

Pffff! We all know the Euro Ballers got that shit in the bag.

No way man.

They're getting hot at the right time.

I predict national championship for the clones!

Kansas is about to surpass UK as the all-time Division 1 leader in wins.

I knew they would pass them eventually but had no idea it would happen so quickly.

1 Kentucky 2110
2 Kansas 2096

Psst.....that is 14 wins behind. Kansas isn't about to catch Kentucky. At least not this year anyway. Maybe next year.

They were behind 20 at the end of last year. UK has UF on Saturday. Then we have the tournaments. I know KU doesn't really care about the Big 12 Tourney that much but they can easily win it. Can UK? I doubt it.

Then the NCAA. Kentucky won't make it. Will they accept an NIT invite? I'm not sure how that works.

UK is fine. Don't worry about them.

I agree. Rough to be a Kentucky fan right now but it's probably not worth starting a thread over.

Can't keep UK down though.
Losing Noel was a backbreaker.

Can't win 'em all.
BIG BLUE!

Impossible as you have to go on the road in the NIT

Yeah, they have 8 titles, the last one being last year. I think their fans will sleep ok.

They'll get in if they beat Fla tomorrow. A pretty big if but not out of the question.

Would you rather:

Win the national championship, but not make the tournament the next year

or

Lost the national championship, but get a one seed the next year

LMAO

Well played.

I'll be pretty broken up is UK doesn't make the tourney.

Wait... no I won't.

**** UK, UNC and Duke.

I don't care one way or the other. For some reason I have never hated them the way I do Duke and to a lesser extent UNC.

I felt the same way until Calipari took over.

I've never liked the dude. Maybe it's his hair.

He's a shyster but for some reason he doesn't bother me that much.

That and his arrogance that's masked with his "our kids have a lot to learn before they go to the NBA after 1 year here" schpeel and his trail of shirking the rules but leaving before he's held responsible.

As much as I love KU, if Cal was ever named coach in Lawrence I'd have to pray we suck so bad he gets fired so we could move onto someone else.

He's the used car salesman of college basketball. "Boy do I have a deal for you but it's only good today until I move on to the next sucker." JMO anyway.

Sadly Coach Cal now is in a great spot. He gets first crack at every McDonlads All American that becomes available. He no longer has to cheat to get top recruits. Once again someone Fails forward in their career. As across state rival as a Louisville Fan, I hate him as well.

this

I really hated him even more after the Kansas/Memphis title game. He was pissed that the refs changed the 3 pointer to a 2 after reviewing the play. He was mad....that they got the right call. When you know that scurvy little prick would have commended the officials if the tables were turned. He was just mad that they lost. Sour ****ing grapes from one of the most powerful coaches at one of the most powerful bball programs in the country. **** him.

Yeah that too. I don't blame the guy for fighting for his team but he's just so damn greasy I wouldn't trust him to deliver my mail. Once UK gets investigated for something he'll move on right away and play the "I didn't know" card again and another high profile program will hire him.

03-05-2013 12:42 PM
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Will Lavender
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Turner Sports to Air Kentucky Basketball Documentary on Selection Sunday
The documentary will air at 8:00 p.m. on March 17th on TruTV. It will be narrated by Drake and is called Bluegrass Kingdom: The Gospel of Kentucky Basketball.

Will be sort of awkward if Kentucky doesn't get in the tournament.

http://www.wildcatnation.net/forum/s...lection-Sunday



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A tourney without Kentucky? And there was MUCH rejoicing!!!!!

That program can burn.

No shit. KU won in 2008, and I'm still ok.

I'd have loved to have had that one last year though! :#

lol, I love watching CBB well into April. Been doing it for 23 years in a row now.

Good. **** em. Big blue can suck my dick. What a bunch of pricks. I hope they flop next year too.

Eat my dick if you don't like this post

I don't know why it's such a big deal that they could not get in. I mean its not like they weren't just in the NIT in 2009.

Premature e-thread-ulation?

Kentucky is probably getting in.

Nice work, asshole.

Yep, this is what you get when you make threads like this before the season is over.

His next thread in a couple of days:

Indiana Nat'l Champs!!

LOL - nope, I leave that to the KU speculators year after year.

Well, I suppose it is difficult to speculate the possibility of a national championship when you have made it to one SS in a decade.

Hey dickface.

Good job.