**** 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

[Captain Obvious]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

Takes a lot for me to cheer against KU

Sounds like it takes a lot for you to cheer for them as well.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

I think I was actually rooting for Davidson that game ... I was pretty enthralled with Curry. Takes a lot for me to cheer against KU

Suffice it to say, I wasn't. I was still in Lawrence back then. That was possibly the greatest KU team ever and one of the best NCAA teams of all time. Would have been a shame to see them go down at that stage.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

No, the drawn parallel has nothing to do with their teammates. Kobe had similar games back when the Lakers were winning championships, though. For example, he went a horrific 6/24 in game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals against the Celtics, a game they won primarily due to their defense and Gasol/Artest. Of course, the narrative after the fact was that he led the team to victory in that game (a narrative with Kobe that Hootie has raged against in the past).

dude you don't have to sell Kobe as being overrated to me ... I already know that

Kobe is the biggest fraud ever. Sure, top 20 player in NBA history? Ok. Ever the BEST player on his team that won a championship or the most important? No. It was Shaq/Shaq/Shaq/Gasol/Gasol.

The 6/24 was embarrassing and the only reason they won that was because Ray Allen had an equally (if not more so) embarrassing game on the other side for the Celtics.

Whoever anointed Kobe Bryant as a "closer" should be shot in the face. His defining playoff moment, to me, was when he was up 3-1 against the Suns and then he turned on all of his ADMITTEDLY shitty teammates and when shit hit the fan he decided to "prove a point" in game 7 and they lost by like 40. It was embarrassing.

[Hootie]

No way! I grew up in Lenexa and as a kid I was a huge Jayhawks mark. I was at the final big 8 championship game at Kemper when Paul put up 30 points. I cheer for the Jayhawks every year. I'm just not much of a college basketball fan anymore. But admittedly, during the Curry mania and the Sczerbiak shit I usually become a pretty big mark and start rooting for the little guy.

Unfortunately, now, there really isn't a little guy anymore. Wichita State certainly isn't a little guy. I guess the Florida Gulf Coasts are still the "little guys"...those are fun. The Steph Curry Davidson squad was "little guys."

[Hootie]

in 25 years of doing brackets I've only picked against KU twice. This year, and the runner up year against UK. I had a temper tantrum meltdown when Lamar Odom hit that 40 footer for Rhode Island to beat us when I was in junior high or high school ... and I probably cried for about 30 minutes when we got Bibby'd and Raef missed that 3 to tie it up the Zona year.

[Hootie]

in high school KU kept running into Illinois in the tourney and my entire school was decked out in Illinois gear and I would peruse down the hallways decked out head to toe in KU gear ... I was a big fan favorite those years !

[Silock]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

So UNC wasn't a good win because they weren't playing great at the time, but Texas who was ranked #6 in the country when they played wasn't a good win either.

I think I see how this works.

Kentucky is 14-0 against teams that made the tournament including a 32 point win against a 2 seed and a 39 point win over a team that's still alive, but they haven't played anyone.

There are 15 other teams still alive. Kentucky is 3-0 against them with an average margin of over 20 points per game...but they only win because of weak competition.

That's not what I'm saying. They win because they're good. They're undefeated because their schedule was relatively weak. Even with our schedule (#1), they're still clearly the favorite to win and the best team. They're just not undefeated. And you would see more cracks in the one and done model like you've seen in previous years from Cal at UK.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

No, the drawn parallel has nothing to do with their teammates. Kobe had similar games back when the Lakers were winning championships, though. For example, he went a horrific 6/24 in game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals against the Celtics, a game they won primarily due to their defense and Gasol/Artest. Of course, the narrative after the fact was that he led the team to victory in that game (a narrative with Kobe that Hootie has raged against in the past).

Right. In the case of Davidson, there was no Gasol/Artest equivalent. It was pretty much Curry against all comers.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

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[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

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[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

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[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

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[Chiefspants]

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[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

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[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

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