of many comments. Getting ready to fix my lunch and get settled in for the game.

the drive for 4000 is alive

Drawing Free Throws- I bet we help them in that regard.
Forcing Turnovers- Same.

If they truly aren’t good at those two aspects, it should help us.

Today is a wondrous day. Two NFL Playoff Games and, for most conferences, the first day of conference play. Including the Big 12.

Plenty of games on the television, plenty of awesome games, plenty of action.

And a huge, gigantic game for our Kansas Jayhawks. Let’s hope we show up.

the Big East annoys me.

OU over KSU
Baylor over Tech
NU over MU
Texas over ISU
A&M over OSU

Anyone else here besides me, Denver and Warden?

really an improvement over the local feed

that this is going to be a more hostile crowd than Arizona as many of us predicted.

KenPom “predicts” Michigan State to win, 75-72. He also gives the Spartans a 62% chance to win (giving us a 38% chance to win, obviously.)

Not bad, I suppose. Thought it would be worse. KenPom’s stats love us though, they always seem to.

great D by Cole and then they get another crack at it.

Our D has played great so far, but we can’t let Kieff get stupid fouls like that.

Seriously, though, we keep playing like this and we should be fine.

Brady IS matched up on Raymar. If I were them, I’d just post him up, but oh well. I suppose Cole would then come over and hel pout.

after the whistle. Brady, you just can’t do that.

but then he get’s another cheap foul

And after a great box-out on the defensive end and putback on the offensive end, he picks up his second foul already. Crap.

OK, Marcus, let’s go. Pick up your brother.

your too damn big to try and finesse that crap

it hasn’t been the best but they’ve made it to the first timeout w/a lead so that would be a good start in my book.

He is a really good guy on the boards; does a great job of boxing out.

And his offense should come around, eventually.

I’m fine with the start so far. We aren’t blowing their socks off or anything, but we are going back-and-forth with them, and are sticking with ‘em. We’ve done a pretty good job on Raymar. Lucas is amazing, though. Oh my goodness.

Sherron. Reed was wide open.

not going to win if that continues.

My tv feed is all sorts of screwed up. Two Saturdays in a freaking row. It’s 2009, get it figured out.

and we get hardly any, rebounding is a big problem with this group and I’m sure it drives Bill Self up the wall.

They are clearly the better team, thus far.

And a good offensive rebounding team combined with our lack of defensive rebounding is going to be disastrous all day.

I’m not looking forward to it.

this is going to be stressful

that was an awful pass. Then, you hurt yourself.

then maybe he won’t ram his nose into people

but Cole has to make that shot on the black. Use the backboard or dunk the ball.

drew the contact, but just can’t finish…

earns him 1 more crack to make a free throw

Markieff. 3 now?

they are knocking down all of their shots, and we can’t get an open one to even take. Michigan State is easily the best defensive team we’ve played all year.

Still, we are playing absolutely terrible, and yet we are still only down 8. We’re not out of this one yet.

our team is made of

offense, no one wants to make a play, a lot of standing and waiting and then a whole lot of nothing…Kleinman Sighting

Kleinman doing in there?

the announcer stole my words

How many turnovers do we have?

This is terrible.

Appleton and Quintrell in, now.

Self is quite pissed off, right now.

first Sherron stop forcing things…

second…manage to get this to around 8 by halftime…

i think we’re all seeing just how terrible a defensive team tennessee was

Walton usually pretty much sucks on offense, and yet he is torching us.

And we can’t make three straight shots at a layup.

the ref was talking about his injury…and Self said “just put his ass in a chair at half court”

They are starting to actually miss shots. Nice fast-break bucket by Sherron, now we just need to make some shots on our end.

Sherron is forcing something just about every time down.

And Tyshawn looks lost.

I feel like we’ve really played ourselves out of this one so far, more than MSU beating us this bad…

“wired for sound” makes me wonder what percentage of conversation they can use. I know Izzo is pretty intense, but don’t know how colorful his language is.

Michigan State has made just about every single shot, and we can’t buy a bucket.

Seriously, though, what is the upside the rest of the game? Just try to get it close?

We aren’t handling the tight defense very well. I don’t think it is the crowd; the Zona crowd was louder, and I’ve been terribly unimpressed with the Izzone, or whatever it’s called.

and Bramlage sounds pretty loud. No matter your feelings for K-State, them being good is a great thing for the Big 12 and KU.

(as long as they don’t end up on probation)

I just flipped over to ESPN for the end of Nova-Ville.

Wow. Just, wow. After a couple of back-and-forth possessions, Louisville made a shot with 8 seconds left to take the lead, 61-60. Villanova gets a breakaway on the in-bounds play, though, and gets fouled with 4.7. The guy misses both free throws, but the rebound is knocked out of bounds by Louisville. Villanova then gets the ball under the basket, and gets a layup. But he misses. Then they get a put-back opportunity; but he misses that, too.

Louisvlle wins.

I say get it within 8 or so by the end and I’ll feel good…that wasn’t a good start though

Yikes. Dude just can’t stay out of foul trouble.

So far, we’ve played pretty well. They’re still getting some open shots, but they are (finally) not knocking them down and we are doing a lot better at blocking out. On offense, it’s the Sherron show, but I can’t say I mind it. We haven’t got much of anything done all day, so we might as well try him out.

is that Sherron has been a true leader… as bad as they’ve played and as dismal as it’s looked, his body language and just his general demeanor has been very upbeat and determined

and it sounds like it’s going to be a good hire

It’s fine to drive, but you had Tyrel wide, wide open. Come on.

It’s fine to try and take everything on your back, I suppose, but don’t do it all on yourself. Still trust your teammates.

it’s taking a ton of energy to chip away at this thing and they keep hitting shots that are really demoralizing..

And they’re still fouling at a ridiculous pace. If we make our free throws, we could get it close.

Was that really a foul? I mean, seriously?

HIghtower is terrible. We’ve gotten some calls too, but seriously. It’s going to turn in to a free throw shooting contest at about the 10-minute mark.

Markieff. Trying to attract Self’s attention and take it away from Markieff.

that was an awful foul call on Morris under the basket by Hightower.

Hightowered!!

for scheduling this game and Tennessee.

Not even because of the score, just because of the incredible propensity of fouls.

Yikes. Tyrel is 0-2 from the FT line today. He is usually money, money, money.

after today KU will still be on a very manageable road to 20 wins and likely a top-8 seed in the tourney. for a rebuilding year, that’s nothing to frown upon

K-State giving OU a game only down 3 15 to go in the 2nd half…

NU up 36 to 19 on Misery

Tyrel Reed has had a really good second half; I bet he is our third leading scorer after the two big names (Cole and Sherron).

If we get a stop-or-two and can make a shot-or-two on the other side of the floor, we are right back in it.

never know what can happen at this point, but I’m pretty pumped at the fight some of these guys are showing…

Beat Dayton, who was previously 14-1.

Makes our loss look just a little bit better.

The Sherron three was a fine idea. That would have gotten it down to six, and would have been gigantic. Instead, the Spartans get a frickin’ three.

Ah, well, we still aren’t out of it.

Really, Hightower?

This time, it goes for us though, so whatever.

Offense was worse than I had expected. Fought hard at the end, don’t see much else to be happy about. Get the Big 12 show started.

Mich St’s free throw % this game?

We’re at like 17 each this second half. Ridiculous.

our insistence on fouling is going to blow the opportunity to have this within a respectable score

but what do you think about Little? Redshirt or no? I think he gets the redshirt

can’t even make the dunk after the whistle

third time a ball hit off the top of the backboard and there is no call……

ugh. ugh.

comes up with a hustle basket – where has THAT been all game?

gotta get ready and go open the bar… bad game, good discussion though

the drive for 4000 came up short again but that’s ok…surpassed 300 for the second time and again really appreciate everyone coming out…

RockChalk, Hunter, Warden, Labbadabba (better late than never), and of course who could forget Danny Satan…agree with you on that Bad game good conversation…

But not the worst, either. We played pretty well in the second half, and if Collins’ three would have gone down to get it to 6, it would have been an entirely different game.

In any case, there are definitely some learning opportunities that we can take from this game. And another solid outing from the RCT community. We got more than 300 comments in, which is always nice.

Maybe we can get 4000 if we get a night slot for the NCAAs. In any case, thanks to everyone who showed up. It was nice.

But my TV isn’t in the same room, and I was glued to it. I’ll be more active when I can’t watch. :)

Right now, NU is winning 46-42 against Mizzou with 6:44 left. Oklahoma is up 16 against KSU with under 4 left. Baylor is up 7 with 3:30 left.

OU finally took control and as far as Baylor that’s about what I would have expected so far.

and then a TTU charge pretty much ends it.

It ain’t all over yet, but I bet Baylor wins. And now they just got an alley-oop.

Game over.

Baylor looks really dangerous. I would bet a lot of money they beat us when we head down there. Hopefully (and probably, really, given our early conference schedule) it will be our first conference loss, though.

what does that mean???

Duke is destroying Florida State. Seton Hall is only down three @ Notre Dame. A Notre Dame loss would give us the longest homecourt winning streak, after BYU losing a week ago and Tennessee losing to Gonzaga Wednesday night.

The Big East is crazy good; Seton Hall is probably like the 11th best team in the conference, yet they are talented enough to potentially win on the road against a Top 10 team.

Moving screen called on Mizzou. Yikes, they’re calling that a bunch this season.

5 minutes to go.

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Really, there are no standout teams. K-State, NU and MU all appear to be decent. And while we are still likely the Big 12 North favorite, we haven’t done anything to really set that in stone, yet. So, if Mizzou could win IN Lincoln, that could go a long way in the North standings.

The North teams are going to have to hold serve at home, particularly against other North foes. And considering MU didn’t score the first 5 minutes of the game, this is a bonus game for the Tigers.

Oklahoma wins on the road in convincing fashion against K-State.

51 up.

Wow. That’s a killer.

That could cost them the game, right there.

And Florida State is coming back, down only 11 now. They were down like 25 just 10 minutes ago.

Missouri got an oustanding shot at a three. Not really sure why the entire Nebraska defense collapsed in when they needed a three to tie. Just stupid basketball, right there.

But Mizzou misses the three, and all is well. Except the whiners think that legal screens aren’t allowed. Holy hell, was that a hard screen. All legal, though.

Losing by 25 at HALFTIME to Illinois.

Holy hell.

Think we can get to 400?