And top 3 recruit Julius Randle is making his decision tomorrow at noon. Between Kansas and Kentucky.
Kansas a 1 seed in the NCAA tourney, Kentucky losing to Robert Morris in the NIT. Not the best timing...
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Kansas a 1 seed in the NCAA tourney, Kentucky losing to Robert Morris in the NIT. Not the best timing...
MightyHealthy
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LoLtucky
Dreams-Visions
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LOL KENTUCKY!!!!
Avinexus
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Cause he is ass and a walk-on has been outplaying him all year.
Only fitting that they lost when the players haven't cared all season (other than Noel and Polson) and their AD didn't even care enough to get them home court.
Oh and LOL @ 8.7 left with a timeout and not calling it, while running a play for a guy that has played terribly all game.
Check these stats, Domino.
Harrow: 5 points, 3 fouls, 3 turnovers, 0 assists
Polson (former walk on): 10 points, 4 assists, 2 turnovers in twice as many minutes
Depending on Harrow to run the point was one of the worst coaching moves in NCAA history.
vas_a_morir
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Eh, I guess laugh. Especially since this probably cost the Cats Randle.
I only caught the end so I thought he was benched the whole game.
I told yall this would happen though. Idk why folks thought he could make it at kentucky when he couldnt even make it at state.
GoldenEye 007
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Hey CUSA was never a 4 bid league after the 2005 realignment. This version still would be if UConn wasn't banned from the post season. And UCF knocked on the NCAA at-large door a couple years ago too. Now that we served our post-season ban we'll steadily improve still.
I know, we should have listened. Oh well.
perfectchaos007
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The Texas hat should be on the table as well. Hook em Horns! He's impressed with our CBI bid
That's my bad. Florida and Texas are definitely in the mix as well. I like Texas' chances better than UK's now for sure.
Will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow morning. I just hope our crazier fans don't have too many meltdowns on the rivals boards, twitter, etc. when Randle goes elsewhere.
TheNatural
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Like Calipari getting recruits has ever had anything to do with what happens on the court. His 3 NIT's and 1 tourney win total his first five years at Memphis wasn't exactly what spurred Derrick Rose to come along.
Because he is a useless piece of shit who never earned playing time but we didn't have the roster to sit his ass on the bench but now it is the NIT so who gives a shit?
Somebody is getting the boot. It's him. Hah.
vas_a_morir
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He's being a bit unfair. After all, they were ranked when their best player went out for the year. On an already thin team, losing the best defensive freshman in the country on an already mediocre team was the death knell for Kentucky.
He was pretty blunt about it, but he did mention how he thinks they'll be better with competition at every position next year.
If Cauley-Stein, Noel, and/or Goodwin came back next year they would do fine. And probably improve a lot with the other talent UK has coming in. WCS and Goodwin in particular have put in a lot of effort in this last stretch of the season. Noel was a beast all season long, but he's most likely going to the draft.
It's really just Harrow and Poythress that need to improve big time, they were major disappointments this year. Happened before with UK, though. DeAndre Liggins wasn't that good as a freshman, neither was Darius Miller or Josh Harrelson. But all three ended up being key guys in March under Calipari. Hopefully that'll happen for Harrow and Poythress. Even if it's a pretty long shot that it'll happen with Harrow :lol
If Cauley-Stein, Noel, and/or Goodwin came back next year they would do fine. And probably improve a lot with the other talent UK has coming in. WCS and Goodwin in particular have put in a lot of effort in this last stretch of the season. Noel was a beast all season long, but he's most likely going to the draft.
It's really just Harrow and Poythress that need to improve big time, they were major disappointments this year. Happened before with UK, though. DeAndre Liggins wasn't that good as a freshman, neither was Darius Miller or Josh Harrelson. But all three ended up being key guys in March under Calipari. Hopefully that'll happen for Harrow and Poythress. Even if it's a pretty long shot that it'll happen with Harrow :lol
TheNatural
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Improvement may not matter much, because the draft is going to be loaded next year.
Seems like every time I check NBA Draft projections, Cauley-Stein keeps going up. UK does worse, he goes up, it's crazy. NBAdraft.net has him up to 9th.
http://nbadraft.net/2013mock_draft
Compare this to next year, where the top 6 projected are all in high school right now, and the two after that are international players:
http://nbadraft.net/2014mock_draft
Granted that always happens this early, but I think a lot of guys who shouldn't come out will, maybe even just to get a second round slot.
Jeez. Didn't know Cauley-Stein was that high, wow. Not sure he'll be back then.
chris121580
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Hey Cal, maybe you should've played better competition throughout the season to help your players get better? Just a thought
Eh. The scheduling wasn't stellar, but I don't think it was that dismal. Duke, Louisville, and Notre Dame are all top 25 tourney teams. Maryland is no good, so I'll give you that one. Baylor was supposed to be competing with Kansas for the Big 12 title this year with that top 10 recruiting class, so that was just a bust on their part.
After that, conferences are conferences (and admittedly, the SEC is pretty shitty right now). Might have to schedule overboard for a few years to make up for that.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Kentucky's/Callipari's money does it again!
Going to be interesting to see how the minutes can possibly be divided up next year.
Going to be interesting to see how the minutes can possibly be divided up next year.
Future PhaZe
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Wiggins decided on UNC?
when will they learn...
when will they learn...
TheNatural
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UK is basically a lock for the title next year, barring injury or scandal.
Future PhaZe
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Not really
If they miss on Wiggins I don't see them winning much.
Edit: And even if they do, you desperately need a guy with ice cold nerves. Anthony Davis had ridiculous poise and bailed his team out beyond question.
If they miss on Wiggins I don't see them winning much.
Edit: And even if they do, you desperately need a guy with ice cold nerves. Anthony Davis had ridiculous poise and bailed his team out beyond question.
TheNatural
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This class sucked ass though. The next class is actually good. They have 4 projected top 16 picks in next year's class.
Bailed out? I think that's doing a big disservice to UK's other players last year. We had 6 great players on the team that were all key.
As for next year, I ain't predicting shit after what we went through this year. Just hoping for the best.
Sucked ass? Yeah, maybe that's how it turned out, but weren't they the #3 team pre-season? Obviously someone thought they were supposed to be a pretty damn good class.
LegendofJoe
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I think Wiggins is either FSU or UNC bound now.
TheNatural
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Not me.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=43311427&postcount=154
Rankings overrate a completely different team based on last year's results or on name value? No shocker there.
Your team played 2 Top 20 teams (Georgetown and UNC) before your conference schedule started. So did Kentucky, only in our case they were 1 and 3 (Duke and Louisville). So, huh. Interesting you'd speak up.
We already have multiple times. They just typically don't hold press conferences and just pick KU over UK.
They were top 3. Right behind Louisville. Which is so funny to think about now. U of L was so much better than us this year and it wasn't even close.
But I think many people saw that was a bit much. Calipari himself seemed to repeat at every interview that his team is really young and people are "crazy for ranking us up there right now". It was inflated because of the title.
Kentucky
Avinexus
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According to ESPN he didn't even visit Kentucky though.
LegendofJoe
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There's only one ball, Wiggins would be stupid to go to Kentucky. UNC also plays both Kentucky and Duke at home next year, if he wants exposure it's the best choice.