LOLKentucky as both a state and basketball team.

Kentucky gets outplayed the whole game vs Evansville and Michigan dominates a solid Creighton team. If Kentucky is ranked ahead of Michigan the next time the polls come out college basketball is a ****ing joke.

Lmao.

Prepare for college basketball to be a ****ing joke.

I....uh...

You know what. Never mind.

Lol Kentucky

MAYO

Did Calipari throw his players under the bus like he always does?

Tried to find a funny Kentucky meme on the internet and I couldn't find any. I think this proves I'm old.

I got too excited and overstepped. I am only human.
Seriously tho, if Michigan is not ranked the next time the polls come out COLLEGE BASKETBALL IS A ****ING JOKE!!!

Why should they be ranked? Name brand?

8 point home win over ~200th best team
10 point home win over ~50

What more do you people want?!?!

None of the blue bloods should be ranked.

everyone stinks

time for the PAC-12 (conference of champions) to step up and take their place atop the throne again

Were they just saying that Wiseman speaks Mandarin because he took Mandarin in high school? Yes, I'm sure he is now a Mandarin speaker.

McCarty had been an assistant under BRAD since 2013 in Boston and it shows. Evansville offensive sets were really good. They execute the PnR up top really well to initiate everything and had shooters pinned to the corners. Also good at finding lanes to grab ORBs. They got into trouble late trying to eat clock, and when UK finally decided to lock down on screen switches it threw them off.

UK is a dumb basketball team. Their offense is 100% hand-off drill above the key. They run sets with bigs on both blocks and the wings a step or two INSIDE the 3-pt line. PnR/PnP game is some of the weakest **** I've ever seen. Their overall strategy seems to be take contested 2's in the paint because those shots are "close." I bet if I watched the tape a good 75% of those were off-balance, off-kilter, unsquared, twisting, or leaning away from contact. They have a pretty sweet indoor pyrotechnics show though.

That seems to basically be the book every year on the highly ranked teams that have one-and-done or two-and-done top high school recruits. Those guys are generally just gifted, athletic players who don't learn to really play in high school. In college, a bunch of those kids together have trouble learning, especially defensively, quickly enough.

I'm sure I'm way over-generalizing.

Those teams still win a ton because the players are so good and the coaches are among the best, but a "lesser" team that is disciplined and efficient can beat them.

Evansville just barely the biggest upset of the night by spread.

Shout out to Juan Dixon (yes that Juan Dixon) leading Coppin State to a win @ Loyola Chicago as 22.5 point underdogs.

Speaking of... Maybe Porter Moser should have taken the $$ from somewhere when he had the chance after the Final Four run.

Yah, it's pretty laughable. Mandarin's prolly like 3x tougher than Spanish and I learned **** all from high school Spanish.

Um...lol?

Turns out Walter McCarty just doesn't lose at Rupp Arena...

Story checks out.

He threw himself as well. Pretty classy response imo.

This is true. However, I think there's a clear difference in being raw versus not understanding basic things like 3 > 2. When you see major failures of the latter, it's more an indictment of the coaching. Kentucky is one of those teams that routinely passes open 3's to take one step in. And because they don't understand how offense is supposed to work, they also get confused on defense when teams are executing well.

Cal's offense is basically iso ball but with no space to actually create anything. The little bit of "motion" they run on the wing is slow and sloppy. The screens aren't crisp and it appears to have no objective other than "get a different guy the ball out top." They aren't looking for backdoor cuts, slip screens, rolls, pops, or anything really. It's just dribble dribble until clock then somebody forces a horrible, contested chuck.

Putting them in a motion offense with no objectives and asking them to "create" is like the worst possible environment. They are going to revert to the dumb hero ball **** they're used to since that's all they've ever done. Teams like this would do better if they had a few strict rules that put them into good spots like forcing switches and THEN asking them to create. Defense is harder.

forgot to bet Miss Valley St over last night, market moved 5 points and it still wasn't enough.

and speaking of bad beats, add Pacific +4.5 at Hawaii. Up 8 with 4 mins left and blow it including the coach getting a technical for calling a timeout they didn't have with 7 seconds left. Lose by 5.

Ouch town for Purdue tonight.

Up 13 at half and get outscored 40-17 in the 2H