..........does anyone else feel like Z was bigger than they expected? When I heard he was wasting away like a Sudanese migrant, I thought he might get broken in half if he ever saw the court.

He obviously needs to put on some weight, but he didn't look nearly as skinny as I thought he would. He's got a good frame for a tall kid.

Time to step your game up for our bigs.

We need a group counting LOUDLY whenever one of our opponents illegally seals off our guy and plants himself in the paint.

Get the refs' attention! Count to 4, and then after 4 you need to be booing with everything you've got.

What a season this dude is having. Last year was 42% FG, 39.8% from 3, 78% FT, 14.4 points per game.
Now 42% from three(would be 48% if you take out the 3-17 Kansas game), 52% FG, 88% FT, 19.9 per game. Ripping through the lane now on aggressive drives. Totally different dude.

Great decision for him to come back to college and prove how good he really is.

Cal needs to contact the SEC office and warn them about this stuff, these refs should be calling these illegal seals, either with 3 second violations or just plain fouls. I remember watching Vandy players shoving Brooks backward a couple of years ago and almost injuring him. This needs to stop.

Nice article:

Would we rather have a freshman like Knox, or a portal guy like Tucker Devries…or someone else from the portal?

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6’7” 20 ppg, 6.1 rpg, 3.7 ast, 45.6% fg, 35% 3

Regardless of winning the final four this year they have done a masterful job.
I don't see one guy who's ego is before the teams goals.
All the players are just as
excited about the assist as scoring themselves.
Just great team basketball

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Antonio Reeves - 20.6
Tre Mitchell - 15.6
DJ Wagner - 14.6
Zvonimir Ivisic - 13.0
Rob Dillingham - 12.4
Reed Sheppard - 10.2
Aaron Bradshaw - 7.4
Justin Edwards - 5.2
Ugonna Onyenso - 4.0
Jordan Burks - 1.5

Team: 92.8

Hoping for a lot of upsets this week that help our seeding:

Today:
Cinci Vs Kansas
Wake vs UNC

Both unlikely to lose, but would be huge for us if either did.

Tuesday:
Wisconsin @ MN: A lot of the bracket pundits still have them above us. Here's hoping they fall on the road.

Houston @ BYU
BYU is decent, they could potentially knock them off at home.

Wednesday:
Auburn @ Bama. It's a road game. It's a rivalry game. Most of the Pundits have Auburn ahead of us at this point. Go Bama.

Thursday:
AZ @ Oregon State: Oregon State probably isn't good enough. UCLA is worse and almost stole on. I'll be rooting for the road upset.

Friday:
Michigan St. @ Wisconsin: Go Izzo.

Saturday:
Kansas @ Iowa State. This Iowa State team is dangerous at home. I would almost bet the upset here.

UNC @ FSU: IT's a road game against a meh team. UNC probably gets it done. I'll be rooting my tail off for FSU

Auburn @ MSU: MSU is solid. Auburn being on the road, this could be an upset

Arizona @ Oregon: Another road game. Oregon's good enough to do it. f

UT @ Vandy: mentioning it for completeness sake. They'll probably kill Vandy.

Sunday:
Purdue @ Rutgers. Purdue probably coats, but you gotta take these conference road games seriously.

Sensational offense. Blistering pace. Incredible passing. Phenomenal spacing. And Big Z!!!

Just FUN as hell for a fan like me.

But the defense is the worst in the history of man. lol.

Cheers All!
KB

The way I see it either your defense is good but your offense can only put up 60 to 70 pts a game and risk getting beat on a off night or your offense is elite with poor defense but you can put up 85 to 100 pts per game but also risk getting beat on a off night.

Question is would you rather have a good defense or an elite offense that can put score a lot of teams?

Dude is in some uncharted water..... and yes you can crucify me if I've jinxed this.

54.9% through 17 games is ridiculous with 4.2 attempts a game.

Obviously he's not a volume shooter like say Reeves but he just doesn't miss that often... what a weapon and I'll say it a BBN Super Sperm lol.

2nd All-time if he keeps this pace to Micah Mason (.5603% 25 games on 4.6 attempts per game)

List - interesting that there isn't many known NBA players in the top 100.

Big Z just blew the ceiling off the potential of this team, we'd be averaging 100 if he'd been eligible all year. If people thought we were tough to guard beforehand they don't stand a chance now. Can you imagine an end of game lineup of say:

Shepperd
Reeves
Big Z
Mitchell
Wagner

We'll have everyone so spaced out Wagner and Reeves will feast on drives or will kill everyone with 3's. Also, don't have to rely on Dillingham in crunch time if he's being erratic. I don't see how were not THE title favorite now.

Also, I don't want to see Ugo again unless theirs foul trouble. Bradshaw you're out of the starting lineup...sorry.

This is total bs by this bozo.

To mighty South Florida.

Besides the choke job, what shocked me was how many empty seats there were for a Top 10 team. Truly embarrassing.

Basically every announcer calls him the most important player on the team and calls him complete and rounded, yet I don’t think I’ve heard one say that he’s a future pro. Will he get a chance to play in the NBA? If not, why not?

I was too young to remember '78. I was in my teens in January of '94 though. Everything was encased in ice, we were out of school for a month, and I watched The Shining for the first time.

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I'll go completely out of the box with Wagner and Sheppard at guard, then the three seven footers.

On offense Wagner drives and finishes or dishes.

On defense, 2-3 zone. Onyenso in the middle.

National rankings for UK's offense:

#1 Scoring offense at 91.6 ppg
#4 Assists to Turnovers 1.89 ratio
#5 Effective FG% 58.1%
#5 3 point FG% 40.2%
#7 Assists/game 18.9
#7 FG% 50.3% (remember, the last UK team to hit 50% or better from the field was 1986)
#9 fast break points 16.4 points/game

Looks like the NCAA is looking into Florida’s recruiting of Jaden Rashada.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...rmer-qb-signee-jaden-rashada-per-reports/amp/

NM