Congratulations to Reed and his family. I’m sure they are proud of him. I Wonder if anyone has ever won a national award and not been a starting player?? I would bet money the answer is no. Makes his accomplishments that much better.

Don’t care for Jeff Goodman much. Listening to Field of 68 and he’s repeated his mantra numerous times - Kentucky has the easiest path to FF. Keep’s saying Cal can’t complain and if he can’t get it done it would be terrible.

While I like picks for my Cats, I can’t help but think Jeffy is setting up just using this as another excuse to bash the hell out of Cal if/when we lose before the Final Four. He keeps saying how easy it should be, then roasts Cal (who he hates with a passion) if we lose. Seems about right for him.

Let’s go Cal. Take it away from him and prove something!

Did I miss it somewhere?

Surprised that Rivals missed this opportunity.

Are there any local ones? TV, Radio, Websites? Not the Giant type that are impossible to win like CBS or ESPN.

Getting ridiculous that committee will put Izzo teams in no matter what. You can talk any metric you want but no 19-14 team should ever make the tourney unless they get the automatic bid!

I look at some of the teams that did not make it & I can't help but get angry for them when I see MSU in it.

A guys scores 1 or 2 baskets against us then he has beer muscles. Wait, what?

You just caught yourself Cal. So why not start your best lineup before that happens?

First, people saying we came out and there was no energy is total nonsense. In fact, it looked on offense our team on the floor just expected shots to go in right away without any patience. But, it was bad passing an honestly Edwards that put us in a hole. First shot by him a 3 miss. A minute later he has a baseline look, then instead decides to drive, and then instead decides to throw a pass to D.J on the other baseline that was picked off. In the meantime, A and M, does one pass and hits their first 3, then a dribble down the court and top of the key 3. Notice something? They were aggressive and not turning the ball over right from the start. Quickly we are in deficit of 8 to 1. We do come back but then Cal pairs Mitchell and Z. I loved Mitchell early in the season but if he can't be that guy because of injury there was no reason to take out Theiro. Dillingham early on also started his tendency to decide he is going to show the opposing guard who is better and moves away from team play. But, Cal evidently doesn't instruct individual players during the game on something not to do...ever. In any event, while A & M constantly drives for lay-ups we are passing the ball around and turning it over or taking some bad shots.

I watched Oakland and they have one awesome 3 point shooter. Given our lack of defense expect that guy to hit a ton. We have to take 3's and be the aggressor but with the right players taking the majority of them. Oakland also does a lot of back door cuts and Ugo may have to stay downlow versus face guarding his man if out on the perimeter. Why we never do this is beyond understanding to me. Cal's switching man to man simply doesn't work.

CCC calls out his players by telling them they have to be ready for the moment. When will the AD call out CCC? Why isn't he telling CCC that he has to be ready for the moment? How can the AD stand by speechless while his coach calls out players as if losing is all their fault? There is no way one can dump all of this on the players when their clueless coach thinks it is ok to start games with two of the better players on the bench.

Hello HOB. Back again to share all the major talking points from Cal's weekly radio show tonight for those of you who may not be able to listen along live. Show has just gotten under way at 6 ET. Stay tuned...

* Oakland is a good challenge. Greg Kampe is a really good coach. They have the conference player of the year in Townsend (big, strong guy who can also shoot FTs) and two guys who will take 20 3s per game between them. "They've got a good group." Defensively, they'll play zone, kinda of a matchup zone that the Cats haven't seen much of. They've got a lot of experience.

* On the rotation: It's cheerleader time. You gotta do the right stuff or sit down and cheer for somebody who will. I want people to look at us and say that team has more fun than anybody.

* Cal met with Reed Sheppard today and told him how proud he is of him winning the Wayman Tisdale Award, how much better he's gotten during the season. Credited his faith and family, and his ability to "keep the clutter out." Cal admits he'd like to see him shooting the ball more, but he's just so unselfish, such a servant leader.

* In the A&M loss, guys didn't trust each other the way they have late in the season. Things broke down on both ends of the floor. Gotta pass the ball and have each other's backs on defense.

* Thinks Tre Mitchell is coming along and able to be a bigger factor in the game. It's good to be able to have veterans like him and Reeves out there at this time of year.

* On the seedings having nothing to do with the SEC Tournament... Says he thought they might have been able to move up to a 2, though. Wants people to stop the narrative that "the kids don't care about it."

* Caller asks what the Oakland zone is line... Cal says it's a 2-3 matchup "tandem" zone that doesn't always look the same, kind of a hybrid. They do some different things with it. Thinks UK is suited to face it, though, due to the shooting and passing they have. Thinks Tre Mitchell could be big working the middle of that zone.

* On combating negativity... Trying to keep the players away from the noise, the minority of people who want to just be negative. Adds UK has the very best fans. Gotta remember that.

* Caller asks if any tweaks are in the works... Calipari says yes, but not going to reveal them. He does add that he'ss stressing confidence & courageousness. Wants guys unafraid to take the big shot, unafraid to fail. Again, says he wants the team to "have a ball." ... Comes around at the end to saying the tweaks might be on defense. Gotta do some different things. Some zone? Maybe a group of guys who are your designated zone guys?

* Caller asks if he's considering getting Reed and Rob into the starting lineup. Again, says he doesn't think it matters. We sub early, they play the most minutes. Thinks it keeps the other guys engaged. "You need everybody on your team, how do you keep guys going?" But we have to start better. If I make any change it will be because we need to start better.

* Thinks Aaron Bradshaw has got a good game in him. Same for Big Z.

* Bob From Jamestown calls and says it's his birthday, the big 7-0, and he's lived to see 5 championships, ready for another. Ol' BFJ is the most faithful of faithful callers.

* One really good thing about this team, Cal says, is the pressure to perform doesn't fall on one guy as much as it has with past teams. They have plenty of guys who can be the man on a given day. It's an advantage for them.

He might play two 7 footers together in the tournament. This is the type of 💩 that pisses me off, he’s willing to do something ignorant but he won’t start his best players. Exactly why I have zero faith going into the tourney.

Remember this guy that we were so concerned with and went 0-12 from three in the 2019 opening round?

Whatever we did that day, we need to do it again on the Gohlke kid.

I want everyone of our supposed fans who run it about Cal sucking to sign their name right here. That way when we go to our next final four I don’t wanna hear you all celebrating like you been here all along.

I think you should go.

When we lost 3 in a row at home everyone was off the bus.

If I told you then we'd finish out the season 7-2 and get a 3 seed would you guys not have been thrilled?

Seems pretty ho hum around here.

Thought you guys might of liked to read this yourselves. Enjoy.




Here’s a fun fact about the NCAA men’s basketball tournament: South Carolina has been to the Final Four more recently than Kentucky.
How about another? Texas Tech has played for a national championship more recently than Arizona.
OK, one more: Baylor has cut down the nets more recently than North Carolina and Duke. .............

2. Kentucky​

Last Final Four: 2015
Total Final Four appearances: 17
Notable close call: The 2017 Elite Eight matching Kentucky against North Carolina was probably the de facto national title game that year. And a Wildcats team led by De’Aaron Fox, Malik Monk and Bam Adebayo tied it up on a 3-pointer with 7.2 seconds left only to watch Luke Maye hit a legendary step-back jumper for the win with just fractions remaining on the clock.

Why now: After reaching four Final Fours in John Calipari’s first six years at Kentucky, this has been a pretty discouraging drought for Big Blue Nation − especially given the talent level he brings in year after year. Kentucky’s season has been uneven, but the Wildcats have a top-five offense and enough firepower from the 3-point line to beat anyone on a good day. Kentucky hasn’t been good on defense at all this season, but this team can get to Phoenix with four good shooting games. That doesn't seem like too tall a task.


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It’s nut cuttin’ time for Calipari.

Put feelings, egos, Klutch, whomever and whatever aside. It’s all about winning now. Period. Nothing else.

PS- Start your best freakin five. We need this.

KB

Who's going to Pittsburgh?? Roll call!!! Then potential matchup against either (6) Texas Tech or (11) NC state.

Can the cats get to the second weekend ???

Despite the disappointment of this loss tonight, UK slides only from 9th to 11th. Granted, that's close to 12th and the edge of the 3 seeds, but I don't see a big threat to UK dropping to the 4 line. Auburn (14th) is probably the best positioned to do so, but UK has a big Q1 lead (6-1) and a head-to-head win at Auburn. Duke, Bama, Kansas are the others on line 4, and none of those are passing UK.

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A crew of us are going to Tampa for my Bachelor trip this week. Anybody have recommendations on a good place to watch the game Thursday? Thanks in advance!

Saw someone else mention this guys name last year and I looked him up. 4 of the last 6 d2 titles. 20 combined losses in his last 8 seasons. only 42. D2 or not that’s pretty impressive for a guy that age imo.

Following the D2 tourney…some interesting differences from D1.

Still 64 teams. But there are 8 regions seeded 1-8. I have no idea how the field is determined though. 312 total teams in D2. It looks like teams that make it are paired more with region in mind. So teams from the same conference are in the same part of the bracket. I imagine D2 programs don’t have the same travel budgets as D1.

Also Northwest Missouri got a 2 seed instead of one of the 8 1 seeds despite finishing the season ranked in the top 4. And they now have a matchup against the #2 ranked team in the round of 16. It’s the only 1 vs 2 matchup in any of the 8 regions. Again, i gotta think that’s a geographical thing.

More on McCollum. they’ve exhibitioned Duke twice recently. in 2017-18 they lost by 30 plus. But they played them again 2 years later and only lost by 6. And that was a good Duke team that spent almost the entire season in the top 10. Finished 25-6 and 5th in Kenpom.

Definitely a name to watch.

Okay that’s the last time i’ll mention him i promise

Saying this tournament doesn’t matter. This just goes to show priorities are just different. I want a coach who would run through fire to win the SEC Tourney. I’m still bitter.