To UL…..Let’s goooo!!!!

Arizona, Boston College, Connecticut, Kansas, Kentucky, OTE. There is no Providence. He has visited there tons of times. I don't know that I'm surprised he's not going there, but they were expected in the final cut. Providence was always mentioned more than any other school. I am supposed to hear more early next week, so we will be working on this one.

For those that understand the system, and yes, I know what I see on the court with "ole" defense and allowing offensive rebounds etc.....

But I wonder just how badly that rating is skewed based on sheer number of points scored against us? To further illustrate......if we scored EVEN MORE POINTS but also GAVE UP MORE POINTS, would our rating get even worse? Avg 120ppg for a season but you give up 105ppg?

If so, I'm not as worried about our rating.

Now we just need to get better on the court

According to Bart Torvik, Kentucky is the best high-major team in America when playing Quad 1A teams away from home. When the team is comes ready to play, we are among the best.

...and every single one of them beat Kansas.

Which mid majors would you prefer to stay away from that has a legit shot at making some noise in the big dance? Im going to go with James Madison, Drake, Oakland, and Indiana St if they end up getting in. All four of those teams have the ability to knock out a major power in the first couple rounds if they bring their A game.

Might as well call them War Rooms, Insider Notes, etc., but here's another notebook....


In case you missed the first it's below:

Who ya got?

South Carolina has really stepped up, but he’s mentioned for about every open job. That grinding, defensive style is coming more into trend right now as well…..as trends come and go

Kenny Payne has been fired at UL and Ksr reporting also that rumor is Jeff Walz the UL womens coach has interest in the UK womens job..
I say bring them both in get rid of Bruiser Flint and replace him with Kenny payne.. Walz would be a homerun hire for UK

I'm too lazy to do the research but seeing Kansas get slapped by UC after backing up a truckload of money to Hunter Hitman Dickenson, and then thinking about UK's challenges with portal success, I'm wondering

has any team hit the transfer portal - not just to get a complementary player but went heavy on the transfer portal and it resulted in the team leading their conference, making a final four run, whatever? I don't know about UT other than Knecht and while he is certainly the key player, they are also a veteran heavy team.

I'm wondering if there is proof the ROI is worth it? There may be multiple examples, I don't really keep up with this stuff.

that ARky has played Wednesday night SEC tournament 13 times. That's historically bad if true. Squeaked a win last night in OT.

We need KneePads and Noone to come tell us how that's all part of the master plan.

Every prison in the Prairie Midwest where they have an inmates team with wife-beating power forwards is getting a call from Bill Self offering the Arterio Morris Scholarship Special: We'll overlook that first woman-abuse charge, just try not to get busted for raping a woman on campus until after the tournament.

I guess Sherron Collins, LaGerald Vick, Carlton Bragg, Josh Jackson all being accused of battering women, whoever the five players were who allegedly watched a 16-year-old girl raped in the Basketball Players Dorm and Silvio DeSousa charged with knocking a guys's eye out outside a bar was not enough to warn Bill Self off of offering a scholarship to Morris after he was kicked off Texas for assaulting his girlfriend. What a sick program he's built there.

It’s Thursday and we’ve got decent basketball at noon. Let us celebrate the decline in work

I really did not think I would enjoy this, but I sure do! Just binge-watched the first three episodes of TWD: The Ones Who Live and it's really good. Because I was so sad to hear that the original series was ending, I didn't end up watching the rest of Season 11.

Any other TWD fans here?

Since they will be adding Oklahoma and Texas to go to 16 teams, will the Tourney be set up like an NCAA regional with no byes just seeded 1-16? Spread out over 4 days? I would think if that's the case, you would be gunning to play on day 1 as one of the top 4 seeds so you get day two of the tourney off and avoid 3 games in 3 days. Nashville would lose a days worth of people jamming the streets too.

No more snakes and chilled monkey brains for you.

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The big reason is that I will be there throughout. Living in the area of Tennessee that I do, and coaching high school I don't get to go to games. I never take it for granted when I do get to attend. It's one of the best weeks of the year for me. Selfishly I hope it is Kentucky/Tennessee in the finals. I go back to 2019 and that semi final game. It was a great environment. The crowd was probably 60/40 Kentucky and it was packed. I hope to experience another like that.

Really a nice crowd for 1st round. Maybe the largest I have seen.

I was a freshman at UK in 1989 and Freddie was the QB then. I remember seeing him in the Science Building one day and could not have been more kind.

Hoping that he has a dramatic turnaround in regards to his Health.

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One thing the NCAA tournaments has proven is that freshman guards generally do not fare well. For example, last year, Purdue had an excellent team with freshman guards. The problem with freshman guards has proven especially true with the one in done schools (Kentucky & Duke). there are exceptions. The question is, are our guards special enough to overcomes the uniqueness and pressure of the NCAA tournament. We shall see.

For 7 or 8 years or whatever it’s been, and we can’t keep just mediocre players more than two at best? Bacot could have left after any of his years and been a high pick. My hat is off to him. We got guys no where near that talented leaving after one. Cal’s system is a joke.

If you listen to many people, they will say that Cal has separated himself from everyone. Doesn’t speak to Mitch…untouchable by UK administration…blah, blah, blah.

But Mitch comes on KSR during the season and says that he and Cal talk after every game. Then on the latest “Journey” video, President Eli C. Is in the Locker room and was invited by Cal to travel with team.

Is Mitch lying about speaking with Cal every game? Did Cal suddenly make up with the President? OR were people just making stuff up to fit their own agendas? Amazingly those things are still being said too.