After the Wisconsin vs Oregon game, the announcers gave a promo for the Duke Illinois game as a massive matchup? Why is a game between #3 and unranked teams considered a massive matchup? We are used to ESPN's Duke love fest, but it now appears it is contagious. Lol

My daughter is happy. Headed there this coming year.

We finish 20-11 overall and 9-9 in conference? Thats what I see as the most likely scenario.

Enjoy!
KB

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The Cats have a few chances to prove their resume isn't impacted by Jaxson Robinson's injury. A 3-seed is very important, historically.
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Mobile big man. Looks like he has great hands. Big rebounder. Decent passer. Anyone know?

He needs to get in these refs asses. Between the flopping call on the three and the Flagrant on Butler, I would be losing my mind. He just rolls his eyes. He's gotta show more emotion. We went from having a psychopath on the sidelines to a mime.

This is a team thrown together at the last possible minute that has been crushed by injuries all season. Through all of the adversity, they still had a ton of amazing wins and stayed competitive. That said, a team without a healthy PG will never go far and this team won’t be different.

While a first weekend exit is definitely on the table, I believe these guys gut it out with Butler and manage to get to the second weekend. In my eyes, that’s a major success this year and it’ll be significantly better than anything we’ve seen in the 2020s.

DUNK THE F*}^^}%ing BALL

Theoretically, we have players that produced next year. I believe this graphic does take in to affect the level they played as well. So yes we have mid majors, but good ones. We are in the blob of logos with Duke and Utah Up and right of the Nexus point. Not SEC championship level. But back to bowl games if coaches well.

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Here’s who we should root for this week to help with our seeding.

Monday:
Nebraska over Michigan (NCAA seeding)
Houston over Texas Tech (NCAA)

Tuesday:
Providence over Marquette (NCAA, although Marquette has been free falling so don’t think they’d pass us regardless)
Oklahoma State over Iowa State (NCAA)
Alabama over MSU (SEC)
LSU over Tennessee (SEC)
Washington over Wisconsin (NCAA)
South Carolina over Mizzou (NCAA, SEC)
Virginia Tech over UL (because **** em)

Wednesday;
Auburn over Ole Miss (NCAA, SEC)
Vandy over A&M (NCAA, SEC)
Texas over Arkansas (SEC)
Maryland over Michigan State (NCAA)
Butler over St John’s (NCAA)
Utah over Arizona (NCAA)

Thursday:
Rutgers over Michigan (NCAA)

Friday:
UCLA over Purdue (NCAA)

Saturday:
Penn State over Maryland (NCAA)
Kansas over Texas Tech (NCAA)
Oklahoma over Ole Miss (NCAA, SEC)
Seton Hall over St. John’s (NCAA)
Alabama over Tennessee (SEC)
Vandy over Mizzou (NCAA, SEC)
Georgetown over Marquette (NCAA)
Florida over A&M (NCAA, SEC)
Iowa State over Arizona (could go either way on this one)
South Carolina over Arkansas (SEC)

Sunday:
Michigan State over Wisconsin (could go either way)
Illinois over Michigan (NCAA)

As of 2-20-25

UK 2416
KU 2410

Kentucky was completely outclassed today. Auburn is excellent. Kentucky also did not play well. One of their worst games of the season.

Miles Kelly torched Kentucky from outside and Auburn simply has way more guys who can go make stuff happen on their own. Defensively the Tigers executed a tremendous game plan, getting out on shooters and wiping out easy baskets in transition.

When Auburn banked in back-to-back three-point shots early in the game you had to feel like it was a bad omen. The Tigers got initial separation after UK's starters went out and the Cats committed a flurry of turnovers. Kentucky came out battling on defense but Auburn scored a lot of early points off turnovers.

Kentucky's bench was an absolute non-factor today. Pope rode the starters more than usual. The backups gave almost nothing.

The Tigers will win the hardest conference of all time by 2+ games and their only losses are to No. 2 and No. 3. They also played very well even getting little from Broome. So today was a showcase of how good Auburn is, how bad Kentucky played, and how bad the matchup was.

As awful as today was, this time last year we were handcuffed by a man that has little chance of even making a S16 ever again. The only chance we had to break free was for him to do so at his own choosing.

Pope may never get it done. But he also probably won't completely destroy the program.

And as we were losing by 15 to the #1 team in the country on our own court, I checked other scores and saw that Cal was losing by 30 to one of the 5 worst power conference teams in CBB.

So I'm at the very least grateful that were not a bubble team that just got rocked by the worst team in the conference.

And for anyone to say "wElL hE bEaT uS" it's pretty clear he put 9 months of preparation into 1 game and very little (if any at all) into any other games.