I’m glad I don’t have to watch some of these guys play basketball again, Great start for Pope…but we gotta have guys who play smart and are more athletic.
As much as I enjoyed this season….
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Pope has to get some studs for next season.
Poor did an amazing job this year. There is nothing to be upset about
It's been a great ride and the love for UK basketball is definitely back. However, I agree will not mind seeing some of these guys go. It's only going to get better from here!
Outside the past two games this season wasn't really that enjoyable after December. Glad they made it to the s16 but this team was extremely bipolar.
Amazing? That’s a little much
What a trash thread. These guys played their tails off. You need to respect that.
Damn straight it’s an amazing job by Mark Pope
The best thing that can happen for us is the return of Oweh, Garrison and the 3 Freshmen.
The best thing that can happen for us is the return of Oweh, Garrison and the 3 Freshmen.
You can definitely tell by the amount of rebounds they let the other team get! We didn’t even get off the bus until the second half. Take the glasses off.
Yes ... an absolutely amazing job by Mark Pope ! ! ! Hear, Hear ! !
I think the best thing that can happen for us is the return of Oweh and the 3 Freshmen. Just MHO, of course.
Some of you just sit and wait for something negative to say. How happy your lives must be. One of my favorite teams from my lifetime.
Come on guys, you can be excited about the future without belittling Popes first group of guys. These guys ended our long sweet 16 drought - something to be celebrated!
I believe Tennessee will be the last SEC team standing. Barnes gets his the Vols to the Final Four in his last season.
If you factor in the time he had to make the roster, Injuries, what we have been through the past 4 years with Cal, the huge wins we had in the regular season and a S16 appearance, It's been a great year.
Have to continue to build and can't lose a few more in the conference but the future is promising.
Have to continue to build and can't lose a few more in the conference but the future is promising.
Oh, no they didn't. They slept walked through the entire first half, and never dug in for stops in the second. They didn't quit, I'll give them that, but they didn't bring the effort.
I don't know. We didn't really test Tennessee tonight. Florida is crazy good, Auburn is still Auburn somewhere in there, and Bama might have enough pop. I'd still put Tennessee fourth, maybe third, IMO.
Tonight will reveal those fans that tie there self worth to wins and losses. This team has given everything it had. Pope has done a tremendous job and when the sting of this subsidies we should have gratitude for their efforts.
“Amazing”
12 losses
6th place SEC finish
One win in the SECT
Blown out in the Sweet 16
If that was Duke or KU or UNC or UConn we would be making fun of them.
Pope did a good job but I guess UK fans’ standards have plummeted if this season is considered “amazing”.
12 losses
6th place SEC finish
One win in the SECT
Blown out in the Sweet 16
If that was Duke or KU or UNC or UConn we would be making fun of them.
Pope did a good job but I guess UK fans’ standards have plummeted if this season is considered “amazing”.
The three freshman aren’t good enough.
We had a bunch of riff raff left overs and beat 2 1 seeds, a 2 seed twice, UofL, and a good showing in the best conference maybe of all time. With unbelievably bad luck w/ injuries. Yeah, amazing when you consider zero roster and a late start on the portal.
Disappointing end but I just wanted 1 win in the SECT and NCAAT for this season to feel good, doubling up Cal's post season win total I think since 2019. We did better than that.
These guys overperformed substantially their talent level, IMO, and a bad start got in their heads and took them out of the game, it happens. It's hard to beat a good team 3 times in a row.
Great season and a fun ride. We beat Duke and Louisville. Love Pope love the players and would have been fun to see us at full strength. We beat some dam good teams. Let’s hit the portal and see who Pope and the staff can land and get ready for next season, make a run for #9.
You mean, from the time we never had our complete roster for a single game? Shocking.
Pope squeezed every ounce of ability out of this roster. Lost his most talented scorer and still made the Sweet 16. With a point guard playing with one arm. Not a single player on this roster is guaranteed to make the NBA. Think about that for a second.
I agree with him. It's been an amazing season. oweh might be the only person on this team that might have cut it on a UK roster in th past decade. Pope turned a bunch of hurt players and transfers into a real team
But that’s college basketball.
Michigan State has probably one guy that will ever have more than a cup of coffee in the NBA and he’s a freshman and was on the bench for much of the season until he came in the last month and a half.
Except how it's ending. I'd almost ALMOST have rather lost to Illinois. Almost.
The Spartans didn't play Tennessee. Ole Miss played a great game but I think UT would have beat a lot of teams tonight.
How many NBA players does Ole Miss have? One maybe. How many does Tennessee have? College Basketball is filled with teams every season that have low low NBA talent levels that succeed. That’s the point I’m trying to make: talent doesn’t guarantee success but it helps and a lot of teams don’t have monopolies on talent that are successful.
Rick Barnes had a generational talent in Kevin Durant, dropped 30 and 9 in his last game in college, and failed to get to the Sweet 16.
The fact is this team didn’t have uber talent so they were just a good college team and the margin of error is much much smaller for teams like that. So it comes down to things like coaching or effort or matchups. This game was a failure of all three imho.
Hated to see it end like that for these guys that came here no knowing what to expect and seemed to actually care about the name on the front.
Only good thing is if this was Cal I would just feel doomed for the next season. With Pope I truly do have hope. Losing Jrob for the year and Butlers shoulder were a lot to overcome. We had a bad night, but I'm excited for next year for the first time in awhile.
Let's see what Pope can do with a full off season after a season under his belt and players knowing what he's about.
Some truth to that, but Michigan State’s guys have played together multiple seasons. We didn’t have a roster 365 days ago.
I beg to differ on Chandler . Agree on the other two
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