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Holy smokes, hit a 3 with the foul to potentially turn a 16 point half-time lead to 4 with 15 left in the 2nd. When we host, we can't let up on the gas no matter what
Auburn is for real. I know a lot of people didn’t want him on here but Pearl has proven over and over he can coach and he doesn’t even get access to the best recruits. I can only imagine him with an elite brand and donor base behind him
 
Crazy finish to that game. Auburn pulls it out.

The SEC and Big 12 are setting up to be crazy good at the top.

Top 15 SEC teams in kenpom:
UK
AU
UT
Bama

Top 15 B12 teams in kenpom:
Iowa State
UC
Kansas
Houston

The conferences constitute over half of the top 15 teams and 70% of the top 10 teams in kenpom currently.
 
That was physical big boy basketball combined with modern offense. These types of teams manhandled our young teams of the last 5 years. Our guards and bigs simply couldn’t handle that kind of physicality.

I’m curious to see how we play against Auburn. I’m confident our team won’t get pushed around. We’ll have to have a few players that can play through contact off the dribble. I think Butler and Oweh can penetrate through that physical style of defense.
 
That was physical big boy basketball combined with modern offense. These types of teams manhandled our young teams of the last 5 years. Our guards and bigs simply couldn’t handle that kind of physicality.

I’m curious to see how we play against Auburn. I’m confident our team won’t get pushed around. We’ll have to have a few players that can play through contact off the dribble. I think Butler and Oweh can penetrate through that physical style of defense.
Auburn looks like a team of power-lifters
 
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Yeah there is a lot of hate on here for Pearl but in a world without CMP I would have been happy to try him out. He dreamed of coaching at UK and in my humble opinion would have been a much better fit than Drew would have.
Biggest issue with him is the cheating. NCAA would've put every resource imaginable to tracking every email, every brown paper bag, every trip to Walmart, and anything else to incriminate Pearl/UK. It would've given the organization a semi the same way flopping players do for duke. They'd know the regularity of Pearl's bowel movements.

Dude could've killed it here and has the personality for it, but that cheating... At least I have to imagine that's what the issue(s) was/were.
 
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I’m interested to see how other coaches deal with Pope’s offense. Auburn likes to run and gun like we do, which team plays better defense and hits more 3’s will determine the outcome. I don’t see Pope calling the dogs off and Pearl won’t either.
 
Biggest issue with him is the cheating. NCAA would've put every resource imaginable to tracking every email, every brown paper bag, every trip to Walmart, and anything else to incriminate Pearl/UK. It would've given the organization a semi the same way flopping players do for duke. They'd know the regularity of Pearl's bowel movements.

Dude could've killed it here and has the personality for it, but that cheating... At least I have to imagine that's what the issue(s) was/were.
can't cheat anymore.............players are getting paid
 
It’s been interesting to watch Broome develop from a skinny freshman at Morehead into the player he is now .
sure is, yet ccc didn't pay attention to him when he transferred from Morehead. another example of his stupidity.
don't think the kid would have developed @ uk because ccc would not have let him play thru his mistakes
 
Biggest issue with him is the cheating. NCAA would've put every resource imaginable to tracking every email, every brown paper bag, every trip to Walmart, and anything else to incriminate Pearl/UK. It would've given the organization a semi the same way flopping players do for duke. They'd know the regularity of Pearl's bowel movements.

Dude could've killed it here and has the personality for it, but that cheating... At least I have to imagine that's what the issue(s) was/were.

How does one cheat nowadays?

Everyone is paying players?
 
That was physical big boy basketball combined with modern offense. These types of teams manhandled our young teams of the last 5 years. Our guards and bigs simply couldn’t handle that kind of physicality.

I’m curious to see how we play against Auburn. I’m confident our team won’t get pushed around. We’ll have to have a few players that can play through contact off the dribble. I think Butler and Oweh can penetrate through that physical style of defense.
We beat Auburn on their court last year
 
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