Kentucky gets down played again

[Kewlcats]

NBC Sports: Texas Tech best team in nation past 3 weeks:

When it comes to Texas Tech, they jumped up into the top 20 nationally with this win over the Horned Frogs, but they are a top five team in the country since January 1st. If you whittle that dataset down to January 26th, the day after the lost to Kentucky and the day before they beat West Virginia at home, Texas Tech has been the best team in all of college basketball.

Conveniently, for NBC Sports they do not count TT loss to KY.

Also, listening to the top 16 team broadcast, they ripped KY about losing to Evansville, then list other teams ie. Auburn and post why they are a great team listing KY as a great win.

If you are biased, you can whittle down any data you want to meet your agenda.

 

[Smashcat]

Tech has lost three of its last four games. Troll much?

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Them beating the Frog doo out of TCU by 30 plus makes UK's win in Lubbock look that much better.

No other way to spin it...

They better get the jabs in now because soon we will be in the top 5 and looking like the best team in America..

 

[Baller Cal]

Tech has lost three of its last four games. Troll much?

You mean won 3 of its last 4.

 

[anon_013cn8yrfncx2]

This board will correct every slight even if they have to turn over rocks to find one.

Cat fans take pride in “not rushing the floor”, acting like they’ve been there.

Be good imo, if that attitude would pervade here a little more. UK is the greatest of all time. Act like it.

 

[BlueBomb]

There's always a lot of Cat-on-Cat crime on this message board.

 

[STL_Cat]

OUTRAGE

 

[Sparkaces1]

NBC Sports: Texas Tech best team in nation past 3 weeks:

When it comes to Texas Tech, they jumped up into the top 20 nationally with this win over the Horned Frogs, but they are a top five team in the country since January 1st. If you whittle that dataset down to January 26th, the day after the lost to Kentucky and the day before they beat West Virginia at home, Texas Tech has been the best team in all of college basketball.

Conveniently, for NBC Sports they do not count TT loss to KY.

Also, listening to the top 16 team broadcast, they ripped KY about losing to Evansville, then list other teams ie. Auburn and post why they are a great team listing KY as a great win.

If you are biased, you can whittle down any data you want to meet your agenda.

It is what is, if they keep winning it looks great for us beating them at their place. Has anybody else won at TT this year?

 

[Baller Cal]

This has to be a joke. TTU has won three of their last 4 games, but those three wins are against teams with a combined loss total of......29. LOL! At home against Oklahoma, at home against TCU and at lowly Texas. Three complete garbage wins.

 

[Kewlcats]

No Joke
Rob Dauster Feb 11, 2020, 12:22 AM EST NBC Sports

1. TEXAS TECH MIGHT HAVE FIGURED THINGS OUT
No. 24 Texas Tech won their third straight game on Monday night, absolutely mollywhopping TCU in Lubbock to the tune of a 88-42 win.

Jahmi’us Ramsey and Davide Moretti both had 17 points in the win. As a team, the Red Raiders shot 59 percent from three. Either Baylor or Kansas — and maybe both — is going to end up winning the Big 12 regular season title, but at this point, it seems like the Red Raiders have solidified themselves as the third best team in that conference.

Perhaps more importantly, it feels like Chris Beard’s team has started to actually figure things out.

Bart Torvik runs a website that is similar to KenPom in the sense that it is an analytics driven database that ranks all college basketball teams based on a number of different stats and algorithms that are beyond the comprehension of my feeble mind. What I do understand, however, is how to tinker with some of the stats that Torvik provides, and one of the cool things about is site is that it allows to you see how a team ranks over a specific period of time. When it comes to Texas Tech, they jumped up into the top 20 nationally with this win over the Horned Frogs, but they are a top five team in the country since January 1st. If you whittle that dataset down to January 26th, the day after the lost to Kentucky and the day before they beat West Virginia at home, Texas Tech has been the best team in all of college basketball.

Most importantly, they seem to have figured out how to take advantage of all the weapons they have on the offensive end of the floor. They’ve ranked as the ninth-best offense in college basketball for the last three weeks. They rank 21st nationally in offensive efficiency since Jan. 1st. That stretch has bumped them up from a team that was outside the top 100 in offensive efficiency to one that sits at 49th on Torvik and 54th KenPom.

Put another way, Kyler Edwards is playing some of his best ball of the season, Davide Moretti is back to being Davide Moretti, Jahmi’us Ramsey is doing what he does and T.J. Holyfield is finally playing like a guy that can be a weapon on the perimeter.

I feel comfortable saying this now: Beard has solved the Rubix Cube that his this year’s Texas Tech team.

 

[Baller Cal]

No Joke
Rob Dauster Feb 11, 2020, 12:22 AM EST NBC Sports

1. TEXAS TECH MIGHT HAVE FIGURED THINGS OUT
No. 24 Texas Tech won their third straight game on Monday night, absolutely mollywhopping TCU in Lubbock to the tune of a 88-42 win.

Jahmi’us Ramsey and Davide Moretti both had 17 points in the win. As a team, the Red Raiders shot 59 percent from three. Either Baylor or Kansas — and maybe both — is going to end up winning the Big 12 regular season title, but at this point, it seems like the Red Raiders have solidified themselves as the third best team in that conference.

Perhaps more importantly, it feels like Chris Beard’s team has started to actually figure things out.

Bart Torvik runs a website that is similar to KenPom in the sense that it is an analytics driven database that ranks all college basketball teams based on a number of different stats and algorithms that are beyond the comprehension of my feeble mind. What I do understand, however, is how to tinker with some of the stats that Torvik provides, and one of the cool things about is site is that it allows to you see how a team ranks over a specific period of time. When it comes to Texas Tech, they jumped up into the top 20 nationally with this win over the Horned Frogs, but they are a top five team in the country since January 1st. If you whittle that dataset down to January 26th, the day after the lost to Kentucky and the day before they beat West Virginia at home, Texas Tech has been the best team in all of college basketball.

Most importantly, they seem to have figured out how to take advantage of all the weapons they have on the offensive end of the floor. They’ve ranked as the ninth-best offense in college basketball for the last three weeks. They rank 21st nationally in offensive efficiency since Jan. 1st. That stretch has bumped them up from a team that was outside the top 100 in offensive efficiency to one that sits at 49th on Torvik and 54th KenPom.

Put another way, Kyler Edwards is playing some of his best ball of the season, Davide Moretti is back to being Davide Moretti, Jahmi’us Ramsey is doing what he does and T.J. Holyfield is finally playing like a guy that can be a weapon on the perimeter.

I feel comfortable saying this now: Beard has solved the Rubix Cube that his this year’s Texas Tech team.

Nobody ever solved a Rubex cube by beating three garbage teams.

 

[STL_Cat]

Who cares about this nonsense? Seriously. Not worth caring about.

 

[wkucat88]

"There are lies, damn lies, and statistics"

 

[Elliott Tim]

Tech has lost three of its last four games. Troll much?

They're all out to get us

 

[GonzoCat90]

A lot of college basketball writers love Chris Beard, and rightfully so, I think he's a tremendous coach.

A lot of college basketball writers predicted Texas Tech to be a top contender again this season based on the magic of what Beard was able to do last year.

So a lot of college basketball writers are going to use this recent surge to justify their original stances, articles, columns, podcasts, and votes.


There's also no slight to Kentucky in an arbitrary criteria that clearly starts after their loss to us. It's acknowledging that we beat them, but otherwise they're playing great. That's a compliment to us. It's also such a meaningless line to draw that it doesn't matter what you say after you draw it.