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[Jaydaholmes31]

You knew it was coming! Season starts tonight and I can't wait!!!!!!

[Dom]

Who they playing?

[Jaydaholmes31]

The Washburn Ichabods!

[Dom]

When is the first actual game? and where you think they will finish in the Big 12?

[Jaydaholmes31]

The CBE classic starts Nov. 14 thru the 25th and has games both on campus and at the Sprint Center and include teams like: Syracuse, Fllorida, Kansas, Washington, Bradley, UMKC, etc.. As for our finish in the BIG12? Oklahoma and Texas will be the most experienced teams coming back We'll do good to finish 3rd or 4th as young as we are.

[Dom]

Looks like it's time for Mizzou to get a win at Lawrence

[warthog]

Just read my Sporting News and saw that they didn't even have KU in the top 25. That seemed a little drastic. They had them 4th in the Big 12 behind Texas, Oklahoma, and Baylor. I guess that means that they are picking KU to win the Big 12 North. Do they even do that in basketball? North/south?

[Dom]

In basketball we will play all of the North members twice and the south members once.. but as for the big 12 standings it is all together. So KU would be picked to go 4th, not 1st in the north

[Jaydaholmes31]

The team took a large step forward last night. Our guards (Collins, Taylor, Reed, Morningstar) had 16 assists with zero turnovers which was nice to see and Cole Aldrich was a beast albeit against non-Big12 talent but otherwise good signs. Sherron dropped 17 in the first half and 22 overall and only played 3-4 mins in the 2nd.

[warthog]

Wow, this was a surprise when I read this this morning

Syracuse Stuns Kansas in Overtime 89-81


By J. BRADY McCOLLOUGH
The Kansas City Star Now, the Kansas Jayhawks know how it feels.

Syracuse point guard Jonny Flynn hit a 3-pointer with just seconds on the clock to send the CBE Classic championship game to overtime. The Orange would then rip KU’s heart out with an 89-81 victory and hand the Jayhawks their first loss of the season.

The drama played out very similarly to the way it did in KU’s win over Memphis in the national championship game last April when Mario Chalmers sent the game to overtime with a three. KU center Cole Aldrich went to the line with the Jayhawks leading 69-67. Aldrich made the first free-throw and missed the second, and Flynn stormed down the court and nailed a three with a tired Aldrich unable to get a hand in his face.

Of course, KU’s fan base, which packed the Sprint Center on Tuesday night with 16,988 fans, was familiar with this feeling. The Orange – back then, they were called the Orangemen – beat KU in the 2003 national championship game in New Orleans 81-78, and the only thing the Jayhawks lacked was a three. KU’s Michael Lee had a 3-point attempt blocked by Syracuse’s Hakim Warrick in the final seconds.

Tuesday night’s thrilling finish signaled the true beginning of the 2008 season. The young Jayhawks showed flashes of brilliance; Tyshawn Taylor had 17 points and was one of the main reasons that KU led by as much as 13 points early in the second half. But the Jayhawks showed their inexperience in coughing up that lead during a five-minute stretch during which they were held without a field goal.

The Jayhawks finally showed their age. And surprisingly, it was their best player, point guard Sherron Collins, who turned the ball over on back-to-back possessions, leading to two easy buckets for Jonny Flynn as the Orange turned a 53-41 KU lead into a 54-54 tie.

The teams traded runs after that, and the score was 69-69 when Marcus Morris found Aldrich in the paint for an easy bucket to give KU that 71-69 lead.

The Jayhawks wasted an inspired first half that saw Taylor and Collins dominate the action.

Collins picked up his second foul with 13 minutes, 27 seconds left in the first half, but thanks to his backcourt running mate, the Jayhawks hardly missed him.

Taylor scored 9 of his 11 points during that crucial stretch, which helped No. 23 KU take a 41-30 lead to halftime. Collins, not to be outdone, returned to the lineup at the nine-minute mark and led the Jayhawks with 14 points.

Kansas finished the half on a 10-2 run after letting the Orange climb back to within three, giving the near-sellout crowd at the Sprint Center plenty to cheer about. The KU fans may have been louder during Tuesday night’s first half than during the 2008 Big 12 Tournament.

They were at their loudest during Taylor’s pristine four minutes, when he scored on a 3-pointer and then followed that up with a steal on the other end. Taylor raced with Flynn down the floor, then lost Flynn with a nifty spin move and dropped in a layup to give the Jayhawks a 20-10 lead.

After being outrebounded handily against Washington on Monday night, the Jayhawks hold a 20-15 edge on the Orange through one half.

[Jaydaholmes31]

You shouldn't be too surprised with this young team. I was more surprised how well our young guys played against a good more experienced team. I'm super excited what the future holds for this team. BTW up 3 with 10secs left we should have fouled and sent them to shoot 2 free throws.

[Dom]

UMass beats KU in Lawrence 61-60 today

[warthog]

yeah.

[T-Rich49]

KU played like crap(freshman especially) and did not deserve to win.

[T-Rich49]

looks like KU is going to get Jeff Withey.also looks like Lance Stephenson is down to KU and St John's

[AssKickingBoots]

I'd say KU's team is going to be alot like K-State's team last year. They'll look amazing one night and terrible the next. While some people are doubting if they are even a top 25 caliber team, I don't think anyone is doubting that they'll be a tournament team come time, and they'll be a dangerous one at that.

KU fans will just have to take the bad with the good in the meantime.

[T-Rich49]

AssKickingBoots, on Dec 17 2008, 07:33 PM, said:

I'd say KU's team is going to be alot like K-State's team last year. They'll look amazing one night and terrible the next. While some people are doubting if they are even a top 25 caliber team, I don't think anyone is doubting that they'll be a tournament team come time, and they'll be a dangerous one at that.

KU fans will just have to take the bad with the good in the meantime.

completely agree,this is similair to the team when Mario, Brandon and Julian were frosh and the scary thing is I think this team is already ahead of where that team was at this point

[T-Rich49]

KU got smacked by Arizona last night.in related KU news Arizona transfer Jeff Withey has decided to transfer to KU

[AssKickingBoots]

T-Rich49, on Dec 24 2008, 02:47 PM, said:

KU got smacked by Arizona last night.in related KU news Arizona transfer Jeff Withey has decided to transfer to KU

Man, I figured I was already tempering expectations, but even that's looking pretty outlandish. The way things are going, I'm not sure anybody from the Big XII North is gonna deserve to be in the tournament.

[warthog]

T-Rich49, on Dec 24 2008, 02:47 PM, said:

KU got smacked by Arizona last night.in related KU news Arizona transfer Jeff Withey has decided to transfer to KU

What a traitor.