So UCF shot a million 3s vs Kansas.
And made 14. Also shot 88% FTs. I think BYUs length can bother them.
UCF also played 5 guys over 35 mins. They don’t get much production from their bench
BYU is favored on the road for some reason. Both h teams can score but byu has better d
Mid 70s. BYU by 3
Would love to see KY try a front line of Mag, Keita, and Catchings with Saunders and Demin.
That would leave Hall, Knell, Foos, Baker, and Kovitch to come in and put in the rest of a stomping…line swapping on the regular I don’t think I’ve seen in bball except Nolan Richardson came close a few times with the Razorbacks.
For the most part, it’s a nine player rotation of Keita, Foos, Mag, Catchings, Saunders, Baker, Demin, Hall and Knell. Boskovic needs to get some time but he will next year for sure. Young for the most part is going to lean on the upperclassmen with experience on the floor that can contribute and play defense. Catchings is quickly learning and growing. Hall looked better Saturday as well. Knell even played some good defense at times.
Disagree. Hall had a couple of moments in the game where he looked good. He made several bad mistakes at the end that could have cost BYU the game. I am still waiting for him to play a good game from start to finish.
Oh wow! He made a mistake. One mistake. So forget about the good things he did the entire game. He’s moving better. Forget about that. Forget about shooting better. More comfortable on the court. He looked so much better. Ya, he bobbled the ball. So, that negates the entire game…
Of the players I expected to be leading the team, he is the only one who is a complete shock. Especially after the glowing reports from KY over the summer.
He could make a major difference as the team hits the core of the B12 competition in the next few weeks. The team could use him; his future as a bball player would improve too.
I suspect the injury isn’t completely healed. Some injuries take a long time to heal. I had knee surgery in 1978 and it really took 2 year before I felt 100%. I could play on it and stuff, but there was always that feeling of weakness.
I remember also Fred Roberts having a great year in 1978-79. Then, at some point early on in the next season, his numbers went way down. He was hesitant. It was weird. Then, someone figured it out that he was putting a contact lens in the wrong way in one of his eyes. It had become a bit bent one way (new flexible contacts) and so he had this blur or something that caused him to hesitate on drives and shots. They got it fixed and his numbers went way up again.
Two different replies to the same comments. The reactionary one from the Hopper that demonstrates an inability to understand or comprehend and a rational one from Harold that gets exactly what I am saying without all the over reaction and lack of comprehension issues.
Totally missed the mark Hopper.
Totally agree with you Harold.
Not sure why it is so hard for the Hopper to understand.
You should try contact lenses. It might help you comprehend and understand what others are posting. There is a definite weakness to your replies to what others post. Maybe if you get it fixed your comprehension levels will increase and you won’t be so confused or try to twist what others are posting to fit your own narrative.
There must be opposition in all things. Without it, we’d all be speaking Russian or Chinese. There are no darlings in the Big12. Just great games. One on Saturday afternoon.
Not entirely true. Kansas was the Gonzaga of the Big 12. That has changed somewhat with the expansion adding some teams and others leaving. Same has happened in the WCC with Gonzaga. They aren’t the darlings they used to be when BYU played in that conference. Nobody can convince me there wasn’t favoritism for Gonzaga for the 10 years+ that BYU played in the conference and it all started when Jimmer destroyed them in the NCAA tourney in 2011. The west coast conference was a joke for BYU… playing in high school gyms with biased officiating against schools that didn’t care… except for Gonzaga and St. Mary’s and losing to Gonzaga over and over because it was the GWCC basketball darlings that owned and were owed everything they got for bringing in so much NCAA tourney revenue, etc. for the league while the rest of the teams did nothing. Sorry… it’s the truth.
You certainly moved quickly away from Kansas and the Big12 right to the Gonzaga conspiracy 
The fact was, Gonzaga was actually a final 4 talent and coach team. They kept getting the 5 star recruits and transfers. Not as much with St. Mary’s but they too had NBA talent go through there too. We had future European talent and above average coaching.
Back to the Big12, there are lots of talented teams this year in the Big12. Houston is just more experienced with talent than other teams. We have the talent without enough experience with the freshman talent we have. But, seems to be getting better. Pulled out a victory that earlier games would have lost. Like BYU volleyball tonight choked. See what happens tomorrow with both teams.
Gonzaga recruiting and on the court play have not been the same since Tommy Lloyd left for Arizona. Which also happens to coincide with BYU leaving the WCC conference.
Few losing his right hand, the longest serving member of his coaching staff, has meant the Zag’s haven’t been able to recruit or dominate on the court the way they did before. Unless Few can figure out how to create an heir, Gonzaga basketball success will prove as chimerical as Knight’s in Bloomington or Wooden’s at UCLA: a truly great past but not a true blueblood ala Kansas, UNC, or BBN.
Early in the season, when UCF was losing to Kansas by unfathomable numbers I would have agreed with you.
Then when BYU stank it up on the floor, a bit of an exaggeration, losing 3 straight, I thought UCF was going to be a sure loss.
Now I have no idea…One road victory, at the humble Colorado, doesn’t give much confidence.
Two solid conference games from Catchings, weeks apart, doesn’t give much confidence.
Demin seemingly is back to himself, great NBA prospect apparently, but even All-B12? some confidence.
If this was in the MAC, BYU a solid win, but at UCF…can’t miss viewing. Can KY get his team on a true winning streak? Two straight on the road? Can KY get his boys to beat tournament caliber, or at least bubble teams, two in a row?
Almost booked a ticket to Florida to see for myself.
Actually, a team like UCLA wasn’t due to losing Wooden or Frank Arnold. The following coach actually did very well. But, because he didn’t immediately win a national championship, the alumni drove him out. Alumni with money are the oligarchs of sports who destroy sports in many colleges. They don’t give to support. They give to make money from the schools.
Sounds like a greedy conspiracy… but those don’t exist, right?