2017-2018 Season

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Jon Rycek said:
Think they were top 5. But yeah look at Kansas, lost on the road to untangled team and fell 1 spot. And both our losses are quality, rankings can be such a joke. Either way glad we are back to ranked in both polls, two cupcakes this week and a few more losses for everyone else we can make another move. I honestly think if we play the way we should we shouldn't have to worry about even getting close to losing a game til February. If we really handle business we don't have Wichita til late Feb, we could go undefeated the next two months
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Jon I'm thinking the same thing. Time to get on a roll. Team is starting to play well. Roles have been defined and we have played enough games to understand what we do best.
 
Quick look at Next weeks schedule and it isn't filled with really any great games, I see a few potential upsets but that's about it. Probably not gonna be a great week for a big jump for the cats. I see about 7-8 games that could potentionally result in an upset. My guess, 2 teams lose and cats make it back in the top 20 in the coaches and 18 in the AP.
 
WAITE HOYT 2 said:
Jon I'm thinking the same thing. Time to get on a roll. Team is starting to play well. Roles have been defined and we have played enough games to understand what we do best.
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I agree I think we really gelled in the UCLA game and if we can win there on the road I'm a lot less worried about our conference road games, only one other than Wichita I'm concerned at all with is SMU, I just don't think anyone else in the conference has enough to beat us this year.
 
Jon Rycek said:
I agree I think we really gelled in the UCLA game and if we can win there on the road I'm a lot less worried about our conference road games, only one other than Wichita I'm concerned at all with is SMU, I just don't think anyone else in the conference has enough to beat us this year.
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if we keeping winning in conference I think that is when you will see are biggest jump. Others teams ahead of us will start taking some losses in conference.
 
WAITE HOYT 2 said:
Some pollsters haven't even seen some of these teams play yet. They will become more accurate as the season goes on.
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You shouldn’t be allowed to vote if you don’t watch a Ton of basketball.

I can legit say that I’ve seen every team I voted for in the reddit poll at least once and most multiple times

Imo the Reddit poll is better then the AP poll
 
justinhub2003 said:
You shouldn’t be allowed to vote if you don’t watch a Ton of basketball.

I can legit say that I’ve seen every team I voted for in the reddit poll at least once and most multiple times

Imo the Reddit poll is better then the AP poll
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the voters dont watch, the coaches dont even do the voting themselves for a lot of teams in the coaches.


the polls really are a waste of time anymore. fill in big name that is always good and go from there. shift them a little when teams lose.
 
cincrulz11 said:
the voters dont watch, the coaches dont even do the voting themselves for a lot of teams in the coaches.


the polls really are a waste of time anymore. fill in big name that is always good and go from there. shift them a little when teams lose.
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Agreed. By end of year the polls may be more accurate but now they are a joke.
 
jacobkdoyle said:
KU won.
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Ok well I retract all earlie statements and also add that sorry, I'm a little dumb sometimes haha. I totally forgot they ended up hitting that 3 at the end of the game. I just remember being so excited they were gonna lose when Nebraska went up 2 I must have just blocked the rest from my mind haha.
 
I am going to add up points, treat an assist as 2 points, rebounds, blocks, steals as 1 point and then subtract TO's as -1 point. None of this is going to take into account other defensive stats like deflections or being where you are supposed to be or guarding ability etc. Obviously this will favor bigger guys because of rebounds and blocks but that's not really the point. I want to compare bigs to bigs, wings to wings, and PG's to PG's.

Clark 309
Washington 180

(Clark is plus 129)

Evans 277
Cumberland 211

(Evans is plus 66)

Broome 180
Jenifer 136

(Broome is plus 44)

Before the season started I was expecting Broome to out perform Jenifer. I thought Cumberland would make a bigger jump. I thought Evans and Clark would stay about the same as last year with more options on the court to score. Well...Gary and Jacob are just filling every part of a stat sheet that you can. And this doesn't even count defensive aspects that are not stats based...and they are our best defenders bar none. Evans could lower the turnovers but outside of that these guys are just killing it so far. Just F-ing impressive!!
 
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Random Stat...I don't think that I've seen this on here but has UC ever had 4 1,000 point scorers playing on the floor at the same time? I think we're in an odd situation because of Kyle & Cane both transferring but Kyle needs 13 pts and Jacob needs 77 pts (probably 5 or 6 games away) to join Gary & Cane in the 1,000 pt club. It just points to how offensively gifted this team is compared to previous Cronin teams. Hopefully they continue to execute like they did @ UCLA!
 
Is it just me or does it seem like every time Cronin is in a presser talking about the players being more concerned about their girlfriends than anything else, that it’s directed at Cumberland, because of the of the court issue before the season?
 
mdchick said:
Is it just me or does it seem like every time Cronin is in a presser talking about the players being more concerned about their girlfriends than anything else, that it’s directed at Cumberland, because of the of the court issue before the season?
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Young college athletes have very little trouble finding girlfriends. I would think he is reminding everyone to stay focused.
 
WAITE HOYT 2 said:
Young college athletes have very little trouble finding girlfriends. I would think he is reminding everyone to stay focused.
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Speak for yourself! I couldn't find a girlfriend for shit in college. Had to hang outside Grady's, Yaght Club, and JC's late-night just to find a fat one or a gargoyle looking chick that would have anything to do with me. Damn those were good times.
 
Hogsack said:
Speak for yourself! I couldn't find a girlfriend for shit in college. Had to hang outside Grady's, Yaght Club, and JC's late-night just to find a fat one or a gargoyle looking chick that would have anything to do with me. Damn those were good times.
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lol!! At least you found someone
 
Interesting that Kyle is still our highest point per 40 minute guy this year (as he was last year). Cane is #2. Gary and Jacob are #3 and #4 but their overall stats are really really really good. Cumberland is trailing at #5...although he is doing other things very well.

Before the season I was thinking Cumberland would end up #1 or very close to it. Time for him to step it up and I think he will in conference. I don't know what is going on in his head but he really got a lot better last year as the season progressed. I hope that happens again.
 

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