OPEN GAME THREAD: Alabama
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 12:00 PM CST
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Welcome, fellow Cat fans, to the Validation Game.
Are we going to show the consistency expected of Top 25 programs, or are we going to fall flat on our face in the Deep South and endure humiliation like Matthew Broderick in "Biloxi Blues"?
To find the answer to that question, check out:
- Time Warner Cable Channel 20, if you live in Kansas City
- Cox Cable Channel 98, if you live elsewhere in Kansas
That's it. If you don't meet one of those two criteria, you're doomed to Wyattvision. I'll keep an eye out for streams, but the usual source doesn't live in Kansas, so things look bleak for out-of-staters right now.
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Anyone watching Texas pound North Carolina?
For my money, the Longhorns are the best team in the Big 12 — and the country — right now.
Kansas couldn’t even put 54 points on Michigan in a half, much less No. 10 North Carolina. I think Texas wins in Austin and gets the No. 1 seed in Kansas City.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 2:52 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Oops, spoke too soon
Texas fell asleep again.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 2:59 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Spoke too soon again
Texas 103, North Carolina 90
Even Dickie V said Texas is the best team, by a smidge, over Kansas.
Rank ’em #1, voters!
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 3:22 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Meh
It’s too early to tell with those two teams on who’s better. For all we know, we’re better than the both of them…
I don’t think anyone should take what “Dickie V” says too serious. His analysis and opinions are based on which teams are doing hot right now thus creating more bandwagon fans. Well except for Duke and UNC because he’s already given one of his own testicles to each one of the schools.
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by mystman995 on Dec 19, 2009 3:32 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
It's never too early to declare
that KU sucks.
My point was that EVEN Vitale can see that Texas is better. He’s usually the last one to notice things.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 8:19 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Who the hell voted for Alabama?
Hater! ;-)
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 2:52 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Xavier down 1, with the ball and 1.2 seconds
Could be a crazy finish in Indianapolis.
Too bad Drew Lavender still isn’t on their team.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 3:12 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Wow, Xavier just got fucked on the worst call I've ever seen
They ran off the clock, saying it had paused earlier and time would have expired during the last Butler shot.
Fuck that shit.
Wait’ll you see this one on SportsCenter. Quite possibly the craziest ending I’ve ever seen.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 3:21 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
So would that be like saying
that Nebraska should have one the Big 12 title game because we’re pretty sure the refs earlier in the game stopped the clock a little too early?
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Now Introducing the new 2009 Big 12 Baseball Tournament Champions: UT, KSU*, BU*, and MU*!
by mystman995 on Dec 19, 2009 3:33 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Totally different situations, dude
One was a dead-ball situation.
This was live-ball.
Not even remotely comparable.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 8:22 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Sports Center thought it was right
I like replay and giving the refs a chance to fix it, but my thing with that play was that Butler would have seen that they had less time and they would have had to play that last 14 seconds differently. Maybe they would have been in too much of a hurry and screwed themselves over.
Should have left it at what it was. Xavier probably didn’t have much of a chance anyway.
Just Wabash already!
by AlwaysaWildcat on Dec 20, 2009 12:52 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
My biggest problem is that the refs took the game out of the hands of the players
It might technically have been the wrong call, but it’s like ending an NFL game on a penalty and a 10-second runoff: Completely unsatisfying and anticlimactic.
I don’t care how long-shot the odds were. I’ve seen crazier finishes in the NCAA tournament with less time on the clock. The game should be decided by the 10 guys on the floor, not the three in stripes.
I think the rule should be changed such that a minimum of 0.5 second must remain, no matter what. At least give them a chance at a last-second miracle shot. It’s not their fault the homer Butler clock operator screwed them with either incompetence or malice.
by BracketCat on Dec 20, 2009 10:34 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
http://www.justin.tv/atlcat21
a bit jumpy but AtlCat is coming thru for us out of KS.
by Houcat on Dec 19, 2009 7:11 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
anyone have the access code for the channel?
or do i need to sign up
by Clubbzilla on Dec 19, 2009 7:17 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Do you have the access code? I've signed up but no access code yet
GO STATE!!!!
by wabasher on Dec 19, 2009 7:33 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Kansas Represent
Shockers exposing Texas Tech so far, up 14 at the half.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 8:06 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Called that one two weeks ago
Snaketrap.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 8:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Great
Picture is frozen.
This is so third-world, bush-league.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 8:14 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Pretty awful
What’s up with the picture?
by williewildcrack on Dec 19, 2009 8:17 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
keep me posted on "how we look"...
i am just following the espn box score – being an out-of-stater and all…
--VegasCat07
by VegasCat07 on Dec 19, 2009 8:21 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Pretty damn good, so far
22-12 Cats
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 8:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
OU almost lost...
…to N. Colorado. Heheheh.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 8:29 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Is GameCast correct
and nobody’s scored in 1:35?
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 8:29 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Soon as I said that
Jake hit the three.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 8:30 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
It's late
Jake just ripped off 5 in a row.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 8:30 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
If Bama's going to insist
on shooting 29%, I may need popcorn.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 8:32 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Shoulda kept my mouth shut.
Sorry.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 8:33 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
So much for the pundits' retarded assertin
That we won’t shoot like we did in Vegas again.
4 of ’em already.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 8:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Congratulations, Jacob Pullen
1,000 career points for Agent Zero.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 8:41 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Tech tied it up
53-53, 8:24
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 8:42 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Team Pullen looks pretty good
I’m hoping it stays like that in the 2nd.
by williewildcrack on Dec 19, 2009 8:54 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
The scary part
is if you subtract Jake, it’s still just a tie game.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 8:55 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Checkin' IN
Holy crap Jake.
Keep. It. Up.
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Now Introducing the new 2009 Big 12 Baseball Tournament Champions: UT, KSU*, BU*, and MU*!
by mystman995 on Dec 19, 2009 8:58 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
This justintv link
sucks. Oh well.
Introducing the new 2008 Big 12 Football Champions: OU, UT*, TT*, and MU*!
Now Introducing the new 2009 Big 12 Baseball Tournament Champions: UT, KSU*, BU*, and MU*!
by mystman995 on Dec 19, 2009 9:13 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Wichititty State is doing EVERYTHING they can to lose
And probably will win regardless.
F you, Tech. We’re taking your spot.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 9:15 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
New Mexico
is trying real hard to lose to Creighton, too.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:19 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
We could really charge in the AP poll.
Tech, Florida, Georgetown all lost today, and we won’t even speak of what happened to Gonzaga.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:22 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Remember when Portland was everybody's darling
for 10 minutes?
Washington 16, Portland 2.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:20 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Wally Judge breakout game?
10 points, 6 rebounds
Kid looks good.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 9:20 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
TIme for a Pullen 3 point drinking game
by williewildcrack on Dec 19, 2009 9:28 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
I don't have enough booze.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:29 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
would have to be based on...
drinking when he misses if you value being conscious…
:-)
--VegasCat07
by VegasCat07 on Dec 19, 2009 9:31 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
UNM caught Creighton
after being down 16. 45-44 UNM, 11:05
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:35 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
OK, so how far do we move up?
Ahead of us, these teams lost today (most of them ugly):
No. 9 Tennessee
No. 10 North Carolina
No. 11 Georgetown
No. 13 Florida
No. 15 Gonzaga
No. 16 Texas Tech
I’m thinking 12th in the AP or so.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 9:38 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
12 sounds good
Makes me kinda nervous
by williewildcrack on Dec 19, 2009 9:40 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
i will guess 14th
as a conservative estimate. :-)
--VegasCat07
by VegasCat07 on Dec 19, 2009 9:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
It depends on how guys actually do their ballots.
We could move all the way to 11.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Hello, CK
Glad you could join us. ;)
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:38 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Or did GameCast bollix it up?
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:39 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Talking to myself! Call the shrink!
Yeah, they screwed it up… gave CK a 3, when it was Chavez Davis. /eyeroll
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:42 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
So, looking back at the poll
Two of you were wrong.
:-)
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 9:40 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Alabama looks tired and K-State looks bored
by williewildcrack on Dec 19, 2009 9:43 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
This business of letting them score can stop now.
Bama’s FG% is all the way up to 37%.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:43 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
We got Bad Jamar for this game
Too bad.
There were opportunities there for him today, but he can’t finish shit tonight.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 9:44 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Watching him shoot free's
Is like being punched in the crotch over and over.
by williewildcrack on Dec 19, 2009 9:45 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
C'mon, guys
There’s no excuse to look this bad against a press.
You see every damn year when we play Mizzou.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 9:47 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
No, we're killing us
Lack of intensity and focus.
You can’t shut it down against BCS teams until the game is over.
Wake up, Cats.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 9:49 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
A five-point play?
How the fuck do you figure that?
Goddammit.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 9:49 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Jake's had enough
Decided to start scoring again. :)
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:55 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
I'm counting that as a 3
For the sake of ….whatever
by williewildcrack on Dec 19, 2009 9:56 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
You're just trying to finish off
that 12-pack, aren’t you?
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:57 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Thing to not like
Jake’s got 5 TOs.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 9:58 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
There's been a lot of points in the past 2 minutes
damn ’Bama is playing hard
Introducing the new 2008 Big 12 Football Champions: OU, UT*, TT*, and MU*!
Now Introducing the new 2009 Big 12 Baseball Tournament Champions: UT, KSU*, BU*, and MU*!
by mystman995 on Dec 19, 2009 9:59 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
OK, I'm glad we have three weeks
To work on the press, before we have to go to Columbia.
Get this shit fixed, Frank.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 10:01 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Hope he gets it fixed in the next 10 days.
Did you see what Cleveland State did to WVU today?
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 10:04 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, but that won't happen in Bramlage
I only see two teams that I think could come into Bramlage and play well enough to win: Kansas and Texas.
I’m much more concerned about road games.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 10:08 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Agree, but
It’s still concerning.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 10:09 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Interesting stat just now from Ben
20-6 since the 0-4 start to Big 12 play last year.
Only 3 of those games were against rummies.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 10:05 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
UNM completes 21-point turnaround
ices Creighton. Boo!
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 10:10 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Doesn't affect us
We’ll stay ahead of them.
Man, Creighton has really tanked this year.
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 10:11 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
They're ahead of us in the ESPN poll.
Not that we care, but still. ;)
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 10:13 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I don't look at that poll
It is irrelevant.
AP all the way
by BracketCat on Dec 19, 2009 11:10 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
That didn't look good
for Clemente’s ankle.
by williewildcrack on Dec 19, 2009 10:12 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
30 for Jake.
Gotta love that.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 10:16 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Well there you go
Another solid win.
by williewildcrack on Dec 19, 2009 10:17 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Very pleased.
Looking forward to starting the conference slate at 13-1.
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by jonfmorse on Dec 19, 2009 10:18 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Yes
I’m sending good thoughts. Things are looking good. Let’s just keep it going.
by williewildcrack on Dec 19, 2009 10:22 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
not diggin giving up
50 2nd half points… >.< but, win = a win! Go ’Cats!
--VegasCat07
by VegasCat07 on Dec 19, 2009 10:19 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
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