Bear Down Wildcats

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Alieberman wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:08 pm I fucking love everything about Tommy Lloyd

S16 in two of his first three seasons, and he's got us on the threshold of an E8 right now.

BTFD!

Watching games from Austin, TX, this weekend. Incredible city if any of ya'll haven't been before.

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Anyone know the tip time for Saturday?

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Anyone know the tip time for Saturday?

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U.P. Zona Fan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:24 pm Morehead has Illinois on the ropes.

This didn’t age well.

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Actually, my takeaway is that we showed today that we don’t need Love to get 25+ in order to win. Are we vulnerable when he isn’t shooting well? Absolutely. But we have a balanced scoring attack that most teams won’t be able to match. Also, Love will definitely have a break out game in this NCAA tou...

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PHXCATS wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:00 pm Hope he stays but wouldn't blame him after how fans and shitty podcast hosts treat him

Good point. If a player leaves, we have ourselves to blame.

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So tentatively, for next season:

Lewis
Bradley
Boswell
Bryant
Phillips
Stephen
Sanon
Krivas
Anderson
Martinez

That's already 10 names. I don't what to expect with Borovicanin, Veesaar, Murauskas or any of the other reserves.

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Tommy is EN FUEGO with recruiting. I can't believe Sanon is going to play for us NEXT SEASON.

He wants to win the Big 12 in our first season.

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But, let's be honest, he will have to make a huge leap to surpass Kerr's floor generalship, and assist performance. One thing Kriisa did excel at was his court vision. Boswell doesn't even come close to it, at least yet. Sorry, my recollection of Kriisa is different. In his final game at AZ, he wen...

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TheCat wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:43 am Someone is going to get a future star with Raynaud.

Yep. After last year, I'm pretty confident that Tommy's going to do well with transfers again. What are our biggest roster needs for next season?

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But, let's be honest, he will have to make a huge leap to surpass Kerr's floor generalship, and assist performance. One thing Kriisa did excel at was his court vision. Boswell doesn't even come close to it, at least yet. Sorry, my recollection of Kriisa is different. In his final game at AZ, he wen...

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I just wanted to post this now before the Tournament starts. (I want to do this now, as I usually need to stay away from the boards for a little while if we happen to face an early exit) This year was awesome and I've watched almost every game. Except for about 4 or so games- this team has looked g...

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I’ve got Arizona, UConn, Kentucky and Purdue in the FF. AZ wins the title. Just wanted to go on record. I can't see Purdue and Arizona in a Final Four together. Two very similar programs with regard to a plethora of NCAA tournament failures. It would be nice for either to finally break through and ...

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Tom has to assert himself and have the nuts to bench Boswell and start Bradley. I really think our chances of winning increase without Boswell as this point. No more Mr. Nice Guy. You have to put your team in the best possible situation to win. Never let the inmates run the asylum. Okay, CO. Enough...

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I thought he was 30 when he was at AZ? I'm gobsmacked that this guy is still playing college basketball. Is he a senior yet, or is taking a gap year and then coming back for the 2025-26 season? Maybe he can transfer back to UK to finish where he started. NCAA careers aren't supposed to last as long...

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Captain Obvious wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:48 pm
Chicat wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:20 pm McCullar is out for the tourney. Tough break for Kansas.
I still see Kansas making the Sweet 16. Everyone is picking them to lose in the first round. Ain't happening. Bill Self is the best coach in college basketball and has been for at least 10 years.

Jay Wright says hi.

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I’ve got Arizona, UConn, Kentucky and Purdue in the FF. AZ wins the title.

Just wanted to go on record.

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I'm deciding how much I want to put down on Long Beach State. I regret not doing the same last year with Princeton. Could have really cleaned up. Take my winnings and buy more Bitcoin. Or wait for a market crash and buy the dip. CO, how about telling us which team you're actually a fan of. Don't be...

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Apologies don’t know how to embed the tweet, but they got a photo of Boswell going around right now. https://x.com/koby_thiel/status/1768841277720994018?s=46 So the pic has been deleted? I can't find it anywhere. It’s in this thread still. And we have it confirmed that that's him, and that the pic ...

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Alieberman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:48 pm Can't blame our draw for anything.

It's now 100% about our guard play

Yep.

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Actually, I'm with azcat49 on this.

This is as favorable of a path to the S16 we've had in recent years, and we know that we are among the best teams in the country when playing well. If our guys show up, we should get to the second weekend.

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I gotta say: I'd rather have UNC in our region than Purdue, UConn or Houston. It's right there for us if this team can get its shit together.

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GTownCat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:01 pm Apologies don’t know how to embed the tweet, but they got a photo of Boswell going around right now.

https://x.com/koby_thiel/status/176884 ... 4018?s=46

So the pic has been deleted? I can't find it anywhere.

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I’m noticing more folks questioning the overall vibe and tone Lloyd brings to the court. He couldn’t be more different from Miller, but I’m not even sure he brings as much intensity and fire as Lute. If it’s true that Lloyd tends to shrug a lot and not really react to losses, that’s going to influen...

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Since the book is now out on how to beat UA with no answer by Lloyd, I suspect making the S16 would be categorized as a successful season. UA just has too many athletes to lose in the first two rounds. Doubt UA will lose to a sub-100 team like Princeton again. That’s what I’m thinking too. If we ru...

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Thanks for the clarification, guys.

I think there is 0% chance Love plays another season at AZ.

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My Questions for Caleb: Should Caleb turn pro after this season? He's unlikely to be drafted by the NBA. (#81 consensus rating - https://www.nbamockdraftdatabase.com/big-boards/2024/consensus-big-board-2024) What can/could/should he improve in another year of college ball to increase that ranking? ...

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The latter by far. We’ll have to see what our region looks like tomorrow. If UNC is the 1 in our region, that’s not exactly an unbeatable opponent. I love our chances to win 2 games in this year’s tournament. That’s really not setting the bar very high for this team. Nobody for this Arizona team is...

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What’s going to be more surprising over the next few weeks? Losing in the first round or reaching the FF? The latter by far. We’ll have to see what our region looks like tomorrow. If UNC is the 1 in our region, that’s not exactly an unbeatable opponent. I love our chances to win 2 games in this yea...

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What’s going to be more surprising over the next few weeks? Losing in the first round or reaching the FF? The latter by far. We’ll have to see what our region looks like tomorrow. If UNC is the 1 in our region, that’s not exactly an unbeatable opponent. I love our chances to win 2 games in this yea...

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Merkin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:28 am Lloyd has never lost two in a row. So lose the game before the one you want to win.

Think we’ll get to the S16. I’d be surprised to win any more beyond that.

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stats look brutal. esp the way oregon dominated in the paint Our unforced turnovers are killing us - did they hit some tough shots? Absolutely, but we gave up a lot of chances for us to put points on board Not having a PG who could get the ball into Ballo the entire second half is a whole nother pr...

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Think we'll be the 2 in the West.

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MrKyle wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:22 pm If we don’t get some kind of decent level production and offensive execution from our guards we are dead in water

Yep. And like I've been saying for years, the hot shooting is going to come our way one of these years. We have guys who can shoot. But those same guys also occasionally go 1-9.

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we can't win with Love scoring 6 points. That's just objectively true from this point forward. And Boz not giving much either Boz is less consistent than Love offensively, though. We gotta have Love getting around 20 from here on out. It's the risk we took with Love. He wasn't always a high FG% sho...

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we can't win with Love scoring 6 points. That's just objectively true from this point forward.

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Someone explain to me: why won't this happen next week against a lower seeded team with outstanding 3 point shooting? This will happen next Saturday That's what everyone will be expecting. But ffs, doesn't our luck in the NCAA tournament HAVE to turn around at some point? Like, every year there are...

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How does the Pac POY have only 6 points?

This is the thing with Caleb: he's streaky. And if he's not hitting, he'll just keep shooting as our deficit grows.

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Someone explain to me: why won't this happen next week against a lower seeded team with outstanding 3 point shooting?

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MrKyle wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:55 pm Head scratching how bad our offense can be - we really need a top tier point guard; so frustrating to watch our team year after year struggle executing offense

Boswell was among the highest rated PGs in his class, so it's not for lack of trying.

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Here is my concern regarding this game. While we easily won both games we gave Oregon the roadmap for success in the second half of our dominate home win. While I understand our lack of motivation with a large lead it gave them confidence that they could score against us and that we were vulnerable...

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84Cat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:10 pm UNC is 7th in the net, we're 4th. That would be total bs for them to pass us. Either the net is now worthless or the Pac12 is getting screwed once again

If we win today and tomorrow, we're a #1 seed, regardless of what UNC does.

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Mississippi St.defeating Tennessee in their first game of the SEC tournament is pretty shocking. Lunardi thinks this opens the door for UNC getting the one seed, but could we still have a chance if we win the next two games? Absolutely. Our resume probably outshines UNC's if we win today and tomorr...

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https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1768475806546669569 This had to happen. Stanford has been better in the past than what Haase has been able to achieve. Anyone remember the Trent Johnson era? He got to the NCAA tourney in 3 of the 4 seasons he was their coach, and he got to the S16 in '08.

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84Cat wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:16 pm UCLA/Oregon in a tight one

Altman > Cronin

By every reasonable metric.

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So, I'll say it - today, the 'Cats are playing to keep a #2 seed, and maybe even seeding in the West. At least SLC pod is a lock. I think there's zero chance of us dropping to a 3 seed, even with a loss today. Worst case scenario would be a 2 seed outside of the west region. Our metrics are not tho...

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UCLA lives for another day to play Oregon Oregon isn't very good. I'd rather play UCLA or Oregon than USC It's another one of these weeks this season where we can only hurt our tourney seed, not help it. Beating USC and UCLA does absolutely nothing for our seed position. I'm so over the Pac. Also, ...

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84Cat wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:44 pm UCLA lives for another day to play Oregon

Oregon isn't very good.

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AZ opens at -8.5

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AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:13 pm USC defeats Washington. We'll get our chance at revenge at noon tomorrow.

USC is playing better and blah blah blah. We should beat them, and we will. I'm expecting our guys to come out focused and motivated.

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