Bear Down Wildcats

Jefe wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 5:01 pm Tutelis and Benn too busy being best buds

RondaeShimmy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 5:46 pm Top 10 in both basically gives Arizona a high floor. Most commonly leading to a E8 loss

2010:
Kansas - adjo (2) adjd (8) = lose 2nd Rd to N Iowa
2011:
duke - adjo (5) adjd (9) = lose to Arizona s16
Kansas - adjo (6) adjd (6) = lose to vcu e8
2012:
Ohio st - adjo (6) adjd (4) = lose to Kansas f4
2013:
Florida: adjo (9) adjd (3) = lose to Michigan e8
2014:
Louisville - adjo (7) adjd (5) = lose to Kentucky s16
2015:
Kentucky - adjo (6) adjd (1) = lose to Wisconsin f4
Arizona - adjo (7) adjd (3) = lose to Wisconsin e8 *Wisconsin was adjo (1) and adj (35) offense>defense
2016:
Virginia - adjo (8) adjd (7) = lose to Syracuse e8
Kansas - adjo (10) adjd (3) = lose to Nova e8
2017:
None - both nova and unc had #11 and #12 in the metrics, so close but not top 10
2018:
Duke - adjo (3) adjd (9) = lose to Kansas e8
2019:
Michigan St - adjo (5) adjd (9) = lose to TTech f4
2021:
Michigan - adjo (9) adjd (4) = lose to ucla e8
Gonzaga had a adjusted defense of 11, just outside

97cats wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 2:21 pm Honorable Mention All Pac12 - feelin it

Beachcat97 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 2:45 pm

97cats wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 2:21 pm Honorable Mention All Pac12 - feelin it

Am I crazy to say he looks like Shaq at times? Not as fierce or athletic as young Shaq, but he moves like him. Ballo is massive, and his confidence has skyrocketed. His touch from outside is also improving.

97cats wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 3:08 pm i think we are good there, Chi

Postmaster wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 3:57 pm Especially if CLo can’t stay out of early foul trouble

azgreg wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 8:17 pm Who's turn is it to say "That's a lot of points."

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 10:35 pm We'll be ahead by 40 two times in the 1h and three times in the 2h and we'll win by 18.

3. Arizona (22-2)

For a power rankings that prides itself on not overreacting too dramatically to any given result, we have to admit: We overreacted to Arizona’s Jan. 25 loss at UCLA. It’s not that it made us think the Wildcats were actually bad, or something; it did, however, make us think UCLA’s defense was the real deal when it locked in, and that Arizona’s spacey high-octane offense was vulnerable to the same slow-the-game-down-and-make-them-run-hard-half-court-stuff-instead tactic that eventually put a wrench into Gonzaga’s well-oiled machine at last year’s Final Four.

Crucial point incoming: This is why the “eye test” is sometimes bad! People don’t like to admit this, especially people paid to comment on college basketball games at halftime, who like to (and sometimes kind of have to) make sweeping pronouncements about teams based on the pure strength of their ability to watch a 40-minute game of basketball. People want to believe in what they see on the floor. But it’s true. Your eyes can lie to you. Any one game can be super deceiving if you just watch it, vibe along, and fail to place it in a larger context. It happens to the best of us.

Of course, impressions can also change when the information does, and we have since collected some good information about both of the Pac-12’s ostensible top two teams. UCLA is 3-3 since that blowout win at Pauley Pavilion, including a 10-point loss to Arizona in which the Wildcats didn’t have anything close to their peak offensive performance (Kerr Kriisa went 3-of-10 from 3, and the team turned the ball over 15 times) and never looked remotely at risk of losing. UCLA followed that defeat with a three-overtime loss at Arizona State, and last Saturday fell to city rival USC. Arizona, meanwhile, is 6-0, having scored 470 points and allowed just 392 in 426 possessions. That is … really, really good, and it’s not even quite as high a standard as the one the Wildcats were setting in league play before that loss to UCLA.

Arizona has been a slightly hard team for us to wrap our mind around. Michigan ended up being average. Illinois wasn’t totally healthy or complete when the Wildcats (nonetheless impressively) won there. No one knew how good Wyoming is when Arizona throttled it in Tucson. And there are whole swaths of the Pac-12 this year that range from deeply to mediocre to just plain terrible, somewhat mitigating the “look at the per-trip numbers Arizona is putting up in a major conference!” observation we’ve made in the past.

But all along, the simplest explanation, the shortest distance to the truth, has been that Arizona is exactly as good as it keeps showing us is is. If not for one bad shooting night in Pauley Pavilion, and a four-point loss in the same building where Kentucky was derailed Tuesday night, Arizona would be unbeaten deep into February. If wouldn’t feel crazy if it were.

ZagCatFan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:53 am People forget Ballo is only 19. He went Spokane when he was 16.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oumar_Ballo_(basketball)

84Cat wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:25 am When is the last time we had a 5:30 start on a Thursday? McKale won't be full to start the game

84Cat wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:25 am When is the last time we had a 5:30 start on a Thursday? McKale won't be full to start the game

Olsondogg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 3:52 pm Just a reminder that the team Arizona plays tonight was picked to tie with Arizona in 4th place in the PAC.

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 4:09 pm

Olsondogg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 3:52 pm Just a reminder that the team Arizona plays tonight was picked to tie with Arizona in 4th place in the PAC.

A lot of basketball yet to be played.

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 4:16 pm

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 4:09 pm

Olsondogg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 3:52 pm Just a reminder that the team Arizona plays tonight was picked to tie with Arizona in 4th place in the PAC.

A lot of basketball yet to be played.

Good thing a lot of basketball has been played.

Tinkle is the anti-Lloyd.

Beachcat97 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 4:30 pm

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 4:16 pm

azgreg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 4:09 pm

Olsondogg wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 3:52 pm Just a reminder that the team Arizona plays tonight was picked to tie with Arizona in 4th place in the PAC.

A lot of basketball yet to be played.

Good thing a lot of basketball has been played.

Tinkle is the anti-Lloyd.

There's a Dumb and Dumber joke in here somewhere.

97cats wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:42 pm Oregon sucks i want a home court boat race saturday evening

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:25 pm I myself want the Ducks dragged through the stands of McKale and skullfucked by every blue hair with a push-button medic-alert badge.

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:25 pm

97cats wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:42 pm Oregon sucks i want a home court boat race saturday evening

I myself want the Ducks dragged through the stands of McKale and skullfucked by every blue hair with a push-button medic-alert badge.