March 31st, 2018 at 11:22 PM ^
I hope the Michigan fans can continue their MVP peformance.
Point spread seems about right given KenPom and others.
Maybe after spending $400 trillion to build the program, and hiring a shitload of independent contractors in the process, Villanova made a tiny but enormously important design flaw that we can explot???
March 31st, 2018 at 11:22 PM ^
But what does Charles Barkley say???
March 31st, 2018 at 11:24 PM ^
March 31st, 2018 at 11:24 PM ^
box score?
I use to date her back in college in Berlin!
CJ Baird
March 31st, 2018 at 11:33 PM ^
Nova.
March 31st, 2018 at 11:38 PM ^
March 31st, 2018 at 11:49 PM ^
because Clark Kellogg is an idiot. Whether he's functioning or not I don't know. He's awful though.
March 31st, 2018 at 11:23 PM ^
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March 31st, 2018 at 11:29 PM ^
Part of the issue is they like to double team which leaves shooters open.
UM won't do that.
Put Mathews on Brunson.
Z covered Miles Bridges and pretty much shut him down twice this year.
It's worth consideration or maybe just to mix things up if Brunson starts hoisting threes from deep. Mathews would shut him down both inside and outside.
And Z didn't give in to Bridges at the rim, either. The fact is Z largely erased a top 12 or so NBA pick who is, what, 6" taller than him (if not more).
It seems like you're arguing both sides of the coin.
Brunson is the straw that stirs Nova's drink. If Z can't handle him it would makes since to throw some size at him and make him a passer. I think Mathews would shut him down.
but Brunson likes to run the offense in the lane and out of the post. KU. maybe not by design, often ended up with two guys on him down in the paint and block.
If Z can't handle him down there then Mathews should get a shot.
Frankly, a lot of what Brunson does to create space in the post should be called offensive fouls. Z's really strong, stronger than Brunson, so maybe he'll forestall it.
I'd love to know the true heights of both. Z is listed at 6' and Brunson at 6'3" which are both BS. My guess is they are within an inch or so of each other.
March 31st, 2018 at 11:35 PM ^
We looked scary good offensively against Texas A&M, and defensively all tournament (opponents are scoring 0.88 points per possession). Just have to bring our A game one more time.
March 31st, 2018 at 11:42 PM ^
Well, someone better send out a signal for MAAR and Z then. Those 2 need to show up big time to keep pace with Nova.
at money time last night. His defense was suffocating and he became a distributor on offense. In the first half he took the bait and tried driving into traffic and was a TO machine.
I don't know why you're so insistent on being a dick to these guys. It's a team game. People have off nights, other people have big nights. Obviously we all hope everyone plays their best game Monday. You can say that without being a dick
March 31st, 2018 at 11:25 PM ^
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March 31st, 2018 at 11:26 PM ^
Bill Self showed once again why he's never considered a very good x's and o's coach.
Villanova shoots a lot of threes. They're really good at it. That's the one thing you have to try to take away. Kansas helped way too aggressively, played too far off and gave them so many threes. Just a terrible effort and gameplan.
Kansas has actually been pretty bad at defense this year (47th in kenpom). And they were terrible at limiting opponent 3 pointers (235th). So they played their usual game instead of taking their five full days of practice to come up with a gameplan appropriate for the opponent. Bad coaching job by Kansas.
We'll do a much better job on Nova even with just one full day to go over things. We're actually built pretty well to stop Nova because we play up on teams, limit three pointers and have the perimeter defenders in Z, MAAR and Matthews to be able to stay in front of guys without needing help.
I'm slightly worried about actually playing a team that has a 5 that can shoot. We'll see how Moe and Teske play that.
KU is very undisciplined -- they were hoisting contested threes 2 on 4.
March 31st, 2018 at 11:26 PM ^
March 31st, 2018 at 11:29 PM ^
Probably right. Nobody is going to give us a chance. The Ringer, for example, has a pick 'em twitter poll, and Nova gets 81% to our 19% right now with 5000 votes in.
March 31st, 2018 at 11:42 PM ^
but we'll win, so there.