Nor did Chris Beard coach and Texas was playing their 3rd game in 3 days.
Should Kansas still be gifted the #1 overall seed?
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The 3rd game in 3 days excuse I see from fellow Jayhawk fans is tiring. Every team has played the exact same schedule and Texas played the same 3 games in 3 days. A few minute difference in minutes played isn’t going to create that big of a difference.
Now KU missing McCullar is a bigger deal than Texas missing Allen just for the simple fact that Texas has a bench they can rely on and KU does not. That inevitably though is just another indictment on KU. They have a lot less room for error.
No, but they’re clearly deeper.
KU’s not built to win three games in three days vs top competition, especially shorthanded.
Then that seems like Kansas’s own problem for not being deeply IMO.
I think that excuse in general is always overexaggerated. These are 20-year-old kids. They are in the best athletic shape they will ever be in and their bodies are oozing with testosterone which massively boosts energy and vitality and their recovery time is miniscule. If they weren't playing games they would be practicing, which is just as grueling in most cases, if not more. There are 80 and 90-year-old people out there finishing Ironman triathlons. I don't think 3 basketball games in 3 days is going to wilt a D-1 athlete down to a shell of himself.
That’s not something that is going to affect every team equally. How many teams have starters that play as many minutes as KU’s? How many teams get next to nothing from their bench? Definitely not Texas.
There’s no doubt that Texas outplayed KU the last two times. It’s also true that KU won the only game between the two that really mattered.
I’m totally fine with Alabama getting the #1, which they probably will, but I don’t think it would be outrageous if the team that lost to Oklahoma by 30 didn’t earn the overall 1.
I wasn’t looking to blame anybody for it. But the main goals are winning the league and winning it all. Not Battle 4 Atlantis and the Big 12 tourney.
With Alabama’s dominant win, they are my pick for overall top seed. The other three should be Purdue, Kansas and Houston. Yeah I am aware that Houston is losing to Memphis right now, but UCLA lost too yesterday and I still refuse to believe a team with 8 losses like Texas deserves a top seed.
Putting Houston over KU in Midwest region means that the committee doesn’t really care about those quad 1 wins. Might as well not even keep track of that record.
But they lucked into UCLA as their 2 seed, and they are all gimped up right now.
The chance to play UCLA a few hours from their campus is the consolation prize?
Stop it. UCLA can't even get their tiny arena at half capacity for home games. 🤣
So throw out quad 1 wins? Then what?
They play in Vegas every year for the Pac-12 tourney and don't show up. I went to it in '19 and '21. I don't think they'll make it that far anyway.
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