So, so this.....Sure they fit the description. But shit, so does Morehead State..Laughing
Sleeper Final Four Picks?
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We've been bad, but we're no DePaul.
Kipper Nichols and Keita Bates-Diop had very similar advanced stats. @Mgkcbb has made the comparison before elsewhere. Kipper's biggest problem is Kipper. If he can get his head on straight, he'll have a solid season. Not sure if it will be the leap that Keita made, but he was really starting to put it together at the end of the year. He's only played 1.5 seasons, so there's room for improvement.
As for Leron, he was a beast on offense, no doubt. He was equally as bad on defense, and his rebounding disappeared last year. I think we'll be able to make up his offense with other guys stepping up, and it doesn't take much to replace what he and Finke did on defense.
Right now I'd say Illinois and DePaul are on the exact same tier, but historically, definitely on a different tier since DePaul has a National Championship and Illinois does not.
We just had our worst season in 40 years. DePaul hasn't won that many games in the last 12 years.
You're in the same league as Temple and San Francisco historically. Illinois is a top 15 program, historically. You're not even on our radar. It's really, really sad that our worst decade has you thinking that DePaul is a peer. I'd hate to ever be that bad.
https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketbal...op-100-college-basketball-programs-based-poll
Edit: In what world does DePaul have a national championship? Did you guys give yourselves one that no one else recognizes? I see a big 0 on the top of this page.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/depaul/
News flash, you ARE that bad. Welcome to the party, pal.
Thanks for the link, congrats on being the only team ranked in the top 17 all time without a national championship.
I really hate to take on such an easy target, but you keep replying.
It would take 11 more years of being worse than we were last season to be that bad. You're in a select group of terrible.
Congrats on not making the top 40! Congrats on breaking 10 wins for the first time in 3 years. You guys are really picking up steam! Maybe this year you'll increase your win total to 12 (that would tie your season high since 07-08).
You guys probably should go back to a conference with the skill-level of CUSA. At least you were able to post a .500+ record in 50% of your years.
Edit: I forgot we played you last year (easy to do). How'd that go?
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I really hate to take on such an easy target, but you keep replying.
It would take 11 more years of being worse than we were last season to be that bad. You're in a select group of terrible.
Congrats on not making the top 40! Congrats on breaking 10 wins for the first time in 3 years. You guys are really picking up steam! Maybe this year you'll increase your win total to 12 (that would tie your season high since 07-08).
You guys probably should go back to a conference with the skill-level of CUSA. At least you were able to post a .500+ record in 50% of your years.
Talk all you want, but the facts remain that your team is just as shitty as my team right now. In fact, only time you've been good in the past 20 years is when Bill Self was using you guys as a stepping stone.
Both won 4 conference games and we got wins vs Marquette and Providence. All your conference wins were against other terrible teams.
Face it, your shit team is very much at the same bottom of the barrel level as my shit team.
We're better than we were last year. You guys can't even get a recruit to stay once they realize who they committed to.
Want to bet who makes the tournament before the next? Any amount of money that you want to put on it.
We're climbing out of the gutter. You're climbing out of the Mariana Trench with weights on your ankle. That's the difference between us.
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Is that an Illinois fan? Wow. It's not every day you come across an endangered species.
Dude, I have posted on here 2,000 more times than you. I've been here awhile.
The majority of those were probably before Illinois were officially added to the endangered list.
I'm a big enough ass hole to represent our entire fanbase on here.
Yep, I was definitely living the high life last year as a DePaul, LSU and Oklahoma fan.
What's wrong with that? There are 351 D-1 schools, and just about everyone is going to have ties with more than one school. I've attended 3 different D-1 schools myself. Throw my siblings into the mix, and we're already up to double digits.
Having allegiance to said school is different than arbitrarily picking a school to bandwagon for year in and year out.
It's not arbitrary or random. My two main teams are DePaul (fan since birth) and LSU (fan since 1987). Every year I pick a freshman or two I really like and follow their team religiously for the year. Last year I picked Trae and OU after seeing him in the PK80.
2 years ago I fell for Lonzo in December and followed UCLA the rest of the year.
3 years ago I followed Jalen Brunson to Nova since he is from the area I grew up.
I also watch an average of 40 CBB games every week during the season. Love the sport and end up having lots of teams I like by the end, some good and some not so good.
I'm a diehard fan.
Personally, I find it weirder when people are diehard fans of one team and don't even watch other games. So much good stuff out there.
Agreed. Only watching 30-40 games a year would be hard, IMO. I DVR a solid 30+ games each week. I usually just watch the 2nd half, unless it's a game I'm really interested in. But I always find myself liking a new team every year it seems like. Here's what I wrote previously concerning some of favorite teams from the past:
I had enough with the mods over at Soundoff. I'm the UCFavorite for POTY. And they moved my thread over here. So buckle up. I'm staying.
https://forums.rivals.com/threads/im-moving-to-the-basketball-board.840929/
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Jones is a year away from being back to what he was. I think he should redshirt. Unless Roach gets hurt, we don't need Jones much.
I think he will be fully ready by Big XII play.
They need Jones. Mainly because of his shooting and defense.
I think with Jones they can play a lot of four guard lineups.
I think we will see
Sims
Coleman
Jones
Liddell
Roach
Liddell can rotate with Hepa who is 6-10.
Then when Texas wants to go big
Sims
Ostenkowski
Hepa
Jones
Roach
Even using Liddell who is 6-6 in the backcourt.
They are a slam dunk homerun NCAA tournament team if healthy.
Can you give me a statistical/fact based reason whyIm wrong?
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