UK, KU, Duke and UNC

[coryfly]

This seems pretty over the top. We’re talking about 18-22 year olds. They probably barely showed symptoms.

I don’t remember anyone ever talking about a team’s season being derailed because some players caught the flu several weeks before the tourney.

If 8 players caught the flu they may have had those conversations. A few years ago there were around 4 UNC players who caught some illness from a team they played and got absolutely drilled in the tournament the next weekend. Did it matter? Maybe not as they would have lost anyway IMO but they sure didn't look the same.

I've known healthy people in their 20s who were fatigued for weeks after having Covid though. I tend to agree that is taking the worse case scenario outlook though so understand your point.

 

[rockycard]

This seems pretty over the top. We’re talking about 18-22 year olds. They probably barely showed symptoms.

I don’t remember anyone ever talking about a team’s season being derailed because some players caught the flu several weeks before the tourney.

You have no clue because Kansas hasn’t been hit by the virus. Louisville has had two prolonged stents with Covid, the first games back we’ve lost by 37 and 45. Don’t tell me that it doesn’t affect the young kids.

 

[Villian07]

If 8 players caught the flu they may have had those conversations. A few years ago there were around 4 UNC players who caught some illness from a team they played and got absolutely drilled in the tournament the next weekend. Did it matter? Maybe not as they would have lost anyway IMO but they sure didn't look the same.

I've known healthy people in their 20s who were fatigued for weeks after having Covid though. I tend to agree that is taking the worse case scenario outlook though so understand your point.

Yea it really just affects everyone different. Former women’s Louisville player Asia Durr is much younger than me and had been battling covid for like 3 months, lost 30 lbs, not sure what her basketball careers gonna look like. I had it, 10 years older, and only thing that happened was I couldn’t smell. We can’t assume everyone easily overcomes it the same.

 

[dukedevilz]

Have 37 combined losses this year with a handful of games left. There is an outside chance that they will have 50 losses at the end of the season. Has this ever happened and if so, when?

Here's a project for you @dukedevilz

This is the first I'm seeing this thread for some reason. I'll see what I can find as far as combined losses in a single season.

 

[dukedevilz]

@GhostOf301 Here's how the current season compares to some of the worst combined seasons among the four blue bloods. This season is historically bad. 1973 is the only other time in the past 80 years where these schools have had a combined winning percentage under 60%.

There's a decent chance that we will see 50 combined losses this year, which would be the first time ever. These four programs have been wildly spoiled. This season will break a streak of 30 consecutive years where the schools combined to have a winning percentage north of 70%. The last time they went under 70%, was 1989-90 where they combined to go 94-41, with a winning percentage of 69.6%.

Most combined losses in a season
1982-83: 49
1972-73: 48
1988-89: 47
1973-74: 42
1989-90: 41
1981-82: 41
1975-76: 41
1950-51: 41
2013-14: 40
1949-50: 40
2020-21: 39
1971-72: 39
1999-00: 39
1971-72: 39

Worst combined winning percentage
1915-16: 50.0%, 34-34
1928-29: 54.3%, 44-37
1919-20: 54.8%, 34-28
1920-21: 55.4%, 36-29
1910-11: 56.3%, 27-21
1927-28: 56.7%, 38-29
1938-39: 56.8%, 46-35
2020-21: 57.1%, 52-39
1918-19: 57.4%, 31-23
1972-73: 57.5%, 65-48
1911-12: 57.8%, 57.8%


2021 and 1973 are the only sub-60% years in the past 80 seasons. Crazy.