I dunno, I feel like being down 4 points to Houston is a pretty rough spot to be in. Underwood is throwing everything and the kitchen sink and his guys look exhausted.
So in regards to Ohio St nobody thinks they found something defensively against Loyola? One of the best offensive teams over the past 5vyears. It could be a one off but if they shutdown Nova nobody would feel OSU stepped up defensively?
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We’re at 75 now on Kenpom. I feel like we’ve done better on defense and I do think Frankie has been a revelation on that end.
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Hard to say, loyola was struggling with layups and while some of that is that Osu was playing better defense…they didn’t do anything generational problems special imo
Illinois is going to win
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I straight up do not want to play Ohio State even if they turned out to be the worst team in the tournament.
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Loyola is not one of the best offensive teams of the last 5 years. They’ve always been a defensive first team. Their O is mid
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more of a Craigslist team
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Keep your mouth shut and give me a second to edit Boutros!
FTR my original post said eBay instead of best
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Apparently not
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Kelvin Sampson is a good coach
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Aaron Craft? I mean, he’s no Brad Davison, but he’s in the neighborhood.
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my rooting interests are difficult to pin down. I mostly just hate everyone that isn’t Michigan
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I didn’t particularly like Thad, but I have nothing against Holtmann or his teams. I love EJ Liddell.
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Well they are both white, short, and have short hair.
I don’t think Craft was dirty. Crafts main insufferability was more with the media doing the David Eckstein “gritty white guy” thing, which isn’t his fault.
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Yeah its been a few years since I have had any ill will towards the OSU bball program. Mostly like Holtmann and a lot of their players. I just dont want to play them again even if they are a worse team than Villanova.
Absolutely no other player gets calls like Liddell and I dont feel like enduring that kind of frustration with an Elite 8 on the line.
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Yeah, Craft was a flat out good player and annoying to play against. Nothing like Brad Davison.
Yeah I don’t want to play them but that’s less existential dread about our rivalry with them and more “Indont want to play a team three times”.
Craft was fine but massively overrated. Andy Katz would have been calling him a top 5 player in conference. That is why I hated him
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They have hit 49% of their shots from the field since 2017 that’s pretty decent