RonsanJK said:

It means something because top 25 teams get more coverage than those outside of the top 25... generally speaking.

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Exactly! It makes a BIG difference

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Indiana will be a bye game for someone in the first round.

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Cardiac Red said:

Kenny Payne is gone man, let's lose all the negative vibes. This team is going to go tooth and nail with every team they play. We're probably not going to win them all but some teams are just flat out going to be better than us.. The only concern I have at all is free throw shooting.

Cards win this game by 6 - 10 points and the YUM will be lit !!

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Where you at?

UofLouisville said:

With the number of shots they throw up it is irrelevant whether they shoot better in a certain time frame. A stretch of 30% doesn't mean squat if they shoot 70% 5 minutes later while throwing up 25 shots and 12 are 3's. Recognize they have 12 shooters and 11 have experience. Not all of them will have a bad night and any of them can lay the wood on any given evening.

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You still feel this way?

Told Ya! I’ll eat crow when I’m wrong like the Clemson game but I’ll dam well rub it in when I’m right. We were led to believe we were great. I’m still on the Kelsey bandwagon, even though I thought it was a risky hire, but he had a good postgame presser, let’s see if he can deliver it.

Apparently we're not the only ones thinking this...

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Ipartiedwithhopgood said:

Just curious, how do you know they spent a lot of $ on the roster? How many of the NIL contracts have you seen? Not sure how we can discuss NIL too extensively when we don't have the info on what UofL spent and/or the info on what other teams spent.

They tried on Osobor, Quantance, and Bello and apparently didn't have the $ to get them. I don't think those guys took less $ to go other places.

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I agree but not sure any of them really change the season. I am not a big guy on post play in this modern era of basketball. The college game is a guards game. Bottom line their guards-slash wings torched our guards and wings. With that said there aren’t many bigs that can legit shoot it, drive it, pass it and play down low. There are lot more big uglies that set screens and do the ugly work.

When you play 5 out offensively your bigs better force the traditional big to come out or your guards better be able to put the big on skates. Then your wings have to be able to slash and force rotations. Louisville did none of that. Again they had 2 -3legit perimeter defenders.

We will see.

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the artist FKA zipp said:

Hate on Payne all you want. A 22-point home loss against the #12 team in the country is not significant improvement from last year. Don’t believe me, check comparable scores against the best teams on last year’s schedule.

Dominating hapless teams gives you a false sense of accomplishment. And style points—shooting and missing a bunch of outside shots—isn’t progress either.

Paul Rogers said at the 5-minute mark in the first half that “Tennessee didn’t buy into the hype.” Nor should our own fans…

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Except that you won’t find any games (even exhibition games against D2 schools) during the Payne tenure where UofL won by 48.

Yes, Tennessee dominated us. The 22 point loss was still less than Payne’s 26 point loss to Arkansas, his 32 point loss to Texas A&M, and his 25 point loss to Maryland, all during his 9 game losing streak to start his first year.

That is the problem. The whole system is built of predictive metrics not performance. Basing the playoff on Vegas, let’s not play the games.

IU and BYU are undefeated at this point what they would do against anyone is in the future should be irrelevant. They are 1 4-5 teams that remain undefeated. They should have been ranked in the top 4-5. They were ranked 8-9 respectively. The impact is they will both be sitting behind 1 loss teams next week. They lose they drop out of playoff rankings. Wouldn’t be shocked to see Alabama jump both of them. IU and BYU are undefeated defeated behind Penn St and Tennessee? Why? Penn State has beat no one. Tennessee has beat Alabama. The loss to Ohio State and Arkansas were completely ignored. There is zero justification for where the committee put BYU and IU. Let’s BYU and IU prove they aren’t worthy don’t rank based off predictive metrics. That is for us degenerate gamblers.

What are we doing? We are rigging it for TV.