Kansas Jayhawks Links
Ok, lets not get too excited yet as Kentucky isn’t all that but man it feels good to dominate another big name program. Lets see what CBS Sports has to say about the game:
Offense came easy for the Jayhawks, who finished with 24 assists. Little came easy for Kentucky, which didn’t get a 3-point make from high-dollar marksman Milan Momcilovic until the 6:53 mark of the second half. By then, UK’s fate had long been sealed. The Wildcats never drew within single digits in the second half.
Dillon Davis
has 5 quick takeaways from the game, including this on Tyran Stokes:
Stokes looked like the No. 1 recruit in the country and was the best player on the floor all night for either team.
He finished the game with 23 points on 8-of-19 shooting from the field, had 10 rebounds, and dished out four assists. He was a playmaker in every sense of the word – creating shots for himself, creating shots for teammates, and giving all-out effort on defense and on the glass.
He didn’t shy away from the bright lights at all – in fact, he seemed to embrace it. That’s a great sign for Kansas moving forward with many more big games still to come.
A Sea of Blue has a post up and this is basically the Bill Self special, making sure the other team’s star doesn’t get the looks they want:
Whatever offensive scheme the staff has installed isn’t working. In the first half, the best shooter in college basketball last season, Milan Momcilovic, was just 2-for-7 from the floor. Nothing looked easy; it was all one-on-one action.
Moving on to football, here’s a short preview from the West Virginia perspective on the game:
Kansas sits near the bottom of the Big 12 standings and has struggled to find wins, but a closer look at the Jayhawks’ statistical profile suggests they may be a better team than their record indicates. Three of their six losses have come by less than one score.
“Their record should be flipped,” Rodriguez said. “There’s no question.”
Thanks for the reminder guys.
Matt Tait at Wave the Wheat looks at what’s next for the Jayhawks after another close loss last weekend:
So, what’s next after this most recent one, a gut-wrenching 33-32 home loss to UCF in which Leipold’s Jayhawks came back from down 26-7 to take a 32-26 lead with a minute left only to see UCF steal the win back on the final snap of the game?
Talk about a loaded question.
Other Links!
ESPN is offering up some grades on the moves by NFL teams at the trade deadline:
When grading trades, we evaluate them for each team based on on-field impact, cap implications, draft compensation and effects within the context of a team’s overall short- and long-term outlooks. How confident are we in knowing if this is a good or bad decision? And how big is the impact of this decision? Both questions play a role in our grades, though a low-impact decision can still receive a strong or poor grade. Even with lower stakes, clear-cut wins or losses still matter.
Awful Announcing has a great piece on the death of conference championship games moving forward with a 24 team playoff:
What those schools gave up is far harder to put a price on, because for 35 years the championship game has functioned as the crescendo of each league’s season, pitting its two best teams against each other inside an NFL stadium on the first Saturday of December, with a conference title and frequently a national championship berth hanging in the balance. Strip that game away and the leagues relinquish their ability to crown a champion head-to-head, leaving the honor to standings and the convoluted tiebreaker formulas that already caused considerable headaches in 2024, when the Big 12 needed a labyrinth of criteria just to determine which two teams from a four-way logjam at the top would advance to its title game.
Did you guys see the corgi that looked like Tecmo era Bo Jackson on Sunday?
Quinn is one year old, 25 pounds, and short-legged – even for a corgi – but she was a blur on the field as she fled from and dodged anyone who tried to grab or tackle her.
Techcrunch reminds us of why it’s important to protect VPNs:
While Russia’s actions offer a more extreme vision of what happens when the government tries to enforce speech rules by attacking vital privacy tools, it is far from the only government doing so. Several states in the U.S., bent on making it difficult to circumvent invasive age-gating laws, have suggested banning VPNs—either to access certain content or in some cases to simply ban them outright. EFF has publicly (and loudly) criticized these proposals, because going after VPNs is a dangerous step down the road of censorship.
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