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Is this bad start going to cost us

  • Come March, there will not be many teams, if any, that will look at their bracket with a sense of relief if they see this UK team in their path to glory. I doubt that Louisville or Duke would feel confident of a rematch, and IU would have to at least have a moment of pause if UK is in their way. UK and Florida will probably play 3 times by then, and if I am Florida, I would not like Kentucky placed in my way.

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  • IMHO, 6 losses in this year's SEC would mean that we need a new coach. Maybe Stoops could do double duty! I am sooo nervous, pass the salts please...

    This post was edited by poliglotcat on 12/31/2012 at 1:32 PM

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  • poliglotcat said...

    IMHO, 6 losses in this year's SEC would mean that we need a new coach. Maybe Stoops could do double duty! I am sooo nervous, pass the salts please...

    LOL, you forgot that after your statement, I hope.

    UKlaw82

  • Wildmoon said...

    I don't think so.

    Last year's team, even if we were seeded 16, we still would have won.

    Besides low seeding could be placed in awesome bracket, as well as high seed.

    To me the most important is who do we get matched up against. EVery team has that team that you are weak against. Hopefully we don't have a team that we are matched up against that we are weaker against.

    However...we just took, what we would have believed to be our weakness, in physical team like Louisville and lost only by 3 points AT louisville. Long term, this team might resemble 2011-2012 more than any other team.

    ^^^^A truer statement has never been made. Its all about matchups in the NCAA, and a little luck.

    UKlaw82

  • poliglotcat said...

    IMHO, 6 losses in this year's SEC would mean that we need a new coach. Maybe Stoops could do double duty! I am sooo nervous, pass the salts please...

    If the Cats would play the SEC schedule like they played against UL but tidy up that poor FT shooting some they wont lose 6 games but if they revert to the ND and Baylor type of play they will be lucky to lose just 6. I have predicted that this team will lose anywhere from 4 to 6 games in conference. Remember Missouri is good and we play Fla. twice and add the away game in Tenn and that could easily be the 4 losses of the possible 6 I have said. Alabama isnt going to be a cake walk and Miss. St. may surprise some people with their rough and tough play. I think the main problem that people make with this team is that in the back of their minds that they are comparing this team to last years and maybe not even realize it. But the hope is that this years SEC conference is pretty weak overall and if the Cats keep on improving they could go 12-4 and that will be good enough to win the regular season title. IMO

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  • sleepydog said...

    If the Cats would play the SEC schedule like they played against UL but tidy up that poor FT shooting some they wont lose 6 games but if they revert to the ND and Baylor type of play they will be lucky to lose just 6. I have predicted that this team will lose anywhere from 4 to 6 games in conference. Remember Missouri is good and we play Fla. twice and add the away game in Tenn and that could easily be the 4 losses of the possible 6 I have said. Alabama isnt going to be a cake walk and Miss. St. may surprise some people with their rough and tough play. I think the main problem that people make with this team is that in the back of their minds that they are comparing this team to last years and maybe not even realize it. But the hope is that this years SEC conference is pretty weak overall and if the Cats keep on improving they could go 12-4 and that will be good enough to win the regular season title. IMO

    I think that is a good guess sleepy. I mean until we see this improvement game in and game out, we could lose to anyone on the road. Its still the SEC, and we all know how these teams get up for us no matter what kind of record we have. Plus I counted one loss in the SEC tourney, especially if we would not get a bye.

    UKlaw82

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