Recap from KU/UK matchup: https://kansas.rivals.com/news/quick-recap-kansas-can-t-hang-with-kentucky-falls-80-62-at-home

Every team needs a good butt whipping once in awhile. Maybe now, we will take seriously the need to get better. The need to get some chemistry. And if you can do that, maybe, just maybe, make a deep tourney run.

He goes out and gets martin and yesefu and doesnt play them.

Plays Dave over KJ too much.

I mean he saw what happened against USC, gets some guys and doesnt play them

Their shooting today. I think UK game plan is to shut Ochai down. We've gotta have a counter attack and be prepared. Thoughts?

Nothing to say

Only guy that decided to give 110% today. The rest of the team should walk the 500 feet home, wearing N95s.

Did we even go after him? Was there some funny business there?

Wilson is usually in a good position for rebounds, but he jumps too early … every time. It seems like every rebound he gets, he’s already on his way down when the ball hits his hands. The opponents always seem to get to the ball at the peak of their jump or are on the way up when they grab it.

Edit: I’d change the thread title to just rebounding and add that David: (1) has hands of granite … icy granite; and (2) only uses one of the rocks on the ends of his arms at a time when rebounding; and (3) brings every single rebound he get down to his waist or dribbles. Sad - so much potential with that body.

I haven't been posting as much over the past 10 days or so but even with the tough wins that I'm glad we've been getting I haven't seen what I was hoping we would see from this team, even after a few good performances. This team relies WAY too much on Ochai and unless Remy pulls a Malik Newman at the end of the season then we will need a few favorable match ups to make a run in the tournament the way things look to me. Not trying to bring the team down because i still like this team and I know that most teams need breaks in the tournament but we just aren't as complete at this point in the season as I'd hoped. There's still a long ways to go and one game doesn't define our season but this has been a piss poor effort and moreso it's also exposed us.

I will still have the highest of hopes for this team and still think that we can have a great season but I will not pretend that we aren't without some concerning weaknesses that we may not be able to overcome. Thankfulky the Big 12 championship is still in play but not the performance that screams deep tournament run to me. Hope for the best, it's a long season though

Getting ridiculous how everything is a charge. I hope our guys can learn to pull up in the lane for a short jumper. In the meantime, they had better be aware today.

No. 5 Kansas plays host to No. 12 Kentucky on Saturday. Who you got?

2024 early on looks to be a weaker class than 2023. I saw this guy early in the season and was watching more of his clips over the weekend.

He's right at 6-2, 280. I like his potential.

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Kansas’ Ochai Agbaji and K-State’s Nijel Pack shared Big 12 Men’s Basketball Player of the Week while Texas Tech’s Kevin Obanor was voted Newcomer of the Week. Agbaji collected his fourth career honor and third of the season, including consecutive weeks. Pack and Obanor were recognized for the first time.

In Kansas' two come-from-behind road wins, Agbaji averaged 19.5 points and 6.0 rebounds. In the win at Oklahoma, he left the game in the first half with a wrist injury when he collided with the scorer’s table. His 10 points for the game came in the final 5:25. Kansas trailed 52-50 when Agbaji scored eight straight for KU with his eighth tying the game at 58. He then made a basket to put KU up 62-60 and later made the assist that led to what would be the game-winning three-pointer by Christian Braun. At Kansas State, the senior guard tied his career-high with 29 points. He scored seven of Kansas' final nine points, including the go-ahead field goal with nine seconds remaining. Agbaji later iced the victory making two free throws with 1.1 seconds left.

Pack averaged 25.5 points on 57.6 percent shooting, including 58.8 percent from 3-point range, in splitting games at No. 23/22 Texas and at home against No. 7/7 Kansas. After helping the Wildcats hand the Longhorns their first home loss with 16 points, he followed that with a near-historic effort against the Jayhawks, scoring a career-high 35 points on 12-of-18 field goals, including 8-of-12 from 3-point range. The guard’s 35 points tied for the seventh-most by a Wildcat in a Big 12 game, while it tied for the fourth-most by a sophomore in school history. He is just the sixth Wildcat to score 35 or more points ever against Kansas. Pack’s eight made 3-point field goals tied his career-high and were tied for the most made in a conference game by a K-State player. Only one Wildcat has ever made more than eight 3-pointers in a game (Askia Jones' school-record 14 in 1994).

Obanor led Texas Tech with 15 points and eight rebounds in its win over No. 15 Iowa State on Tuesday before going off for 18 points in the win over West Virginia on Saturday. The senior forward hit six shots in both games and was 6-of-6 from the free-throw line against WVU as the Red Raiders improved to 12-0 at home with the win. Obanor's 18 points against WVU are the most he's had in a Big 12 game this season and were just two shy of his season-high. A transfer from Oral Roberts, he has 1,495 points and 777 rebounds in his career.

Big 12 Co-Players of the Week
Ochai Agbaji, Kansas, G, Sr.
Nijel Pack, Kansas State, G, So.

Big 12 Newcomer of the Week
Kevin Obanor, Texas Tech, F, Sr.

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Had forgotten about him. Saw he is starting at Louisville. Not amazing stats (4.6 pts 3.0 rebs per game). But has had some flashes (22 points recently against NC State). Has only bucket today in awful start for L-Ville against Duke.

I think KJ and Mitch probably provide more than he would have at KU, but seems like on a little bit more promising start than I would have thought he would have. Amazingly, ZERO total blocks this season.

At Tiffin. Just saw on Football Scoop

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All these discussions going on today, and I haven't heard anybody mention Wilson. I hope he goes off for a bunch and a boat load of rebounds. If DMac can box the big guy out, then Wilson could be there to grab the board.

Give Connor a roster spot, makes the 1/2 court shot look easy.

How’d they miss McCormack’s.

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