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Pomeroy, Bilas & Greenberg on The Streak
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8 years 2 months ago #4891
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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“If you go through each conference, you’ll find that maybe over half the time, the best team wins it, but barely over half,” Pomeroy said. “An 18-game schedule is a really short time to try to prove who the best team is, and so often, it doesn’t do that good of a job of it.”
Yet no unexpected team has risen up to beat KU in the Big 12 — not even at a time when the conference is at its strongest.
According to Pomeroy’s numbers, this year’s Big 12 is tied as the toughest out of 390 conferences in the last 12 seasons, matching the Big Ten in 2010-11. Pomeroy, who calls this year’s Big 12 “historically good,” says if he’d have known the league would turn out this competitive at the beginning of the season, he would have predicted KU’s title streak would have come to an end.
Of course, that doesn’t look like it will happen.
“You have to obviously give Bill Self a ton of credit for what he’s been able to do to prepare his team during the streak,” Pomeroy said. “He obviously gives Kansas some sort of advantage beyond the talent.”
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Give me a DOH!
P.S. - found this picture of Ken Pomeroy on the web.
“If you go through each conference, you’ll find that maybe over half the time, the best team wins it, but barely over half,” Pomeroy said. “An 18-game schedule is a really short time to try to prove who the best team is, and so often, it doesn’t do that good of a job of it.”
Yet no unexpected team has risen up to beat KU in the Big 12 — not even at a time when the conference is at its strongest.
According to Pomeroy’s numbers, this year’s Big 12 is tied as the toughest out of 390 conferences in the last 12 seasons, matching the Big Ten in 2010-11. Pomeroy, who calls this year’s Big 12 “historically good,” says if he’d have known the league would turn out this competitive at the beginning of the season, he would have predicted KU’s title streak would have come to an end.
Of course, that doesn’t look like it will happen.
“You have to obviously give Bill Self a ton of credit for what he’s been able to do to prepare his team during the streak,” Pomeroy said. “He obviously gives Kansas some sort of advantage beyond the talent.”
END EXCERPT
Give me a DOH!
P.S. - found this picture of Ken Pomeroy on the web.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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8 years 2 months ago #4893
by konza63
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
It's a very flattering, upbeat article (the good...), but it definitely could've been so much more.
Let's hope that, once it's actually "in the books" as official, someone nationally takes it on and really dives into it with some depth.
Given that this year's Big 12 is rated as among the very toughest of the various conferences over a 12-year span, coupled with the fact that we have no POY candidate or solid projected first-rounders, it really does underscore what a special performance this year's team (with Self as the conductor) has accomplished. Er...will soon accomplish! (There's that little voice again--it isn't yet done!)
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Let's hope that, once it's actually "in the books" as official, someone nationally takes it on and really dives into it with some depth.
Given that this year's Big 12 is rated as among the very toughest of the various conferences over a 12-year span, coupled with the fact that we have no POY candidate or solid projected first-rounders, it really does underscore what a special performance this year's team (with Self as the conductor) has accomplished. Er...will soon accomplish! (There's that little voice again--it isn't yet done!)
Rock Chalk...
“With kindest regards to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, the father of basketball coaching, from the father of the game.”
1936 inscription on the portrait of Dr. Naismith, displayed above Phog Allen's office desk at KU.
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8 years 2 months ago #4896
by Bayhawk
The end is nothing; the road is all.
-- Jules Michelet
JHC that's funny!!!! 
Thanks for making my evening going into tomorrow's game.
I'm laughin' . . .
RC
Thanks for making my evening going into tomorrow's game.I'm laughin' . . .
RC
The end is nothing; the road is all.
-- Jules Michelet
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