Some quick reactions to the game

Senex68 wrote: 1. Newman is not going to the NBA next year.
2. The refs were awful. Yes, I know that they are almost always awful, but this game was a bit worse than usual.
3. The two jack o'dandies that were paid to 'announce' the game exceeded even my expectations. I honestly have no idea what they were doing during the game, but informing the viewing audience about what was going on between Syracuse and Kansas was not on their agenda.
4. Graham might actually get a POY award. Wouldn't that be sweet?
5. Newman is not going to the NBA next year. Oops. Sorry for the redundancy.
6. Vick IS going to the NBA next year.
7. Self knows how to coach.
8. I hate Boeheim and Syracuse almost as much as I despise Kryscchevskee and Duke.
9. We are going to win the Big 12 again.

And I really did enjoy the game.

1. Concur from what we have seen so far.
2. NNUTS (nothing new under the sun -- actually a rather apt acronym, I think I'll take credit for it)
3. Sadly Ol' One Eye seems to be contagious. Bilas -- BILAS -- was going on and on about ICE CREAM at the Harvard - UK game. Yikes!
4. Yes it would.
5. Ibid.
6. If he keeps playing like this, Preston will not be taking his place, that's for sure. Playing great and playing big.
7. NNUTS
8. Yeah, there is some animosity there. Must really be bad for you being in New England and hard to avoid them.
9. Man, it sure feels like it! #14!

Being in the lead and keeping it almost all the way made for a very enjoyable experience, even when Self was bringing Clay Young in to fill in for foul troubled Dok and Mitch starting in the first half. He got the most out of all our guys today, I think.

hairyhawk wrote: Something I forgot to mention in my earlier post is the great team defense we have been playing. I think DG is the catalyst of that but all of the guys need to buy in.

Absolutely! Expected Vick to step it up, but to me the big difference from last year is Svi's improvement on D. And just within this season we have seen Newman go from lackadaisical to pretty hard nosed defender. It has been fun to watch.