College basketball is weird
The young college basketball season is still blossoming and there is a long way to go in this one, much to the delight of Kentucky fans who still may be disappointed with the current edition of the Wildcats. Many teams are well on their way to a deep run in March — think Indiana, Duke and Louisville. Others are finding their identity — like Kentucky, Connecticut, or North Carolina. And still others have yet to find their stride — like Georgia and Vanderbilt, Boston College, or winless St. Francis. No matter who you root for, any college basketball fan will at least attest to this: college basketball is weird.
If you enjoy comparative scores, you’re going to love this. Look at what’s happened already this season:
On November 24, Baylor loses at home to College of Charleston, 63-59.
On November 27, Northwestern loses at home to Maryland, 77-57.
On December 1, Northwestern loses at home to Illinois-Chicago, 50-44.
On the same day, Baylor beats Kentucky on the road, 64-55.
On December 4, College of Charleston loses at home to Louisville, 80-38.
And then Northwestern beats Baylor in Waco, 74-70.
Does that make any sense?
Baylor, who beat Kentucky in Rupp Arena and ended a 55-game home winning streak, gets beat by Charleston to set it all off. Meanwhile Northwestern is getting beat by Maryland — a team Kentucky beat to start the season — and Illinois-Chicago out of the Horizon League scoring 61 points per game.
Then College of Charleston gets absolutely annihilated by Louisville last night in a 42-point loss. Remember, this is the same Charleston squad who beat Baylor who beat Kentucky.
Then to top it all off, Northwestern welcomed Baylor back to its home court with a loss.
My head hurts.
36 Comments for College basketball is weird
college bball is weird is just another way of saying UK isn’t very good this year
So the big picture of it all says: Louisville will beat UK by 60+ points.
The picture you used for Northwestern is not a current player..amateur
This comment section is gonna suck lol. Way to give em ammo, Stuart!
Yep,looks like we are NIT bound this year…I bet the last Gillespie squad with Patterson,Meeks,Stevenson could beat our current team by double digits.But its early i sure hope our guys get things together.
Not much point to this stuff. Ya win some, ya lose some. Sometimes there is a tie.
Yeah, thats what this article says…sure.
This just in! Sometimes the inferior team wins in a game of basketball! Stop the presses!
#5 I’ll bet my $500 to your $50 that UK qualifies for the NCAA tournament.
I guess stuart means dem ole’ cards is gon’ bet the hell outta us boys! or that we gon’ suck dis year
Ahh ha! KSR is not out of crayons to write new posts!
I really think that this blog provides a much different kind of entertainment than it believes it provides.
#StoopsLittleBrothersTroops
Basketball math doesn’t work. It’s all about matchups. Ex: Just because boxer A beats boxer B, and boxer B loses to boxer C, it doesn’t mean boxer C can’t be boxer A. Got that?
And Louisville — at home — only beat Illinois St. by three points just this past weekend.
But can Ryan Harrow move the ball up the floor against U of L’s press? ‘Cause if that happened, that would be weird…
#13 so what does that tell yah? Good thing UK didn’t play them too?
12 — I agree. Matchups and momentum. A few shots falling for one team and some rimming out for another can lead to weird results.
Louisville’s full-court press will work in our favor. We will do fine in a fast break game. It’s when the game slows down and we have to grind out half court points is when we struggle.
Louisville? They lost to Morehead State.
@ 15
UofL will once again, not win the National Championship.
I really hope the Cats don’t get it together by Dec 29th. I’d hate to be 0-2 against them at the bucket.
15 It tells me that we suck too.
Well, way to make it easier to draw the conclusion that UofL is vastly superior to UK this year. Is that the point of this article? I don’t understand why the Louisville/Charleston game even gets mentioned, as we haven’t seen UL play UK/Baylor/Northwestern…this just seems like a wasted post that proves nothing.
It makes perfect sense, actually…UK just isn’t very good right now. This year will likely be a repeat of 2010-11…except they’ll be lucky to reach the Final 4 again.
Just proves what Cal has been saying since he arrived at UK,UK is everyones’ Super Bowl.Sad thing is,this current UK team has’nt realized it yet.
If we are to believe in “basketball math” … you could mention that Louisville beat Samford 80-54 (26 points), while Kentucky beat Samford 88-56 (32 points)… but Duke beat Kentucky by 7 points (75-65) and only beat Louisville by 5 points (76-71). So, judging by these common opponents, it would appear that Kentucky & Louisville aren’t that far apart.
Oops… typo… meant to type: “…but Duke beat Kentucky by 7 points (75-68)”.
Waiting for the next ESPN piece to be cut and pasted here. Any original thought at KSR anymore?
27 as long as you’re clicking, their game plan is working. Who cares about originality? If KSR is just posting from other sites they are saving me the trouble of internet surfing. Thank you KSR for being my one-stop shop!
Bring back BTI….smh….turrible…just turrible.
Probably means all those teams are very mediocre at the moment.
Rupp is only the 7th best home-court advantage in the country, according to ESPN (Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas is 1st)… also, an article discussing UK’s backcourt issues: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8712505/king-court-examines-kentucky-point-guard-void-scours-nation-college-basketball
There’s simply a lot of parity in college basketball right now. Especially with the middle of the pack teams (which includes UK at the moment).
Well the level of journalism on this site has fallen to Peter King levels. Something happened in sports isnt that WEIRD. Andrew Luck is an architect isnt that WEIRD. UK Basketball lost to a team that lost to another team that lost to UofL isnt that….WEIRD. Stuart should just finish his posts talking about shitty citrus micro-beers and then he will have himself locked up for a job at Sports Illustrated. Farewall thee Stuart, not seeing this in depth level of commentary will be…WEIRD
I rtemember a year when UK beat UofL twice and split with IU but beat IU when it counted. UK then beat Kansas who beat Ohio State which beat Iu and Kansas could have beaten UL as well. It all makes sense to me. UK beat everyone when it counted and some of them twice….oh, and UK won championship.
34)Best comment ever!
Shhh no one tell stat man a new season has started. Because only thing
everyone remembers is Notre Dame making UK say uncle and Coach Drew
beating Coach Cal on his own floor. If youre real quiet you can hear
the Big12 laughing.