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Jodie Meeks must've thought the Oklahoma City Thunder was Tennessee, because he had a similarly impressive game against them, lighting the Thunder up for 42 points last night. Jodie is averaging almost 20 per game right now.
Tweet of the Morning
how can you not be happy for Meeks and his 42...
— alan cutler (@cutler18) March 10, 2014
Did somebody complain? Am I missing something?
Your Quickies:
Kentucky football
- When will help yield results for Kentucky? Brian True looks at the question for Wildcat Blue Nation.
Kentucky basketball
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Five teams with something to prove in championship week. Kentucky tops the list. No kidding.
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Kentucky's not the only "dream team" struggling this season:
Yet if it's fair to criticize Cal, should Kansas coach Bill Self not be similarly scrutinized? After all, he's already lost eight games with a team that features two of the three players expected to go 1-2-3 in the 2014 NBA Draft, assuming Jayhawk freshmen Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid are both one-and-done. Beyond that, he has a junior point guard in Naadir Tharpe, an all-conference level power forward in sophomore Perry Ellis and super sixth man on his interior front line in senior transfer Tarik Black, a former star for Memphis.
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If there's any good news for Kentucky it's this: The last two schools to start No. 1 and fall out of the top 25 -- UCLA in 1966 and Indiana in 1980 -- won it all the following year.
There's no doubt Kansas has been better than Kentucky, though. We'll deal with next year after this one.
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I've seen a lot of this. My advice to Wildcats fans having the mentality described therein would be to get a grip, and get over your bad selves. If you're willing to ride the wave of success, you'd better be willing to ride out the storms.
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"Just keep making that pass." From his lips to Gods ear...
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History is not in Kentucky's favor. No, it isn't, but it's what we have. If Kentucky does not get better now, and against all rational expectations, then this post-season will be extremely short.
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Jordan Brand Classic rosters to be released today.
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Aaron Perkins for KSR tries to argue that Kentucky makes other teams better. I'm not sold on that idea.
Other Kentucky sports
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Anatomy of a 26-3 drubbing by the Bat Cats over Ball State. What impressed me was the great fielding in this game. Yeah, okay, I was pretty impressed by the hitting, too.
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Be sure to read Jords' postmortem on the Hoops team's tough loss to the Tennessee Volunteers last night. David Hooper has the postmortem at Rocky Top Talk.
Links posts
College football
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The NCAA is thinking of adding an early signing period to NCAA football. I think that might be a fine idea.
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Has college football peaked? Well, maybe, but even if so, it will peak again.
College basketball
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Florida looks likely for the #1 overall seed.
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Nebraska trying to play its way off the bubble, and may have done so. They've won 8 of their last 9.
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Eastern Kentucky is in the dance. Congratulations to them!
Other sports news
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NBA Wildcats put on a performance Sunday, and it wasn't just Jodie Meeks. I was in BW3's on Friday, and there were 3 NBA games on the screens. There were Wildcats playing significant minutes for 4 of the 6 teams. That tells you all you need to know.