Reed a leader for Kansas men

Reed is exactly the kind of glue guy who can knock down big shots and bring high energy minutes that every championship team needs. He definitely belongs at KU.

November 8, 2009 at 3:06 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Markieff improving around the rim

Gotta like someone who puts in that kind of work to get better. I have a feeling Kieff is going to be a huge factor this season.

November 8, 2009 at 2:57 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

How Keegan voted

Re Kansas: ZERO Quality wins. and 2 sloppy wins over not great teams. Re Oklahoma: OU's 3 losses have been by a combined 5 points, all to top 20 teams. Whether or not they have Bradford the rest of the year should make ZERO difference on their current ranking. Re Ohio St.: If every team with a bad loss dropped out of the top 25 there wouldn't be 25 teams. USC lost to Washington. Houston lost to UTEP. etc. Re Arkansas: They outplayed Florida. They were way more impressive in their loss than many teams who won.

I have no problem with Keegan's ballot. It's an opinion and one than can definitely be defended.

October 19, 2009 at 2:50 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Poll Watch: Sagarin kickoff edition

The three computer polls used in the BCS with currently published rankings (Massey, Sagarin Elo, Billingsley) have Kansas at 25, 29 and 35 respectively. Colley, Anderson and Wolfe have not yet published any rankings. I think the reason the BCS computer rankings are all on the lower end is because the BCS chose polls that do not factor scoring margin into their systems. Blind to the fact that Kansas easily dispatched the teams it was supposed to, they currently undervalue Kansas overall.

October 5, 2009 at 4:21 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Poll Watch: Sagarin kickoff edition

For computer rankings, I like to look at Massey's compilation. http://masseyratings.com/cf/compsum.htm This chart provides a consensus ranking from 59 legit rankings (including Sagarin's overall and his BCS-used ELO-Chess ranking), and shows the rankings from the polls that figure into the BCS. The consensus ranking for Kansas is 14 with a median of 16, High of 6 and Low of 35. So the Sagarin overall ranking of 31 is on the low end.

Big 12 teams by Consensus rankings (among FBS) are as follows:
Texas - 3
Kansas - 14
Nebraska - 16
Oklahoma - 22
Missouri - 23
Oklahoma St. - 38
Baylor - 44
Texas Tech - 53
Texas A&M - 60
Kansas St. - 70
Iowa St. - 76
Colorado - 92

Check out http://masseyratings.com/cf/aboutcomp... for info about the compilation
and http://masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm for the results from every system included.

October 5, 2009 at 4:06 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Reesing back on top of Keegan rankings

So Justin Thornton is tied for 13th and 16th? That takes talent.

September 19, 2009 at 7:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Onyegbule leads defense, Keegan ratings

Good to see the d-lineman getting love. They were phenomenal in the game.

September 13, 2009 at 2:53 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Being Reesing: The curious, glamorous, wacky and utterly unbelievable world of one of Lawrence’s most famed residents

Phenomenal article, Dugan. One of the best I've ever read on this site. I'd put it up there with a Darnell Jackson one I remember from a while back. Keep up the good work.

September 13, 2009 at 2:50 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Dream title: KU vs. UK

Furthermore that assist to turnover ratio is not a moot point, because Meeks handled the ball enough to lead the team in turnovers. For a guy who isn't bringing the ball up, that's a very significant problem.

May 20, 2009 at 6:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Dream title: KU vs. UK

Ryan Greene,
I wasn't comparing Meeks to Collins or Rush, simply saying that I thought he was overrated last season. But because you made the comparison, Collins and especially Rush are/were infinitely better defensive players than Meeks so the fact that Meeks shot marginally better from the field means little to nothing. Meeks shoots the ball well from the outside and the free throw line, but he turns the ball over way to much for someone who isn't a distributor. It isn't so much that 46% is a bad fg% for an all-around guard, but rather that Meeks is only really a scorer and so that percentage combined with the awful A/T rate is not as impressive as it was/is often made out to be. Also, all those years that Rush was the leading KU scorer, nowhere near as much offense went through Rush. KU had a lot more balance. My main point I guess is that too many people judge players simply by Points per game, but a "first-team all-american" type guard shouldn't have 50% more turnovers than assists.

May 20, 2009 at 6:13 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )