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Silvio De Sousa suspended for this season and next season.
Wonder why they aren't vacating their wins from last year.
Helpful information if you, like me, have forgotten who this joker is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
Don't agree with the suspension for 2019-2020, but he should be retro-actively in-elligible for 2018 season.
Not sure if this is the right thread for this discussion, but DeSousa’s case raises an interesting general question: should a player be penalized when someone pays for his commitment, without the player knowing? One side of the argument is yes, he’s ineligible regardless of whether he knew, otherwise parents and agents would simply accept payments to steer their kids and then claim they never told their kids about it. OTOH if it’s someone not directly connected to the player, like a long lost uncle, then it’s hard to fault a kid for somebody else trying to profit off of him.
Which brings up Zion. According to testimony that was not admitted in court, an agent had a conversation with Zion’s father discussing payment for his commitment. ASSUMING this actually happened, which nobody knows for sure if it actually did, many would argue that Zion should be ineligible for the same reason as DeSousa. Again, just because an agent says the conversation happened doesn’t mean it actually did.
The other piece that I rarely hear mentioned is that Zion was raised by his mother and stepfather, and more recently after he became famous his biological father started to enter the picture. It is not clear in that testimony whether the agent claims to have spoken to his stepfather or his biological father, who could have just been trying to profit off his son. I’m really not worried about Zion’s eligibility, I think that ship has sailed, but I’m sure these questions will be brought up in the media.
Michigan State hit 8 of 22 free throws (36%) in an overtime loss to Indiana.
I knew the MSU collapse was coming! The loss to an abysmal Illinois team tonight makes it three in a row for the team that was the trendy national title pick a few weeks ago.
2 court stormings last night...Illinois (Mich St) and K-State (Kansas).
Meanwhile, St Johns shook off the 30 point beat down they absorbed in Cameron and upset Marquette. On the winning drive, a Marquette player idiotically tried to draw a charge, maybe the worst fake I've ever seen...it was pathetic.
It's funny -- MSU was playing so well, even without Langford. Then they lost to Purdue (not a bad loss, on the road), learned that Langford is out for the year, and lost to Indiana, at home, and Illinois. MSU's offense seems to be get it to Winston and see what he can do. He's good, but he's not that good. At this point, MSU is looking like a 4 seed. What a change in just two weeks!Quote:
Originally Posted by scottdude8
Shows why bracketology at this point is just about useless.
Yup, the issue for MSU without Langford was, and now will be, that the team has no one who can “create offense” besides Winston. Ward is arguably their best player but even he relies on others to get him the ball in the post... not to mention he’s notorious for disappearing in games due to either foul trouble or frustration at not getting enough touches early. Combine that with 3 point specialist Matt McQuaid now guarding the opponent’s best player (and thus expending a ton of energy on D) and you have a team that is going to go the way of Winston. Any team that has a PG who can lock him down 1-on-1 (like both Duke and Michigan!) are in great shape against the Sparties going forward.Quote:
Originally Posted by MChambers
Kansas's loses to K-State and drops to 4th in the conference. Here are the current B12 standings:
Kansas State 7-2 Baylor 6-2 Iowa State 7-3 Kansas 6-4 Texas Tech 6-4 Texas 4-5 TCU 3-5 Oklahoma 3-7 Oklahoma St 2-6 West Virginia 2-8
Until Kansas is mathematically eliminated I'll still believe they will win the conference. They probably need to lose one or two more for someone else to take it, as I don't really trust the teams ahead of them to win out. But we'll see.
Maryland's wonderfully talented forward Bruno Fernando (who will likely be a lottery pick this summer) absolutely, 100% pulled a Christian Laettner on the chest of a Nebraska player last night.
https://deadspin.com/marylands-bruno...ude-1832413396
I’m with you- I’ll believe another Big XII team wants to win that conference when I see it. More likely all the teams will beat each other up and Kansas will tie with four others at the top at 11-7...Quote:
Originally Posted by Truth&Justise
yeah, it's like gravity, you can pretty much depend on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by AGDukesky
...this ^ statement went in-operative because, well, ZION....;)Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
It is worth noting that according to T-rank, Kansas has played the toughest schedule in the B12 so far and, as you might imagine, has the easiest remaining schedule. The JHawks have a very tough game left at Texas Tech, but will likely be favorites in all their other remaining games (@TCU and @Oklahoma are the other really dangerous games left). 11-7 or even 12-6 seems quite likely for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by AGDukesky
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Originally Posted by JasonEvans
Hold the phone... just saw that LaGerald Vick is taking a leave of absence from the team. No details were given, other than it was personal in nature. We should certainly all respect his privacy and resist the temptation to speculate, but as far as on the court impact this is quite a turn for Kansas in what has been a roller coaster of a season.
That is a huge loss for Kansas. Vick is one of the best college shooters in the country when he is on. It's been a brutal season for Kansas with injuries and loss of important players.Quote:
Originally Posted by UrinalCake
https://www.kansascity.com/sports/co...225959880.html
This is why the streak is so impressive. Teams sometimes just have that snake bit season where everything that can go wrong, does. That Kansas has avoided a season like this for so freaking long is truly amazing. One part crazy luck, one part great planning and skill on the part of the coaching staff.Quote:
Originally Posted by richardjackson199
Yep, it's hard to go that many years without a season like this....or one where the team just ended up having no chemistry. To avoid those for so long is impressive.Quote:
Originally Posted by JasonEvans