Here's an article discussing Syracuse's weaknesses and which teams have the necessary components needed to knock off the top ranked team in the country.
Interestingly enough, if you're talking big upsets in the tournament a team like Texas has a lot of what it takes to beat the Orangemen. Baylor is also a team that can give the 'Cuse fits.
You can use the information about the Bears as a little primer
A funny thing happened on the way to burying the 2010 Texas Longhorns. Defense. For all the handwringing and consternation bandied about on this and other sites about the Longhorn's anemic offense, defense carried the day...err...night.
The ability to defend a four guard, spread the floor offense was the difference in winning and losing. Not personnel packages, five out looks, or iso's and two man games. The difference was straight
Here's your
primer on Oklahoma State from earlier in the year.
The Cowboy personnel groups haven't changed a whole lot but ours have and that may be a problem.
There is no Doge to tag James Anderson, but the talented wing isn't the shooter on the road that he is at home so we've go that going for us...which is nice.
The same player scouting reports found in the game 1 preview
Over at
MarchtoMarch "Kevin Berger", or Trips Right as he might more accurately be known, gave us the best of the weekend from the national scene in the form of a starting 5 and 6th man.
Another conference game against a top 40 opponent, another disappointing outcome. If the way this team is playing surprises you at this point after a 17-0 start, you need to start looking at it this way.
The 17-0 team was a get up in your jersey, play free and loose, wear you down, onions dangling kind of ball club.
The team that took the floor last night was never 17-0. In
You get three ants together, they can't do dick--get 300 million, and they can build a cathedral.
Basketball:
Against Oklahoma St., we saw Hamilton rise up. Against Oklahoma Bradley made a heroic effort, against Kansas James contributed his usual 20-10 and J'Covan Brown came out of the woodwork. Again I ask, who is the go-to scorer?
Box score is
here. Peter Bean chimes in with his thoughts
here. He's right on in praising the Kansas defense but it's no surprise when examining their place in the Ken Pomeroy
rankings matched against
That was one of the most physical basketball games I have seen in a long time.
In my
Iowa preview I posted that one of the keys to the game for the Horns, or at least something I'd like to see in a ballgame that was ostensibly going to be a blowout, was patience. Patience in running offense, patience against the zone, patience on defense in not gambling, and patience in general as a counteraction to the slower tempo the Hawks favored.