Kentucky just lost to Evansville

[Edonidd]

CBB>CFB

I dunno I love both. I can say for sure though that CBB>>>>>NBA

 

[SU Nittany Tide]

Nah...

UK hasn't done shit this year.

There's been other years where UK has been ranked #1 and finished out of the polls or misses the tournament all together.

We've seen this show before...

What does this even mean?

Hasn't done shit this year? They've played two whole games before this and beat a very experienced number one ranked team already. Hard to do much more than that by November 12.

How long has it been since Kentucky was ranked number one and finished out of the rankings? I can't remember if they were ranked number 1 the year their star player (Noel) blew out his knee but that's a pretty significant blow to a team to lose their best player in the ncaa.

 

[rmilia1]

This is a big upset but its not even the biggest regular srason upset of a number 1 team ( thats still easily Chaminade over UVA)

 

[jontaejones]

What does this even mean?

Hasn't done shit this year? They've played two whole games before this and beat a very experienced number one ranked team already. Hard to do much more than that by November 12.

How long has it been since Kentucky was ranked number one and finished out of the rankings? I can't remember if they were ranked number 1 the year their star player (Noel) blew out his knee but that's a pretty significant blow to a team to lose their best player in the ncaa.

It means exactly what you said.

They've played two whole games.

So, any notion that they are a huge favorite is pretty much mostly on paper.

 

[Yo Tee]

Only reason you could consider Virginia’s loss bigger is cause it happened in the tourney but in all reality, this loss is much much worse

How is a 3 point loss in the 3rd game of the regular season much worse than a double digit loss in the first round of the NCAA tournament at the #1 overall team in the tournament? This loss doesn't cost Kentucky a title. The Virginia loss literally did.

 

[Yo Tee]

What happens to Michigan state then?

They fall but not as far, in my opinion.

 

[Hitman Hart]

I dunno I love both. I can say for sure though that CBB>>>>>NBA

that isn't saying much

watching overweight people do their business on the toilet >>>>> NBA

 

[ROMOTOOWENS]

UK is my team. I watched the entire game. If Evansville could shoot better it would have been a blowout. It was close because UK shot a ton of free throws and made them. Evansville basically got what they wanted all night. They either got a straight line drive to the basket or an open 3 the majority of the game. They played extremely hard on defense. UK has no real go to guy yet , so they seemed to alternate who was going to shoot the ball and it was a lot of forced one on one basketball. Evansville did have 5 star player that transferred from Kansas and then Ariz St. He carried them the first half. UK just got whipped and outcoached.

 

[Myles]

Evansville hasn't been good since they lost their team in a plane crash in 1977.

Sportscenter was pretty shitty to Evansville today. They were making fun of them for celebrating. They said "it's only 1 game, not a championship". This is huge for a small school with 2000 students.

The Air Indiana Flight 216 crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, crashed on takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The aircraft lost control and crashed shortly after lift-off.[1] The plane was on its way to Nashville International Airport, taking the team to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders.

The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the crash on the pilot's failure to remove gust locks on the right aileron and the rudder before takeoff, as well as an overloaded baggage compartment. The NTSB report said that the plane might have been able to stay airborne had only one of the problems existed. As it was, the extra baggage shifted the plane's center of gravity to the back end, and the locked rudder and aileron made it impossible to control the overweight aircraft.

The only member of the Purple Aces who did not die in the crash was David Furr; he was out for the season with an ankle injury and thus was not on the plane that day. But just two weeks after the crash, Furr and his younger brother Byron were killed in a car accident near Newton, Illinois, leaving the entire 1977 Evansville team dead.[2]

A memorial has been constructed at the University of Evansville known as the "Weeping Basketball." On stone slabs are engraved the names of the players who were killed, including Furr. (The final name on the monument is that of Charles Goad of the Goad Equipment Company, invited on the flight by his friend Bob Hudson.) Also engraved is an excerpt from the eulogy delivered by school president Wallace Graves at a memorial service: "Out of the agony of this hour we will rise."

 

[jontaejones]

The only member of the Purple Aces who did not die in the crash was David Furr; he was out for the season with an ankle injury and thus was not on the plane that day. But just two weeks after the crash, Furr and his younger brother Byron were killed in a car accident near Newton, Illinois, leaving the entire 1977 Evansville team dead.[2]

That's some crazy Final Destination shit right there...

 

[Myles]

That's some crazy Final Destination shit right there...

You are not joking there.
I just heard about this this morning. I work with a guy who went to Evansville. He didn't know they upset KY till I told him. He feels shitty that he didn't watch the game.

 

[SU Nittany Tide]

Evansville hasn't been good since they lost their team in a plane crash in 1977.

Sportscenter was pretty shitty to Evansville today. They were making fun of them for celebrating. They said "it's only 1 game, not a championship". This is huge for a small school with 2000 students.

The Air Indiana Flight 216 crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, crashed on takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The aircraft lost control and crashed shortly after lift-off.[1] The plane was on its way to Nashville International Airport, taking the team to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders.

The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the crash on the pilot's failure to remove gust locks on the right aileron and the rudder before takeoff, as well as an overloaded baggage compartment. The NTSB report said that the plane might have been able to stay airborne had only one of the problems existed. As it was, the extra baggage shifted the plane's center of gravity to the back end, and the locked rudder and aileron made it impossible to control the overweight aircraft.

The only member of the Purple Aces who did not die in the crash was David Furr; he was out for the season with an ankle injury and thus was not on the plane that day. But just two weeks after the crash, Furr and his younger brother Byron were killed in a car accident near Newton, Illinois, leaving the entire 1977 Evansville team dead.[2]

A memorial has been constructed at the University of Evansville known as the "Weeping Basketball." On stone slabs are engraved the names of the players who were killed, including Furr. (The final name on the monument is that of Charles Goad of the Goad Equipment Company, invited on the flight by his friend Bob Hudson.) Also engraved is an excerpt from the eulogy delivered by school president Wallace Graves at a memorial service: "Out of the agony of this hour we will rise."

That's a weird thing to say. This essentially is the championship of a lifetime for them.

 

[douggie]

I wonder how ashamed those players for Kentucky were when they attended class this morning

 

[Jordan23]

How is a 3 point loss in the 3rd game of the regular season much worse than a double digit loss in the first round of the NCAA tournament at the #1 overall team in the tournament? This loss doesn't cost Kentucky a title. The Virginia loss literally did.

Virginia lost to a 25 win team. Kentucky lost to a team who finished with 11 wins last year. Yes I get that the tourney is the biggest reason The Virginia loss was worse but that UMBC team was better than this Evansville team

 

[Jordan23]

I wonder how ashamed those players for Kentucky were when they attended class this morning

Haha I wish I could see them. NBA roster losing to Evansville, yikes.

 

[ukfanfrombirth(cali cat)]

I wonder how ashamed those players for Kentucky were when they attended class this morning

I'd guess none of them will lift their head for at least a few days.

Trying to find a silver lining ... at least it's November, and all anyone need say if anyone on the team starts thinking they can rest on their laurels later in the season is, "Evansville."

 

[Yo Tee]

Virginia lost to a 25 win team. Kentucky lost to a team who finished with 11 wins last year. Yes I get that the tourney is the biggest reason The Virginia loss was worse but that UMBC team was better than this Evansville team

I can't get behind the opinion that a loss in regular season is worse than a loss by a #1 seed to a #16 seed in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Yeah, UMBC was a better team, but Virginia was the best team all year long and was the overall #1 team in the country based off of an entire seasons worth of play. This is the 3rd game of the season for Kentucky. This doesn't take the chance at a title away from Kentucky.

 

[Red_Chaos]

SHould have went to the NBA Coach Cal

 

[Kace-1]

Sportscenter was pretty shitty to Evansville today. They were making fun of them for celebrating. They said "it's only 1 game, not a championship". This is huge for a small school with 2000 students.

That doesn't surprise me, SportsCenter is fucking garbage.

 

[ROMOTOOWENS]

Haha I wish I could see them. NBA roster losing to Evansville, yikes.

NBA roster ??? I just don’t see it. Maxey probably , Hagans maybe. Other than that just good players. No excuse to lose to Evansville, but this team being ranked 1 was crazy. Last Tuesday the top 4 teams supposedly played. If that was the top 4 teams , college basketball is way down.