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    I may have found the worst sports message board of all time

    We had a guy from over there posting at wildcatnation for awhile. He'd been banned twice before for Tubby stuff, and then he came back with a different username to give it a third go. At this point we're talking 2018 or so--a solid decade after Tubby left. The sad thing about this guy was that...
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    2010-11 Team

    Most interesting thing about that team is how Cal's insistence on a short, tight rotation actually turned out to really make that team what it was in the end. Sometimes Cal's hardheadedness about the bench is a negative. But with that bunch what seemed to happen was that by March, everybody...
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    Kofi announcing Friday

    Well in Kentucky fans' minds we're always one player short because that's an easy excuse when you lose. In all honesty the times we've had championship caliber teams we've simply lost. One player would've maybe made a difference, but hell you can say that for everybody. In 2011 we probably...
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    Are we really about to lose out on Kofi and Duren?

    As it stands they would have to mesh really well and some guys would have to be vastly improved. That said, they have one thing many of us have been pining for for years: experience. Teams have shown again and again in this game how important experience is. They also have some guys who have...
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    Kofi announcing Friday

    Kofi Cockburn is one of the largest humans on planet earth. Not really a fair comp. I don't think that's really an indictment of Oscar Tshiebwe. From what I've seen from him at his best, how hard he plays and his attitude down there can offset any size he gives up. (At his worst he's a foul...
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    Kofi announcing Friday

    The fact that Calipari didn't even reach out suggests that it's probably about Tshiebwe. Kentucky wants him to have the year that Cockburn had last year at Illinois. The only reservation I have is that the Tshiebwe we saw early this season was a very flawed player. I chalk most of that up to...
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    Kofi announcing Friday

    I don't think Duren is a must get necessarily but everything has to work out perfectly in the frontcourt for Kentucky to be a contender. Not having Duren or Cockburn makes the margin for error really tight. Also you have the fact that Jalen Duren could be the kind of player who really defines...
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    Kofi announcing Friday

    The lizard part of my brain really believes that Cockburn following UK on Twitter is a great sign. That said, I believe somebody did that recently that we were after and then didn't come to Kentucky. For the life of me I can't remember who it was.
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    Kofi announcing Friday

    On Twitter, Goodman predicts it will be Illinois.
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    Kofi announcing Friday

    The reason I'm not concerned about fit with Kofi is simply because Cal loves players like that. We've all gnashed our teeth about it over the years. But it hasn't changed in a decade. Cal is super traditional when it comes to bigs (and really the game as a whole). If that's the way he prefers...
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    Kofi announcing Friday

    Cockburn did visit Kentucky right out of high school IIRC. Or at the very least he set up a visit, whether he actually made it to campus I don't know. But I definitely remember hearing that he was going to visit Lexington when we were recruiting him the first time.
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    Kofi announcing Friday

    So many things have happened since then so my memory might be off, but weren't Illinois insiders pretty much swearing Antigua and Coleman were returning to Illinois?
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    Kofi announcing Friday

    Yeah, me too. Outside the obvious three--2010, 2012, 2015--I like this roster as much or better than anything Cal has assembled at UK. Highly interesting team. With Cockburn and barring injury I think they're right there with anybody in the nation.
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    Rothstein’s Top 10. No Kentucky

    Preseason polls are an affront to everybody's intelligence and are only meant to piss people off. This is amplified by the fact that there are so many moving parts this year because of the COVID transfer rule. There are going to be so many teams who come out of nowhere, and teams who are ranked...
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    Sahvir Wheeler

    I don't love the advanced metrics in college basketball, particularly defensively. There's so much intentional help (i.e. funneling players) that goes on defensively in the college game. Plus you have zone defenses, etc. I just don't love how statisticians have tried to moneyball the sport of...
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