* OFFICIAL JMU vs #23 Kentucky Game Thead *

Lameguy · 2026-11-06T20:15:13-0600

Johnny_Jeepers said:
I fear you may actually be lame.

Hilljack coming out

Anon629549 · 2026-11-06T20:15:24-0600

legalbeagle123 said:
Bright side: Watched in my recliner and don't have to drive home.

And you didn't have to miss yet another day of work today

Maddman_rivals656981 · 2026-11-06T20:15:53-0600

*Fox2Monk* said:
I don’t understand that because you know Pitino drilled that into him.

I expect Pope gets drilled often.....

Walker34 · 2026-11-06T20:15:58-0600

Anyone hear why Zoom sat last 15 minutes?

Beatle Bum · 2026-11-06T20:16:34-0600

Johnny_Jeepers said:
But how are you going to pick up my mom from your recliner?

Your mom is a *****?

mash_24 · 2026-11-06T20:16:52-0600

Positives:
Hawthorne is gonna be a good player one of these days.
McBride was the spark.
I think these guys have much better chemistry than last years team.
Negatives:
Beat to way too many loose balls. Some luck involved there due to the huge # of 3’s they chucked.
We have to run some stuff for Milan
We get lost way too much on d just like last years team.

* Pope needs to hand the keys to Mason. He’s special.

Lameguy · 2026-11-06T20:16:53-0600

HenryMuto said:
Valpo with the 3 at the buzzer to upset Purdue in double OT with their best player fouled out.

I thought nobody else had tough games

sefus12 · 2026-11-06T20:18:18-0600

Catastic5 said:
We can’t look like this against teams like Kansas or Virginia or we’re gonna get blown out.

Teams like Kansas won’t be as small/fast as JMU while chucking up 40+ 3s. Small/fast teams that shoot a zillion 3s tend to make big/long teams look awkward on D as it’s tough for the bigger guys to keep running around trying to keep up with shooters. Not saying tonight was a good night, but we adjusted in the second half and had a comfortable win, and that’s with our best shooter going 1-8 or 9 (whatever it was) and Moreno having several idiotic TOs that cost us.

seccats04 · 2026-11-06T20:19:03-0600

RunninRichie said:
Embarrassing performance

A common theme under Pope. How many times have we said this over the past few years?

Johnny_Jeepers · 2026-11-06T20:20:41-0600

Beatle Bum said:
Your mom is a *****?

Uhh yeah.

theBlues · 2026-11-06T20:21:04-0600

Walker34 said:
Yep and he should. Kam will eventually take nearly all of N'Diaye's minutes as the 8th guy.

I agree but think N'Diaye will get Kepnang's minutes as backup center; Franck just doesn't look like he's got enough mobility left. And eventually might be next game.

UKCowboys · 2026-11-06T20:21:34-0600

bbnkat02 said:
He's like 1-8 or something- good look or not, we pay him to hit shots.

Players have off nights. All players

UKCowboys · 2026-11-06T20:22:11-0600

Lameguy said:
No it just makes them kids with money

Thats right. An 18-22 year old is a kid. Plain and simple

Walker34 · 2026-11-06T20:22:35-0600

mash_24 said:
Positives:
Hawthorne is gonna be a good player one of these days.
McBride was the spark.
I think these guys have much better chemistry than last years team.
Negatives:
Beat to way too many loose balls. Some luck involved there due to the huge # of 3’s they chucked.
We have to run some stuff for Milan
We get lost way too much on d just like last years team.

* Pope needs to hand the keys to Mason. He’s special.

I would love to see Mason, Zoom, Wilkins all start with Milan at 4. Might get destroyed on the boards though.
Kam, Hawthorne and McBride off bench. Only spot minutes/ foul trouble minutes for N'Diaye and Kepnang. 8 man rotation is plenty enough

UKCowboys · 2026-11-06T20:22:42-0600

RunninRichie said:
Embarrassing performance

By you

UKCowboys · 2026-11-06T20:23:39-0600

Lameguy said:
Man this board is ridiculous. Games like this happen to everyone. Just relax and enjoy basketball.

Post of the night

Walker34 · 2026-11-06T20:24:11-0600

sefus12 said:
Teams like Kansas won’t be as small/fast as JMU while chucking up 40+ 3s. Small/fast teams that shoot a zillion 3s tend to make big/long teams look awkward on D as it’s tough for the bigger guys to keep running around trying to keep up with shooters. Not saying tonight was a good night, but we adjusted in the second half and had a comfortable win, and that’s with our best shooter going 1-8 or 9 (whatever it was) and Moreno having several idiotic TOs that cost us.

Small fast teams that launch 40 3s are the type of teams that pull off first round upsets in March.

Anon1739778738 · 2026-11-06T20:24:30-0600

Kansas will boat race us in the first half. We will spend the whole second half trying to make the final score respectable.If we play defense like we did tonight it's gonna be a complete blow out.

UKCowboys · 2026-11-06T20:25:34-0600

OGtruebluewildcat said:
Good win.

JMU probably played the best first half they’ll play all year.

Wilkins couple early fouls.

Milan picked his nose and flicked boogers most of the game.

Hawthorne, Williams going to have to play earlier and more often.

Good to see Kam get some run…

Good to see Zoom and McBride pop off

UK is still everyone's Super Bowl. JMU hut 15 three pointers tonight. If you hit 15 threes, you are going to stay in the game for a while

Maddman_rivals656981 · 2026-11-06T20:27:35-0600

Lameguy said:
Man this board is ridiculous. Games like this happen to everyone. Just relax and enjoy basketball.

Seems to be happening with some frequency lately.....

Lameguy · 2026-11-06T20:29:15-0600

sefus12 said:
Teams like Kansas won’t be as small/fast as JMU while chucking up 40+ 3s. Small/fast teams that shoot a zillion 3s tend to make big/long teams look awkward on D as it’s tough for the bigger guys to keep running around trying to keep up with shooters. Not saying tonight was a good night, but we adjusted in the second half and had a comfortable win, and that’s with our best shooter going 1-8 or 9 (whatever it was) and Moreno having several idiotic TOs that cost us.

Sounds like a person that actually understands matchups.

OldScratchBlues · 2026-11-06T20:29:31-0600

UKCowboys said:
Thats right. An 18-22 year old is a kid. Plain and simple

Good thing 18-22 year olds can't be tried as adults in court.

megablue · 2026-11-06T20:30:12-0600

Walker34 said:
Small fast teams that launch 40 3s are the type of teams that pull off first round upsets in March.

10000% ^^^^
That is why they call it March Madness !!

UKWildcats1987 · 2026-11-06T20:30:39-0600

OldScratchBlues said:
Good thing 18-22 year olds can't be tried as adults in court.

Yeah, or die in a war.

sefus12 · 2026-11-06T20:30:47-0600

Walker34 said:
Small fast teams that launch 40 3s are the type of teams that pull off first round upsets in March.

And we just had one of those “upset“ games and won comfortably, with bad games from our best shooter and our center. Try and take a positive from it instead of automatically trying to find the negative. It was an ugly performance, but we won. Hell of a lot better than losing. I bet Purdue would be pretty happy to win an ugly game tonight, or Oklahoma the other night.

cornbreadnmilk · 2026-11-06T20:30:50-0600

OldScratchBlues said:
Good thing 18-22 year olds can't be tried as adults in court.

Or fight in wars.

Lameguy · 2026-11-06T20:31:28-0600

UKCowboys said:
UK is still everyone's Super Bowl. JMU hut 15 three pointers tonight. If you hit 15 threes, you are going to stay in the game for a while

Exactly, easy to hit them when you’re just playing without expectations.

Johnny_Jeepers · 2026-11-06T20:32:30-0600

Give me a P! P! You got that P you got that P!
Gimme an eww eww
You got that eww you got that eww
Gimme another eww eww
eww ewww eww ewww ewwww
And gimme a P! P! You want that P! You want that P!

And what's that spell?
And what's that spell?
I said what's that smell?
What's that smell spell?

SenseMaker_Cats · 2026-11-06T20:35:34-0600

Anon1739778738 said:
Kansas will boat race us in the first half. We will spend the whole second half trying to make the final score respectable.If we play defense like we did tonight it's gonna be a complete blow out.

Did you mean to say they “only” hit 15 threes because they shot FORTY FIVE of them. 15 isn’t anything special.

UKCowboys · 2026-11-06T20:35:47-0600

OldScratchBlues said:
Good thing 18-22 year olds can't be tried as adults in court.

18-20 year olds can't buy alcohol. Wonder why that is

*Fox2Monk* · 2026-11-06T20:37:49-0600

Lameguy said:
Man this board is ridiculous. Games like this happen to everyone. Just relax and enjoy basketball.

That was not enjoyable basketball honestly. It’s one thing to have a tough game. It’s another to let a one dimensional team tie you 80% of the game doing exactly what you know they wanna do. Get out rebounded, dunked on by little shooters.

Catastic5 · 2026-11-06T20:39:04-0600

OldScratchBlues said:
Not sure which will be sadder...

We lose this game

We win and sunshine pumpers storm the thread saying we're all negative and this team is gonna make a deep run to the final 4

You were right, they’re already showing up. They’re so shameless.

Beatle Bum · 2026-11-06T20:39:16-0600

mash_24 said:
Positives:
Hawthorne is gonna be a good player one of these days.
McBride was the spark.
I think these guys have much better chemistry than last years team.
Negatives:
Beat to way too many loose balls. Some luck involved there due to the huge # of 3’s they chucked.
We have to run some stuff for Milan
We get lost way too much on d just like last years team.

* Pope needs to hand the keys to Mason. He’s special.

Praise for McBride, Hawthorne, and Mason. Three guys bashed over the summer by the basketball geniuses of Rafters.

sefus12 · 2026-11-06T20:40:33-0600

SenseMaker_Cats said:
Did you mean to say they “only” hit 15 threes because they shot FORTY FIVE of them. 15 isn’t anything special.

You’re right. We should consider this one a loss because the other team didn’t shoot a high enough percentage from 3. Forget the fact that our flame thrower went 1-9…. That doesn’t matter. We should only focus on the fact that the other team was only +15 from 3 and made our bigger, slower guys chase them all over the court whether they made the 3 or not.

Yes, that’s sarcasm in case your anger that we didn’t win the correct way is clouding your judgement.

BlueBloodKyFan72 · 2026-11-06T20:41:57-0600

We weren’t Purdue

Lameguy · 2026-11-06T20:43:02-0600

*Fox2Monk* said:
That was not enjoyable basketball honestly. It’s one thing to have a tough game. It’s another to let a one dimensional team tie you 80% of the game doing exactly what you know they wanna do. Get out rebounded, dunked on by little shooters.

Percent Led

10

83 Try again

BluWildcatz · 2026-11-06T20:44:34-0600

The Pope Defense Force is here. Where were you guys at during the game?

*Fox2Monk* · 2026-11-06T20:45:12-0600

ComebackCats98 said:
Win is a win. I think it will be less stressful for people when they accept some realities about this team. They’re a pretty good team. They haven’t shown anything that makes me think they’ll be great. That’s one man’s opinion though. They look like a 9-11 loss round of 32ish team. Maybe Sweet 16 ceiling. About like Tubby’s 2006/07 teams. I’ll keep watching and hoping they make me look dumb (wouldn’t be the first time)

Agreed with that. Round of 32/Sweet 16 ceiling again. 10 losses easy imho.

*Fox2Monk* · 2026-11-06T20:46:38-0600

HenryMuto said:
Valpo with the 3 at the buzzer to upset Purdue in double OT with their best player fouled out.

Curious to see how they develop this year without their all world PG for the first time in 4 years.

Johnny_Jeepers · 2026-11-06T20:46:42-0600

Is it true that after the game Kam Williams and James McBride got in trouble for having a Who Has The Nastiest Butthole Farrrts contest? And that Kam shat all over the floor and the team had to then clear out the locker room and have their post-game talk in the hallway?

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