3/5 Games

Piasa said:

Just taking the opportunity to say, I would love to play any BIG EAST team. If you look at Auburns schedule and ranking, it is based on SEC play. Ditto UK. Duke played one ranked team this season. Same thing with the big 12, win at home against ranked teams, lose on the road. It will be about matchups this year.

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The big 12 is a very good conference. ACC and SEC are down. The big 12 is not.

Piasa said:

Just taking the opportunity to say, I would love to play any BIG EAST team. If you look at Auburns schedule and ranking, it is based on SEC play. Ditto UK. Duke played one ranked team this season. Same thing with the big 12, win at home against ranked teams, lose on the road. It will be about matchups this year.

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Duke played (and beat) Kentucky and Gonzaga. Both are ranked. Kinda high too.

Also played osu who is ranked.

UK played Duke. They also played Kansas. Not sure where you are getting this info …

The SEC is down despite 2 darn good teams, and 3 other really good teams. They like the B1G have 14 teams, but play only 18 conference games, as opposed to our conference playing 20 games. That means each SEC team faces one another home and away less often than we do, and have more rest between games. More diluted and weaker schedule over all when you compare it to ours.

Would rate Big12 slightly stronger than B1G this year, however.

grantlab said:

If we play Purdue again, I need 35 minutes of Andre Curbelo. Boilers’ PNR defense is horrible. Johnson is absolutely carving it up. Feel like it wasn’t a coincidence Belo had 2 of his best games of the year against Purdue.

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Boilers p/r defense is terrible if the handler has the ability to shoot off the dribble. Curbelo has not proven that. Drop coverage with Edey, and what we do with Kofi, is made for players like him.