Quote Originally Posted by Netboy Extraordinaire View Post
"Put UK in the Big 10 and they lost at least 4-5 games total this year". What a joke!!! Ohio State, Michigan State and Michigan each lost 5 games to tie for the conference title and you are saying Kentucky loses 5 to make it a 4 way tie at the top? So basically, Kentucky is equal to OSU, MSU and Michigan ......... NOT!! Not a single Big 10 team comes within Double Digits of Kentucky in Rupp Arena and there is no way in this world that they lose 5 games on the road in the Big 10. OSU could not beat MSU or Wisconsin on their home floor in the past few weeks. Josh Harrelson equalized the Over-rated Jared Sullinger last year when the Cats sent the Buckeyes home. This year no Harrelson but a fella name Anthony Davis, you may have heard of him, controls the middle for Kentucky. Another guy named Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is a lockdown defender that Buford for OSU will have nightmares about after the game. Michigan, NEVER, Wisconsin, NEVER, Minnesota, NEVER, Purdue, NEVER, Iowa - Nebraska - Illinois, NOT. IU beat Kentucky and it took the game of their lives and Kentucky playing it's worst game of the year for them to win on a last second prayer 3 pointer. Count that loss in the Big 10 and then figure out where the other 4 come from. There won't be a single Big Ten team in the Elite 8 and it would not suprise me if only Michigan State was left after the first weekend of the Big Dance.
The Big 10 venues are much harder to play in those football crazy SEC gyms, not to mention we play basketball at a much higher level from top to bottom. The atmosphere in those buildings gives much more of a homecourt advantage. Do you really think that MSU, OSU, or UM could not beat them away from Rupp (IU did)? Thats crazy talk. I'll give you the fact that it would very difficult for any of those teams to win at Rupp. But on any given night the above mentioned teams could do it at their home gym. Part of the reason UK had their "worst" game of the year was because of the atmosphere in Assembly Hall....the noise....the tradition....so on and so forth. Its like that every night in gyms all around the Big 10....a little different than going to Miss. State....Georgia....Alabama.