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[steverocks35]

Bieniemy is a stud and he needs to play aggressively on offense the entire game and not defer to our upperclassmen.

 

[WichitaSooner]

I can live with guys having bad shooting games and not scoring well, but it's definitely concerning that Manek and James still have games where they flat out no-show. Manek hasn't had it happen much in the past few weeks, but they both go in the tank when things aren't going well. That's when it is most important to dig in and fight and they don't show that often enough.

 

[Soonerinkc]

BS flagrant....

Really?...wow I thought it was 100% flagrant..
Reynolds was all acting...

We just got our ass kicked..outhustled...outplayed

 

[mict085]

I can live with guys having bad shooting games and not scoring well, but it's definitely concerning that Manek and James still have games where they flat out no-show. Manek hasn't had it happen much in the past few weeks, but they both go in the tank when things aren't going well. That's when it is most important to dig in and fight and they don't show that often enough.

This is so true. They both pout and then Disappear when things aren’t going well. We need players that are physically and mentally tougher.

 

[TulsaWorld]

Recap from the Associated Press...

“We were down by 10 at the half, so obviously didn’t do what we needed,” OU coach Lon Kruger said. “They dictated pretty much throughout the game, but they are a good team.”

Kruger, a native of Silver Lake, Kansas, won two conference championships when he played at K-State in 1972 and 1973.

“Just respect for what (K-State coach) Bruce Weber has done,” he said. “He has been fantastic throughout his career and to win a conference championship is great for Bruce.”

On a related note, from Guerin Emig on K-State's Big 12 championship...

Last Dec. 8, not everybody (purple heart emoji)’d Bruce.

That was the day K-State fell at Tulsa 47-46. Weber finished in the locker room and walked back out onto the court to take care of some postgame radio duties. When he emerged, a pocket of maybe 10-15 K-State fans in a corner of the Reynolds Center started berating him. I mean, they were merciless.

Weber didn’t pay them any mind, but a couple family members of K-State players sure did. They walked up the bleachers and told the hostiles to shut up, which they promptly did.

What everyone should have done was calm down, realize an injured Dean Wade would get healthy and that guards Barry Brown and Kamau Stokes, who shot 4-for-24 at TU, would find their strokes. Everyone should have realized it was a long season, and that Weber was a sharp enough coach to figure things out.

Weber figured things out all right. He got a lot of help from seniors Wade, Brown and Stokes. And everyone wound up having a grand old time in Bramlage Coliseum Saturday.

I wonder if the malcontents from that corner of the Reynolds Center were there. I wonder what they were doing.

 

[thebigabd]

I forgot that Tulsa beat OSU and K-State.

 

[TulsaWorld]

I forgot that Tulsa beat OSU and K-State.

They had a very promising start to the year, but just lost the regular season finale at Memphis, which puts them at 18-13 overall, 8-10 in the AAC. They will be the No. 8 seed in next week’s American Athletic Conference tournament, also hosted by Memphis.