Kentucky away from home vs above avg teams

[Chi_archie]

don't buy into the hype or what I say or what another group of posters say. Look at the #'s how does Kentucky do away from their home court with their great fans?

yeah, they travel well, but this game is in Cornell's backyard and just about anyone that has tickets for this and ISN'T a true blue fan...will be backing Cornell big time....

so how did the numbers look when Kentucky left their hallowed grounds and played a team with similar ratings to cornell... (note that only 3 of these 10 games included a team with a better ranking than cornell)

number in parenthesis is the team's kenpom rating

Cornell is 44 in kenpom's ratings currently


neutral court vs uconn (57) W 68-66
away vs Florida (47) W 89-77
away vs Auburn (98) W 72-67
away vs S. Car (84) L 68-62
away vs Miss st (45) W 81-75 OT
away vs Vandy (36) W 58-56
away vs Tenn (33) L 74-65
neutral vs Bama (61) W 73-67
neutral vs Tenn (33) W 74-45
Neutral vs Miss St(45) W 75-74


8 of the ten games Kentucky failed to beat their opponent by more than 6...even by adjust for the home/away factor in those sec games that were away.... 8.5 is not an impossible number to cover.


just food for thought

[onthewhat]

[jayc88]

[Chi_archie]

forgot one.... the overtime win vs stanford (103) on a neutral court ended up an 8 point victory

[Extra Innings]

Chi is all over Kentucky

[onthewhat]

I cannot wait to hear crickets after the fukkin game

No one will say a word

[Chi_archie]

Kentucky has failed to blow out any decent team away from their home court all year.

i'm not saying Cornell will win, not saying they cover..... just sayint a blowout would be a first in this kind of situation.

I'd love to put 100 points on cornell +15

[Extra Innings]

Chi...onner will entertain that. Kentucky wins by 5

[onthewhat]

I already have 50 points with Willie Bee on +15

He posted the 50 up with me already meaning I only have 4 points left over if it loses.

[onthewhat]

Archie I will bet you 100 at +15

If I lose I will pay you 7 a day until I'm paid up, and will pay 110, 10 extra as interest

[Chi_archie]

I get +15 for 100 points?
if Cornell loses by 16 or more you win my 100?
if Cornell loses by 14 or less I get the above terms? 7 points a day ect?

sounds good

[onthewhat]

Post up the points with me to confirm

[Chi_archie]

why would I post up points with someone that just said they don't have enough to pay me right away

[onthewhat]

To confirm the bet you fukkin nit wit

I will pay back the 100 you post up after the game if you win (when I get home about 1 am eastern)

[Chi_archie]

how bout this...

I confirm the bet.

I mean how do YOU confirm the bet? you can't send me 100.

I think we are all confirmed out the wazzou now. points are silly enough as it is, you don't need to confirm a bet by sending a small amount of points like 100 as some sort of handshake.... golly

[onthewhat]

OK guy whatever

You are the stiff here not me (soprano)

GL on the play, I'll let you buy out now for 90

[3PtShooter]

lol

[lakerboy]

interesting turn of events in this thread

[Chi_archie]

the events went exactly the way I wanted/guided them to

I will now have about 500 points on the moneyline and 200 points on Kentucky -8.5

but I needled myself into a nice hedge/middle position on a very +ev wager

gotta love diehard fans

[onthewhat]

You take this points stuff a bit too seriously

[Chi_archie]

i'm gonna bring down the store in a few months

[onthewhat]

I'd I cared about points I'd cancel the wager. I made the wager for bragging rights but if I win you will just say you were on Kentucky anyways.

You are lucky it's just points that I have no intenion of ever trading for something of value because I'm not some broke fuk betting 2 bucks a game in the projects.

[Chi_archie]

onner, you're too easy to mess with. and I am on Kentucky

[The Seer]

Cornell keeps it close.

[Chi_archie]

here we go nit wits

[Chi_archie]

well this seems like a big ole mismatch.... gonna have to take a bit of Cornell 2nd half action for a nice middle....


Onner looks to be dead on here so far though.... here's the post up points, as I think we are going out now

[onthewhat]

Nice call chief

lol

[Chi_archie]

Onner is in the top 5 handicappers ever on SBR period. top 3 for his hometeam.... guy is unreal...


all due props to him



be back manana to sing more praises........ just hand kentucky the trophy now

[onthewhat]

Thanks for playing

[hoopster42]

game was much closer than score indicated.......wva on sat will bring it big time, that gm is gona be a war

[Q]

onthewhat is on a different planet

[Cappy]

Cornell is a monster team

[Q]

Chi there is no reason to posts Stats on here. People still dont believe the real numbers.. Great thread man..

[jjgold]

Playing Cornell was not a test

Hard to gauge Kentucky because they played no one so far in tourney

[Chi_archie]

Looking forward to WVU vs Kentucky. Might be my most anticipated game so far in this tourney now.

have to hand it to herman, although Kentucky never really ran away with it and they almost let Cornell come back for the back door cover. There were times, especially late in the first half, where you could see how Kentucky was 10x superior in terms of Athleticism and that Cornell didn't belong on the same court.