What's your expectations for this season?

Anon1751592624

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We should be a Final Four team. But the Tournament can be random.

But we need some type of SEC crown ... regular season or tournament. It has been too long.

I just want to be consistent, be ranked in the Top 10 most (if not all of the season). And I have faith with Pope (I would have zero if Cal was the coach).
 

seccats04

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With the most expensive roster in basketball comes expectations. SEC regular season champs, SEC Tournament champs and a F4. If it’s not something close to that then Pope should feel some heat. We’ve sacrificed football to be great in basketball again. We better be.
 

kybassfan

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I want to see a soul sucking, mind destroying, slap your momma and crawl up your *** defense. I want to see the opposing team taking oxygen because there is no air in the gym. Leading the nation in lowest points against and lowest percentage. Next. Passing. Quick. Sharp. Interior . Thirdly, rebounding. We need to channel big O. Did I mention defense?

Do these things, it will be a misery to play us.
 
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kybassfan

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I think we will be better than good on offense but if our defense is anywhere similar to last year the elite 8 will be our ceiling. Defense travels, offense, not so much.
This is true. Don’t bring a defense, might as well not show up.
 

rivercatinfl

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I have to see us play a few times before I can decide. The hype train is barreling down the tracks this off season but in reality other than Oweh there ALOT of questions that cannot be answered until we start playing. 1 .How well will JQ perform coming off injury. 2. Can Lowe run Pope's offense effectively. 3 Will Garrison improve especially on D.4.can Jelavic handle the physical play of the SEC. 5 How will our freshman actually play under the bright lights.6. Will Chandler step up to the next level, and many more. Predicting #9 or bust at this point is delusional.
Obviously we all want #9 but I agree with you. We are untested and even Pope himself is saying the exhibition season games are really needed to get a look at how we mesh.
We have an abundance of talent and I have faith in Pope to pull it all together but winning a natty is going to be leap with some of these unknowns. Especially injuries and JQ not playing.

I will pull hard for them but will not be surprised to see us lose some games all us fans want to se them win.

I won't bet against Pope pulling this off and doing something remarkable.
I'm gonna let this simmer a bit longer before I launch into a National Championship projection.
Man I hope this all works out and we go on a crazy run.
 
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Greatestalltime

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I’ll say for sure after game 1, but I see us winning the Sec old school style (easily), elite 8 at minimum.

After game 1 I assume I’ll say number 9.
 
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I always expect the team to improve over the offseason and build off the season before. Meaning at least a round further in the Tournament. In this case, the team Pope assembled is deep and talented enough to win the National Championship. Hoping for this team to stay healthy this year and go on a deep run after injuries were a major blow to last year's team.
 
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bbncal02

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Nov 14, 2017
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Maybe a couple?

I only remember the SEC tourney game against Alabama where we didn’t even show.

We were so banged up by then I can't fault that one. And Bama was just a very bad match up for us.


The Arky game and the Ohio State games. THOSE were the ones I was just like....."Really?"
 

UKBB4Ever

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We were so banged up by then I can't fault that one. And Bama was just a very bad match up for us.


The Arky game and the Ohio State games. THOSE were the ones I was just like....."Really?"
Probably right. But I was in Bridgestone in very expensive seats and we didn’t even show.

Maybe they waved the white flag once Butler wasn’t going to play?

OK, just announce it then and we could go home. Save me a hotel bill and I wouldn’t have bought the tickets.
 

RunninRichie

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Since a new season is nearly upon us (heck it might as well be upon us), what's your realistic expectation for this year?

Is it title or bust? Final Four? SEC Reg Season Title? SECT Champs?

Or is it a bit too early to say?


Personally, with as deep as we are, I think anything less than an E8 will be disappointing. We should also have a very good shot at winning the SEC- esp with Pearl now out of the picture.

But EweTee will probably be decent again. An UF looks to be somewhat reloading.

What say you RR? What do you see us doing and how will the SEC fare?
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