* Play KSR Game Contest: Kentucky v Baylor Here *

[Darrell KSR]

Saturday is a new day. Since many of us access the board on weekdays, wanted to go ahead and get this one started. Plus I'm anxious to start with a clean slate.

1. Predict the Kentucky margin of victory. If you believe that Kentucky will lose, make sure that you make it clearly known with a -- [minus sign], or something else.

2. Predict the game high scorer, AND the total number of points he will score in the game. NOTE--it does not have to be a Kentucky player for this KSR point.

3. "Bounceback" player. UK had several players underperform against Notre Dame relative to their season averages (notably, Archie Goodwin and Alex Poythress, but not all). Predict the UK player who will "overperform" against Baylor relative to his season average the most, and by how many.

For reference, here are their averages. Let's limit it to these 8 players. Select one player, and by how many points he will exceed his average.

Archie Goodwin, 16.33
Alex Poythress, 15.83
Nerlens Noel, 12
Kyle Wiltjer, 11.5
Julius Mays, 10.17
Willie Cauley-Stein, 7.67
Jarrod Polson, 4.33
Ryan Harrow, 1.00

TB: Largest deficit Kentucky will face in the game

Good luck!

Good luck!

[Darrell KSR]

2012-13 KSR Game Contest Hall of Fame

1. Kentucky v. Maryland - DanISSELisdaman
2. Kentucky v. Duke - lfbj00
3. Kentucky v. Lafayette - blueboss
4. Kentucky v. Morehead State - DanISSELisdaman*, Doc
5. Kentucky v. LIU Brooklyn - blueboss*
6. Kentucky v. Notre Dame - Doc*
7. Kentucky v. Baylor - TBD

* Two-time inductee

[Darrell KSR]

My picks:

1. UK +9. Gotta have this one.

2. Alex Poythress, 30. He will go crazy in the unstructured, undisciplined defense of Baylor format.

3. Poythress, (he will score 30, so +14.17)

TB: None. Cats will start out hot and win going away.

Man, I hope I'm right.

[UKFlounder]

1. UK by 7
2. Pierre Jackson, 25
3. Harrow, 7
TB: 9

[Doc]

1. Cats by 9

2. Archie with 21

3. Ryan Harrow with 9


TB: 4

[blueboss]

1) Cats by 12

2) Poythress 26 points

3) Poythress 26 (+10.17)

TB) 6

[Lfbj00]

UK+8
Pierre Jackson-17
Ryan Harrow-11

TB-6

[Catfan73]

1. Kentucky by 4
2. Pierre Jackson, 23
3. Alex Poythress, 5.17

TB: 5 points

[truecatsfan]

UK + 5
Goodwin 22
Harrow + 9
6

[Krank]

1. UK by 16
2. Poythress, 23
3. Wiltjer, 8.5
TB: 1

[Darrell KSR]

Here we go and get this graded, too.

Saturday is a new day. Since many of us access the board on weekdays, wanted to go ahead and get this one started. Plus I'm anxious to start with a clean slate.

1. Predict the Kentucky margin of victory. If you believe that Kentucky will lose, make sure that you make it clearly known with a -- [minus sign], or something else.

(-9). There will be no KSR point awarded here, as nobody selected the correct winner, which has always been a condition of this point.

2. Predict the game high scorer, AND the total number of points he will score in the game. NOTE--it does not have to be a Kentucky player for this KSR point.

Archie Goodwin, Pierre Jackson 17

3. "Bounceback" player. UK had several players underperform against Notre Dame relative to their season averages (notably, Archie Goodwin and Alex Poythress, but not all). Predict the UK player who will "overperform" against Baylor relative to his season average the most, and by how many.

For reference, here are their averages. Let's limit it to these 8 players. Select one player, and by how many points he will exceed his average.

Archie Goodwin, 16.33 (17)
Alex Poythress, 15.83 (13)
Nerlens Noel, 12 (8)
Kyle Wiltjer, 11.5 (3)
Julius Mays, 10.17 (6)
Willie Cauley-Stein, 7.67 (6)
Jarrod Polson, 4.33 (0)
Ryan Harrow, 1.00 (2)


Hard to believe that a guy scoring 2 points would "most" exceed his average, but that's what we have, barely nipping Goodwin.
TB: Largest deficit Kentucky will face in the game

10 (15:41 mark--not needed, just FYI)


Good luck!

My picks:

1. UK +9. Gotta have this one.

2. Alex Poythress, 30. He will go crazy in the unstructured, undisciplined defense of Baylor format.

3. Poythress, (he will score 30, so +14.17)

TB: None. Cats will start out hot and win going away.

Man, I hope I'm right.

1. UK by 7
2. Pierre Jackson, 25
3. Harrow, 7
** 3rd KSR POINT **
TB: 9 ** Tiebreaker Winner, missed by just 1 point of actual 10 **

1. Cats by 9

2. Archie with 21

3. Ryan Harrow with 9


TB: 4

1) Cats by 12

2) Poythress 26 points

3) Poythress 26 (+10.17)

TB) 6

UK+8
Pierre Jackson-17 ** 2nd KSR POINT **
Ryan Harrow-11

TB-6 ** Not bad, but not good enough **

1. Kentucky by 4
2. Pierre Jackson, 23
3. Alex Poythress, 5.17

TB: 5 points

UK + 5
Goodwin 22
Harrow + 9
6

1. UK by 16
2. Poythress, 23
3. Wiltjer, 8.5
TB: 1

[Darrell KSR]

Congrats to UKFlounder. Bet he'd trade it for a win.