About: needisaymoore
C.J. Moore is the Lead College Basketball Writer at Bleacher Report. He is a University of Kansas grad and a basketball nerd. You can follow him on Twitter @cjmoore4.
Let’s imagine two months ago you would have told me that in the regular season finale at Missouri, KU would play the entire second half without Josh Selby, would turn it over on 31.6 percent of its possessions, would shoot an effective field goal percentage of 45.5 percent, score...
Bill Self was on Doug Gottlieb’s radio show on Monday and Gottlieb asked Self if his team had an area where it could improve. Self said first-shot defense. It’s not the first time Self has said this. He’s been preaching it for a while now. Yeah, the Jayhawk offense...
Frank Martin might seem like one stubborn dude. The coach certainly does not tolerate mistakes or a lack of effort, as evidenced by the stare-downs and obscenity-laced sideline tirades. But with K-State’s recent resurgence, Martin has proved that maybe he’s not so stubborn, or at least he’s willing to...
Every home game at Allen Fieldhouse, Bill Self is the last to emerge from the locker room. As the video board shows Self making his way through the tunnel, the crowd always gives a big cheer, Self blows into each hand right as he walks under the Northwest tunnel...
Here’s when you know a team is good. When your starting point guard is suspended earlier in the day, his replacement is not allowed to start because he left an orthotic that goes in his shoe at his mom’s house and the replacement for the replacement hits 4 of...
Tyshawn Taylor was suspended indefinitely today for violating team rules. There’s never a good time for something like this, as it’s another addition to “Tyshawn Taylor has gone and done something stupid again” list of indiscretions. But if there was a time in the conference schedule where KU could...
Earlier this season, I did a minutes’ distribution study in trying to figure out how Bill Self would handle his rotation when Josh Selby’s suspension ended. Before Selby joined the lineup, KU had had nine players averaging more than 15 minutes per game. For my research that I did...
I don’t follow recruiting that closely. I used to growing up, but eventually I got tired of the letdown. You follow a player for a couple years and you think he’s coming to your school, then on signing day, he picks up your school’s hat, then throws it behind...
One week ago against Missouri, Mario Little could not miss and he got a false sense of entitlement. On the first offensive possession Little played on Monday night against K-State, he jacked up a guarded 19-footer. Little does not deserve all of the blame for the 84-68 smacking K-State...
KU kept an amazing streak going on Saturday. With an 89-66 win, the Jayhawks have now scored more than 1.20 points per possession in six straight games and averaged 1.29 points per trip during that stretch. I became obsessed last week with trying to find a team that could...