Re: College Basketball 2008-2009

[Guest]

Not too many teams are top-10 worthy this season.

Ten at most, I'd say.

 

I hate you.

[SpongeWorthy]

I'm starting to think Pitt is better than Carolina. I think they'd match up very well in theory.

[Warpticon]

Rankings should be fun this week.

 

#7 in a dogfight with a terrible team.

 

#9 lost to an unranked team at home.

 

#14 is down big to a team that didn't receive a vote in the AP poll.

 

#15 loses to an unranked team

 

#16 loses it's 4th game of the year, 3rd in a row, 3rd to an unranked team.

 

#18 loses to an unranked team

 

#19 loses to an unranked team

 

#21, #23, & #24 all lose.

 

You forgot #4 losing. \:D/

[Guest]

i also enjoy riding chevy blazers. if only i knew where i could find one for free...

Asking to be banned? :evil:

[manbearcub]

i also enjoy riding chevy blazers. if only i knew where i could find one for free...

Asking to be banned? :evil:

i got an offer for one but i didnt accept it. sulley set me up. go ahead and investigate and i will take whatever punishment you see fit, but be forewarned i will hold an irrational grudge against anyone involved if you do investigate me.

[Guest]

i also enjoy riding chevy blazers. if only i knew where i could find one for free...

Asking to be banned? :evil:

i got an offer for one but i didnt accept it. sulley set me up. go ahead and investigate and i will take whatever punishment you see fit, but be forewarned i will hold an irrational grudge against anyone involved if you do investigate me.

No worries. But for the future...I was at Illinois for two degrees stretching from 85-92. I've heard enough free blazer jokes to last a lifetime.

[manbearcub]

they aren't jokes, fyi

[cubswin2009]

Illinois State is 14-0. When do they get ranked?

[SouthSideRyan]

lawl, Iowa fighting for last in the Big Ten Maybe you guys can squeak out 2 conference wins and pull out 10th place. Nah it's fine, a team full of walk-ons and scholarship players that Purdue wouldn't let walk on will definitely win 4 conference games this year. Unless IU has 4 more games against Iowa, they aren't touching 4 wins. Iowa sucks and I'm feeling quite confident in my under on the under 6 bet I made earlier this year. Edited January 4, 2009 by SouthSideRyan

[SouthSideRyan]

Illinois State is 14-0. When do they get ranked?

 

They haven't had a great win all year, and have had some bad wins against some terrible teams. They should be ranked after this one though.

[manbearcub]

lawl, Iowa fighting for last in the Big Ten Maybe you guys can squeak out 2 conference wins and pull out 10th place. Nah it's fine, a team full of walk-ons and scholarship players that Purdue wouldn't let walk on will definitely win 4 conference games this year. Unless IU has 4 more games against Iowa, they aren't touching 4 wins. Iowa sucks and I'm feeling quite confident in my under on the under 6 bet I made earlier this year.

pretty impressive you can come to this conclusion because of one game. even more impressive you can come to it after praising iowa the whole preconference season and as recently as a couple days ago.

[SouthSideRyan]

lawl, Iowa fighting for last in the Big Ten Maybe you guys can squeak out 2 conference wins and pull out 10th place. Nah it's fine, a team full of walk-ons and scholarship players that Purdue wouldn't let walk on will definitely win 4 conference games this year. Unless IU has 4 more games against Iowa, they aren't touching 4 wins. Iowa sucks and I'm feeling quite confident in my under on the under 6 bet I made earlier this year.

pretty impressive you can come to this conclusion because of one game. even more impressive you can come to it after praising iowa the whole preconference season and as recently as a couple days ago.

 

I praised Iowa mainly on what I saw in the box score, not what I saw in person. I was impressed by the OSU loss because I didn't think the loss of Lighty would mean that much. Watching them face Minnesota today I think I was wrong. I never wavered on my belief that Iowa was #10 in conference, and even as recently as the Lipscomb loss, I still gave IU a fighting chance against them at home. The Drake loss had me questioning things a bit. This win has me calling into question the entire season.

 

Through the extreme early part of the Big Ten season, 3 teams haven't looked good. Michigan, Iowa, and IU. Of course it's early, but there's really no reason that IU should ever be in a Big Ten road game all year let alone having it come down to the last 30 seconds of the game. The talent disparity is really that big that IU should lose every road game by 20.

 

And yeah, some of it is taking the piss out of you guys, but this was a bad basketball game where even when Iowa was up double digits it wasn't pretty. I know Big Ten basketball isn't pretty, but this set things back a bit. I will say(and I'm probably biased by the fact that I was rooting for Iowa) that it seemed there was no homecourt ref advantage that I usually expect in Big Ten play. I hope the officials aren't playing the NCAA card and "taking into account the current state of Indiana basketball"

[manbearcub]

oh it was definitely a horribly played and called game. sometimes when the refs take over games like that it makes it impossible to blow teams out. Iowa was up 8-12 pretty much the whole second half as it was. we still dont know what is going on with tucker right now and if we can even count on him getting significant minutes.

 

I really dont think you can take any more out of this one bad game than you can, say, wisconsin beating idaho state and iona by two each or minnesota playing some close games with bad teams.

[Magnetic Curses]

i also enjoy riding chevy blazers. if only i knew where i could find one for free...

 

again with chevy blazers, is that what pierre pierce drove or was it a windowless van?

[Magnetic Curses]

and like i said, enough with iowa. they're an irrelevant ,irrelevant team.

 

oh yes, and this:

 

[hawkeyecub]

lawl, Iowa fighting for last in the Big Ten Maybe you guys can squeak out 2 conference wins and pull out 10th place. Nah it's fine, a team full of walk-ons and scholarship players that Purdue wouldn't let walk on will definitely win 4 conference games this year. Unless IU has 4 more games against Iowa, they aren't touching 4 wins. Iowa sucks and I'm feeling quite confident in my under on the under 6 bet I made earlier this year.

 

Where the hell did that come from?

Honestly what kind of internet wager (sig or something along those lines) would you like to make on the 6 wins? I guarantee you they win 6.

 

For the most part you're a level-headed, knowledgeable fan. But then you let your dislike for a team get in the way and make absurd statements. For some reason it happens with most of the Illinois fans here whom I typically like.

 

Remember how Iowa football was going to fight for the bottom tier of the Big Ten this year? You made that statement mid-season. How about how Iowa basketball was going to struggle to win 3-4 games in the Big Ten last year? Or that they would struggle to win 20 games in '09 and '10 combined? I could keep going with situations where you guys freak out and try so hard to say how awful Iowa will always be.

 

Here's the last thing I'll say about yesterday's game. Remember how bad Iowa was last year? You know the team that wasn't going to win 4 in the Big Ten (won 6 actually)? Remember the Purdue team who won the Big Ten? Iowa lost AT Purdue by 1 on a Keaton Grant free throw with 1.4 seconds left.

 

Did that portend Purdue's doom? It's one freaking game at the beginning of the Big Ten season.

[hawkeyecub]

and like i said, enough with iowa. they're an irrelevant ,irrelevant team.

 

Then why did you talk about Illinois last year?

 

Or Illinois football this year? Well I guess they were relevant for the unintentional comedy provided weekly by "The Journey"

[Magnetic Curses]

and like i said, enough with iowa. they're an irrelevant ,irrelevant team.

 

Then why did you talk about Illinois last year?

 

Or Illinois football this year?

 

because when illinois basketball is down, everyone notices. when iowa basketball is down and a pointless waste of time, the sky is blue.

[hawkeyecub]

and like i said, enough with iowa. they're an irrelevant ,irrelevant team.

 

Then why did you talk about Illinois last year?

 

Or Illinois football this year?

 

because when illinois basketball is down, everyone notices. when iowa basketball is down and a pointless waste of time, the sky is blue.

 

Over the last 3 years Iowa is one game better than Illinois in the Big Ten. We had a coaching move in the middle of that 3 years, Bruce has no such excuse. Except maybe that it can be a distraction to have players leave another teammate to die.

 

What about the irrelevant Illinois football team this year? Why were they discussed?

[illiniguy]

and like i said, enough with iowa. they're an irrelevant ,irrelevant team.

 

Then why did you talk about Illinois last year?

 

Or Illinois football this year?

 

because when illinois basketball is down, everyone notices. when iowa basketball is down and a pointless waste of time, the sky is blue.

 

Over the last 3 years Iowa is one game better than Illinois in the Big Ten. We had a coaching move in the middle of that 3 years, Bruce has no such excuse. Except maybe that it can be a distraction to have players leave another teammate to die.

What about the irrelevant Illinois football team this year? Why were they discussed?

Ah what the heck lets just do the whole decade to get a better idea of who has had the better program.

As for football you win. But, being as I find football very boring I don't lose too much sleep over it.

[hawkeyecub]

and like i said, enough with iowa. they're an irrelevant ,irrelevant team.

 

Then why did you talk about Illinois last year?

 

Or Illinois football this year?

 

because when illinois basketball is down, everyone notices. when iowa basketball is down and a pointless waste of time, the sky is blue.

 

Over the last 3 years Iowa is one game better than Illinois in the Big Ten. We had a coaching move in the middle of that 3 years, Bruce has no such excuse. Except maybe that it can be a distraction to have players leave another teammate to die.

What about the irrelevant Illinois football team this year? Why were they discussed?

Ah what the heck lets just do the whole decade to get a better idea of who has had the better program.

 

I'd rather not

[illiniguy]

and like i said, enough with iowa. they're an irrelevant ,irrelevant team.

 

Then why did you talk about Illinois last year?

 

Or Illinois football this year?

 

because when illinois basketball is down, everyone notices. when iowa basketball is down and a pointless waste of time, the sky is blue.

 

Over the last 3 years Iowa is one game better than Illinois in the Big Ten. We had a coaching move in the middle of that 3 years, Bruce has no such excuse. Except maybe that it can be a distraction to have players leave another teammate to die.

What about the irrelevant Illinois football team this year? Why were they discussed?

Ah what the heck lets just do the whole decade to get a better idea of who has had the better program.

 

I'd rather not

Fair enough.

[Magnetic Curses]

and like i said, enough with iowa. they're an irrelevant ,irrelevant team.

 

Then why did you talk about Illinois last year?

 

Or Illinois football this year?

 

because when illinois basketball is down, everyone notices. when iowa basketball is down and a pointless waste of time, the sky is blue.

 

Over the last 3 years Iowa is one game better than Illinois in the Big Ten. We had a coaching move in the middle of that 3 years, Bruce has no such excuse. Except maybe that it can be a distraction to have players leave another teammate to die.

 

What about the irrelevant Illinois football team this year? Why were they discussed?

 

why just the past 3 years? but i guess a tourney appearance for the hawkeyes is considered a successful season, and that's just fine for a largley irrelevant program. you guys are doin great!

 

you can go to the football thread to discuss illinois football if you'd like. i thought this was the basketball thread. but if you're asking me, illinois football was just about irrelevant enough to beat the hawkeyes.

[Magnetic Curses]

and as far as leaving a teammate for dead, you don't really want to go into the off-court activities of iowa ball players, do you? i mean, wasn't freeman just kicked off the team for being drunk and underage?

[TruffleShuffle]

and as far as leaving a teammate for dead, you don't really want to go into the off-court activities of iowa ball players, do you? i mean, wasn't freeman just kicked off the team for being drunk and underage?

 

no