Re: College Basketball 2008-2009

[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?

 

no

 

my bad, i get a lot of those mixed up.

[Magnetic Curses]

but anyway, on to relevant basketball. huge game against a very good michigan team in ann arbor. harris and sims are a pretty badass tandem to go up against and i don't have a good feeling about this one. i think michigan wins by 5. 75-70.

[illiniguy]

but anyway, on to relevant basketball. huge game against a very good michigan team in ann arbor. harris and sims are a pretty badass tandem to go up against and i don't have a good feeling about this one. i think michigan wins by 5. 75-70.

Yeah I see us losing this one big. We haven't had a really bad game yet and I fear that with as young as we are it might be that time.

[Magnetic Curses]

but anyway, on to relevant basketball. huge game against a very good michigan team in ann arbor. harris and sims are a pretty badass tandem to go up against and i don't have a good feeling about this one. i think michigan wins by 5. 75-70.

Yeah I see us losing this one big. We haven't had a really bad game yet and I fear that with as young as we are it might be that time.

 

i don't see us losing big, our defense has been playing too well to get blown out. i don't see us winning, though.

[E.J.]

Go 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?

 

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.

 

I was obviously cherry-picking the numbers to help state my case. But the fact remains that Illinois hasn't been relevant since Deron Williams left. No more relevant than Iowa.

 

You don't want anyone to discuss irrelevant teams. Yet you continually discussed (well actually you just whined about officiating and how only you are doomed to root for teams with terrible luck) Illinois football. They were completely irrelevant this year and haven't been any more relevant historically than Iowa basketball.

And if you want to go the head-to-head route, I wasn't bragging when Iowa beat Illinois in '07. We stunk, they went to the Rose Bowl. It didn't really mean much.

[wekse]

any streams to catch the game on yet? i don't get the btn.

[SouthSideRyan]

HOLY [expletive] CHESTER FRAZIER

[radarluv1]

HOLY Veterans Committee CHESTER FRAZIER

seriously where did that come from

[SouthSideRyan]

And geez, sorry Iowa guys, didn't realize what I'd start.

[weis21]

heading to Durham for the VT - Duke game shortly. I'll probably be the only person in the student section without any Duke apparel.

[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.

 

I was obviously cherry-picking the numbers to help state my case. But the fact remains that Illinois hasn't been relevant since Deron Williams left. No more relevant than Iowa.

 

You don't want anyone to discuss irrelevant teams. Yet you continually discussed (well actually you just whined about officiating and how only you are doomed to root for teams with terrible luck) Illinois football. They were completely irrelevant this year and haven't been any more relevant historically than Iowa basketball.

And if you want to go the head-to-head route, I wasn't bragging when Iowa beat Illinois in '07. We stunk, they went to the Rose Bowl. It didn't really mean much.

 

they went 11-5 in the big ten the year after williams left and have made the tourney twice since his departure (i realize iowa also did this that year, but while it was a great year for iowa, it was a forgetable year for the illini). you see what i mean, if iowa would have made the tourney 2 years in a row it would be absolutely the biggest news in the world.

 

what i mean by iowa being irrelevant (and we're talking basketball here, basketball, because, as you'll notice, this is a basketball thread. i have no idea why you brought up the issue of football, as my comments were not pertaining the irrelevance of iowa football or the relevance of illini football)is that they generally don't make the ncaa, they generally don't challenge for big ten titles, they've never been considered a top program at any time, and they have no real prospects of doing that in the future. you know, irrelevant

 

as far as illini football, let's keep it on the football thread, but we DID beat you this year. seriously, if you want to have a discussion about football, make the first post in that thread, i'll be right there, i swear.

[radarluv1]

mccamey with 8 assists in the first half, can that be right?

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=200901040357

[SouthSideRyan]

It's not swatting the ball away when you hit the guy's arm.

[SouthSideRyan]

What the hell happened to Tisdale?

[Magnetic Curses]

mccamey's gotta give a hard foul right there on harris. you can't give him an easy bucket like that. don't try to hurt him, just knock him down.

[SouthSideRyan]

mccamey's gotta give a hard foul right there on harris. you can't give him an easy bucket like that. don't try to hurt him, just knock him down.

 

And if Chester's dunk is any precedent they wouldn't have called the foul if he made it anyway.

[Magnetic Curses]

these 2 teams take so many 3s.

[Magnetic Curses]

mccamey's gotta give a hard foul right there on harris. you can't give him an easy bucket like that. don't try to hurt him, just knock him down.

 

And if Chester's dunk is any precedent they wouldn't have called the foul if he made it anyway.

 

i still enjoyed watching the big dumb white guy fall on the back of his head.

[Magnetic Curses]

michigan will go nowhere as long as they rely so heavily upon the 3-pointer. they just don't take any other kind of shot.

 

when they're hot, they win. when they aren't they give less talented teams a chance to win.

[Magnetic Curses]

they call the foul on chester, however, tisdale is raped an no call. we're starting to get into homer territory,

[Magnetic Curses]

we will destroy this team in champaign.

[Magnetic Curses]

and there's the ballgame. but i'm still confident we're the better team, although they're far more athletic.

[E.J.]

Yay Michigan! Not gonna do much as the season goes on though. Can't shoot 95 three-pointers a game and expect to win every game.

[UMFan83]

michigan will go nowhere as long as they rely so heavily upon the 3-pointer. they just don't take any other kind of shot.

 

when they're hot, they win. when they aren't they give less talented teams a chance to win.

 

They were getting inside more later in the game, but yeah this is a perimeter based team for sure...I'll take the win. Starting 0-2 would have invoked a "here we go again" feeling among Michigan fans.

 

Illinois didn't have their best game but they continue to impress me with their team play, hustle, and passing. I bet most Illini fans would have taken 1-1 with 2 road games against ranked teams to start the Big 10 schedule.