Re: College Basketball 2008-2009

[Guest]

this board desperately needs an illinois basketball thread.

 

The Bruce Weber thread in rants was great, now we just need one like it in Social.

[Derwood]

this board desperately needs an illinois basketball thread.

 

a hidden, invitation only illinois basketball thread

[Vanilla Ice]

LETS GOOOOOO!!!!

 

please dont lose tonight now, duke.

 

Go whoever's playing Duke!!!!!!!! I keed, I keed. But yeah, I hope Duke loses.

I can't believe we are about to be ranked #2 and ahead of Carolina. (Hopefully)

[Guest]

Oh my god. Oregon State just snapped a 22 game conference losing streak against USC.

 

OSU owns the Trojans :[

 

Also, I hate Daniel Hackett.

 

GOD DAMNIT.

OU was counting on USC as one of their better win. Thanks guys.

 

Well, that's what you get for relying on the Pac-10.

 

But don't worry, USC will somehow beat UCLA next Sunday. :roll:

[Andy]

One of ND and Georgetown will be 1-2 in conference after tomorrow night.

 

Honestly I don't see how we beat them. It may be at home where we've won 44 straight, but we haven't beaten the Hoyas since, I think, 2003. Or really come even close. They have some sort of hex on ND. Or maybe we just can't play defense, that could be it too.

[mul21]

One of ND and Georgetown will be 1-2 in conference after tomorrow night.

 

Honestly I don't see how we beat them. It may be at home where we've won 44 straight, but we haven't beaten the Hoyas since, I think, 2003. Or really come even close. They have some sort of hex on ND. Or maybe we just can't play defense, that could be it too.

 

The Duke system only works really well when Coach K is getting every call to go his way. That's really what the problem is for ND. Well, that, and like you said, they don't play any defense.

[rchap24]

What's up with the league this year? Purdue beats BC and BC beats North Carolina handily. Michigan losses random games, but beats Duke and UCLA. U of I beats Purdue and Mizzou then losses to Michigan

[Derwood]

Purdue at Penn State tomorrow night. Eek.

[rchap24]

Purdue at Penn State tomorrow night. Eek.

 

Should be a decent game...Us coming off a loss at home and playing on the road, plus Penn State is better than last year

[Guest]

But seriously...Oregon State!? That's got to be their first conference win since Gary Payton was there.

[manbearcub]

Looks like our boy Stevie is losing his hair.

 

 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/3166025093_04ef515b65.jpg

 

 

Either that or a bird landed in it before the game.

[rchap24]

New Rankings: Purdue didn't really move to far back and U of I kind of got screwed in the rankings again even with the loss

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/rankings

 

AP Top 25

1. Pittsburgh (70) 14-0 1,798

2. Duke 12-1 1,660

3. North Carolina (2) 13-1 1,651

4. Wake Forest 13-0 1,553

5. Connecticut 12-1 1,474

6. Oklahoma 13-1 1,358

7. Texas 11-2 1,348

8. Michigan State 11-2 1,269

9. Georgetown 10-2 1,208

10. UCLA 12-2 1,162

11. Syracuse 14-1 1,113

12. Clemson 14-0 968

13. Notre Dame 10-3 802

14. Purdue 11-3 774

15. Tennessee 9-3 533

16. Xavier 11-2 483

17. Boston College 13-2 453

18. Marquette 13-2 436

18. Villanova 12-2 436

20. Arizona State 12-2 374

21. Butler 12-1 341

22. Minnesota 13-1 290

23. Baylor 12-2 289

23. Louisville 9-3 289

25. West Virginia 11-2 230

Others Receiving Votes

Michigan 153, California 122, Arkansas 109, Illinois 108, Gonzaga 86, Wisconsin 86, Memphis 67, Davidson 56, Saint Mary's 50, UNLV 43, Illinois State 39, Kansas 37, Ohio State 28, Texas A&M 27, Maryland 25, Dayton 22, Florida 13, Florida State 13, Brigham Young 12, Miami (FL) 8, Missouri 4.

Dropped From Rankings

Gonzaga 16, Michigan 23, Ohio State 24.

 

 

ESPN/USA Today Poll

1. Pittsburgh (30) 14-0 774

2. Duke 12-1 714

3. North Carolina (1) 13-1 707

4. Wake Forest 13-0 687

5. Connecticut 12-1 630

6. Oklahoma 13-1 593

7. Texas 11-2 546

7. UCLA 12-2 546

9. Syracuse 14-1 526

10. Georgetown 10-2 506

11. Clemson 14-0 480

12. Michigan State 11-2 452

13. Notre Dame 10-3 277

14. Purdue 11-3 261

15. Marquette 13-2 251

16. Arizona State 12-2 238

17. Villanova 12-2 225

18. Xavier 11-2 217

19. Minnesota 13-1 183

20. Butler 12-1 147

21. Louisville 9-3 136

22. West Virginia 11-2 132

23. Baylor 12-2 98

24. Boston College 13-2 90

25. Tennessee 9-3 85

Others Receiving Votes

Dayton 54, Illinois State 50, Michigan 49, Saint Mary's 43, Ohio State 40, Memphis 37, Illinois 34, Brigham Young 34, California 31, Davidson 31, Arkansas 27, Gonzaga 27, Wisconsin 26, Texas A&M 22, Missouri 21, Florida 11, UNLV 11, LSU 10, Kansas 7, Stanford 5, Maryland 1, Florida State 1, Utah State 1, Washington 1.

Dropped From Rankings

Gonzaga 17, Ohio State 23, Michigan 24.

[Warpticon]

Wow. Arkansas 28 in one poll...36 in the other. Weird. And Oklahoma lost to 28/36 and fell 2 spots in both polls. Huh. If they can knock off #7 tomorrow, I bet they'll move up a spot or two. :lol:

[NeifiIsMyHomeBoy]

Everyone knows Deron is way behind Frankie in the ultimate "Illinois guard named Williams" standings.

Agreed. At least when it comes to being cool.

 

And just being all around sick. I still can't get over this. Sorry Iowa fans.

 

 

I was too young when the 89 team was around, but Frank is the best PG I have seen at Illinois in terms of playmaking ability and taking over a game. Too bad he could never put it together in the NBA.

[hawkeyecub]

Everyone knows Deron is way behind Frankie in the ultimate "Illinois guard named Williams" standings.

Agreed. At least when it comes to being cool.

 

And just being all around sick. I still can't get over this. Sorry Iowa fans.

 

 

Thanks. I had blocked out that entire season post-Christmas.

 

Ranked top 5 preseason by some and mostly stayed in top 10 in the non-conference. Favorites to win the Big Ten. Lost to Mizzou in Guardian's Classic (only to beat them by 20 later at Mizzou), Duke and at UNI which prompted Alford to throw away their pizza after the game and make them ride back to Iowa City hungry.

 

Sitting at like 13-3 and after stomping Wisconsin at home my only concern walking out of Carver was whether we would be able to win the Big Ten and grab a 1 or 2 seed.

 

We then went 4-11 in the rest of the Big Ten as the team imploded and quit.

[Andy]

Notre Dame goes 5 on 8 and wins 73-67. I could very well be way off since I was there and not seeing it on TV, but it sure seemed like Georgetown got a lot of bad calls in their favor tonight, many of them fouls against us. Harangody got his 4th foul with 15 minutes to go on a complete joke of an offensive foul call but managed to play much of the rest of the game without getting a 5th. He dominated for a couple of stretches and put up 31 and 11 against the stiffest D in the league. A win we needed to have, streak or no streak.

[bcl412]

Everyone knows Deron is way behind Frankie in the ultimate "Illinois guard named Williams" standings.

Agreed. At least when it comes to being cool.

 

And just being all around sick. I still can't get over this. Sorry Iowa fans.

 

 

Thanks. I had blocked out that entire season post-Christmas.

 

Ranked top 5 preseason by some and mostly stayed in top 10 in the non-conference. Favorites to win the Big Ten. Lost to Mizzou in Guardian's Classic (only to beat them by 20 later at Mizzou), Duke and at UNI which prompted Alford to throw away their pizza after the game and make them ride back to Iowa City hungry.

 

Sitting at like 13-3 and after stomping Wisconsin at home my only concern walking out of Carver was whether we would be able to win the Big Ten and grab a 1 or 2 seed.

 

We then went 4-11 in the rest of the Big Ten as the team imploded and quit.

 

I'm pretty sure this is the season that killed any excitement for basketball in the state of Iowa.

[manbearcub]

Everyone knows Deron is way behind Frankie in the ultimate "Illinois guard named Williams" standings.

Agreed. At least when it comes to being cool.

 

And just being all around sick. I still can't get over this. Sorry Iowa fans.

 

 

Thanks. I had blocked out that entire season post-Christmas.

 

Ranked top 5 preseason by some and mostly stayed in top 10 in the non-conference. Favorites to win the Big Ten. Lost to Mizzou in Guardian's Classic (only to beat them by 20 later at Mizzou), Duke and at UNI which prompted Alford to throw away their pizza after the game and make them ride back to Iowa City hungry.

 

Sitting at like 13-3 and after stomping Wisconsin at home my only concern walking out of Carver was whether we would be able to win the Big Ten and grab a 1 or 2 seed.

 

We then went 4-11 in the rest of the Big Ten as the team imploded and quit.

 

I'm pretty sure this is the season that killed any excitement for basketball in the state of Iowa.

You would be correct. That and Pierce the next year.

[Rusch33]

Iowa hasn't recovered since, and I'm not sure if they ever will.

[illiniguy]

Everyone knows Deron is way behind Frankie in the ultimate "Illinois guard named Williams" standings.

Agreed. At least when it comes to being cool.

 

And just being all around sick. I still can't get over this. Sorry Iowa fans.

 

 

Thanks. I had blocked out that entire season post-Christmas.

 

Ranked top 5 preseason by some and mostly stayed in top 10 in the non-conference. Favorites to win the Big Ten. Lost to Mizzou in Guardian's Classic (only to beat them by 20 later at Mizzou), Duke and at UNI which prompted Alford to throw away their pizza after the game and make them ride back to Iowa City hungry.

 

Sitting at like 13-3 and after stomping Wisconsin at home my only concern walking out of Carver was whether we would be able to win the Big Ten and grab a 1 or 2 seed.

 

We then went 4-11 in the rest of the Big Ten as the team imploded and quit.

 

I'm pretty sure this is the season that killed any excitement for basketball in the state of Iowa.

You would be correct. That and Pierce the next year.

We were a 1 seed that year so I don't know where you were getting you were favored to win the big ten. I still have a couple of magazines from that year and it was a tossup between us and MSU in both of them.

[SouthSideRyan]

Iowa hasn't recovered since, and I'm not sure if they ever will.

 

3 seed in '06 was a good regular season.

[Rusch33]

3 seed was good until they got bounced by Northwestern State in the first round.

[SouthSideRyan]

UM is -8 at IU if anybody's interested in free money.

[Exile on Waveland]

3 seed was good until they got bounced by Northwestern State in the first round.

 

A kid made a random lucky 3-pointer. Iowa sucks.

[Warpticon]

Well, this should be interesting.