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There isn't a fan out there who could say with a straight face that they'd prefer UI's history/resume over Duke's. All this listing does (imo) is make me question Sagarin's method.

 

All it's doing is rating how teams have done over 72 years. What's so hard to understand that Illinois was a superior program to Duke for like the first 50 years of the rankings?

 

According to Sagarin's formula. UI over UConn, I guess I can accept, since they've only been relevant for about twenty years. Duke has a history that extends for a long time. I don't care if UI racked up wins in the 40s, 50s, and 60s--that success shouldn't outweigh the success Duke has had from the 60s on. JMO. Nothing to get worked up about. UI over Duke is hardly the only one that made me double take.

Although the system did count tournament wins double, I wonder how different it would look had championship wins counted twice as much as any other win, or if it had been scaled to reward recent performance more than historical.

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I mainly thought it was an interesting way to view things within the scope of the entire NCAA era rather than just the 64 team era. For example if you asked the average fan who's had a better history between UConn and Cincinatti or Georgetown and Iowa or Illinois and Wake Forest, you'd likely get the wrong answer.
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I don't buy Egwu to Purdue at all, unless we've softened on him and are aiming higher(say Johnson out in CA)

 

Regarding Jordan, there were some tweets hinting towards it yesterday from Jordan and Keller, but I didn't want to be that guy.

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I don't buy Egwu to Purdue at all, unless we've softened on him and are aiming higher(say Johnson out in CA)

 

Regarding Jordan, there were some tweets hinting towards it yesterday from Jordan and Keller, but I didn't want to be that guy.

 

Kevin Johnson?

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I don't buy Egwu to Purdue at all, unless we've softened on him and are aiming higher(say Johnson out in CA)

 

Regarding Jordan, there were some tweets hinting towards it yesterday from Jordan and Keller, but I didn't want to be that guy.

 

Kevin Johnson?

Yep we are after him.

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I don't buy Egwu to Purdue at all, unless we've softened on him and are aiming higher(say Johnson out in CA)

 

Regarding Jordan, there were some tweets hinting towards it yesterday from Jordan and Keller, but I didn't want to be that guy.

 

Kevin Johnson?

Yep we are after him.

 

Cool. Better you guys than USC or Arizona.

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My favorite teams are #1 (Kentucky), #5 (Indiana), and #148 (Ball State).

 

do you have 3 fave teams in every sport?

 

I believe he has 4 favorite NFL teams.

No, just 3 (Bears, Colts, and Panthers). It's just the NFL and college sports (mainly basketball) that I have three teams. In baseball it's just the Cubs. For football I grew up North of Chicago through the start of high school, then I was living in Indiana when the Colts moved from Baltimore, and had moved to North Carolina when the Panthers started. For college sports I grew up an IU fan, then went to Ball State, then went to Kentucky for graduate school.
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http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2009/1004/cbe1.pdf

 

Sagarin's comprehensive rankings over the past 72 years.

 

AND GO

 

hell, I'll take #20 overall. It's just another thing texas will cry about

 

I'll take No. 8. We win, just not in the tourney. Well I guess that's not entirely true. We win in the tourney but its one or two games each time.

 

Yeah, Purdue typically does pretty well in the first round. After that, all bets are off though.

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Sounds like Bradley Beal will choose between KU and UI's midnight madnesses. Since he plans on deciding his college choice before his season starts, I would say that the Midnight Madness he goes to would probably be a safe bet for his school.
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Sounds like Bradley Beal will choose between KU and UI's midnight madnesses. Since he plans on deciding his college choice before his season starts, I would say that the Midnight Madness he goes to would probably be a safe bet for his school.

 

When is midnight madness?

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Sounds like Bradley Beal will choose between KU and UI's midnight madnesses. Since he plans on deciding his college choice before his season starts, I would say that the Midnight Madness he goes to would probably be a safe bet for his school.

 

If Austin Rivers goes to UF, there's still a good chance he ends up there, too.

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