bukie

So we can select players who are not yet listed at CBS?

You don't like Cal?

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a single SEC team at a top 8 seed.

Like I said before, I really like MSU's profile at this point.

That's fine to make changes, just make sure I'm aware of them or I won't notice. :)

I'd love that. That would be a great story. That's partially my thought too. When you've got all these bubble teams losing down the stretch, and basically looking like crap. Then you have the team that's never made the tournament finishing strong, do you really want to make them one of the first 4 out? Heck, I don't think they even need 3 more wins to get in. A win today and I'd put them ahead of Ohio State and Minnesota just in the Big Ten pecking order, no matter what happens next week.

Hey, Illinois gets the 2 seed anyway.

Draft order: 1 Saber Metrics - Buster Posey 2 The Fighting Manginos - Gordon Beckham 3 Valenzuela's Screwballs - Tim Beckham 4 Lynx - Eric Hosmer 5 Severe Tooterstorms - Aaron Hicks 6 NC Cubs - Jason Castro 7 Tampa Bay Rays 8 Quakers 9 Harrys Budcrew 10 The Eyes of Texas 11 Northside Baseball 12 Alamo Stealth 13 Galesburg Hand Sanitizers 14 Tootielicious 15 Fuzzy Logistics 16 Raw Dawgs

Morehead wins!

OVC title game is tied with 30 seconds to play on ESPN2. EDIT: And Morehead State takes a 2-point lead with 6 seconds to play on an alleyoop. Yes, Morehead State is the actual name of a D-1 university.

Well, if we're starting and I'm first and any available prospect is fair game, I'll draft Buster Posey.

Northern Iowa vs. Illinois State for the MVC title tomorrow after ISU blew out Creighton by 25. Could very well be a one-bid league this year. Added Radford and East Tennessee State to the auto-bid list.

Game results involving teams in consideration: @Iowa 75 Penn State 67 2OT Michigan 67 @Minnesota 64 @BC 67 Georgia Tech 66 Albany 56 @Vermont 52 OT (AE Quarters) (Motion to eliminate Vermont from consideration?) Seton Hall 67 @Cincy 63 OT @Miami 72 NC State 64 @Kansas St 76 Colorado 64 @Florida 60 Kentucky 53 South Carolina 68 @Georgia 51 Massachusetts 72 @Rhode Island 71 @Texas A&M 96 Missouri 86 @Davidson 84 Appalachian St 68 (Southern Quarters) @Arizona State 83 California 66 @Northern Iowa 76 Bradley 62 (MVC Semis) @UAB 70 Marshall 52 @Oklahoma 82 Oklahoma State 78 @Virginia 68 Maryland 63 New Mexico 74 @Wyoming 73 @Auburn 69 LSU 53 Nebraska 66 @Baylor 62 (Motion to remove Baylor from consideration?) Tulsa 60 @Rice 50 @Kansas 83 Texas 73 @Georgetown 48 DePaul 40 @Siena 77 Canisius 52 (MAAC Quarters) Illinois State 73 @Creighton 49 (MVC Semis) @Washington 67 Washington State 60 @Utah 68 TCU 49

Still haven't decided whether Illinois having a bye on the last weekend of the season is a good or bad thing.

OK, finally, here's the results from round 1: 13 Committee members: bukie (Illinois) ISUCubsFan (Iowa State) Tranny Tiger (Mizzou) CubInOK (Oklahoma) mul21 (Illinois) Z38Cubs (Illinois) Exile on Waveland (Indiana) Flames24Rulz (Southern Illinois) Prior4CyYoung (Louisville) CubbieBum (Purdue?) Vanilla Ice (Duke) SouthSideRyan (Illinois) TruffleShuffle (Penn State/Holy Cross?) Auto-bids (31): Cornell (Ivy) At-large Locks (25): Arizona State Butler Clemson Connecticut Duke Florida State Gonzaga Illinois Kansas Louisville LSU Marquette Memphis Michigan State Missouri North Carolina Oklahoma Pittsburgh Purdue Syracuse UCLA Villanova Wake Forest Washington Xavier Under consideration (roughly in order of support): BYU California Utah West Virginia Texas Tennessee Minnesota Oklahoma State Wisconsin Ohio State South Carolina Arizona Boston College Creighton Dayton Penn State Providence Florida Maryland New Mexico Rhode Island Siena Texas A&M Cincinnati Kentucky San Diego State St. Mary's UNLV Virginia Tech Davidson Kansas State Miami Michigan Northwestern Utah State UAB Notre Dame Georgetown USC Temple Tulsa Washington State Auburn Baylor Houston Illinois State Nebraska Northern Iowa VCU Green Bay Niagara Vermont I'll be updating the first post with this information as well. Step 2: By the end of Monday, PM me your top 16 locks in order, and your top 8 under consideration in order.

Analyzing data...got a ton of it to sift through since there are a lot of participants this year (which is good!). I'll post the results early tomorrow. Step 2 of the process will be to PM me your top 16 overall from the IN list I post, and your top 8 from the BUBBLE list I post by the end of Monday. Obviously, nobody can do that until I actually post the results. EDIT: Almost forgot, Cornell is the first automatic bid clinched, from the Ivy league.

One more reminder that if you'd like to participate, pm me your locks and bubbles lists, or post them here and let me know by the end of the day today.

I'll be honest, when Skyballer didn't show, I was half expecting dew to trade the Giants pick to the Titans for cash considerations.

I will say one thing about Big Ten officiating that annoys me to no end: the "let them play underneath" mantra that causes them to eat their whistles for all but the most egregious contact down low really hurts the conference come tourney time, when games are called much tighter. It's stupid, and it lulls teams into a false sense that they can just destroy anyone underneath without recourse.

I'm mostly frustrated this morning because that's now the fourth game this year that Illinois was in control at least midway through the second half (8-10 point lead) and then proceeded to eat clock and take bad jumpshots, which let the other team back in the game. Twice against PSU, the game at MSU, and the game at Michigan. It's balanced out somewhat by that ridiculous Northwestern comeback (which was caused by the exact same stupid "clock eating offense"), but at some point you have to just run the offense that got you the lead.

Sure, anyone can play. I'd probably go team A, personally. Both are close, though.

I really just can't believe Illinois blew two 10-point leads to PSU in two games in the last 5 minutes of each. By doing the same stupid things.

Just an awful display offensively the last 5 minutes. Didn't run the offense, couldn't hit free throws, couldn't get rebounds.

2-7 from the free throw line says it all.

I hate hate hate the prevent offense. Stand there for 30 seconds and take a fallaway 3 three times in a row down the court. And be surprised when the other team gets back into the game!