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Why Rob Neyer is one of my favorite baseball writers.
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He's going to Indiana, he just hasn't told you yet. I've seen this kind of thing before.
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That is a lot of information. Speaking specifically of Illinois, it's amazing how good they've been despite almost never getting to the FT line.
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Illinois has been on probation 3 times to my knowledge, twice for football (late 80's, 2004ish) and once for basketball (mid-90s). You can fault Bob Knight (err, I mean Coach Knight) for a lot of things, but running a clean program was always priority #1. Kelvin Sampson, however, is in himself a dirty program.
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Is it too much to ask the Illini to shut them out? Ok, for a half maybe? Truthfully, I just want to see them take care of business and not let IU hang around all game.
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Other than the final score being not at all indicative of the game, Michigan shot 3's extremely well in that game. They're way too dependent on that shot. If it falls, they can beat anybody, if it doesn't, they can lose to anyone.
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So, you are taunting about getting carried away about the results of one or two games, with your reasoning being the results of half of one game. I seem to remember something about pots and kettles.
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I think they need to update post December 15. That has Bears at 14, aren't they 18? Yes, unless San Diego makes the Super Bowl. Go Chargers!
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Not as badly as you might think, should be a close, competitive game. Although, I think Kansas is the most underrated team in the Big 12 right now.
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08-09' Blackhawks (46-24-12) 104 PTS - 4th Seed In The West!
bukie replied to Cynosure's topic in Other Sports
Another absurd Hawks stat: Since Quenneville took over (after the Hawks were 1-2-1), the Hawks are 0-3-4 against Boston/Detroit/San Jose and 21-3-2 against the rest of the NHL (11-0-1 at home). -
Not from how they've looked in the early conference season, but they had the most susceptible non-conference resume after IU (home loss to Temple, loss to Rhode Island, best win vs. a GT team that looks worse each week).
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I wouldn't rule out the possibility of 7 or more Big Ten teams in the tourney if they keep beating each other up, and IU gets beat up. There could be 8 teams in the league with .500 or better records, and if the conference champ ends up with 5 losses (as has happened before), nobody other than IU is really out of contention for a tourney spot yet (PSU and Iowa were closest going into conference, but PSU is now 2-1 already in conference...Iowa is 1-1 with a close game at OSU). Would not surprise me in the least to see MSU, Purdue, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, PSU or Northwestern in the tourney. I Think Northwestern will fall off even more, but besides that that looks about right Northwestern lost a close game at Stanford, a close game at Butler, a close game at PSU, and a home game to an MSU team that suddenly looks really dangerous. I wouldn't consider any of them bad losses, and they have a good win against FSU. Of course, they do need to start winning games in conference.
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I wouldn't rule out the possibility of 7 or more Big Ten teams in the tourney if they keep beating each other up, and IU gets beat up. There could be 8 teams in the league with .500 or better records, and if the conference champ ends up with 5 losses (as has happened before), nobody other than IU is really out of contention for a tourney spot yet (PSU and Iowa were closest going into conference, but PSU is now 2-1 already in conference...Iowa is 1-1 with a close game at OSU). Would not surprise me in the least to see MSU, Purdue, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, PSU or Northwestern in the tourney.
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08-09' Blackhawks (46-24-12) 104 PTS - 4th Seed In The West!
bukie replied to Cynosure's topic in Other Sports
I had no idea they were even in the top 8 right now. They suck. But their gs/ga stats would be pretty even if not for the Blackhawks matchups. Edmonton could easily overtake them though, with 3 games in hand and only 2 points behind. Chicago is probably going to end up the 4 seed though, and will be playing a significantly better team in round 1. Yeah, the only way the Hawks play someone like the Coyotes is if they somehow manage to pass a Detroit team that recently realized they will not actually be able to coast to a division title. Barring that unlikely scenario, the Hawks are much more likely to play Calgary/Vancouver/Anaheim in the first round. -
I predict that whoever wins will win by at least 4 TDs. I don't know who will win though. And the losing team will still score at least 30.
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Ten at most, I'd say.
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3-0 final in a bowl game. Wow.
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I'm actually a little geeked about the Illini's chances of winning the Big Ten. Up-to-date Pomeroy projections have Illinois winning the conference by 2 games now.
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Wait who do you want on the Illinois bench? They're both pretty much irreplaceable though...Also Kramer's numbers are down this year, I think he might have taken a step down while Frasier took one up I'm pretty sure he means after this year, as a coach.
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Illinois has been shockingly good the past two big games now (yeah, EMU was in the middle there, textbook definition of a "coasting" game), and they have pretty much the same talent as they did last year. Their major improvement has apparently been the ability to get shots to actually go in the basket, both from the field and at the FT line. Their major weakness, though, is rebounding, which can and will be exploited by any team that crashes the offensive boards at the expense of surrendering transition points (read: nobody in the Big Ten!).
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I think Illinois won last night because they took extremely good care of the ball and did a great job on Hummel defensively. Both of those occurrences had a lot to do with Chester Frazier.
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Actual analysis of the Illinois-Purdue game, with a little extra on how Illinois is doing it: http://www.basketballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=104
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I don't know about have to, as a split was about as well as could be expected in the first week, but the only way Illinois gets some kind of national respect is if they win Sunday.
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Hey guys, what's going on with the ga....holy crap!
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That's because they're not. Oh my bad...Well then I heard wrong on ESPN...maybe it was at home or something They're going for a 9 game winning streak this week. You could have just said that instead of what you said and it would be have been nicer In the same vein, it's really not that difficult to do a 30-second check on ESPN to see if the information you post is correct. It's not anyone else's responsibility to fact check you. Ok well I'm at work and I heard it on the radio while driving back from lunch sorry I didn't go to fact check for you...I didn't say it was your responsibility, but don't be a jerk for no reason and just tell me I'm wrong (which I'd appreciate) instead of saying it in a smart aleck And I'm not personally trying to attack you as a person, but your post because it was a jerky thing to say 3 consecutive ranting posts for a simple "That's because they're not." reply? It was the truth. They have only won 8 consecutive games. It's not me making you look like a jerk.
