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This might be what OSU needed to get going.

I like Bilas when he does game. He isvery well spoken and usually intelligent.

who should they get? 1 name. phew you mean that is realistic? yeah. Calipari probably isnt realistic. He's the biggest name i could think of off the top of my head that might leave his current position. Oh I think he would leave. If you are gonna go big like that go Tubby Smith. He would like out at UK.

God the tournament is the best thing ever.

Holy crap

No idea why they didn't. Cause he is greg oden

who should they get? 1 name. phew you mean that is realistic?

It is official Amaker is gone.

This has to be so awesome for those Xavier kids who were recruited by Matta.

I knew something like this was bound to happen. At some point I figured Kobe would just say "I'm tired of losing, screw the triangle, I'm taking over." Hopefully this can get the Lakers back on the winning track since in the last five weeks they had lost 13 of 16 including 6 and 7 game losing streaks. Did he elbow anyone in the head tonight? Did another Illinois basketball player get another DUI last night? probably

I love Roy, he is just so nerdy.

I knew something like this was bound to happen. At some point I figured Kobe would just say "I'm tired of losing, screw the triangle, I'm taking over." Hopefully this can get the Lakers back on the winning track since in the last five weeks they had lost 13 of 16 including 6 and 7 game losing streaks. Did he elbow anyone in the head tonight?

I have heard that Amaker was fired. http://www.spartantailgate.com/forums/showthread.php?t=241689 I hope not, as they will pry end up with Gillespie.

Drew Lavender is a former McDonalds All-American.

Once the games start today, I'm sure that the discussion will turn back to the 2nd round. Can somebody give me a detailed breakdown on UCLA before tonight's game please? Thanks in advance. They guard the heck out of you. They have three strong guards. Two good post defenders. They can struggle at times to score if you can pressure their guards. If you guys shoot the ball well it should be a good game. If DJ White no-shows a half like he did against Gonzaga you could be in real trouble. Thanks-I figured that Calloway should be able to slow Collison down (I think he's our best perimeter defender) and then Wilmont/Ratliff should be able to do a decent job on Afflalo. Are they great on the boards? That's where I could definitely see IU getting in some trouble if they give up a lot of offensive rebounds. IU will definitely have to have Wilmont and Ratliff both shooting the 3 ball well though to win. Well Matta and Mtouh(sp?) are decent rebounders. I think if you guys beat them you will have to really ugly the game up, the bad thing is they tend to play that way some too. Howand's teams guard and get after it. I think you could win this game, but I wouldn't be that way. If you had Gordon on your team now I would like your chances a lot more.

Hey snood why would a whole collection of Kansas fans be rooting for VT down the stretch when Illinois is the low seed?

UNC isn't right. I don't know why, but a team with that kind of talent shouldn't have 5-10 minute stretches a game where they just don't play at all. I still think they will handle MSU though. Drew is good, but not good enough on his own.

Once the games start today, I'm sure that the discussion will turn back to the 2nd round. Can somebody give me a detailed breakdown on UCLA before tonight's game please? Thanks in advance. They guard the heck out of you. They have three strong guards. Two good post defenders. They can struggle at times to score if you can pressure their guards. If you guys shoot the ball well it should be a good game. If DJ White no-shows a half like he did against Gonzaga you could be in real trouble.

Oh get over yourself. The games start in an hour. I am sure people will remember this since, you know it is the biggest thing in sports. At that point they can use this thread to talk about the games. I will be watching and doing it too. Unreal, some hijack.

Nice, real mature. listen, i'm not the one who turns every single college basketball thread into Illini Talk. Sorry that I'm sick of reading about your team. I actually think that an Indiana fan started this conversation. But, I guess I should just not respond. Also it is hard to believe that htere would be alot of Illinois discussion on a Cubs webpage. I wonder if that's because the Cubs play in Chicago, a city in Illinois? Were you also mad about it when you clicked a rant about Weber? The Illinois coach? Wonder what we could have been tlaking about in that?

Nice, real mature.

http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10058201 Here some more of Doyel's work. He thinks a lot of your coach too. And even if this article is true we still beat IU 2 of 3 times this year. So what does that say about your caoch who was outcoached by ours twice? Yeah, I wouldn't read any of Doyel's columns and put too much into them. He loves to spew hatred to anybody and everything, from most of his columns to his readers in his mailbags. I did hear that his column about Oklahoma is coming from a biased perspective though (some connection with Oklahoma-I think alum)-so when bad things started happening there, he started to spew hate to anybody and everybody that had done wrong to their program. Plus I love people like Bruno. Yes we know there are problems in place at our school. But, what can we do? We can't fire him he has won 80% of his games. Who would take a job where they fired the previous guys who won at that high of a clip? He still has two years left. I think he is in way over his head. Agreed-I think you have to give him at least one more year. If he struggles next year, then with 1 year left is the typical time where you either fire a coach or give him an extension, and you can just fire him then. Sadly he will have done real damage at that point. We need a big recruiting year in here somewhere. 2010 will be it since all hte big Illiniois players are locks for us. Crandle Head, DeAndre McCammey, and Jereme Richmond. Richmond the best player has already verballed to us. The other two have brothers who play or played here. That said I think Weber can X and O us to this point each year, I just hope we don't accept that.

http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10058201 Here some more of Doyel's work. He thinks a lot of your coach too. And even if this article is true we still beat IU 2 of 3 times this year. So what does that say about your caoch who was outcoached by ours twice? Yeah, I wouldn't read any of Doyel's columns and put too much into them. He loves to spew hatred to anybody and everything, from most of his columns to his readers in his mailbags. I did hear that his column about Oklahoma is coming from a biased perspective though (some connection with Oklahoma-I think alum)-so when bad things started happening there, he started to spew hate to anybody and everybody that had done wrong to their program. Plus I love people like Bruno. Yes we know there are problems in place at our school. But, what can we do? We can't fire him he has won 80% of his games. Who would take a job where they fired the previous guys who won at that high of a clip? He still has two years left. I think he is in way over his head.

http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10058201 Here some more of Doyel's work. He thinks a lot of your coach too. And even if this article is true we still beat IU 2 of 3 times this year. So what does that say about your caoch who was outcoached by ours twice?

You are pretty Brave to have bet Butler. I didn't know which Butler team would show up and I really liked ODU's team.