You mean, "Illinois proves why they shouldn't have been in the tourney." Was I the only one who knew this game wasn't over with 7 minutes left? All you had to do was watch Illinois against Maryland, Arizona, Michigan St., Indiana and Iowa and know they were going to find some way to lose it. It's bad enough running an offense that puts you 25 ft. away from the basket when you have Deron Williams and Dee Brown, but when you do it with guys like Frazier, McBride and Meachem.... aarrrgghhhh!!! they played a 5 seed and barely lost. that implies that they belonged, not that they shouldn't have been there As an Illinois fan I said it before... the other team clad in orange deserved an invite more than we did. Plus I'll go out on a limb and say thank goodness we played the worst #5 seed in the tourney. both of those things might be true, but the worst 5 seed should be a lot better than a 12 seed and holy crap, was that an ugly cheerleader.