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Let's hope so. I'll even take Pie is going to be a SOLID player! He'll be solid and then progress to fantastic. I have confidence in Pie producing. The key is playing time and this year is the year for him to get that. Meph disagrees. :mrgreen: who's Meph? oh, right, the nsbblol blogger... Really?

Big Ten Tournament matchups are pretty much set now. 6 Minnesota vs. 11 Northwestern 7 Penn State vs. 10 Illinois 8 Iowa vs. 9 Michigan 4 MSU vs. 5 Ohio State 1 Wisconsin vs. Iowa/Michigan If Purdue wins they'll be the 2 facing PSU/Illinois, Indiana will face Minnesota. Flip it around if Michigan beats Purdue today.

Thanks for knocking us into 8th against a Penn State team without Cornley. I completely change my assessment of IU's chances in the NCAA's. Their guard play is just too dumb. Let's see, White can't be stopped and has 20 points on 8-10 from the field. But let's not pound it into him. Gordon goes 8-24, Bassett goes 3-13, Crawford 1-8 and they combine to have 13 turnovers. 12-45 shooting from your 3 guards with 13 turnovers while the best player in the conference can only get 10 shots against a bad frontcourt. They just look like a bunch of selfish chuckers without feel for the game.

That was a crime. I can live with the no-call on Shipp's shot with the rarity of that play, the moment and circumstances. The call in the corner was just incredible though. Two straight games.

Yeah. I am sure he will do well with whatever he chooses to do. I feel for the kid, he was an NBA player, but injuries sapped a lot of that from him. Injuries don't have anything to do with intelligence, though. He was easily one of the most frustrating players I've ever witnessed. That being said, I'm glad he didn't get booed. That would've been the definition of classless. 12:30 on a Friday afternoon and I've never been more interested in a Drake-Indiana State game. God I love March. Lol. I am not going to argue with you on the frustrating part, but I think he graduated with a 4.0 Yeah he's definitely a smart kid. Apparently that kind of intelligence didn't translate to knowing how to stay out of foul trouble by not committing an abundance of dumb fouls. Or maybe his injuries to his groin really sapped his lateral quickness causing him to have to use his hands more on defense. Naw that can't be it. He is just too dumb to play defense. :roll: So you can't adjust to your own limitations? How do slower, less athletic guys play defense? I have nothing against the dude (besides hearing for four years how great he was going to be). I have two Illini friends who complain about his foul trouble. Then every time I watch them he seems to always pick up a reach-in 40+ feet from the hoop.

Yes, this is what happened and UCLA was given the game. You can't draw up what the defender did any better than how he did it. I couldn't care less who won the game, but Stanford got robbed. "He drew contact when he went to the basket," Hill said. "It was still on him to make the free throws." That's Lawrence Hill, the guy the foul was called on. ETA: I don't know that I would have called the foul in that situation but that doesn't mean it isn't a foul. I don't care what the kid says. He doesn't have a great idea of exactly what happened a bang-bang play in that kind of situation, plus he may have just been taking the high road. Look at the replay. It clearly wasn't a foul. He was completely vertical and it was clear as day (especially on the x mo replay) that he got 100% ball. The foul call was on the body contact, not the block shot which I agree was 100% clean. http://telemachus.smugmug.com/gallery/4433994_5ZiTX#262889690_6QaFu-A-LB On the first replay, you can clearly see the ref doing the hip check indicating that it was a body contact foul, not a foul on the block. The x-mo and the third replay show that while the shot was blocked cleanly, Hill created body contact. I don't know how you could say Hill made "minimal, if any contact." That said, I wouldn't have called it (then again I have no clue what the hell Pac-10 refs are doing half the time). You're right he did make body contact. But there's body contact underneath on probably 75% of all blocks. When you are completely vertical, get all ball and the only contact isn't hard and is that low, that's just not a foul. If anything that's a jump ball. And considering they called a jump about 13 times in that game, it would have been fitting. There's a reason that basically everyone besides UCLA fans are saying it was a bad call and it's getting so much pub.

Yes, this is what happened and UCLA was given the game. You can't draw up what the defender did any better than how he did it. I couldn't care less who won the game, but Stanford got robbed. "He drew contact when he went to the basket," Hill said. "It was still on him to make the free throws." That's Lawrence Hill, the guy the foul was called on. ETA: I don't know that I would have called the foul in that situation but that doesn't mean it isn't a foul. I don't care what the kid says. He doesn't have a great idea of exactly what happened a bang-bang play in that kind of situation, plus he may have just been taking the high road. Look at the replay. It clearly wasn't a foul. He was completely vertical and it was clear as day (especially on the x mo replay) that he got 100% ball.

Yeah. I am sure he will do well with whatever he chooses to do. I feel for the kid, he was an NBA player, but injuries sapped a lot of that from him. Injuries don't have anything to do with intelligence, though. He was easily one of the most frustrating players I've ever witnessed. That being said, I'm glad he didn't get booed. That would've been the definition of classless. 12:30 on a Friday afternoon and I've never been more interested in a Drake-Indiana State game. God I love March. Lol. I am not going to argue with you on the frustrating part, but I think he graduated with a 4.0 Yeah he's definitely a smart kid. Apparently that kind of intelligence didn't translate to knowing how to stay out of foul trouble by not committing an abundance of dumb fouls.

Did you thank the referees for that horrible call with 2 seconds left to send it to overtime? I'm guessing you thought the ref called the foul on the (clean) block? Probably isn't called that often with the game on the line but it was a foul on Hill. That was completely clean. He got 100% ball up top, was totally vertical and made minimal, if any contact with the body. I don't see how that was a foul. It was hard to tell live from the angle they had, but when they showed the X-mo replay later I saw no foul. Stanford should have won that game. They controlled it for 39+ minutes, then gave up some big offensive rebounds and every deflection, bounce and loose ball seemed to come up in UCLA's lap late. It didn't help that they made some bad decisions and Lopez forced some bad shots early in the shot clock when they had a two possession lead.

details Fans upset about calls started throwing stuff on the court. Then an A&M big set a clean, hard screen on a Baylor guard which knocked him down and he stayed on the ground for a little bit. The fans went nuts again, and as the Baylor coaches came over to see him and A&M coaches came away from the bench for the timeout, both staffs got right near the center line, started yelling at each other and got double T's. Then, up by 10 an A&M player threw the ball off the backboard for a dunk with less than 2 seconds left. A bunch of stuff was thrown on the court then and even hit the ESPN broadcasters. As the coaches were shaking hands, a couple of the Baylor coaches just leaned their shoulder into Turgeon and ran into him.

The Baylor/A&M game turned into total mayhem in the last 4 minutes.

Do we hold a tiebreaker with PSU? They have IU and UW left so it will probably be a tie at 6-12. By my understanding we would, but I could be wrong. We split the head-to-head. Then it goes to record against the top teams. We each went 0-2 against Wisconsin, Purdue, Indiana and each went 1-1 against MSU. We went 1-1 against Ohio State while they went 0-1. We went 0-1 against Minnesota while they went 0-2.

We finally figured out a way to win at Northwestern. Just like the last 3 years, we had a huge lead (17 in the first half, 13 with 7 minutes to go) and collapsed late. Somehow we pulled this one out without ever giving up the lead. 6-12 finish, looks like it would probably give us the 7 seed and a first round game against Illinois or Michigan.

Iowa got another commit for the '08 class, Aaron Fuller a 6'7 PF from Mesa, AZ. He had mid-major offers in the fall, was about to commit to St. Mary's but wanted to hold out for a high-major. Developed his offensive game more with a jumper, had a big senior season and earned an offer from Iowa with Michigan and Washington State coming down to check him out a few times over the last few weeks. Former New Mexico (and Alford) commit Chris Babb a 6'5 SG from Texas visited last weekend and will make his decision after a Penn State visit this weekend. If they land Babb he would be the 6th member of this recruiting class with a possible JUCO big man still to come. Lickliter is trying to build depth and versatility with a quantity class in '08, then trying to go quality with 3 high-level guys in '09. I like the plan, we'll see if it works.

haha, the illini can still play defense, at least. At least they played like they wanted to be there. How we could be that flat on senior's day against a rival is beyond me. Oh and you were smart enough to get it to Pruitt when he had position. We were allergic to getting Tate the ball. Still the free throws were just baffling and ultimately, maybe the difference in the game.

the #'s the news up here reported were 6 yrs, $20 mil garanteed. thats not far from Angelo offered. If they were that close, what stopped the Bears? the garanteed money? seems like BB got a resonable deal. Angelo offered 8 million in guaranteed money. If Berrian really received 20 million guaranteed, the two sides weren't even close to the same ballpark. He got $16M guaranteed. Was he overpaid? Yeah, but he was the top WR on the market outside of Moss so he was going to get paid in that neighborhood. We were desperate for a WR like him. I don't think it's a terrible deal.

Pumped about the Berrian signing. He's probably not a true #1 even though he's getting #1 money, but it had to be done. Really upgrades our offense. Tarvaris isn't as terrible as many think. It was his first year as a starter with receivers who (especially with Rice injured) could not get any separation. He still has the tools and apparently the work habits to develop into a decent NFL QB. Another year of experience for Sidney Rice and Jackson and the addition of Berrian should mean less 8 men in the box. The Madieu Williams signing was nice also. Still need to find a DE who can get to the QB.

Hey Illini fans, since when do you guys make free throws? 16-19? WTF? We go 16-27 from the FT (everyone but Tony was 3-12) line and 3-16 from 3. The wins and losses don't mean much but this team has regressed in the last 3 weeks. We were sitting at 4-6 after beating Ohio State and it looked like 8-10 was a certainty with our remaining schedule and the improvement we were showing. I'm sure part of it is due to the 6-7 man rotation all Big Ten season, but it's frustrating when it looked like a solid foundation was being laid.

Please don't lose to Illinois today Hawkeyes.

Jazz vs. Hornets + Hubie Brown= aboutt as good as it gets in terms of the NBA for me. It would have been nice if the game had been a little closer, but Williams and Paul may be my favorite two NBA players.

Sickening loss at Penn State for Iowa. Not that they cost us the game (that was Gorney getting absolutely abused by Cornley) but if anyone can watch the final 5 minutes of that game and tell me that Big Ten officials aren't incompetent cowards, I'd love an explanation. That was after they fouled Tate out of the game with some weak calls and one of the worst charge calls I've ever seen.

I think the Hawkeyes have their own legal problems to be worrying about. Hmmmm. So because I'm a fan of a football team with some idiots who have gotten in trouble, I can't comment on a basketball coach who is a weasel? Well by that logic you shouldn't worry about Kelvin Sampson or anything at IU because of Illinois' legal problems. Id like to hear your reasoning as to why Les is a weasel or slime. Stories I've heard from a former UNI assistant about recruiting run-ins, stories from a current MVC assistant coach, his general perception around the Valley, and the way he handled Marcellus Sommerville and his dad.

I think the Hawkeyes have their own legal problems to be worrying about. Hmmmm. So because I'm a fan of a football team with some idiots who have gotten in trouble, I can't comment on a basketball coach who is a weasel? Well by that logic you shouldn't worry about Kelvin Sampson or anything at IU because of Illinois' legal problems.

Jim Les is slime.

Cyrus Tate was named Big Ten player of the week for last week. He's averaging 10.7 points and 7.3 boards (3rd in the conf.) in Big Ten games this year on 72% from the field (1st in the conf.). Not bad for a guy who wasn't a real Big Ten player according to Illinois fans.