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99 pitchers? That is quite a deep staff you have there. :shock: :lol:

Kosuke Alou!!!! :roll: Just kidding. :lol:

DeRo taking one for the team. Very nice.

Hooray for rain delays allowing me to watch 3 innings of baseball after work! \:D/

They are probably too cheap to buy out his contract. I personally believe that Mike Montgomery and Lon Kruger are next on the list but that is pure speculation on my part. I find it hard to believe that Indiana basketball is having a hard time coming up with money, but that could just be me. It's not so much that they would have a hard time coming up with the money...it's the fact that our athletic department is being run by incompetent boobs and I don't see them making any "offers you can't refuse" in terms of $$$.

They are probably too cheap to buy out his contract. I personally believe that Mike Montgomery and Lon Kruger are next on the list but that is pure speculation on my part.

Corey Maggette got one for that once Is that the one where he pulled himself up on the rim and slapped the backboard? I remember him doing that in a game.

50-20 at halftime. Geez. So much for the Big Ten this year. :blink:

I like Wisconsin and I'm a Big Ten guy but Davidson is awesome and I can't help myself from cheering for them here. :clapping:

Man Indiana sure played well in the tournament. And the fifth and sixth place teams, Ohio State and Minnesota, had good showings as well. Oh wait...... Yes, Indiana was awful. But they did lose their coach right at the end of the season. Ohio State probably, or at least arguably, should've been in the tournament. Still, for a conference that is supposed to be horrendous, 5-2 with two Sweet 16 teams isn't too shabby. I ragged on the conference all year, but I said I wouldn't have been surprised if Wisconsin and/or MSU make it just because they're two of the best-coached teams in the land. Both of those teams always find a way to get things done come March. I don't think anyone is going to claim the Big Ten is a great conference this year. It just didn't deserve the crap it caught -- which is pretty typical, for whatever reason. Well, here's my reasoning for why it wasn't a great conference. It didn't have one team that stood above and beyond the others as one of the better teams in the nation. The Big East had Georgetown, the ACC had Carolina, the Big 12 had Kansas/Texas, the SEC had Tennessee, the Pac-10 had UCLA. The best team in the Big 10, this year, was a Wisconsin team that really won the conference by great coaching. I don't think you can say Wisconsin has the most talent in the conference (not that it's a bad thing since they're obviously doing quite well for themselves). They had four teams that didn't really show anything special throughout the year. Ohio State was a bubble team that didn't beat anybody and the next best team, Minnesota, wasn't all that great either. The bottom half of the conference was extremely terrible. You can't tell me you'd take Penn State, Illinois, Northwestern, Iowa, and Michigan over the bottom half of the other major conferences. Conferences should be judged by quality of depth...something the Big 10 really didn't have much of this year. I mostly agree but I still think Wisconsin gets shortchanged. They are 31-4 and they did beat Texas in Austin. I'd say they deserve to be mentioned as a special team in the same regard as those other conference champions that you mentioned. The only weird thing is them getting swept by Purdue who finished second place in the conference but still....they had a special season.

I don't know, I thought the same thing but I rewinded the play to watch again and I think it was clean defense...the TAMU guy leaped into the defense and forced a shot. The UCLA defenders stayed vertical. Personally I'd have rather seen A&M try for a game winning 3 point shot instead of driving straight into UCLA's defense given that they can block some shots.

UCLA is my champion so yeah, my bracket is garbage if they lose. But I don't really care, it would be one hell of an upset and the West bracket would just be flat out crazy if this happened. :shock:

ND showing a pulse finally. 38-31.

What's the deal ND? Wow. Guess it is up to Butler to carry the flag for the state of Indiana now.

Hey why doubt the word of one scout? :thumbsup:

Well I went 15-1 on Day 1 and 8-8 on Day 2. :lol: But overall I still have 14/16 of my Sweet 16 teams intact and all of my Elite 8 teams remaining. So I still feel pretty good.

I must admit that while I fully expected this result it still bothers me because I tried to hold out hope for IU to play at least one last good game and get to Sunday. But all things considered....thank god it's over. Go Butler, ND, Purdue, MSU and Wisconsin.

It wouldn't be anything different that what I predicted after the PSU loss. :banghead:

Vandy played like a microwaved bag of elephant dung. I watched bits and pieces of that game and Vandy just looked awful every time I clicked to that game. I don't know what happened there.

You just jinxed yourself horribly. :mrgreen:

One of Boise's players has Tommy John Disease. Damn shame. :(

I could be crazy but it almost looks like Indiana wants to be on the court and playing basketball tonight. :scratch:

Maybe this bodes well for Indiana. :-"

Siena up 26-13 on Vandy.

It's not very funny being stuck with a 16-1 game. I can't even watch that game at all, not that I want to. It is supposed to be the local game but the local station has the Oklahoma game so I'm blacked out from watching UNC win. Local UNC fans might be upset though. #-o