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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 05:21 PM) Pulled it off. Survive and advance is all that matters at this point. Who do people want to play in the semis, Finland or Czech Republic?

Ugh, so lucky for Switzerland

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Feb 24, 2010 -> 12:20 AM) A furious 3rd period rally has sent the Latvia/Czech Republic game to overtime. I thought this game would be a complete blowout, Latvia really wasn't even competitive in the pool play games. This would be an all time upset if it somehow happens. Their goaltender has played an amazing game.

BTW, John Beilein is a dumbass. You have a team that has no good 3 pt shooters and you have your team do nothing but jack up 3 pt shots. Smart coaching.

Hopefully Sweden stops scoring now. The current score would be a perfect result for the US.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 10:35 PM) Unless I misunderstood this, Russia is locked into a top 3 seed for winning their group. The asterisk for position in group is for the tiebreakers within that. You are right. Russia is locked into the 3 spot so the US wants either a Sweden win with less than a 5 goal differential, or the game to go into OT to get the #1 seed.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 21, 2010 -> 10:12 PM) Yeah we're definitely rooting for Sweden tonight... It's going to be a late one. Actually I may have screwed up my previous post. It looks like if Sweden beats Finland in OT then Russia will actually be the 4th seed as Sweden would have more points than Russia and Finland would have a better goal differential. So lets just hope Sweden wins in regulation.

Ryan Miller is a god. Also, unless I screwed up, it looks like Russia is locked into the 3 seed. So we will almost certainly see Russia play Canada. Just in the quarterfinals not the gold medal game like everyone was predicting. The result tonight of the Finland/Sweden game is huge for the US btw. If Sweden wins or the game goes to OT then the US is the #1 seed and will avoid Russia, Canada and either Finland or Sweden until the Gold Medal game if they make it that far. They would get what should be an easy game in the quarterfinals against Switzerland or Belarus and then would play either Sweden/Finland or the Czech Republic.

Ryan Miller is unreal

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 20, 2010 -> 06:22 PM) At least you know UNC will be back. GT continues to find new and exciting ways to lose. How is Hewitt's job security? The fact that they are so mediocre with 3 1st round draft choices is truly incredible.

If I'm Weber I rip on the refs in the post game. Horrible officiating that entire game today.

QUOTE (chimpy2121 @ Feb 19, 2010 -> 11:26 PM) I get so damn frustrated with my friends who always back out of stuff when it comes to drinking. They never drink their beers in beer pong, ring of fire, etc. Tonight they want to do Power Hour. I didn't want to just because I knew I'd be the only one actually trying to go the whole way. They say no and convince me otherwise. What happens not even 25 minutes in? All of them quit. Do all your friends have vaginas?

Slovakia beats Russia in a shootout. I think today proves that while Russia and Canada are certainly the most talented teams they aren't close to a lock for the gold medal and are very beatable especially in this format.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 17, 2010 -> 11:28 PM) Rick Barnes is doing a pathetic job coaching Texas this season. Rick Barnes just flat out sucks as a coach. Luckily for him and for Texas he has had as much talent in the last 10 years as any other school in the country.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Feb 17, 2010 -> 08:32 PM) Do they normally show this much curling or is it because of the weather? They showed a lot in Torino, it was just on at weird times.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Feb 17, 2010 -> 01:39 AM) Man Canada and Russia are loaded. Canada didn't even break with an 8-0 win and Russia is leading 4-0 right now. They are the co-favorites for a reason though. They are loaded, of course it helps that Latvia and Norway suck.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 16, 2010 -> 05:07 PM) I hope they improve with some practice because the USA team I saw today doesnt have a good shot at medaling Drop to 0-2 with a loss to Norway and it was a bad loss since it went to an extra end and they had the hammer and still managed to blow it. The guy who throws last for them has sucked so far.

OSU was as great on offense today as Illinois was bad on offense. I felt like Illinois got a ton of good looks and probably even easier shots than we did against Wisconsin and MSU just nobody could knock anything down. But even if they had shot well I'm not sure it would have mattered with the way OSU played on O. And btw today was exhibit 1 as to why Demetri isn't an NBA player yet. He cannot guard at all which is actually why I was worried about OSU because they don't have a guy in their starting lineup who can't score. He was slow as hell getting around screens which lead to Diebler's barrage of uncontested 3's. Also Mike Davis is just pathetic, terrible D on Lighty the entire game, doesn't provide any help defense even though he is 6'9 and can sky. Refuses to dunk the ball, and never cut to the basket and instead decided to take 15 ft jump shots which he can't hit this year.

Great start to the Olympics for the US as the Women take Gold and Bronze in Moguls.

QUOTE (Felix @ Feb 13, 2010 -> 10:39 PM) Wow. That was a ridiculous ending. Crazy, Koreans were definitely colluding to try to keep Ohno out of the front btw. They were bumping him a lot on those passes. Fitting that they screwed themselves out of a sweep at the end.

Shannon Brown should be ashamed.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Feb 12, 2010 -> 01:30 AM) Get that tail light fixed! Blackshear will be an AA next year... Anybody going to the games at UIC next weekend? Crandall's just following in Luther's footsteps of being one of the worst drivers on the planet. Hopefully he avoids the other issues Luther had.... But I think the most exciting thing about Illinois's 2010 class this year is that a case could be made Richmond doesn't even have the highest ceiling of the 3 commits even with how good of a player he is. Crandall is a true freak athlete and has good size for a guard and if he has the work ethic Lu did he will be special. However, Leonard is the guy who could really be an amazing college player and probably has the best pro potential. 7 footers with his athleticism are incredibly rare and he is also a very good passer and shooter. If he develops his low post game he will be completely unstoppable at the college level.

QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 12, 2010 -> 12:15 AM) Jereme Richmond in a McDonalds All American First one for Illinois since Dee Brown. Great week for the program.

Larry Drew sucks

In Big 10 news, NW basically played themselves out of any chance at an at large bid by getting blown out by Iowa tonight. Basically their best case scenario is 10-8 win out minus the game at Wisconsin (unless they pull a miracle and win at Wisconsin) and that isn't good enough to get them in. They would need a strong run in the BTT to have any chance.