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I really thought Illinois and Minnesota would be a lot better this year. Minnesota has more excuses for their struggles though, although not finishing games is sitll a bad quality. Then there is Michigan, of course. No idea what the heck happened to them, although they gave a great effort today until their idiotic defense the last 2.2 seconds.

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Jerry Palm at CBS still has Illinois out of the tournament and I think he's right. If Illinois beats OSU, they'd be in but I don't see that happening. Like Palm, I don't see the Big ten getting more than 4 teams in with what's happened in the ACC and Big East. And if the Big Ten does send 5 teams, Minnesota has the best shot since they can beat Purdue....

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QUOTE (hitlesswonder @ Mar 13, 2010 -> 09:50 AM)
Jerry Palm at CBS still has Illinois out of the tournament and I think he's right. If Illinois beats OSU, they'd be in but I don't see that happening. Like Palm, I don't see the Big ten getting more than 4 teams in with what's happened in the ACC and Big East. And if the Big Ten does send 5 teams, Minnesota has the best shot since they can beat Purdue....

Its very hard to beat a team 3 times in a season, my money is on Illinois today.

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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 13, 2010 -> 10:16 AM)
Its very hard to beat a team 3 times in a season, my money is on Illinois today.

By that logic, but Illinois and Minnesota are going to advance. That'd certainly make for an interesting matchup in the finals.

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QUOTE (hitlesswonder @ Mar 13, 2010 -> 10:50 AM)
Jerry Palm at CBS still has Illinois out of the tournament and I think he's right. If Illinois beats OSU, they'd be in but I don't see that happening. Like Palm, I don't see the Big ten getting more than 4 teams in with what's happened in the ACC and Big East. And if the Big Ten does send 5 teams, Minnesota has the best shot since they can beat Purdue....

 

Jerry Palm also says Illinois wouldn't be in if they beat OSU today which is ridiculous. He has a vested interest in the RPI so he has been hammering teams with low RPIs.

 

Also what has happened in the ACC and Big East tourneys? The Big East tourney went basically perfectly for Illinois and if GA Tech and Duke win today nothing went wrong at all in the ACC. Ga Tech was always considered ahead of Illinois by everyone so their wins while not helping Illinois didn't really hurt Illinois.

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QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Mar 12, 2010 -> 03:25 PM)
Hughes has tossed in lucky ass shot after lucky ass shot.

 

Eh?

 

Prior to Hughes making those 3s at the end of the game I believe he was 0-10.

 

Eventually he had to make a few, but that was the worst shooting performance by Wisconsin this season.

 

Good luck to Illinois, and hopefully Wisconsin got their horrible shooting game out of the way before the NCAA tournament. Not going to win many games shooting 28.6%. There is no way they should have been even close at the end. If Illinois beats OSU, they should be in. Otherwise its a toss up, but imo theyll have to play 10x better than yesterday to beat OSU, because I cant imagine 2 teams in a row will shoot under 30%.

 

That being said I hope the Big 10 gets 5 teams, and if Minnesota wins the tournament it could be potentially 6. Although if its an Illini-Minnesota final they may just have the winner be the 5th team.

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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Mar 13, 2010 -> 01:33 PM)
Eh?

 

Prior to Hughes making those 3s at the end of the game I believe he was 0-10.

 

Eventually he had to make a few, but that was the worst shooting performance by Wisconsin this season.

 

Good luck to Illinois, and hopefully Wisconsin got their horrible shooting game out of the way before the NCAA tournament. Not going to win many games shooting 28.6%. There is no way they should have been even close at the end. If Illinois beats OSU, they should be in. Otherwise its a toss up, but imo theyll have to play 10x better than yesterday to beat OSU, because I cant imagine 2 teams in a row will shoot under 30%.

 

That being said I hope the Big 10 gets 5 teams, and if Minnesota wins the tournament it could be potentially 6. Although if its an Illini-Minnesota final they may just have the winner be the 5th team.

 

Illinois was up 11 with 2 minutes left and then Hughes started tossing in lucky shots (bank shots, ridiculously high arc shots, etc.) that is what my post was referring to. Someone asked what happened to get Wisconsin in the game, that was it.

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I don't even know who I want to win this game between Illinois and Ohio State. Illinois is bigger bubble competition, but I like our matchup in a potential title game against them much more than against OSU.

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Ohio state playing awful, but only down by five. Not good for Illini. I am not convinced Illinois is in yet, we need today. I dont have confidence in Illinois being able to put two good halfs together against OSU. They got too much talent and shooting for Illinois to hold them down all day.

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QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Mar 13, 2010 -> 02:29 PM)
Damn pretty good half for Illini, defense has been stellar and no idea what Ohio State was doing on that 2 on 1 fast break. I think they are in already but another win has to insure it and maybe even get them a half decent seed.

 

With UTEP losing it will be close if they don't win today. If they beat OSU and don't get in, well then it is an epic screw job.

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QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Mar 13, 2010 -> 02:10 PM)
I really hate Mike Davis, goes up like a p**** and blows a chip shot and then OSU gets a transition bucket and has all the momentum.

 

Not sure how a foul wasnt called there with all the contact, but yeah... also I guess Tisdale figured since he was the man yesterday didnt have to show up today.

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