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Cannot wait to utterly destroy ISU tomorrow. What a joke of a tournament. Good thing Illinois is upping its preseason tourney stature by going to Maui next year. We need to avoid the Las Vegas Invite/Cancun Challenge/Chicago Invite/South Padre Whatever because they are all terribly run. Weber is boys with the promoter though, so I doubt it stops.

That was a sick game

I hope Illinois and ISU have the same result tonight so that Illinois can make kj cry lakes of tears tomorrow.

Couldn't imagine playing it with a controller.

Anyone catch that f bomb from Corso? Awesome.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Nov 19, 2011 -> 04:44 AM) So if ISU pulls this off (still a big if) and LSU and Alabama win out, there has to be a rematch of those two teams in the title game right? I don't know how you would possibly make the case for anyone else over Bama. It'll be Oklahoma or Oregon. Alabama does not deserve another chance since their loss was at home.

ESPN said it occured over 1000 times and described it in graphic detail.

The new Syracuse child-sex scandal is the most disturbing thing I've ever heard. Ugh.

Mississippi State is destroying Texas A&M

That was a fun game. Lsu looks awfully coached.

Puerto Rico Tip-off on now. Purdue down by 2 late in a first round game on ESPNU.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 16, 2011 -> 05:23 PM) I bet Obama carries Asia. Obama has proven time and time again that a 6th grader knows more about geography.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 15, 2011 -> 11:54 PM) According to the grand jury testimony, the only investigation into him by law enforcement officials happened in 1998. In 2002, the incident was reported to higher ups, and Sandusky was told to stop bringing children from the charity onto campus, but there was no testimony stating that it was reported by anyone to law enforcement (and charges have been brought against 2 people for failing to bring it to law enforcement). Okay, I know Deadspin spoke of a 2002 investigation, but they may just be referring to the school and Second Mile.

Evansville beat Butler I think. Not that Butler will be all too great this year.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 15, 2011 -> 10:43 PM) McQueary claims to have both stopped the sexual assault he witnessed AND alerted the authorities. So many more wrinkles to this story... Wouldn't surprise me if he did. Wasn't there an investigation into Sandusky in 2002? Perhaps this is what triggered it, and there was a subsequent cover-up.

Kenpom's site is subscription now? So lame.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 14, 2011 -> 10:32 PM) EDIT: There's also some weird tournament where Notre Dame and Missouri host teams for the first two rounds, and then apparently advance to play each other in the semifinals even if they don't both win these first two rounds. All the preseason tournies protect their main draws (see Mississippi State losing last week and still heading to New York for the CVC championship round), except the NCAA run NIT. You'll occasionally see a mid-major sneak its way to New York. St. Mary's did it a few years back. Here's the bracket this year: http://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/files/fi...poffbracket.pdf

Yes. They are in the main bracket no matter what.

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 14, 2011 -> 10:26 PM) Seriously? What's the new set-up then? The main tourney will run as usual. Basically they did this to set it up like every other tourney where you play 2 games at home against sacrificial lambs, then 2 at a neutral site. Except with this they only play 1 at home to get the max of 4 games, then 3 in Hawaii.

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 14, 2011 -> 08:39 PM) How is Belmont playing Memphis in the Maui Invitational this week? Isn't it next week? There are mainland games now.

Tue, Nov 15 Midnight Washington State at No. 23 Gonzaga Dave Pasch & Doris Burke ESPN / ESPN3 2 a.m. Northern Iowa at Saint Mary’s Dave Flemming & Sean Farnham ESPN / ESPN3 4 a.m. Cal State Northridge at Hawaii Kanoa Leahy & Mark Adams ESPN / ESPN3 6 a.m. Drexel at Rider Doug Gottlieb & Andy Katz ESPN / ESPN3 8 a.m. Morehead State at College of Charleston Jon Sciambi & Stephen Bardo ESPN / ESPN3 10 a.m. Kent State at West Virginia Sean McDonough & Bill Raftery ESPN / ESPN3 Noon EA Sports Maui Invitational: Belmont at No. 9 Memphis (Memphis) Brad Nessler & Jimmy Dykes ESPN / ESPN3 2 p.m. San Diego State at No. 12 Baylor Brent Musburger & Fran Fraschilla ESPN / ESPN3 4 p.m. TicketCity Legends Classic: Rhode Island at Texas (Austin) Mike Breen & Jeff Van Gundy ESPN / ESPN3 4 p.m. No. 9 Louisville at No. 6 Texas A&M (women’s) Carter Blackburn & Carolyn Peck ESPNU 6 p.m. State Farm Women’s Tip-Off Classic (from Knoxville, Tenn.): No. 7 Miami at No. 3 Tennessee Bob Wischusen, Kara Lawson & Holly Rowe ESPN2 / ESPN3 6 p.m. DICK’S Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off: Monmouth at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg) Mike Patrick & Len Elmore ESPNU 7 p.m. State Farm Champions Classic: No. 6 Duke vs. Michigan State (New York) Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas, Bob Knight & Andy Katz ESPN / ESPN3 7 p.m. DICK’S Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off (from Syracuse): TBD at No. 5 Syracuse Jason Benetti & Tim Welsh ESPN3 7 p.m. Rutgers at Miami Kevin Corke & Mark Wise ESPN3 7 p.m. LaSalle at Villanova Scott Graham & Dereck Whittenberg ESPN3 8 p.m. No. 10 Florida at No. 3 Ohio State Dave O’Brien & Dan Dakich ESPN2 / ESPN3 8 p.m. DICK’S Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off: Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Oklahoma State (Stillwater) Chad McKee & Bryndon Manzer ESPN3 9 p.m. State Farm Champions Classic: No. 2 Kentucky vs. No. 13 Kansas (New York) Dan Shulman, Dick Vitale & Andy Katz ESPN / ESPN3 10 p.m. Progressive CBE Classic: Austin Peay at No. 24 California (Berkeley) Dave Flemming & Sean Farnham ESPN2 / ESPN3 11 p.m. DICK’S Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off: Fresno State at Stanford (Stanford) Mark Neely & Miles Simon Highlighted the more interesting games.

Champaign/Urbana is an awful area like a lot of campus-towns, so it's not surprising. On campus is pretty safe though.

Yeah, Steve Stone got this man signed.

I don't think a precedent was needed which makes this all the more shocking. Child rape seems to be the worst thought of crime in this country, even on the level of murder.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 10, 2011 -> 03:55 PM) Omg. Just heard the rumor of what is supposed to come out and shock people. I hope it's not true. Rumor: Sandusky pimped out those little boys to rich donors. Please don't be true. It will also clarify how he was given retirement in 1999 in exchange for the cover up. This came from the guy I posted about yesterday, Mark Madden. Don't know how reliable he is, but he was one of the earliest people on the story back in March. On another note, the people defending Paterno sicken me.