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QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Mar 14, 2009 -> 12:17 PM) The real problem it is impossible to know how good Memphis is right now. Teams getter better as the season goes on so the team that played in November and December may not be the Memphis team now, but because they haven't played anyone good since that time it is hard to really evaluate how much they have improved. Agreed. One thing I am very sure of is they are incredibly tall and long (2nd tallest team in America) and they play absolutely fantastic defense. They are also talented, obviously. But they are one of the worst shooting 3 point teams in America, and Tyreke Evans, as good as he is, still is a guy I don't think can handle playing point guard against very good teams. Memphis is a sweet 16 type of team in my opinion, maybe elite 8 if they get a good draw, maybe lose in the 2nd round if they get a bad draw.

Teams on the bubble everywhere will be wearing their Mizzou hats they don't own on Saturday. Baylor is such a weird team, I don't get how they were so bad in Big 12 play with the talent they have.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Mar 13, 2009 -> 06:41 PM) I love when I call out a player and they make me look like an idiot. Trent had been awful for a while now, so he was due to be useful for once. I don't think you look like an idiot for making that comment.

QUOTE (Felix @ Mar 14, 2009 -> 12:14 AM) I like how yesterday people were saying the Gophers were in with a win against NU, but now today they are saying the Gophers might be taken off the bubble because they lost to MSU. Welcome to March. It's madness, it's strange, it makes no sense, and sometimes it's not fair. Just hope your team is fortunate enough to have a chair to sit in when the music stops.

You guys can come in here and give every fact you want about how low Illinois' income tax rate is, but the fact is that there is going to be outrage no matter what if you raise ANY tax 50 percent at one time.

I have probably only been used to the most recent facebook changes for about a month, but now they change it again. And as if that's not lame enough, the changes are stupid, as they just look like a lame copy of twitter, which is a waste of time site I'd never join anyways. Not cool.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Mar 13, 2009 -> 03:55 PM) The exception for rape victims is a compelling case, but it somehow then places a lower value on the life based on how or why the person was conceived. And that doesn't seem right either. I can't argue with your point here, but the way the church put this basically made it sound like they were poo pooing the rape and saying how awful the abortion was. That sounds like nothing more than making the case political and using it as a platform for your own beliefs, and that's not something the Catholic Church should be doing.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 13, 2009 -> 04:08 PM) Pretty amazing you heard it three days ago when it just happened Wednesday... Sucks for Frazier. I hated him so much his first three years, but he really changed my mind this year. I hope Weber uses his connections and gets this kid on a bench soon. I heard he got hurt three days ago, and heard he was going to have surgery two days ago. I'm not saying it's accurate (I didn't post it after all, which tells you my level of trust in it, plus I couldn't even hear which hand it was) but that was the timeline. As for Frazier, he'll be coaching somewhere. I hope Bruce finds room for him on the staff, but we'll see. And I am AMAZED the Big Ten is going to get 6, 7, or even 8 teams in the NCAA Tournament as I watch it. The product isn't anywhere near as good as it was early on this decade when the league last had this many tournament teams.

I can't remember a talented team who loses as many close games as Virginia Tech, and really this goes back earlier than this year. A consistent problem with winning close games, in my opinion, is an indictment of the coach, and although Seth Greenburg has a pretty good record and gets good players at a football school like Tech, at the end of the day his teams just can't get it done when it really counts, and that is a disturbing trend for their fans. As for Georgia Tech, they are so frusterating to watch. They have a world of talent, but it just goes to waste because of how incredibly poorly coached they are, and they are a team even moreso than Virginia Tech who finds a way to lose an amazing amount of close games.

It would be a shock if Missouri doesn't win this tournament now considering how much better they are than everybody left in the tournament, even with the tournament not in Columbia. What a strange tournament this has been.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 13, 2009 -> 11:54 AM) Frazier's out for the year, but it's not being reported yet. Rightfully so, Illinois doesn't want to give the committee any reason to lower their seed. They know already (I heard that three days ago, and had it confirmed two days ago, so I'm sure they have heard about it too) and the seeding will reflect that. He apparently had surgery for a broken hand.

I hate to *bump* an old thread, but I think it applies here. The silver "Willis Tower." Kill me now.

I never had a problem with Comiskey Park becoming U.S. Cellular Field. First of all, to me, Comiskey Park is the building that stood across the street from 1910-1990. Second of all though and perhaps most important is the money we got for renaming the ballpark went directly into the ballpark improvements we saw earlier this decade. Those improvements made the ballpark 10 times better in my opinion and I get to see where the money we got for renaming the place went everytime I go to a Sox home game, so at least that name change had a lot of good to it. That is not the case here. This is completely stupidity which angers me to the core, and I refuse to call the Sears Tower "Willis Tower." In fact, even though it's being named after one individual London Company, this change makes me mad at the entire United Kingdom. HEY BRITAIN, f*** YOU, WE WON THE WAR!! I just hope those losers don't pain the building silver too as I've heard, which would make this even worse.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 11, 2009 -> 10:35 AM) Perhaps its me being an Illinois homer, but it's ridiculous to me that Chester Frazier didn't win Defensive player of the year and that Weber didn't win Coach of the Year. I'm fine with the media choosing Dechellis, but Izzo? Come on... When a team wins a conference by as wide a margin as Michigan State did, lapping the field when the field might have 6 or 7 tournament teams in addition to Michigan State, that team is going to lap the field in terms of awards as well.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Mar 11, 2009 -> 10:39 AM) There is this misconception that the print media is dying. It isn't. Community papers, which make up at least 80% of newspapers, if not more, in America are doing fine with many having steady and rising circulations. It's only the big newspapers that are struggling and that's why it gets reported as a print-wide epidemic. Fact is most newspapers are still very profitable, it's the new owners of papers have too much credit debt from when they bought the papers and need to cut labor to make it all back. The print media is going to change, but die it won't. This is indeed correct. I am pretty sure the local newspaper in DeKalb, the Daily Chronicle, is doing quite well for example. In addition, although it's free and a student newspaper, I know the Northern Star has a pretty large circulation and is read by most students, and even quite a few local DeKalb residents. The papers that are dying are the 2nd most popular newspapers in major cities for the most part, and that is in indeed in large part due to the internet, but this doesn't mean the print media is soon going to be dead as a whole.

I really don't understand the Catholic Church and it's policies most of the time, so such oddness sadly makes sense to me.

Tough bottom of the bracket, assuming Okie State and A&M take care of things in the 1st round. KU should be able to sleepwalk to the title game, and will probably be facing a team that had to win some tough games to get there, so i'll take the Jayhawks to win this crown.

Boy, for a #1 seed, UNC has a very tough road to the title.

I'm shocked the Redbirds blew that game, they appeared to be the better team in my humble opinion, but just couldn't seal the deal. Northern Iowa deserves credit though, they made some plays down the stretch, it's not like it was all Redbird choke (although that played a major role.)

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Mar 9, 2009 -> 12:34 AM) It basically guarantees them a high seed every year and thus longer runs in the NCAA tournament and more exposure. They can play a tough non conference schedule and as long as they do decent in it they get to run the table in Conference USA and get a high seed. Yeah they are going to be overseeded this year. They play GREAT defense and have very good talent, but not as much as in recent years. If they play a team that can score and play reasonable defense, they will be in deep s*** because Tyreke Evans is a fantastic player, but not a point guard at all.

This tournament might be the most dramatic. It is going to be full of taffy pulls, low scoring abominations, and poor officiating, but so many teams are fighting for tournament spots (9 legitimately have a shot at making the NCAA Tournament) that the games are incredibly important and should be very close.

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 8, 2009 -> 11:29 PM) If I was DePaul, I'd be looking to get into C-USA and trade with Memphis. Bring over Memphis to the Big East. Boy, THAT would be fun. That will never happen, but would be fantastic. I'm not sure why Memphis doesn't join a real league in basketball anyways, what they do in C-USA can't be all that beneficial, being basically unchallenged. DePaul made such a mistake joining the Big East, never will get why they did that either.

I think it's stupid having all 16 teams in New York and single and double byes and all that stuff. Making teams earn their way to New York by playing into the top 12 was a better system in my opinion. This still should be a fantastic tournament, once you get past the first round which could be pretty sleepy.

DBAHO has to be feeling good after Australia kicked some ass (even had the mercy rule an inning early) against Mexico on their field. I am personaly SHOCKED by that, seeing as a group of what was basically White Sox minor leaguers ran circles around the Aussies a few days ago and Mexico has a lot of veteran MLB players, but I guess it was just one game in both cases. And Venezuela had a shocking lack of depth in pitching, good to see the USA take advantage.

QUOTE (Felix @ Mar 8, 2009 -> 01:00 PM) 19 points in the first half for ISU. I'm in awe at how much these non-Big Ten teams score. Osiris also looks like complete s*** right now offensively. And now everything is changing. Should be a fun one to watch. The Valley is a low scoring league and a down league this year to boot, so I don't get the bolded. Big Ten teams inability to score is still going to get them in the NCAA Tournament. As for the topic at hand, this game is getting interesting as your last sentence points out. Illinois State is imposing the tempo, as opposed to the first half in which Northern Iowa did a great job of making this a boring, abomination of a basketball game. The UNI lead is down to 1.