IlliniKrush

Once the games start i expect there will be a s***load of posts, i think more threads will be way easier to navigate, especially if people are posting such things as "holy s*** what a shot" in a thread, etc

Did you guys put anything on the game Heads?

Illinois, the real basketball state

I'll put my bank account on the varsity team.

What's the baby's message board handle, and how much time until he/she is posting? Gotta start em early.... Anyway, congrats Mike that's awesome.

It's way harder to follow in one thread, there will be a million posts a day, and everything will run together if it's in one thread. It's way, way more organized this way.

21 pts...lmao

Problem is both are color guys.

Well deserved, thank you Bill Self for getting out of here.

Actually i think there's a decent chance Utah goes down in the first round

Get back to studying :rolly

Alright i'm finally in

I'd probly lock this thread while we're at it, so people know to post in the proper region brackets.

Done

Try spelling that without looking: Washington Montana Pacific Pittsburgh Georgia Tech G Washington Louisville LA-Lafayette Texas Tech UCLA Gonzaga Winthrop W Virginia Creighton Wake Forest Chattanooga

Here we go: UNC Oakland/Alabama A&M winner Minnesota Iowa St Villanova New Mexico Florida Ohio Wisconsin Northern Iowa Kansas Bucknell Charlotte NC St UConn Central Florida

Here are the teams in this one: Duke Delaware St Stanford Miss St Mich St Old Dominion Syracuse Vermont Utah UTEP Oklahoma Niagara Cincy Iowa Kentucky E Kentucky

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Mar 13, 2005 -> 10:39 PM) Krush where do you see the times?? I can't find them there, I'm just probably being an idiot though. Here's the times for easy access for everyone else: http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/...adness/20050317

Illinois plays at 8:40 central on Thursday. The game time are up at cbssportsline. I also think we should have 4 separate, pinned threads for the tournament, one for each region, or we're gonna have way too many posts in a short period of time and it's going to be impossible to read. Just a suggestion.

Kentucky? Interesting

My thoughts on the Illini road: First game = Whatever Second round against probably Texas. They aren't a bad team, but if we play well, it won't be a problem. They have potential to make this a tough game though. Gibson, Buckman can do a lot of damage. Not going to be an easy game. Some people say that the 2nd game is the toughest one for the 1 seed sometimes. Could be the case here i guess. Third round against Bama is my guess, that's not too bad of a draw. And if we get BC, not a bad draw either, i'm not afraid of BC. Not a walkover, but it could be a worse 5 seed, like Ga Tech or Villanova IMO, or a 4 seed like Louisville, Syracuse, or Florida. I'd rather play an SEC team. Then we have presumably OSU. Could be Zona. Gonna be tough as f***. Not gonna lie, OSU was the one team i didn't want as a team in the bottom of our region. Hey, gotta beat good teams to win it all though right? Could be an epic matchup in the regional final game. After that, not even going to bother predicting, who really knows. Could be another matchup with Wake, which would be interesting. Just saying.

Knee jerk final four: Illinois, Wake, UNC, Syracuse. Right behind in each region: OSU, Louisville, Kansas, Duke.

Caple will be staying with a different group each night, one of the night's will be with my girl friends, the other with the pentagon of shame guys. I'll be chilling with Jim Caple watching some tournament games...sweet.

This game's over, down 12 with 2 minutes left.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Mar 12, 2005 -> 05:02 PM) On a sidenote, I think Aflord has really stepped up his level of coaching. They came out and protected the ball in the 2nd half and really played good defense the entire tourney. That was very poor defense on the last play. Didn't force a short inbounds pass and didn't have a s***load of on the ball pressure with only 3 seconds remaining. Let him go coast to coast. That good of a look shouldn't happen.