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Well Minnesota was just better tonight but also terrible luck for Illinois with garbage 3 pt shooters going 3 for 5 from 3 and Hollins also banking in the 40 footer.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 10:49 PM) Maybe the toughest play of his entire Illini career. Too bad his fellow upperclassmen have played like p*****s tonight. Paul has been pathetic and Griffey is just awful. The confidence Griffey played with early in the year is completely gone.

QUOTE (Felix @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 10:29 PM) I'm a Gopher and Gopher fan, but damn those were a pair of stupid foul calls EDIT: Oh, at least it was a double foul on Mbakwe and Egwu. Still should have been a non-call. EDIT2: Also, the negativity in this thread is hilarious. This is FAR from over... These refs have absolutely no clue what they are doing. Hasn't really favored either team but this is as poorly as you will ever see a game officiated.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 09:16 PM) Not only that, but the ref counted it. It has to be either a charge/no basket or an and-1 in that situation. It's not like he dunked it and then ran over Mbakwe. Yep, that made even less sense than the original call.

College refs are so f***ing terrible. How the hell was that possibly a charge on Brandon Paul? Unreal.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 01:28 PM) I've only really seen Nunn against good competition once and I wasn't impressed, however it doesnt look like he's expected to come in and start right away anyway. I'd be surprised if Illinois' starters in the backcourt next year aren't Abrams, Rice and Bertrand. I think Hill will be the first guard off the bench and Nunn will get playing time as well because he is an elite athlete and fantastic defender. He needs to work on his right hand and continue to work on his jump shot but all the tools are there.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 01:17 PM) Ferrell isn't 5'6" either. How many guards that size succeed at the NCAA level? That is a huge disadvantage. It is even more rare for a guy Like Ulis who doesn't have elite athleticism. Just about every player I can think of that has been really good and below 5'10 was an elite athlete. Jerome Randle at Cal is the exception to that rule but he was still a touch over 5'9 without shoes and he was an elite shooter.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 12:25 PM) Can someone explain to me what QB-DT means? I'm looking at Northwesterns recruits and they have 2 sub 200 pound guys listed as QB-DT. It's silly to believe their 2nd position is defensive tackle at 176 and 192 pounds. Dual-threat

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 10:37 AM) That was the fear with Ohio State and it didn't happen. Obviously Minnesota's bigs are better, but I think Illinois made rebounding a point of emphasis. Perhaps Purdue was the wake up call they needed. Ohio State is a little bit above average on the offensive glass. Minnesota is by far and away the best offensive rebounding team in the country and if they maintain their offensive rebounding rate for the rest of the season they would be have statistically the best offensive rebounding rate in the last 10 years.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 02:21 PM) My response was actually supposed to say (to Knightni) which is why it probably made no sense. It shouldnt matter the perceived strength of SEC, the reason is that if 2 SEC teams make it, likely they will be the SEC champion and the SEC 3, as opposed to SEC 2. The reason for this is SEC 2 may lose in CCG and thus SEC 3 will jump them. Which is why just taking the top team from each conference makes the most sense. If you want to be NC, you should win your conference. So this year you would propose that an 8-5 Wisconsin team should go to the playoffs over Texas A&M or South Carolina or Georgia, etc? That makes no sense at all.

So hypothetical based on the SEC's complete dominance of college football, if Alabama wins the SEC with one loss next year, and there are two undefeated teams from other conferences, would you vote for Alabama to go to the national championship game? I would put Alabama in without a doubt at this point.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 7, 2013 -> 11:02 PM) For the record SEC will be what, 6-3 in bowl season. That's pretty good. LSU and FLA with clunkers but they were inconsistent all year. And LSU lost to a really good Clemson team mostly because of bad coaching late. Florida was really the only SEC team with a terrible performance and they looked like they didn't even want to be out there.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 11:56 AM) How is a .560 winning percentage and playoff appearances 3 times in 9 years, going 3-3, "above average?" He was a good defensive coach and a f***ing horrendous offensive coach. That's indisputable. How can you just ignore half of his job? Lovie did not do a good job picking offensive coordinators but please list the good offenses in the NFL that have had QBs the caliber of Orton or Grossman or an offensive line as bad as the Bears have had the last few years. I think you will fine that with few exceptions, they don't exist.

Nearly definitive evidence that Colorado got screwed.

Great play from the Bulls frontcourt today. Kirk Hinrich continues to be an embarrassment to the game of basketball though.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 2, 2013 -> 11:02 PM) If the bad losses pile up, and this team misses the tourney, there will be a target on him. Hell, reading the Illini boards tonight, it seems that is already the case. Wel then people are forgetting we were terrible last year and lost our only Big 10 caliber big man.

We have the worst frontcourt in the Big 10 and one of the worst fontcourts in America. Our guards are good enough to beat anyone when they are on but if they are off at all it is hard to win. McClaurin is terrible and Griffey is worthless other than the occasional made jumper. Egwu has upside but is awful right now. None of those guys should play more than 15 minutes on a good team.

Florida St.'s playcalling is horrendous. Better play calling and this game is over already.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 31, 2012 -> 12:45 PM) And say what you will about lovie, he did leave chicago with a winning record, and that will play very favorably for him on the coach market. And made a Super Bowl with Rex freaking Grossman as his quarterback. The only other starting quarterback in the last 15 years that was as bad as Grossman was Trent Dilfer and he played on a team with arguably the greatest defense of all time. It is nearly impossible to make a Super Bowl with a QB as bad as Grossman starting for you. Lovie will land on his feet, hopefully the Bears don't f*** up this hire but I fully expect them to.

Adrian Peterson should absolutely win the MVP. What an incredible season by him.

Really Minnesota, you give the f***ing carry to Gerhart in the redzone. Go f*** yourselves.

Also, hopefully this isn't the start of Richardson's annual slump. He missed an incredible amount of wide open 3s today.

Tyler Griffey is the worst defensive player in college basketball. Really good shooter but he absolutely kills Illinois on the other end.

Gutless bulls*** by the refs, McClaurin does nothing and gets t'd up along with Bowers. Just awful.

Bowers should be T'd up here. Takes McClaurin to the ground then grabs his ankle as he McClaurin walks away. Can't allow that type of bulls***.