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Great comeback by Wake to get back within 2. A couple of really dumb plays by DePaul down the stretch allowing them to stay in it.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 10:28 PM) YAYAYA Gordon+Cole+Gordon in 1 class??? WOW Gordon is good, but I'm not sure he is good enough to add twice

Bill Cole has committed to the Illini 4* on Scout (only have their top 50 up) 4* and #85 on Rivals

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 12:56 AM) Luther at the Illini game in Portland Saturday night....(Rockets had a game at the Blazers Sunday). Great to see him there (was on camera during the game a couple times too) probably my all time favorite college hoops player. Plus, I like the hat.

I know that a lot of schools have finals this coming week so I wanted to wish everyone who has those good luck. But my real reason for making this post is that I just finished writing my 4th 10+ page paper this week and I only have one final so I'm in a pretty damn good mood right now. Who wants to go get drunk?

Orton sucks

What a great catch by Berrian. Bears down 12 now after Gould misses the extra point.

Good tackling by the Bears so far today.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Dec 11, 2005 -> 12:19 AM) Eh they can screw off if that's the case. You wouldn't trade Deng for Artest?

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Dec 11, 2005 -> 12:51 AM) Danny, the Bostonian whom appeared to be wearing some sort of lip gloss on the followup show, dated Melinda. They're engaged

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Dec 10, 2005 -> 11:59 PM) Um, Indiana fans and Illinois fans should all be able to agree on one thing. Missouri really sucks. Absolutely terrible. If we lose to them in the Bragging Rights game next week I think I'll cry.

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Dec 10, 2005 -> 08:57 PM) ILLINI! Awesome awesome win. 10-0 Dominating performance at both ends tonight. Oregon never had a chance.

QUOTE(Pierzynski 12 @ Dec 10, 2005 -> 07:53 PM) Illinois kicking Oregon's ass 40-22!! Yeah, to this point looks like there was no reason to be concerned at all with this one. Oregon is struggling to get any good shots off and we are dominating inside.

Illini up 34-16 with 3:57 to go in the first half. Defense has been great and Dee has looked awesome tonight.

Adam Morrison just banked in a three to put Gonzaga up by 2 with 2.5 seconds left. What a lucky shot.

QUOTE(SnB @ Dec 10, 2005 -> 01:55 PM) doesn't everyone just love J.J. Redick? It would help if Texas knew how to play defense. Plus, typical of Duke games, the refs aren't allowing them to play physical at all against Redick yet, Duke grabs and holds constantly without fouls being called.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Dec 10, 2005 -> 01:10 AM) Nice little saturday... Illinois/Oregon I'm a little worried about this game tomorrow. Illinois is without a doubt much better than Oregon, but the game being Portland just two days after the Georgetown game is concerning. The tough travel schedule along with the fact they have been playing a lot of games lately could lead to some fatigue.

QUOTE(qwerty @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 11:28 PM) Btw, i believe rodman> pippen defensively that is not even including their rebounding skills. I know someone will bring up pippens steals but believe it or not steals and blocks look good in the box score but they are only about aquarter of the game defensively imo. Thats what made those Bulls teams so great. Obviously they had the greatest player ever in Jordan who could take over a game like very few others. He was a dominant scorer, and then Pippen was a pretty good offensive player as was Kukoc. And then of course you had great role players who played their role to perfection. However, the best part about those teams were their defense. They had three of the best defenders of that generation in Rodman, Jordan, and Pippen. I would rate Pippen the best of the three because he had the most versatility. I still remember him guarding both Kemp and Payton in the 96 Finals. Rodman was one of the best low post defenders of all time. Which is unbelievable considering he wasn't exactly the tallest or strongest of players. But his use of positioning is unmatched. And then you have Jordan who is probably one of the best on the ball defenders of all time when he wanted to be.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 03:52 PM) I agree with a lot of your sentiments. The one thing i will say is that while Smith's average is propping his average, he hasn't gotten many minutes thus far. Given minutes, he could become a good scoring option and open up the court for everyone else. You can only base a scoring average off of how many minutes you play. The guy can shoot the ball, and has all year. I think Randle will eventually become our '3rd' scoring option, but only time will tell. If he has a respectable outside and inside game (shoots well) he'll be tough to stop. When Jamar plays he scores, it is really that simple. And now that his defense is improving he will probably see a lot more minutes.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 09:22 PM) So Bail, the Squawks, and Indiana all lose to mid majors in the same night?? Hilarious. Actually I guess St. Joe's isn't a mid major now that I think of it. But still funny. KU this season 3-4, Illinois in their last 63 games 59-4, that is all.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 08:01 PM) f***ing pathetic. 20+ turnovers. We'll be lucky to beat Kentucky. Kentucky isn't that good of a team this year. Borderline top 25 top team.

QUOTE(maggsmaggs @ Dec 5, 2005 -> 08:45 PM) McBride just hasn't show me that much offesively, but he is good defensively. Smith has been huge offensively, but is a Freshman and lack experience and isn;t too great on D. So what is it? Rich was playing with a slightly pulled hammy and before the last couple of games was our most consistent player. Let Jamar continue to be our Vinnie Johnson off of the bench for the time being. And Jamar's on the ball D has improved tremendously in a short amount of time, his off the ball D is still bad though.

QUOTE(SnB @ Dec 5, 2005 -> 03:57 PM) We got arkansas-little rock at the hall tonight. Why do i have a feeling this isn't going to be a blowout like it should be? ALR only lost to MSU by 5

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Dec 4, 2005 -> 11:49 PM) Washington wins 99-95 Morrison missed a 3 to take the lead, then they missed the put back, then had to foul and Wash hit both. Defense is going to be Gonzaga's achilles heel all season. They can score and Morrison is probably the best player in the country, but they can't stop anyone. You don't win championships or advance deep in the tourney without playing defense.

QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Dec 3, 2005 -> 01:18 AM) wasn't he the best pitcher in baseball in the 2nd half? No, that was Johan Santana. But Contreras was the Sox best pitcher in the second half and did look like ace material.