whitesoxfan99

Then don't watch it if it comes back.

Its not like they were going to make the NCAA tourney anyway. Michigan did the same thing following the fallout of the Fab 5 when they weren't a tourney team either. I want to see one of these schools do something like this when they have a great team (either football or basketball) but you know that would never happen. Turning down a crappy bowl or imposing a ban on postseason play when it doesn't matter means nothing to me.

Flirting way to much with karma.

Before tonight, Pruitt had looked good to me. He is very aggressive on offense, tonight he was overly aggressive and do that he had a couple travels while trying to make post moves. He's a good rebounder and he has the physical tools to be a great college big man.

Actually Calvin Brock and Pruitt were both 4 star recruits and top 100 type players, not to mention that they were the 2nd and 3rd best players in Illinois last year behind a guy who was a top 5 pick in the NBA draft. Those were the blue chippers from Illinois last year. What could you have possibly have had in mind for last year?

Or Michigan? If you include the ACC and Big East champ you have to include the Big 10 champ.

I've seen GW play twice now, today against MSU and when they played Wake and they are a solid basketball team. With that said, MSU looks like the exact same team from last year that lost to basically every decent team they played.

MSU has cut the lead to 7.

MSU is really struggling right now. Their down 15 right now at about the 12 min mark of the second half.

I can't see it. I love Dee and he is a great college player but guys under 6 ft tall who can't consistently get into the lane and finish or create are not exactly in high demand. IMO he needs a year of actually being the man and the full time PG of this team. Right now there is no way he gets picked in the first round. Felton, Paul, Williams, Lucas, Chris Thomas, just to name a few would get picked higher than throw in guys like Gilchrist who could go pro and we should have Dee back next year.

Illinois up only 6. Augustine just missed 4 straight FTs. This will be a good test to see what this team is made of.

I find myself cheering for the entire Big 10 this year, well except for Iowa. Its funny what everyone bashing your conference constantly will do.

And Taliek Brown as well and I never thought I would say that. Good first half for IU though, that team plays hard but they just don't have a whole lot of offensive ability at this time. Side note: I thought Villanueva would step up this year but he doesn't look good at all. In hindsight I'm glad he didn't come to Illinois because we are better off without him.

:headshake Big 10 goes down 7-2 in the challenge. At least Northwestern and IU played tough tonight though.

You have to love the orange

To get to your second contract quicker which is the one that pays the real big money, and why risk having your draft stock go down if you are already a top 10 pick.

Why is it foolish, as long as you are going to be picked anywhere in the first round I don't see any problem with leaving school early. Thats 3 years guaranteed of making a lot of money and almost every first round pick gets a second contract of some sort even if they don't play that well. College will always be there if you want to go back the NBA might not be, not to mention there is no guarantee that staying in college longer will raise your draft stock.

Actually rankings mean quite a bit as they usually are pretty accurate in determining NCAA tourney seeding. Plus, if it wasn't for Illinois winning the Big 10 would be the laughing stock of the country. Especially if Virginia and UNC hold on.

Actually we haven't, we won lasty year, Wisconsin won it the year before that and we tied for it the previous two years IIRC.

Hands down the dumbest chant in sports. It doesn't make any sense because it is diminishing what your team just did it but everyone does it.

Well, if I can ever get to work I'm hoping to make it out tonight.

As was I, to bad I have a f***ing paper to write now. God damn procrastination. Oh, and Wake was completely owned and our guards>>>>>>>>than Wake's guards tonight.

I think Artest was very wrong for charging into the stands but I thought he handled himself pretty well with Ben Wallace, but he would have fought Wallace given the opportunity to do so (i.e. not having teammates and coaches getting between them). That would have been justified though since he was actually the one being attacked.

See, I guess I'm just too rational. I'm not going to put myself or others at risk because I'm pissed someone threw a plastic cup at me. If it was something that could actually harm me or its the situation Jermaine O'Neal encountered as he was walking through the tunnel, thats a different situation.