whitesoxfan99

I thought UI got semi shafted but I'm not going to complain about that as I actually expected the 5 seed. Pittsburgh is the team that should be b****ing about the selections the most. They got placed in one of the toughest two brackets, and will most likely have to face a very good Wisconsin team in Milwaukee in the second round. Not to mention that I think Pitt should have been a 2 seed over Gonzaga. They were the team that got royally screwed.

Well, if you read this board I would tend to agree that Sox fans are obsessed with the Cubs. There was posts about them losing ST games for christ sakes.

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Bo Ryan (coach of UW thinks his swing offense is the greatest thing ever) Terrell Owens Keyshawn Johnson Barry Bonds Sammy Sosa

Purdue lost to Minnesota in the BTT today. And the NW vs. Penn St. game is one of the worst basketball games I have ever seen. Penn St. has turned it over 20 times in the first half but is somehow down only two points.

That was just about the worst play call I have ever seen.

You Indiana fans better be worried. ND tied with WV with two minutes to go in the game. ND loses and its NIT.

I'm done arguing, but its the media that voted and time and time again they prove that they don't know s***. And the criteria for Big 10 coach of the year is not just based on the Big 10 season just so you know.

Good post. But you will never get me to root for a Bo Ryan coached team (although I do think he is a good coach), he just rubs me the wrong way. I will be rooting for State though. The other team in the Big 10 I would never root for is Iowa, to much bad blood, plus Steve Alford is a dick, not to mention Pierre Pierce. Edit: I won't root against UW either I just don't care about them either way. Iowa on the other hand.....

You know what screw it. I just realized I am arguing over an award that is completely arbitrary and doesn't mean s***.

You guys have a good team but will be hard pressed to pull off an upset in the first round. You never know though. I just love seeing Bruce Pearl getting beat. Almost gives me as much satisfaction as an Illini win. After hearing all about the Deon Thomas recruiting scandal in the early 90s I can't stand the guy. And I love that Jimmy Collins won't shake his hand.

No, I don't know anyone on the board well enough to say if they are idiots or not. I used it twice when people said we met expectations "at best". If they would have said that merely meeting expectations isn't good enough is fine. But to say a team that won the outright Big 10 Champs despite having a key player get in trouble with the law and having the players not buy into the coaches system early in the year is meeting expectations at best is ignorant.

f*** Bruce Pearl. Way to go Jimmy and the Flames.

I keep reading that UI met expectations "at best". What the hell would you have liked the team to do that they didn't. Go undefeated? And I also feel Bo Ryan and Steve Alford are more deserving. UW isn't loaded with talent (though they do have the league's best player) and they competed for the title. And even frickin Alford is more deserving, Iowa had injuries, finished ahead of NW in the league and Iowa actually has a winning record. No coach who's team has a losing record should win coach of the year plain and simple. Sorry if I feel that a coach who took a team that was supposed to be bad to simply being very very mediocre isn't deserving of coach of the year. So next year is Dan Monson (Minnesota) or Ed DeChellis (Penn St.)the COTY if they take their teams to around .500 records in conference? According to you guys they would be. Why don't we just forget the coaches who win Big 10 Championships or compete for them and just look at which team that was supposed to be crappy did decently.

What expectation hasn't been met up to this point in the season? No bad out of conference losses and outright Big 10 champs. I'm not sure what expectation could have been met. Maybe I'm the only one that feels the Big 10 is to good of a conference to have its COTY be from a team with a losing record. Carmody did a great job and I won't say he didn't, but COTY should never come from a team with a losing record that unless they win two BTT games won't even be in the NIT.

Yep 22-5, #12 team in the country, and BT outright champs sure seems mediocre to me. But I'm sure the coach who's team has a losing record is more deserving. Carmody did a good job but its not like NW has no talent this year.

The Big 10 has released their award winners. Devin Harris won both the Media and Coaches POTY and Kris Humphries was named Freshman of the year by both. Kenneth Lowe was named defensive player of the year by the coaches. All of these guys are very deserving, the coach of the year I have to question. Bill Carmody won the coach of the year per the media. I don't understand this selection one bit. Why reward mediocrity? Basically they're saying, since NW went from crappy team to a mediocre team who may not even qualify for the NIT he is the coach of the year. WTF? Obviously my choice would have been Bruce Weber, UI was outright champs, he had to deal with disciplinary problems as well as the team not buying into his system. Steve Alford (who I despise), would also be more deserving as he coached a team with a lot of injuries to a better conference record than NW. LINK

Correction, outright Big 10 champs. They have shared the title numerous times.

Yeah, those are awesome but I already posted them. And I was one of those people celebrating in the upper right corner. LINK BIG 10 CHAMPS

He wasn't in the act of shooting though. By the time the guy fouled him the ball was basically in the hoop already.

A Stanford player hit a three from the corner and well after the ball was released, it was almost in the hoop, a WSU player jumped into him and fouled him. It should have been an off the ball foul resulting in him shooting the one and one or two (I'm not sure how many fouls WSU had).

Great shot by Lottich. Absolutely terrible basketball by WSU. I've seen grade school teams do a better job running inbound plays than that when trying to hold onto leads. Pathetic just like the Pac 10.

He really should have gotten two FT's. That was well after the act of shooting.

You have to love the fact that despite the Big 10 being 5-1 against Conference USA including freakin Iowa winning on Louisville's home court. But the national media has decided that Conference USA is the far superior conference.

You're right Heads, Jas does suck at this quite a bit.