NCAA Men's Basketball

**slvrdubbin** · 11-30-2005 12:05 AM

Lets go 'Nova lets go!

(4)Villanova vs. (5)Oklahoma - Saturday 5pm on ESPN baby!

'Nova owns page 55.

**watanabe2k** · 11-30-2005 01:03 AM

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ILL

INI!

**RuffDice** · 11-30-2005 01:37 AM

I hate sitting behind the basket!!!!!!!!
student section is kinda fun though

**tallkidinlittlecar** · 11-30-2005 02:36 AM

they stick you guys behind the basket, that's kinda lame

**CheddaJetta** · 11-30-2005 07:21 AM

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a good win for illinois

You call that a good win? I would have expected UI to blow them out by 15; they essentially returned their entire 2nd place NCAA team vs the backups from the NCAA championship team for UNC. They looked pretty awful from what i saw (1st half).

Big games are tonight. I'm hoping the ACC can take 3/4, especially Duke over Indy and GT can pull off the upset over MSU

**crazy88** · 11-30-2005 09:04 AM

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You call that a good win? I would have expected UI to blow them out by 15; they essentially returned their entire 2nd place NCAA team vs the backups from the NCAA championship team for UNC. They looked pretty awful from what i saw (1st half).

illinois is definitely not the same team... williams + head were 1st rd picks... i don't know any team that could effectively replace starters of their caliber

yeah, unc is pretty much an all new team, but that doesn't mean they're not talented + not well-coached... also, it was @ chapel hill

so i'd argue that it's a good, if not pretty, win for the illini

**GSTGuy** · 11-30-2005 09:26 AM

It was a great win considering that Roy Williams and UNC had the refs in their pocket once more. Oh, Illinois is up by 13? Call some phantom fouls and keep it close.

Though, I didn't like all the inside shots Illinois let up.

Anyone else see Randle becoming a massive stud? Wow ... can't wait till Dee gets his shot back soon and Randle stays out of foul trouble. Augustine didn't play well at all, IMO.

**crazy88** · 11-30-2005 09:45 AM

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Anyone else see Randle becoming a massive stud?

yes, if he can avoid punching walls

**GSTGuy** · 11-30-2005 09:45 AM

As long as they're not massive walls.

**crazy88** · 11-30-2005 09:54 AM

half-time score... florida st 58, purdue 23

i still have a headache

wonder what marcus white thinks about leaving uconn now... he can start playing for the boilers in jan

**tallkidinlittlecar** · 11-30-2005 02:20 PM

i certainly expected ui to dominate that game a bit more, perhaps unc won't be that bad

**GSTGuy** · 11-30-2005 02:25 PM

As soon as the game was getting out of hand, the refs pulled UNC back into it. I'd love to send the game tape to a ghost hunter or something, cuz those were some phantom calls.

**ed rooney** · 11-30-2005 02:31 PM

Who is turncoat BC playing in this???? How come we never see the original ACC--Big East matchup anymore????

**watanabe2k** · 11-30-2005 02:45 PM

Quote, originally posted by CheddaJetta »

You call that a good win? I would have expected UI to blow them out by 15; they essentially returned their entire 2nd place NCAA team vs the backups from the NCAA championship team for UNC. They looked pretty awful from what i saw (1st half).

Big games are tonight. I'm hoping the ACC can take 3/4, especially Duke over Indy and GT can pull off the upset over MSU

Yeah same team, except Head, Williams, Powell, Smith........ our big minute guys except for Dee and James.

It was pretty sloppy of Illinois to get out of the game for the last 5 minutes.......

Modified by watanabe2k at 11:46 AM 11-30-2005

**crazy88** · 11-30-2005 02:47 PM

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Who is turncoat BC playing in this???? How come we never see the original ACC--Big East matchup anymore????

no one... 11 vs 11, 12th team sits out

**ed rooney** · 11-30-2005 02:51 PM

Figures..They are a punk team...

**Methalius** · 11-30-2005 02:52 PM

Quote, originally posted by ed rooney »

Who is turncoat BC playing in this???? How come we never see the original ACC--Big East matchup anymore????

I think the ACC and the Big East aren't too fond of each other and haven't been for some time.

**crazy88** · 11-30-2005 02:54 PM

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Figures..They are a punk team...

a little bitter about a former big east member?

i believe the 12th team will be different each yr

**ed rooney** · 11-30-2005 03:02 PM

I have never liked BC kind of a holier than thou thing going on over at Chestnut Hill...For a long time they would'nt recruit "certain" athlete's now they are getting west coast Thugs...

I guess it also has to do with an idea that BC will improve themselves by going to the ACC when especially in Basketball they really were never better than just good in the Big East...And ACC ball is supposed to be the best

**crazy88** · 11-30-2005 03:12 PM

i remember when penn st joined the big 10 in the early 90's, when geography (+ counting correctly) still meant something to conferences

to this day, the pittsburgh media still doesn't know how to cover teams from minnesota + iowa

**Cooper** · 11-30-2005 03:14 PM

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I guess it also has to do with an idea that BC will improve themselves by going to the ACC when especially in Basketball they really were never better than just good in the Big East...And ACC ball is supposed to be the best

Seriously. Overall they were mediocre at best in their body of work while members of the Big East.

Not according to my nutso next door neighbor though: "I wonder what is going to happen now that BC has left, as BC was Big East basketball."

They weren't even close to being a top-tier team overall.

**Methalius** · 11-30-2005 03:26 PM

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Not according to my nutso next door neighbor though: "I wonder what is going to happen now that BC has left, as BC was Big East basketball."

Just goes to show you that rich people are just as dumb as poor people.

Quote, originally posted by Cooper »

They weren't even close to being a top-tier team overall.

You mean that when UConn had beaten them 27 straight times BC wasn't a good team?

Personally, I wouldn't bare any ill will towards BC if they hadn't been all high and mightly about Miami and Va Tech leaving only to turn and do the exact same thing when the ACC offered them to join up.

**crazy88** · 11-30-2005 03:29 PM

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Personally, I wouldn't bare any ill will towards BC if they hadn't been all high and mightly about Miami and Va Tech leaving only to turn and do the exact same thing when the ACC offered them to join up.

bingo... the whole situation was just ugly

of course, i feel worse for what's left of conf usa

**ed rooney** · 11-30-2005 03:36 PM

Yeah but Conference USA never had the same Market Appeal or History as the Big East...The Big East should be a wide open league this year...Team won loss records will be down but RPIs and SOS should be up

**crazy88** · 11-30-2005 03:38 PM

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Yeah but Conference USA never had the same Market Appeal or History as the Big East

agreed... but the big east got all pissy about having teams stolen from them, then they go out + do the same

**ed rooney** · 11-30-2005 04:05 PM

It funny the Big East was founded as a Basketball Conference, but the manueverings of adding schools has everything to do with Football...

**tallkidinlittlecar** · 11-30-2005 06:17 PM

it's all about the $$$ now

**RuffDice** · 11-30-2005 07:03 PM

They still got a ton better in basketball. It's no secret they're trying to establish themselves in football too...
When the BCS system is up in 2008 (i think?)
5(maybe 6?) conferences get bowl bids automatically... obviously, it's about the money.
Hell you should see the enormous facilities they are building here at uconn for the football team.

**Cooper** · 11-30-2005 07:09 PM

The change at UConn sports-wise over the past 20 years has been phenominal.

I remember watching them on CPTV (Connecticut Public Television) as a kid. their old gym on campus was pretty funny when you think back to it.

**LONGBEACH24** · 11-30-2005 07:11 PM

Quote, originally posted by ed rooney »

Yeah but Conference USA never had the same Market Appeal or History as the Big East...The Big East should be a wide open league this year...Team won loss records will be down but RPIs and SOS should be up

It's gonna be a fun league. I got tickets to see Memphis and Louisville up here this season.

**RuffDice** · 11-30-2005 07:14 PM

If any of you guys ever go to any uconn games, let me know

**Cooper** · 11-30-2005 07:29 PM

Probably not this year. I've lost touch with the person I know that had tickets.

**RuffDice** · 11-30-2005 08:53 PM

coop... i meant to ask you, is this the same neighbor that says all that crazy sht about the Jets?
haha I would have a tough time not beating his head in

**HondaGuy** · 11-30-2005 09:10 PM

>>If any of you guys ever go to any uconn games, let me know

I'm going to the Uconn-Umass game next week.
Supposedly we have good tix, three rows off the floor.

**RuffDice** · 11-30-2005 10:44 PM

Go Indiana

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