NCAA 2010 Basketball Thread

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Purdue's radio announcers are a couple of crybabies.

Getting hosed on the road by the refs (or at least complaining about it) is as much a part of life in the Big Ten as Paul Bunyan's Axe, or the Old Oaken Bucket...

UW's principles were poised down the stretch, and Purdue's weren't; this is precisely the kind of game where Robbie Hummel's leadership and decision-making would have made the difference.

Kohl Center has not been all that difficult for Purdue's Big Three, but it's a tough nut to crack when there's only two

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I'm glad Indiana beat Minnesota.

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With four BigTen teams at 5-5 you would think 10-8 in conference will qualify for the NCAA tournament this year.

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Wisconsin shooting 14% in 1st half at Iowa, only losing 17-14.

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Wisconsin wins in ot.

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MSU with a squeaker over Bradley tonight...Where the hell did that team rise from in the last 10 days.

My Sycs' won what may have been the ugliest basketball game of all time tonight at Illinois State.

[phins]

Missouri State back in first in the Valley. Winnable road games against 9th place Illinois State, and 7th place Southern Illinois, and home games vs. 8th place Drake, and finally the big one to end the season.

Wichita State @ Missouri State probably decides the conference. Should be fun, and will be on espn2. Too bad I'll miss it...niece's bday party in Hale, MO.

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Wichita State @ Missouri State probably decides the conference. Should be fun, and will be on espn2. Too bad I'll miss it...niece's bday party in Hale, MO.

Definitely agree. Especially now that O'Rear is out for UNI...I thought they may make a run.

[Fat Strat]

Missouri State back in first in the Valley. Winnable road games against 9th place Illinois State, and 7th place Southern Illinois, and home games vs. 8th place Drake, and finally the big one to end the season.

Wichita State @ Missouri State probably decides the conference. Should be fun, and will be on espn2. Too bad I'll miss it...niece's bday party in Hale, MO.

Don't forget the Bracket Buster -- @Valpo, right? We really need to beat everyone until WSU and then 1 of 2 things -- either we beat WSU and then we could probably lose late in the tourney, or we have to win the tourney if we lose to WSU. Might have to win the tourney anyway, but the Valley should be a 2 bid conference every year.

[phins]

Missouri State back in first in the Valley. Winnable road games against 9th place Illinois State, and 7th place Southern Illinois, and home games vs. 8th place Drake, and finally the big one to end the season.

Wichita State @ Missouri State probably decides the conference. Should be fun, and will be on espn2. Too bad I'll miss it...niece's bday party in Hale, MO.

Don't forget the Bracket Buster -- @Valpo, right? We really beat everyone until WSU and then 1 of 2 things -- either we beat WSU and then we could probably lose late in the tourney, or we have to win the tourney if we lose to WSU. Might have to win the tourney anyway, but the Valley should be a 2 bid conference every year.

Well, I was speaking to the conference championship, but yes, their schedule does include the Bracket Buster game, which is big for any at-large purposes, but not for the conference championship. I should have clarified what I was meaning there.

Bears are the only Valley team to never win it, and I'm ready for that to end. The game with Wichita is on Senior Night, and they haven't lost on Senior Night since 1985, which included some really big games in there as well.

I think if the Bears win out, and make it to the finals of the tourney, they're probably in. If they lose another game, I believe they probably have to win the Valley tourney. The Valley champ has made it every year since 1993 (one or the other if co-champs), but several of those champs also won the conference tourney in years they wouldn't have made it in.