2009-10 Big Ten basketball

[lukethedrifter]

I think you're taking this a bit too seriously.

Anyway, I think it's a bit early to figure out who is fo real this season.

[phins]

I think you're taking this a bit too seriously.

Anyway, I think it's a bit early to figure out who is fo real this season.

I can assure you, I laugh at most every message board I'm on daily...there is nothing to be taken seriously from a message board, pretty much ever. If all of us are the exact same way in person, as we are on here, then we're missing out on a lot of fun. I'm sarcastic and antagonistic, but I'm joking around, not malice laden.

Trust me, I know it's early. I'm just excited to have a team win a few games. That doesn't mean it effects (I think that's the correct one), my thoughts on other teams. Missouri State was 4-0 and had beaten Arkansas at this point last year. They were 8-3, and won three games the rest of the entire year. this quick start is meaningless until halfway through conference for me.

Illini fans should be extremely happy today...it doesn't matter how you get there, at the end of the night, if you have more points, you win. Clemson may or may not have given the game away, but if I were an Illini fan, I'd simply being saying scoreboard.

[JL21]

I can't believe that Southwest Missouri State is undefeated.

[phins]

I can't believe that Southwest Missouri State is undefeated.

I see what you did here...

[PurdueSTL]

Huzzah, Big Ten!

While the NCAA tourney is probably a better indicator of the relative strength of a conference, finally winning the Challenge removes some of the negative stigma attached to Big Ten hoops in recent years.

After a decade of bumblin' and stumblin' against the ACC, it's nice to have something over those guys in basketball for a change.

Hail Purdue, and kudos also to Scoonie, the Illini, the Buckeyes, the 'Cats, and the Lions for doing the Conference proud

[Faceman]

So, in the 2009-10 Big Ten basketball thread, we're talking about the past 25 years.

Got it.

Here is the quote that much of the talk derived from (sorry JL)

I like Crean and I feel like NCAA basketball is a better world when IU is a power.

They haven't been for 15 years or more. The Big 10 doesn't need Indiana to be good. That is the point.

[Faceman]

Huzzah, Big Ten!

While the NCAA tourney is probably a better indicator of the relative strength of a conference, finally winning the Challenge removes some of the negative stigma attached to Big Ten hoops in recent years.

After a decade of bumblin' and stumblin' against the ACC, it's nice to have something over those guys in basketball for a change.

Hail Purdue, and kudos also to Scoonie, the Illini, the Buckeyes, the 'Cats, and the Lions for doing the Conference proud

Honestly - I think PSU winning game 1 meant quite a bit. Maybe to give teams like NU an extra bit of confidence, playing on the road in a challenge they generally lose in.

[phins]

So, in the 2009-10 Big Ten basketball thread, we're talking about the past 25 years.

Got it.

Here is the quote that much of the talk derived from (sorry JL)

I like Crean and I feel like NCAA basketball is a better world when IU is a power.

They haven't been for 15 years or more. The Big 10 doesn't need Indiana to be good. That is the point.

No worries...I'm going to try and move away from the most hated man in Big 10 country soon. With my degree, maybe I'll be commissioner of it one day.

[Faceman]

So, in the 2009-10 Big Ten basketball thread, we're talking about the past 25 years.

Got it.

Here is the quote that much of the talk derived from (sorry JL)

I like Crean and I feel like NCAA basketball is a better world when IU is a power.

They haven't been for 15 years or more. The Big 10 doesn't need Indiana to be good. That is the point.

No worries...I'm going to try and move away from the most hated man in Big 10 country soon. With my degree, maybe I'll be commissioner of it one day.

Yes - when you are, please be a dear and try to find a way to make Big 10 football more aesthetically pleasing, would ya?

Did you go to the U?

[phins]

So, in the 2009-10 Big Ten basketball thread, we're talking about the past 25 years.

Got it.

Here is the quote that much of the talk derived from (sorry JL)

I like Crean and I feel like NCAA basketball is a better world when IU is a power.

They haven't been for 15 years or more. The Big 10 doesn't need Indiana to be good. That is the point.

No worries...I'm going to try and move away from the most hated man in Big 10 country soon. With my degree, maybe I'll be commissioner of it one day.

Yes - when you are, please be a dear and try to find a way to make Big 10 football more aesthetically pleasing, would ya?

Did you go to the U?

No, I didn't go to the U, I've just been a fan since January 3rd, 1984. Can't explain why other than I thought the smoke was insanely awesome at a young age, and they're in my blood now.

I did both my undergraduate, and graduate work at Missouri State.