Recent content by berto

I was also at Indy in ‘05. Watching a basketball game in a football arena was “fine”, but very suboptimal. That was a special year to be part of the fan base tho, and agree that downtown Indy around the sports venues is a great experience.

Noted. There just don’t seem to be seedings for ‘49, ‘51, ‘52 and ‘63 (when we lost to the eventual National Champion Loyola Ramblers).

Since the start of seeding in the NCAA, Illinois has underperformed its seed 17 times, and over performed its seed twice, a 5 v 4 and a 9 v 8 “upset”. We’ve lost in 1 v 2 matchups, 1 v 3 matchups, 1 v 8 matchups , 3 v 14, 5 v 12, 6 v 14, another 5 v 12, 3 v 6, and FIVE TIMES we have lost the...

There is no world that exists where we’d have to play BOTH Auburn and UConn. When you’re on the bottom half of the bracket, you want the baddest teams possible on the top of the bracket, to have a better chance to knock off the No. 1. You never want to play the No 1 (unless their top player has...

Is Bryant the name of some guy? ‘Cause if that’s a school, I never heard of it. Probably bad to lose to “Bryant” either way.

This...scandal...must...not...die... It's not the crime, it's the cover up. "UNC defended classes to the NCAA. Now the accreditor has questions." "...of the infractions committee report: “'We’re working through the report. It says a lot, but it says nothing, so we are trying to ferret out what...

I'm holding out for the Marquis de Lafayette. Big man with handles out from France. May reclassify for 2018.

Shooting death of Ben Wilson RIP. 11.21.84

Some random poster here with a history of 6 posts says we have no chance.

Hurrah!

You've said too much. Activate your exfil plan.

That would be cool. Edgar from 'Men In Black' would be a beast around the boards.

Chiefy McChiefface. It's so obvious. Or did I miss this after reading 9 pages?

Welcome Kipper.