Homecoming 2019
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Gimme that 10 seed please, our odds of making a sweet sixteen increase dramatically vs the 9.
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If it wasn't for the overtime win against Texas, would we be in?
Most likely not. Our resume is heavily carried by the UCLA and Texas wins. I think take either out, and we’re outside looking in. We just don’t have enough good wins otherwise.
Nope. Those two wins vs Texas and UCLA have been out only crutch. If the bubble wasn't so weak (I guess we can call it parity)....we'd already have been done.
Illinicpa14
- Chicago
This is why I hope the tournament doesn’t expand anymore or if it does limit the P5 teams. The bubble is so weak any worse would mean the regular season doesn’t matter at all to get in.
Let's just get in and let the chips fall where they may. If it wasn't for two furious, unlikely comebacks....we would have lost what....6 in a row? We have to win the first game before even contemplating the 2nd. When we start hoping for a worse seed to give us a better shot....that should tell us something. Let's just get in and win one before we contemplate two.
I agree with you 100%. We are the beneficiary this year because it's a very, very watered down field. Parity at it's finest. Is this NIL and portal related? Who knows. If we were a locked in 3 or 4 seed right now and we could puff our chests out a bit....I'd say that a quality mid major should get the nod. No expansion to get more teams in.
Goillinikobd
- Southeastern US
Well, the good news is that PSU will probably make the NCAA tourney. I didn’t want this Illini team to have a legacy that it lost 3 times in one season to a team that didn’t even make the NCAA tourney. i don’t think we hang a banner for that dubious achievement.
Now I am hoping for NW/PU final with NW winning. I don’t think any team with a 7’10” center who can dunk without jumping and who never fouls should be allowed to win the BIG tournament. Doesn’t sound fair to me.
Now I am hoping for NW/PU final with NW winning. I don’t think any team with a 7’10” center who can dunk without jumping and who never fouls should be allowed to win the BIG tournament. Doesn’t sound fair to me.
If we lost ten more games would we be in?
IlliniMike_Aurora
Straight outta Champaign
Ohio State comin to burst someones bubble
IlliniMike_Aurora
Straight outta Champaign
can we opt to play just one half of the first game to get to round two ?
not necessarily. All of our losses with exception to potentially Ohio state have come against tournament teams. If you're going to lose, might as well be against someone competing in the tourney.
FeelYourPaign
- So Cal
As a guy whose softball league puts 8 of 10 teams into the playoffs, I agree with you that more tournament expansion would almost invalidate the season. That's too many games just for seeding, imo.
Lunardi must hate us or at least enjoy screwing with our fans - putting us as a 9 against 8 Arkansas and then against 1 Houston. Aargh.Jerry Palm has us as a #10 seed playing #7 Creighton in his latest update, with the winner playing Texas. I could live with that. Could have also played #7 Kentucky in the battle of underachieving teams.
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Edit: Lunardi is screwing us, though. Giving us a #9 seed against Arkansas with the winner playing Houston. Feels so weird to be rooting for a lower seed, lol.
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Teams like Pittsburgh, Utah State, Arizona State, Oklahoma State and Clemson are existing perilously on the bubble.www.espn.com
last couple years, we dominated the big 10 with our style of play but did pretty poorly out of conference and showed in the tourney. this year is the opposite, other teams have optimized to win in the b10 while we optimized to play in March. at least we're trying something different this time....
that is what I tell myself...this is the only way to be optimistic about March madness. its madness for a reason..
that is what I tell myself...this is the only way to be optimistic about March madness. its madness for a reason..
If we get matched up with Creighton, we better kick their butts. They have an insufferable fanbase and i want to wear my swag around town without being accosted by a bunch of yuppies that watch basketball once every two months.
Those awful urban professionals…
Lunardi's brackets are a joke. See my earlier post for much better sources.
The committee, is supposed to bias away from a 2nd round meeting between two teams that played in the non-conf, so we are unlikely to see Purdue, Texas, or UCLA in the second round.
i hope we don’t play kentucky first round
We'd probably beat them by 30 in the 7/10 game and then lose to some 15 seed that pulled a 1st round upset by 20
But only after being overheard singing the SportsCenter theme in the locker room
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