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It would be typical B1G to have 5 teams featured in 8 games on the same day and lose all of them. And after 9 teams get invited we limp into S16 with 2 teams. I'll either eat crow on this post or not.

I predict:

Illinios: Loss
Sparty: Loss
OSU: Loss
Wiscy: Win
Purdue: Loss

B1G tournament Record after first two rounds: 9-7
 
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It would be typical B1G to have 5 teams featured in 8 games and lose all of them. And after 9 teams get invited limp into the S16 with only one team who is an 11 seed. I'll either eat crow on this post or not.
You Negative Nancies are an incredibly pessimistic bunch. The first game featuring a Big Ten team isn’t even over and it’s close. Settle down.
 
You Negative Nancies are an incredibly pessimistic bunch. The first game featuring a Big Ten team isn’t even over and it’s close. Settle down.
Hey dude. I predicted all five games. Four of which are yet to start. The fifth game currently is a coin flip. But yes. I am negative and for good reason. Our conference hasn't exactly lit the world on fire these past 20 years. If there was ever a season for a B1G team to win it all it's this one as there is as much parity as we've ever seen.
 
It would be typical B1G to have 5 teams featured in 8 games on the same day and lose all of them. And after 9 teams get invited we limp into S16 with 2 teams. I'll either eat crow on this post or not.

I predict:

Illinios: Loss
Sparty: Loss
OSU: Loss
Wiscy: Win
Purdue: Loss

B1G tournament Record after first two rounds: 9-7
Illinois likely going down. I really dont think purdue will win.
 
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Illinois just can't get over the hump. They've gotten close and then the fighting phone violations grit their teeth, get a couple of stops and extend the lead again.
 
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It would be typical B1G to have 5 teams featured in 8 games on the same day and lose all of them. And after 9 teams get invited we limp into S16 with 2 teams. I'll either eat crow on this post or not.

I predict:

Illinios: Loss
Sparty: Loss
OSU: Loss
Wiscy: Win
Purdue: Loss

B1G tournament Record after first two rounds: 9-7
One can only hope.
 
Hey dude. I predicted all five games. Four of which are yet to start. The fifth game currently is a coin flip. But yes. I am negative and for good reason. Our conference hasn't exactly lit the world on fire these past 20 years. If there was ever a season for a B1G team to win it all it's this one as there is as much parity as we've ever seen.
Congratulations, you got one right.
 
Why did Sampson have to be a moron? His teams defend and rebound really well, and they play hard.
If he wasn’t a known cheater, cared about following the rules and the “student” part of “student-athlete,” he might have been a good hire and a successful coach at IU. Instead his time at IU is a blight on IU’s history.
 
Congratulations, you got one right.
I’ll up the ante. I’ll bet not one team that loses will be by single digits. Only wildcard in that would be Purdue. OSU and Sparty will get throttled. PU may be able to keep it close. Wiscy will just squeak out a win because that’s what they do.
 
Congratulations, you got one right.
And another conference team shredded by mid major guards.

Someday the conference will realize that playing the 1980's post up game doesn't work in tourney play. Then maybe they'll realize that homer refs allowing over physical play is probably detrimental to winning tourney games where the game is different from conference play. Then maybe they'll realize that the premier guards don't want to play in a tackle basketball conference .... and that's probably why every other conference has better guard play.

Or maybe, they won't.
 
I’ll up the ante. I’ll bet not one team that loses will be by single digits. Only wildcard in that would be Purdue. OSU and Sparty will get throttled. PU may be able to keep it close. Wiscy will just squeak out a win because that’s what they do.
Of course wisconsin will win they have a home game and as usually probably very friendly refs. Purdue will lose
 
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I’ll up the ante. I’ll bet not one team that loses will be by single digits. Only wildcard in that would be Purdue. OSU and Sparty will get throttled. PU may be able to keep it close. Wiscy will just squeak out a win because that’s what they do.
There is no ante.
 
Let me rephrase. I’ll go a step further in my prognosticating. With the exception of Purdue, all the losses today will be by double digits. PU will keep it close and just lose. Wiscy squeaks one out and Illinois (check box), Sparty and OSU will all get whooped by 10+.
Good luck. Enjoy.
 
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It’s reality friend. I don’t enjoy it, but I do expect it.
If I filled out my bracket that way I’d enjoy it. I picked Houston to beat Illinois in one of my two brackets so I enjoyed it for that one, which is the best of the two so far. I thought it was a 50-50 game.
 
Maybe if the BIG is this bad and IU can't even get to the upper part of the conference, then maybe it's time to move to the MAC!
 
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His program is on a roll. Best coach we had since knight but phone calls uugghh.
Phone calls were the least of his issues. You do realize he blew up the program, right? There's a reason Crean's first team consisted of low-major talent and walk-ons.
 
Phone calls were the least of his issues. You do realize he blew up the program, right? There's a reason Crean's first team consisted of low-major talent and walk-ons.
Why didn’t Crean go to junior colleges and bring in players?
 
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ILL will look much different next yr. kofi has to be heading to the draft and Frazier gone . Wouldn’t surprise me to see Curbelo in portal.
CBH.... I just caught part of the ILL game today and had the volume muted most of the time. (I hate these announcers they put on.... to much drama) In late 2nd half of the game.... Corbello was on the bench till the end.

Was he injured??? Fouls?????? Do you know?

Just curious. Anyone else know why?????
 
We are aligned.
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Phone calls were the least of his issues. You do realize he blew up the program, right? There's a reason Crean's first team consisted of low-major talent and walk-ons.
Some of those players could have to come to play for crean they choose not too. They were not all kicked off or asked to leave. So we started from scratch but we did not get the death penalty or get banned from tournies. It was all self inflicted.
 
So far one Big 10 moving on with 5 going home. Three games to go. Still think we can grab 2 of next 3, but only one more win wouldn't surprise me either.
 
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