All Purpose Big Ten Basketball/NCAA Hoop 2009-10 Thread

[Internet Apex]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

BIG 10 11!!!

I'm 0-3 picking tonight. OFF TO THE POKER GAME!

[BC]

The comeback doesn't change the fact that the Illini were not prepared for this game. Anyone watching the first half could see it in how poorly the team was handling Clemson's defense. However, in the second half the players stepped up and Weber (To his credit) helped with good coaching decisions. Switching to the zone early in the half took Clemson out of their game offensively, and the timeout he took with under a minute left to set up the eventual Tisdale shot was a smart call.

[R-V]

The comeback doesn't change the fact that the Illini were not prepared for this game. Anyone watching the first half could see it in how poorly the team was handling Clemson's defense. However, in the second half the players stepped up and Weber (To his credit) helped with good coaching decisions. Switching to the zone early in the half took Clemson out of their game offensively, and the timeout he took with under a minute left to set up the eventual Tisdale shot was a smart call. I gargle big drooping woolly mammoth nuts while slowly tickling the mammoth taint.

Bruce and the gang just squirted it all over you, dummy'd

48-23 game ending run. Sports rule!

[Richard Chuggar]

The comeback doesn't change the fact that the Illini were not prepared for this game. Anyone watching the first half could see it in how poorly the team was handling Clemson's defense. However, in the second half the players stepped up and Weber (To his credit) helped with good coaching decisions. Switching to the zone early in the half took Clemson out of their game offensively, and the timeout he took with under a minute left to set up the eventual Tisdale shot was a smart call.

He didn't set up a play for Tisdale.  One of the blacks drove the lane and just kicked it out to him on the wing. 

p.s.  You are a cocksucker.

[Saul Goodman]

WIS KON ZIN ! ! !

[MAD]

Way to rush the court, cheesedicks.  Just don't come off looking podunk.  Oops.

[Internet Apex]

Fuck. I could of been a millionaire. I did win the poker tourney though. 35 clams to the good!

[ChuckD]

Way to rush the court, cheesedicks.  Just don't come off looking podunk.  Oops.

Those urbane youths cavorted down the street and overturned my bi-cycle!

[Waco Kid]

Great win for Illinois.

Fuck the ACC.

[R-V]

Recruiting Excuse #78: This isn't the 1950's?

Gets me every time.

Tisdale would of owned in the 1950s.

SHOWING HIS RIVERTON CLASS WITH THAT ONE-HANDED BLOCK /homecountysplooge

Ichabod Tisdale is awkward as hell on defensive rotations, doesn't have very good hands, and isn't as good of a rebounder as he should be, but I'll be damned if he isn't their go-to guy at the end of games. He's deadly from mid-range.

[MAD]

Way to rush the court, cheesedicks.  Just don't come off looking podunk.  Oops.

Those urbane youths cavorted down the street and overturned my bi-cycle!

Indeed, Mortimer.

[Richard Chuggar]

Recruiting Excuse #78: This isn't the 1950's?

Gets me every time.

Tisdale would of owned in the 1950s.

SHOWING HIS RIVERTON CLASS WITH THAT ONE-HANDED BLOCK /homecountysplooge

Ichabod Tisdale is awkward as hell on defensive rotations, doesn't have very good hands, and isn't as good of a rebounder as he should be, but I'll be damned if he isn't their go-to guy at the end of games. He's deadly from mid-range.

I couldn't believe he was able to pump fake and then have a nice one-dribble drive to get that last layup.  He almost looked like an athlete.

[Slaky]

Recruiting Excuse #78: This isn't the 1950's?

Gets me every time.

Tisdale would of owned in the 1950s.

SHOWING HIS RIVERTON CLASS WITH THAT ONE-HANDED BLOCK /homecountysplooge

Ichabod Tisdale is awkward as hell on defensive rotations, doesn't have very good hands, and isn't as good of a rebounder as he should be, but I'll be damned if he isn't their go-to guy at the end of games. He's deadly from mid-range.

I couldn't believe he was able to pump fake and then have a nice one-dribble drive to get that last layup.  He almost looked like an athlete.

He's got a really soft touch around the rim. He's also good at making shots close to the net in basketball games.

[MAD]

Recruiting Excuse #78: This isn't the 1950's?

Gets me every time.

Tisdale would of owned in the 1950s.

SHOWING HIS RIVERTON CLASS WITH THAT ONE-HANDED BLOCK /homecountysplooge

Ichabod Tisdale is awkward as hell on defensive rotations, doesn't have very good hands, and isn't as good of a rebounder as he should be, but I'll be damned if he isn't their go-to guy at the end of games. He's deadly from mid-range.

I couldn't believe he was able to pump fake and then have a nice one-dribble drive to get that last layup.  He almost looked like an athlete.

He's got a really soft touch around the rim. He's also good at making shots close to the net in basketball games.

HI OH!

[Kermit, B.]

Backtracking for a moment... Recording phone calls without the other person's consent was legal in Iowa but not in Illinois at the time. The legality of Pearl's actions was at best questionable, although it can't be said to have been definitely illegal because the U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on competing state laws concerning phone call recordings. There have also been questions about whether or not Pearl edited the tapes before giving them to the NCAA, Thomas has contended that a couple of his comments were made in different phone calls, yet on the tapes are all together as if the comments were made during the same call. Where Illinois REALLY screwed up was hiring Mike Slive to assist the school in the situation. Instead of doing his job, Slive decided Thomas, Henson and Collins had to be lying. Illinois fired Slive, who then went to the NCAA and along with Pearl pushed for the penalties that Illinois eventually received. The NCAA then went along and essentially took what Pearl and Slive presented as gospel while ignoring Thomas/Henson/Collins and overlooking the shoddy work done by their own investigators.

In the end, Illinois should have sued the NCAA to at least make the point that the NCAA's investigation was one-sided and that the penalties were too severe for the alleged actions. It is doubtful that Illinois would have won such a case, but the value of the litigation would have been better PR and a possible straightening out of the record. However, the administration and Mackovic were tired of the situation and didn't want to push the thing to court.

Moving back to tonight's games... I think Illinois falls to Clemson by 10 or 12... Duke blows Wisconsin out... Minnesota and Ohio State will win, leaving Michigan/Boston College as the swing game... I think Michigan wins in a tight one to give the Big Ten their first Challenge win.

I was so fucking wrong about my own desire to know why BC hates Pearl.  I feel like such a Chuck.