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

[Slaky]

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.

You did this. YOU.

[Internet Apex]

OSU's superstar guard Evan Turner will miss 8 weeks with broken bones in his back after a nasty fall on a FAILed dunk attempt.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-t25-ohiost-turnerhurt&prov=ap&type=lgns

That should really help Minnesota... or whoever.

[Slaky]

Illinois representing with nice "upset" over ranked Vanderbilt.

[Richard Chuggar]

OSU's superstar guard Evan Turner will miss 8 weeks with broken bones in his back after a nasty fall on a FAILed dunk attempt.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-t25-ohiost-turnerhurt&prov=ap&type=lgns

That should really help Minnesota... or whoever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j87KEovOAWQ

[R-V]

Illinois representing with nice "upset" over ranked Vanderbilt.

These freshmen are fun to watch. And Jeff Jordan made a three!

[Yeti]

Illinois representing with nice "upset" over ranked Vanderbilt.

These freshmen are fun to watch. And Jeff Jordan made a three!

So, no one else's BTN feed went out?

[Ivy6]

Let's go, you Apey Bitch.

http://www.valpoathletics.com/news/default/147/9441/

[Internet Apex]

Let's go, you Apey Bitch.

http://www.valpoathletics.com/news/default/147/9441/

Valpo's success on offense early this year has been in large part due to sharing the basketball and not turning it over.

Well, that's about to change, you Mercury-poisoned girly-man. o/u on Crusader turnovers = 20.

[Ivy6]

Purdue Sucks.

Valpo 68 Purdue 67.

[Eli]

Purdue Sucks.

Valpo 68 Purdue 67.

You're selling them short.

Valpo 75, Purdue 18.

[Internet Apex]

Are we talking darts here?

Purde 70, Valpo 55.

[Ivy6]

I was talking darts.

[Internet Apex]

I was talking darts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBKCKdwpE8

[Eli]

Purdue Sucks.

Valpo 68 Purdue 67.

You're selling them short.

Valpo 75, Purdue 18.

Purdue has slipped a bit past my projected point total, but there's still plenty time for a Valpo comeback win.

[Ivy6]

Are we talking darts here?

Purde 70, Valpo 55.

Haha, Purdue has 76 points and there's 7:06 left.

Idiot.