Big Ten Championship OpenThread
by BoilerTMill on Mar 14, 2010 2:15 PM EDT
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We're live at Conseco for the finale today, so if anyone wants to stop by and chat about pairings or the game, feel free. I'll have a separate open thread for the Selection show tonight, in the meantime, let us listen to Ed from Live here and follow his advice from the first line of the song.
Also, I want to offer a big thank you to all the readers. We passed 600 members yesterday, gaining 200 in a little less than 6 weeks! Soon we will truly be Hammer & Rails nation, passing Vatican City's population of 826.
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The majority of the projections have us at a 3 seed and only 1 has us at a 5 everything is 4 or better
by Delaware Boiler on Mar 14, 2010 2:18 PM EDT reply actions
hey ya'll
anyone out there?
See Ball, Get Ball. Quarterback Has Ball, Sack Him.
by 7_Painter's_First_Fan on Mar 14, 2010 2:31 PM EDT reply actions
Low impact
day-
No games to worry about. Can’t decide who I want to lose the most- OSU or MN….
Does my disenchantment with Squidward and POY progeny- ET-
outweigh my total disdain for the unlucky and mistimed fates that MN has brought to bear upon us?
Hmm..
I’ll go with MN. I think today- I will just plain hate them.
In the media room right now
General consensus is a 4 here. Still hoping for a 3
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Kentucky-Miss State
What an ending. The Illinois guys were praying for that OT.
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Officially pulling for Minny in this one.
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Tough call, TMill, can't win them all.
or very many, recently.
Granted, I don't know what down it is..
I like how no pundit gave Purdue credit for beating NW on Friday when they couldnt do it with RH. Better to just beat the “Purdue sucks without Hummel” like a dead horse.
Tell me about it
I am still thinking 3 seed though. I think the committee can understand that teams occasionally just have a bad night
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Minnesota
I also think that if they go ahead and win today it helps that case.
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I kinduv
agree- if the bad day you are having is with the horses that brung u there. These are new pony’s we are riding in the race, and at this point we are 2 and 3 with them. Just the devil’s advocate thing here.
As far as any “street cred” if MN wins- I suppose if OSU is held to less than 11 for the half- it might help. I don’t think it’s the loss that hurt us as much as the “historic !! points”.
4-2 by my count
I am absolutely counting that Minnesota win in the Robbie Game
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Dallas Lauderdale
He looks like a 45 year old man playing in a rec league up close
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Just Think
West Virginia could get the final number 1 seed and they got throttled at Mackey. I wonder if ESPN has stricken that game from its archives.
that would piss me off
I am still going with Kansas, kentucky, Duke, Syracuse as my 1’s has anyone heard about that center from Syracuse yet?
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i wouldnt be shocked
If Cuse withholds the MRI results until after the seeding is done.
by HawkeyeBoiler on Mar 14, 2010 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Just saw
Day-to-day with a Quad injury
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Thats what we shouldve done
Kept sayin Robbie was day-to-day. Have him secretly get surgery, but keep the illusion up of him possibly playing
by HawkeyeBoiler on Mar 14, 2010 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Where does he have the surgery?
Some Swiss mountain retreat int eh Alps and we say he is there for state of the art therapy.
We could try Amazonian witch doctor too.
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hypeberic oxygen
enriched hemoglobin erythrypoetic hormone enhancing nucleotide therapy injections.. and what not. Under the care of the esteemed Hoerr Doktor Schrechlichkeit …
Evan turner just tried to rebound his own airball
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I think I could sneak onto their bench
I might even get a trillion if this gets out of hand.
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Simmons and Hill played last year
Did they become infused with the suck gene since then?
Simmons played yesterday
Even hit a three
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Yeah
he looked like a little bitch out there waving to his cheerleader entourage. He went for another shot immediately after that- prob wanted to take credit for the assist on the tip in.
If I see Hightower, what should I do?
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I should ask him to sign my laptop
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Take one for the team
And dropkick him to the year 3030
That would have been a great idea.
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Whoa!
White men can jump!
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that was big
Jumpshot by Carter stopped the bleeding and then Sampson cuts it to 3
Diebler is playing like a man possessed
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HUGE
Big shot by Joseph, cut it to 3 goin into half
I never thought I would say this,
but Ed Hightower has actually been the best official of the weekend.
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Post from Jerry Palm CBS Sportline
Discussing the NCAA field projections:
Those that dropped off are Virginia Tech, Rhode Island, Seton Hall and Mississippi. Hey, that’s one team too many! That’s because Minnesota’s destruction of Purdue has the Gophers crawling onto the bottom of the bracket. That does not mean they are safe if they lose Sunday, especially with Mississippi State playing for the SEC title.
Purdue drops to a 4 seed. I have no idea what the committee will do with the Boilers — there is no precedent for this particular committee — but I do know that no team will get talked about more this weekend.
Fantastic!
They were giving away ICON bobbleheads at the media party on Thursday night. I ended up with Mateen Cleaves in my swag bag. I was able to switch today for a Drew Brees.
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Way too easy of a start for OSU
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One of the Illinois bloggers next to me
“I’m going to punch Goldy in the head before this ends.”
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I don't trust him
“He has shifty eyes. Look at that grin, he’s up to something.”
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It's going to be very close
I have been sitting with the Illinois guys all weekend and they are thinking 50/50 between them and Mississippi State. They do think Minnesota is ahead of them.
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Comparing our
record to the other projected 4 seeds (TN, Temple, NM) it’s not a total diss. Those teams have all been prominent.
Can you really compare records with NM and Temple?
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by doublegoldandblack on Mar 14, 2010 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions
and based on that logic-
ZERO quality wins against ranked opponents and ONE BAD LOSS to a mediocre unranked bottom of the pile B-10 team.
It has to be considered a split with a good Minnesota team
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Dallas Lauderdale's reseding hairline
Makes him more aerodynamic to dunk
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Topic of Discussion: Big Ten Expansion
I say we bring back the University of Chicago
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bearcats don't even dominate the city of cincinnati
and academics are a non-starter with them
My
wife’s cousin’s husband is the asst. strength & conditioning coach at ND (followed Kelley from Cincy and Mt Pleasant before that- wife’s home town.
So now I can’t figure out what to do- go against family and keep hating ND?
given ND's recent history
It should only be a problem for the next 2-4 years
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by doublegoldandblack on Mar 14, 2010 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions
It's easy
Keep hating ND
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I don't watch the selection show...
…to get a preview of the new “One Shining Moment”, Jim Nantz.
CBS talks that crappy song up so much….
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World is ending in 2012, so I doubt it....
Why 2030?
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by carmen_fanzone on Mar 14, 2010 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions
at least according to John Cusack...
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by carmen_fanzone on Mar 14, 2010 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions
2030 is just a number
If the world ends in 2012 then we would be the 2nd to the last NCAA champions ever !
Haha....unless, of course, it's before April 2012.
Good way to go out, I guess.
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by carmen_fanzone on Mar 14, 2010 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions
This game is over.
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ya think?
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by carmen_fanzone on Mar 14, 2010 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions
no class by OSU
firing up 3s that early in the shot clock up 20+
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by doublegoldandblack on Mar 14, 2010 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Sadly
This “Squidward” thing is the highlight of my hoops weekend.
Giggle every time I see it.
Thad Matta is a jackass
Absolutely no reason for the starters to be in w/ a minute to go and up by 30.
Damien Johnson
is a senior too, I believe. Good riddance.
by Justinian IV on Mar 14, 2010 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm not sure how OSU goes with just 6 players through the NCAA's....
…unless, of course, they shoot 80% from the field like today…
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They've been doing it all year.
And will have at least one rest day between games from here on out.
Minny got tired....OSU shot lights out.....
Maybe Minny getting blown out helps our chances. shrug.
I still think we’re a 4 seed, but knowing how we get screwed in tourney seedings over the years, who knows?
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MN blowout
takes us down. They blew out the team that blew us out. That would be an exponential difference between us and OSU.
So...
….you’re thinking a 15 seed or the play in game for us?
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by carmen_fanzone on Mar 14, 2010 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I still think you're crazy
I know we all expect the sky to fall, but I can’t imagine the committee coming up with 20 teams to put in front of Purdue, regardless of how bad they were yesterday.
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by doublegoldandblack on Mar 14, 2010 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Even after last night's debacle....
…most sportswriters had us as a 3 or 4 this morning. Nothing that happened today changes that.
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by carmen_fanzone on Mar 14, 2010 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah
as bad as last night was, it was only one game. It was an incredibly bad game, but it was only one. Syracuse and Nova have both lost their last two games. Pitt has lost twice to ND in the last 2 weeks. Other teams have hit the skids as they’ve run into desperate teams at the end of the year.
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by doublegoldandblack on Mar 14, 2010 5:42 PM EDT up reply actions
what time do they actually start announcing seedings?
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by doublegoldandblack on Mar 14, 2010 5:29 PM EDT reply actions
The sky isn't falling bro-
And I sure don’t want less than a 3 seed. I hope for a 4 but fear for a 6. Just cuz they ain’t out to get us- doesn’t mean they ain’t out to get us. If only we could have said Hummel was a “day by Day” evaluation.
This dialogue
was on a CBSsportsline glog- makes me hate OSU even more.
"who shoots 3 pointers with your starters within 2 minutes of the end of regulation while holding a 30 point lead? OSU = classless and turner is the most arrogant p.o.s. on the planet
5:25pm EDT
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you have the word “fact” confused with the word “opinion”.
5:24pm EDT
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57 points in one half against a team that only gave up 11 points in the first half to purdue yesterday is very very very impressive."
It's all about
those 11 points.
Talk about posturing for the committee. I’m sure they see through it.
Anyone else already thinking about Minnesota next year?
I am salivating for the chance to destroy them.
...only if we get another big developed by then...
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by carmen_fanzone on Mar 14, 2010 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions
They lose Westbrook and Johnson...
….that’s 2 pretty good scorers for that team.
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by carmen_fanzone on Mar 14, 2010 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Samson is improving
+ Iverson- = the New Twin Towers. Their point is pretty good as well- better than ours.
and Travis Carrol a chance to suit up
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by doublegoldandblack on Mar 14, 2010 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Carrol needs to get major minutes next year....
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by carmen_fanzone on Mar 14, 2010 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
hopefully he knows where the low post is
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by doublegoldandblack on Mar 14, 2010 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions
everyone will be required to wear football pads
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by doublegoldandblack on Mar 14, 2010 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions
LewJack: full body armor
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by carmen_fanzone on Mar 14, 2010 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions
The way the refs are calling it...
I’m thinking kevlar.
Evan Turner should just declare for the NBA right now...
…that might cheer me up. I’m still pissed about y’day.
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I'll go ahead and do a separate thread
No big deal. give me 2 minutes
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twss
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by carmen_fanzone on Mar 14, 2010 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Separate thread up
http://www.hammerandrails.com/2010/3/14/1372814/selection-show-open-thread
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