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Illini Fan 5
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Agree with other person. Time for a good coach at Illinois. Not sure if either team can go much farther. They have won the games that are suppossed to, and Wisconsin has another shot.
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American First
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Wisconsin has a great coach, and I love the way they play. They have two great gaurds and everyone else plays real smart.
Tennesse don't play smart but they have guys with raw talent that misuses it. They are lucky Butler didn't upset them. Tennesse will not win the championship they have to many street ballplayers who don't play team ball.
Michigan state has a great coach who knows how to train his teams for good tempo basketball. He always seems to get good gaurds, and pivot people.
Indiana just lost their coach an this hurt them. Their all star guy is overrated bigtime. He needs to stay 4 y ears in college to improve his game. He is not NBA ready. Purdue, Illinois and the rest of the Big Ten will be back next year.
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Florida Jim
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The Big Ten is well represented by both Wisconsin and Michigan State. Purdue was a pleasure to watch this year but Iniana was a terrible team. As an IU alumus, I could see early on that the team was dependent upon two players one of whom, Gordon, was far too immature and erratic to be dependable. I hope IU looks at how Wisconsin plays the game and gets a coach who can coach this way instead of trying to make a name for himself by bringing in players who have no love for any school and only play for themselves. Dakich was too weak and allowed the players to dictate to him, too bad I thought he would be much better.
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ARW
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Every year the ACC dismantles the Big Ten in the annual ACC/Big Ten challenge and every year the Big Ten comes up a little bigger during the NCAA tourney.
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Bucky
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Go Badgers!!
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Blake
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Michigan State will go all the way to the Monday Night Championship Game and WIN IT!!!
They are the best team in the NCAA if they are consistent.
They are now consistent!
They lost to Wisconsin because the refs cheated and fouled out all the Spartan big men so that Wisconsin would win.
The NCAA should investigate those 3 refs to make sure they did not have bets on the GAME!!!
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LIEBERT
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You are so right Blake..
Those refs did a job on the Spartans during their battle with Badgers that fateful day during the Big Ten play-offs.
I am sure they will meet again and the Spartans will have the last word.
MSU WILL BE THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS.
I HOPE WISCONSIN FINISHES SECOND BUT I DOUBT IT.
BIG TEN ALL THE WAY!
ANYONE NOTICE HOW FAST THAT KALIN LUCAS IS. I HOPE THEY DON'T DRAFT HIM.
THAT GUY IS UNBELIEVABLE
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Tom
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I'm an Illinois grad and I will be rooting for my two big 10 cousins, Michigan St. and Wisconsin. I hope they both reach the final four.
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pcjake
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Bill Self wrote: Just goes to show what good coaching will do for you ... something Illinois is missing in spades. Well, "Bill Self" never misses a chance to take a shot at Weber/Illinois. First, it was "Weber can't recruit." Not that he has recruits coming. It's "Weber can't coach." So, those 20 win seasons were a fluke?
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Michelle
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I picked both Michigan State and Wisconsin to get this far. I can't believe this article says they are surprises? Michigan State almost always has done great in the tourney in the last decade or so! And they say Wisconsin is the best in years! Now since my team (Marquette) blew it, I may as well cheer for these 2 sort of local teams! And I think Sparty is one of the best mascots around! NCAA tourney is always great! Love March madness!
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Tom
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Michelle wrote: I picked both Michigan State and Wisconsin to get this far. I can't believe this article says they are surprises? Michigan State almost always has done great in the tourney in the last decade or so! And they say Wisconsin is the best in years! Now since my team (Marquette) blew it, I may as well cheer for these 2 sort of local teams! And I think Sparty is one of the best mascots around! NCAA tourney is always great! Love March madness! What do you mean Marquette blew it? They lost by one point to a number 3 seed. The winning shot rolled forever on the rim until it dropped in. The undersized Golden Eagles put up a great fight against the 7 foot Lopez twins of Stanford.
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Tom
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Bill Self wrote: <quoted text>
"Has recruits coming?" When, 2014? Sorry, not good enough.
Weber can't recruit. Everyone knows it. And he can't coach, either, and now that he no longer has Bill Self's recruits, everyone knows that, too. This is a positive article about Michigan St. and Wisconsin. It's too bad Bill Self has to take cheap shots at Coach Weber in seemingly any article about college basketball. Bill, is that all you live for in Amesbury?
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Dookie V
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Bill Self wrote: <quoted text>
"Has recruits coming?" When, 2014? Sorry, not good enough.
Weber can't recruit. Everyone knows it. And he can't coach, either, and now that he no longer has Bill Self's recruits, everyone knows that, too. Go Villanova.
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Kelly D
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Florida Jim wrote: The Big Ten is well represented by both Wisconsin and Michigan State. Purdue was a pleasure to watch this year but Iniana was a terrible team. As an IU alumus... Genuine display of class and sportsmanship, Florida Tim! As a Purdue alumna, I wish the genius schedule-makers hadn't gipped our two schools out of meeting twice this season. I was raised, too, to root for the CONFERENCE and gladly do so for MSU and UW!!
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Kelly D
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oops... Florida JIM :-)
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American First
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I'm a SIU grad, for the last few years my Salukis finished in the sweet 16. I'd like to see the Big Ten play the Missouri Valley a few years in a beginning of the year tournament. That would be fun. I bet the Big Ten and MVC would split wins. Big Ten, ACC, Big Easrt SEC, PAC are all good but, slightly overrated. To be truthful, the nation has too much Parity in skill level players. On any given Saturday afternoon any conference has teams to beat the best in any other. As you can note, the Media Talking Heads have not named a Cinderalla Team; there are known, all the 65 trams could win this thing.
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Scott
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I am a Badger Alumnus, and I still can't believe how good a coach Bo Ryan is. And Izzo as well. I think MSU has some better athletes than UW, but the Badgers play better D. I really hope they both go far, and show the rest of the country that good sound fundamentals can get you to the Final Four, not just the no discipline, slam dunk, no defense, poor free throw shooting basketball some of these major programs demonstrate.
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Tom
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Scott wrote: I am a Badger Alumnus, and I still can't believe how good a coach Bo Ryan is. And Izzo as well. I think MSU has some better athletes than UW, but the Badgers play better D. I really hope they both go far, and show the rest of the country that good sound fundamentals can get you to the Final Four, not just the no discipline, slam dunk, no defense, poor free throw shooting basketball some of these major programs demonstrate. That last sentence discribes Kansas and Bill Self.
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politwriter
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To borrow a line that Mike Ditka used to describe the 1985 Bears,-- Every other team in the NCAA Tourney is the Smith family and the Wisconsin Badgers are the Grabowski family. They have never gotten the respect they deserve.
Bo Ryan has assembled and honed a brilliant, methodical, blue-collar basketball team. The Wisconsin defense is sometimes like a fine Swiss watch - a thing of beauty to watch.
It was genuinely fun to see future NBA pick, Beasley totally befuddled by the Badger's second half defense in the Ks State game.
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Brian
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Bill Self wrote: <quoted text>
In my off-hours I coach Kansas to incredible records. This, while Bruce Weber teaches greater Champaign how to "bee-arrrb-buh-cayou. " Ha! Bill Self talking about coaching is like listening to a blind man talk about driving, sure, they have both heard of it, but neither can do it.
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