[Oskee] Party down Larry!!!

[Todd Sweet]

I don't believe 10-8 gets us in.  Our losses are too bad, and our RPI is
hurting.  It would be different if we had 14 losses and had a top 10 RPI,
but I think as of last night we were in the mid 70s somewhere.  That CAN go
up based on our upcoming competition, but that assumes we can beat them and
I'm less than confident that can happen because this team has not proven yet
they can play for 40 minutes (at least not in the same game).  The best way
I can describe it is that we are clearly the best of the worst teams in the
Big Ten.  I think we can beat Minny and Michigan if we play well.  But
Purdue, Wisconsin, and MSU should probably handle us.  Personally, I think
we need to have 12 wins in conference to go to the NCAA in order to offset
our bad losses.  11 wins puts us at the mercy of the conference tourneys and
puts us on the bubble.  10 wins and were NIT bound.

 

Todd S 

 

 

 

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From: oskee-bounces at heins.net [mailto:oskee-bounces at heins.net] On Behalf Of
gtillini95 at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:09 AM
To: oskee at heins.net
Subject: Re: [Oskee] Party down Larry!!!

 

For the sake of discussion, let's say we finish 10-8 in the conference and
18-13 overall, but then go on a typical Illini\BBT run and win two more
games to go 20-14.  Under that scenario, I suppose the only way we make it
interesting for the selection committee is if the three regular season wins
come at home vs. Ohio State, on the road vs. Michigan and at home vs.
Minnesota.  Then the semifinal BTT win would have to come against somebody
like Purdue or Wisconsin.

 

Would that do it?   

OWW!

 

Geoff

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Mingee <mingee at swbell.net>
To: Fighting Illini Sports Enthusiasts List <oskee at heins.net>
Sent: Thu, Feb 4, 2010 8:52 am
Subject: Re: [Oskee] Party down Larry!!!

It was good to see another solid road performance, even if it was against
such a woeful team.  We milked about as many wins as we could out of the
lower half of the conference, now comes the time for this team to decide how
good they are going to be against real competition.  If we could by some
miracle take all the home games, that would probably seal a tourney bid --
that would make 11-7 in conference.  I don't see any likely road wins there
unless we can get by Michigan, and even the home games are far from assured.
That loss at Northwestern really hurts, and pretty much eliminates any
margin for error.  Time to show your stuff and keep this team focused, Bruce
-- I've got confidence you can do it if anyone can!

I'm gonna sit back and enjoy the ride -- I gave up on a bid a while back, so
whatever comes in the postseason now is gravy (unless we flame out and miss
the NIT, but we won't go there :-).  But I would dearly love to see this
team pull off one major upset before the season is over, regardless of what
else happens.

-- robert

 

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From: Kevin Kemna <kemna at hughes.net>
To: oskee at heins.net
Sent: Wed, February 3, 2010 9:32:13 PM
Subject: [Oskee] Party down Larry!!!


Well the Illini have  to make us cuss in the second half but Tisdale &
McCamey

Knocked down FT's late and the Illini beat the Squawks 57- 49.

 

Bring on College  Gameday I wonder if we could tar and feather that
worthless Digger Phelps

 

GO ILLINI

 

Kevin



 

 

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