TheGhostofYost

March 10th, 2013 at 2:14 PM ^

Is any team less deserving of their place in the conference standings than Wisconsin?  Play Indiana and Michigan only once while hitting two extremely improbable buzzer beaters to win one game and send the other to overtime.  Not to mention their football team going 7-5 and heading to the Rose Bowl.  What a joke.

Naked Bootlegger

March 10th, 2013 at 2:19 PM ^

As I sit here in my work office about 4 blocks from the Kohl Center, I can feel the devil's tendrils grabbing for my soul.  I have no idea what happened in the game*, but it can't be good.   Madison is the official location of the gates to hell.  No doubt about it.

 

*I'm feverishly trying to finish up some work before heading home to watch UM/IU.

TheGhostofYost

March 10th, 2013 at 2:25 PM ^

I really hate everything Wisconsin stands for.  In an attempt to compensate for enormous talent deficiencies, they simply refuse to squeeze out even the tiniest turd of entertainment. It's an insult to the game of basketball.

LSAClassOf2000

March 10th, 2013 at 2:45 PM ^

Nick Colella's look of despair, followed by a mournful turn and crouch, is a but one example of the sort of pain Wisconsin causes people and why they are an insufferable team. No one should have to endure that, yet many sadly have.

That being said, Illinois' effective FG percentage of 41.7% fails to get them the win agains Ohio State, and with that game, we are now either a 3 or 5 seed (56% and 44% respectively, using this morning's numbers from Massey) in the BTT as, at least according to my ever-shrinking table, any scenario in which we are a 2 or 4 has been eliminated. Being that Michigan State is a 96% favorite against Northwestern anyway and their game is after ours, that result is likely immaterial to the BTT seeding as it concerns Michigan. 

urbanachiever

March 10th, 2013 at 3:01 PM ^

Well, it's either a 3 seed or a 5 seed and we play on Thursday. As much as I'd like redemption at PSU, I'd like to avoid Indiana in round 3. Win today and the path to a BTT title is much more managable

OmarDontScare

March 10th, 2013 at 3:26 PM ^

Uh this stupid MVC game is going to run late. Are we going to miss the first 5-10 minutes of our game? That would be some bullshit

Abomb4480

March 10th, 2013 at 3:36 PM ^

So if Michigan wins today and ends with a four way tie for big ten title, does that end wisconsin's streak under bo Ryan of never finishing outside of fourth place in the big ten?

M Fanfare

March 10th, 2013 at 3:53 PM ^

I don't want to know the awful, horrible things that Bo Ryan/Wisconsin basketball/Wisconsin fans have to do to get the kind of luck they seem to always get. Talk about scary voodoo and selling sould to evil dieties.

urbanachiever

March 10th, 2013 at 6:34 PM ^

Not that upset. This team has glaring. weaknesses that winning this game wouldn't eliminate. Can't defend, can't rebound. The writing is in the wall. With that said, we can still get hot and beat anyone, but doing it 7 times in a row seems unlikely.