Should be on the bubble – I guess I think the Gophers have a better resume than the Badgers. I know their RPI/SOS helps them.

Even Badger fans are talking about the possibility of being in the NIT – http://forums.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=193&f=2565&t=4073571

as of this morning Lunardi has penn state out and maryland and san diego state in the tourney. That is completely insane to me. St. Mary’s just got destroyed by gonzaga on a neutral court and san diego state only beat BYU yesterday…who cares!

Don’t get me wrong…I would like to root for san diego state because of MN native and Burnsville graduate Ryan Amaroso, but give me a break…Penn state has the best wins of any big 10 team…if you wish to take a big 10 team out it should be wisconsin due to them losing a million 7 point leads with 5 minutes left…make them pay for their incompetence.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/andy_glockner/bracket/index.html?eref=T1

Lundardi has the Gophers as a lock and ahead of both Michigan and Ohio State right now, but behind Wisconsin.

…in the most recent edition of Bracketology. He has the Gophers playing in Minneapolis, which cannot occur because we are hosts for that site. It also shows Minneapolis having 12 teams, which is an obvious mistake. I think he meant for us to be in Greensboro opposite the #2 seed Duke.

If Penn State does make it in, they may actually be the lowest ranked team (RPI) to ever get an at large invitation. They are #68 right now. Yet, Lunardi has them as the 1st team out. Looking back at 2007, Stanford made it with a #67 rating, and I have no idea how. PSU looks to have a better resume than Stanford did then.

Digger and Hubert Davis don’t like the big 10 very much. Does anybody else get that feeling? Jeez!

All they have done is pick on the big 10 this year for the lack of offense. And, today Digger ripped MSU for not breaking a zone defense. Well, Digger, Uconn and Pitt also choked against zone defenses, but you didn’t rip them did you? No!

Also, can Digger or Hubert rip UNC for playing absolutely no defense at all. Good god. Can they also rip Oklahoma for playing like a bunch of girls for the last month.

And, here is my favorite Digger comment: “Wisconsin can not guard anybody…that is why they lose games.” Are you kidding me Digger…Wisconsin loses games in the final minutes becuase they have very little offensive talent. They, on the other hand, have a wonderful defensive team.

And, since Digger loves the ACC so much I would like him to comment once and a great moon about how well the ACC (except for UNC) has performed in the tourney for the last five years….and compare that with how well the big 10 performs.

The amount of anti Big Ten bias is incredible. The talking heads really think that defense isn’t an important factor in the outcome of basketball games. I was listening to Fox Sports Radio today and one of the producers was asked to rank the conferences. He had the B10 behind the Big East, ACC, PAC 10 and Big 12. He had no justification for this, mind you, just that the Big Ten “can’t score.” Well, the teams from the conference did better than just about any other conference in the non-conference slate.

HHPGTP, Digger is bad. But at least you’re not on the East Coast. Instead of ESPN coverage of the ACC Tournament, we get Raycom. I prefer Digger to what they offer.

Finally, we need Tennessee to beat Auburn right now and take care of Mississippi State tomorrow. The SEC should only be getting two in the field of 65—LSU and Tennessee.

And go Mizzou!

If Baylor wins maybe the selection committee can match them up with Purdue like last year. that way Purdue can beat them by another 20 points.

If Baylor wins then Penn State probably has no chance at getting in…that is just great…Another punk team in a bad conference that finally decided to play hard gets in…just great.

These upsets are costing us and giving me worries!

Gophers = in the tourney no matter if the Volunteers lose
Penn State = according to Lunardi they are out

Going back to the overall hate on the big 10…there is only ONE supporter of the big 10 and ironically it comes on behalf of Steve Lavin whose UCLA team’s played very little defense. I find it interesting that I can not recall Digger and Lavin analyzing basketball on the same television set. For instance, today, after Digger displayed his ignorant and idiotic beliefs regarding the big 10 roughly one hour later Lavin was in the studio giving his two-bitz about the bubble teams….Nice try to save your face ESPN!

I would also like mention to Digger that UCLA, Pitt, Uconn, USC, Maryland, Arizona State, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, West Virginia and to a lesser extent Louisville all play very much like Big 10 teams; and each of the beforementioned squads have similiar offensive abilitiy, but more importantly share a common goal in playing tough defense and thus controlling tempo. Mmm, interesting.

I would very much enjoy Digger’s explanation as to why Wake Forest should be considered a top ten team or why Clemson deserves any respect at all.