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NCAA Basketball Champs for 2005

coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
Post you prediction here:

I pick Illinois to win the NCAA tournament. By then, they will have lost 2 games

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  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭
    I'm an Illini fan and I hope it is their year.
  • Illinois is playing great, but Georgia Tech will take the championship.

    Brian
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just for the record, Illinois played in the final four in 1952 and 1989 which were the only other times they were ranked number 1. I would have thought they would have been number 1 more times than that considering the teams they have had dating back to the 1940's. GT looks good too as do the usual suspects from the ACC

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  • AkbarCloneAkbarClone Posts: 2,476 ✭✭✭
    U of North Carolina TarHeels! ........ as long as no key player gets injuredimage
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  • Common, somebody take a chance........

    Boston College - 2005 NCAA Champs
    Bill
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am taking a chance with Illinois... they have not been in the final four since 1989.

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  • Boy, that Boston College pick over a month ago
    is looking better and better every day. Jared Dudley
    was simply unbelievable last night. Go Eagles!!!!
    Bill
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If Illinois can get past Wisconsin when they play at Madison and Michigan State at East Lansing, they could finish the regular season unbeaten... Let's see... when did that happen last? Indiana in the early 1980's or Duke in the early 1990's? I don't recall. It could even be UCLA in the 1970's.

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  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭
    They have get past Iowa first. OT baby! Come on Illini.
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Okay... I am giving this subject a rest for awhile... Thank God Illinois pulled this one out.

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  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭
    Until next Tuesday.
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    I'll take a shot with Wake Forest. They have some tough games coming up in the next few weeks though, that could prove telling.
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  • The ACC is still superior, any team can win at home. I'm a bit suprised no one has picked Kansas - they made me break my remote on New Year's - 'Nova will get 'em on Saturday. BJ's back, but so far my Jackets have sucked on the road. image

    Brian
  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The University of Kentucky Wildcats!

    Shane

  • jaxxrjaxxr Posts: 1,258 ✭✭
    Kentucky, as you mentioned, and Duke are ALWAYS powerfull contenders.

    This year I am rooting for the Fightin Illini !!

    I did attend for a short time, finished with DePaul .


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  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭
    Down goes Wisconsin. The Illini march on! Tough game to win.
  • AND THEN THERE WERE JUST TWO..............

    Duke took the big "L" last night while BC held
    on for another tough road win. 17-0 !!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Anyone see GT Wake? I'm sitting on at my computer instead of partying since I sprained my ankle leaping onto the court when GT won - what a game!

    Brian
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I read the RPI rankings recently and Illinois played Wake Forest as well as other top 25 top ranked teams and their schedule strength was in the grandstands... I just do not get it.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Illinois 81 Michigan State 68 Final from East Lansing...imageimageimage

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  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll pick a darkhorse....Connecticut. Two-peat. They are just a step or two from putting it all together. Right now they would be a 4 or 5 seed in the tourney, and a team no one would want to meet.

    Boston College is a great choice too. Have to love the pounding in the Big East. Same for Syracuse. I don't see a non-Big East or ACC team taking it all this year.

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  • Louisville!!!image
  • I piked them in the middle of December and I'm sticking with them.

    20-0 after last night's win at Seton Hall !!!!!!

    Go BC !!!!

    Tough one this week in South Bend but keeping my fingers crossed.
    Bill
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  • So all you unconvinced guys still think BC hasn't
    played anyone yet? We beat the 'Cuse with a
    technical in the first half, a technical in the second
    half, and missing our point guard for most of the
    second half. With losses this past week for Wake,
    Kentucky, and Kansas, BC should be #3 in the polls
    later today (highest ranking ever) and should have
    the #1 seed in the East as it stands right now.

    22-1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Bill
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  • Jonesy, I am with you. Go l.ouisville Cardinals !!!!
  • That was a nice call augustaman - BC has had one helluva season so far. They almost knocked my team last year in the tourney and now that these guys are more experienced, they're dangerous. The ACC is going to be ridiculous next year!

    Brian
  • GT will beat Duke later today - I guarantee it - 84-78 GT.

    Brian
  • Brian -
    Tech gets to start their March Madness tournament early.
    A loss this weekend at Miami will prevent the Yellow Jackets
    from getting an NCAA invitation. 6-8 with a game left @ Wake
    will be doomsday. A VERY BIG game for both squads.
    Bill
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  • I agree Bill, after losing to Wake, GT must win today, today's win might still be good enough to push GT, an 8-8 team in the ACC, into the tourney. Some say that that might not be good enough, but we'd also need to win an ACC tourney game. If Maryland beats VT, I'd rather us be 6th instead of 5th (thus cheering for NCST to upset Wake) so we wouldn't have to play the terps after our bye.

    BC's still looking good, although, I'm not sure about them as a number 1 seed. I would welcome an NCAA rematch even though they're better because I just want to see GT in the tourney image

    Brian
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well the 29 game streak came to an end... Ohio State 65 Illinois 64.

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  • It's easy to pick one of a handful of favorites, I'm going to add Gonzaga as my pick for an unlikely champ. They have all the tools to give anyone a good game and could beat anyone on a given night.

    North Carolina, Illinois, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky.....add some more I missed.....shaping up to be a great tournament.
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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As much as I want Illinois to win, there are some darkhorses such as Villanova.

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  • augustamanaugustaman Posts: 584 ✭✭
    Anyone want to take Oakland to win????
    Well, at least to win the play-in game Wednesday?
    Bill
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  • WVU is raising hell in that Big East tourney, but I think Cuse will smoke them tomorrow.

    Brian
  • Mac53Mac53 Posts: 805
    I don't care how down the Big Ten is this year, to only lose one on the road in the Big Ten is magnificent. I know it's tough to win on the road in any conference, but those trips to East Lansing and Madison are killers. There were over 19.000 at the Ohio State game. Think that's any easier than winning anywhere in the ACC? I say Illini.
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  • GT owns UNC in ACC tourney play. 2 weeks ago GT was 80-1 to win the NCAA tourney - they're now 18-1 image

    Brian
  • AkbarCloneAkbarClone Posts: 2,476 ✭✭✭
    UNC vs. Ga. Tech in ACC Tourney.

    Tournament Series Record: 8 games.

    4 wins for UNC
    4 wins for Ga. Tech
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  • << <i>UNC vs. Ga. Tech in ACC Tourney.

    Tournament Series Record: 8 games.

    4 wins for UNC
    4 wins for Ga. Tech >>



    I stand corrected. During the game they said GT was the only team to have a winning record against UNC in the finals and GT beat UNC last year too. I guess all the other games UNC won.

    Brian
  • AkbarCloneAkbarClone Posts: 2,476 ✭✭✭
    Yeah, I'm not sure about what rounds all these games have been played-the 8 games is just the tounament history record. Tech may be the daddy when it comes to the finals of the tournament.

    I'll be pulling for Tech tomorrow. Hopefully the Heels and Jackets can meet one more time this year--maybe the Final Four.
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  • augustamanaugustaman Posts: 584 ✭✭
    Well I just completed my bracket........
    They certainly didn't finish strong but
    hopefully it will give them some motivation.

    I'm sticking with them and got BC upsetting
    the Illini in Chicago.

    Let the MADNESS begin...........
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  • GT will be strong- but not strong enough...

    The Orange will lose to VT (who will win 2 games)

    OK ST will knock off ILL.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I do not see Oklahoma State beating Illinois.

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  • << <i>I do not see Oklahoma State beating Illinois. >>



    So I guess you aren't going to watch this game huh?image
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  • << <i>The Orange will lose to VT (who will win 2 games) >>



    Very nice call! I wish I listened - they made the final four in my bracket image

    Brian
  • thanks- anyone ready for another??

    BC loses today to Wisc-Milw
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  • augustamanaugustaman Posts: 584 ✭✭
    StevenJackson39 -

    NO NO NO NO !!!!!!

    BC will cruise today and then defeat Illinois next week.
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  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭
    BC may win today, but they won't stop the Illini. Despite Illinois playing poorly lately they are still going to win it all. I wouldn't be surprised to see Southern Illinois knock off Oklahoma State either.
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    While I am no expert, I will say this... In the pool I am participating in I have Michigan State beating Syracuse and Wisconsin upsetting Kansas. As for TT beating Gonzaga... I did not see that one coming.

    ILL INI ILL INI GO ILLINI!!!

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  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭
    I wish you would have filled at my brackets coinkat. I hate not even making it through the first weekend before getting eliminated. At least my wife's bracket still has some potential, and to think I made fun of her picks image
  • augusta- its early- but u watching this game?? 30-23 UW-MIL
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