Didnt Bill Walton play for Bradley and then transfered to UCLA? I thought I heard that somewhere. Or maybe he played at Illinois, I cant remember.

Missouri the state is never called Mizzou.

Mizzou is clearly assocciated with the University of Missouri-Columbia.

SMS or NWMSU, or CMSU, never called themselves southwest, northwest, or central mizzou state.

Our latest crop of noobs is going bonkers this year posting nonsense. NTTAWWT.

Another thing to consider is that the Dance is different from the regular season with all the TV timeouts. Royboy used to say he had time to take a nap during tourney games. This hurts a "wear 'em out" team like Kansas was under Roy. Even so, I have a fond memory of the KU-Arkansas gameof the early '80's (I think). The Hogs motto was "40 minutes of hell". KU wore those poor bastards out. Oliver Miller, Arkansas' big center was so gassed he didn't even go down to the defensive end of the court during the final minutes. He just stood under their offensive goal and waited for the play to come back to him. Hilarious. Anyway, that is what KU has over the mid majors. Not only do they have better talent but a lot more of it. You just can't wear a KU team out. But they can certainly wear out a team without depth. Royboy ran you to death while Self beats you up. The results are the same.

Creighton plays Nebraska every year and Iowa St. a lot. But outside of those 2 no one else in the Big 12 wants to play them. :(

KU ought to be able to play them once in a while, they could withstand a loss here and there to an MVC team without being fazed, but for most of the rest of the league, a win wont be rewarded, while a loss could be damaging to recruiting.

If Creighton had Funk, Dotzlier-sp ect. ect. and not been hit hard by injuries all year they'd be running away with the Big 12 not to mention the Mo Valley.

I think so as well. However, UNI wouldn't be far behind...
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As beat up as they are and how many guys are out for the year Altman has probably done his best job of coaching this year. They have no depth left on the bench. It's amazing they've got this far. :eek:

Southern Illinois is the same way I think... I looked at their schedule and they didn't really have any big games before conference, I doubt teams want to play them. They got in the tourney last year, won a game, then gave Oklahoma State all they could handle... Creighton was in it last year and lost on a last second play to an elite 8 West Virginia team.

Then in 2004 Northern Iowa took a Ga. Tech team that made it to the title game down to the wire. 2003 S. Illinois lost to Mizzou by 1 in the tourney... 2002 S. Illinois beat Texas Tech and Georgia, Creighton beat Florida. 2001 Indiana State took out Oklahoma. Really going back and looking at it they've done pretty well in the tourney against the Big XII, against everyone really, better than I'd expected.

Problem is the Mo Valley gets almost no exposure. Hence the Bracket Buster games the past few years. :(

Hell the Creighton game last night didn't start till 11pm. That would have been a good game to see live. The crowd was very loud and more than likely liquored up last night by then. ROFL