Games of Interest, 12/17

[shaunguth]

2nd, 0:12

70 - illinois state
67 - Central Michigan

[tornado]

only a little over 400 people in attendance...can you imagine?
Even the "closed" BU scrimmage earlier this season for BU had more than 400 people there!!

In just the last 10 seconds, ISU has blown FIVE points of a 6-pt lead!
...now the lead down to just one!

[shaunguth]

2nd, 0:08

70 - illinois state
69 - Central Michigan

isu at the line

[shaunguth]

2nd, 0:08

70 - illinois state
69 - Central Michigan

missed the first ft

[tornado]

CMU will have the ball with 8 seconds and down only 2

[shaunguth]

2nd, 0:08

71 - illinois state
69 - Central Michigan

[shaunguth]

2nd, 0:00.3

71 - illinois state
69 - Central Michigan

isu at the line

[tornado]

Game all but over, 0.3 sec left and Chippewas down 2, ISU shooting T's

[shaunguth]

FINAL

72 - illinois state
69 - Central Michigan

[shaunguth]

Central Michigan must be pretty good to hang with one of the last undefeated teams in the country!

I wonder how many isu fans will come out to watch their 10-0 team against the marquee team on their schedule this weekend. Of course, it might be too cold.....or there might be a high school basketball game......

[tornado]

Had ISU lost, it not only would have been embarrassing (to lose to a 257 RPI team), but also it would have been doubly
embarrassing, as one of the ISU players got "T"'ed up for taunting and CMU shot the technicals.
If you are 10-0, do you really need to taunt and trash-talk a 257 RPI team at the risk of losing the game?

ISU opponents' combined record v. DI....23-58 and not one of their opponents has a win over any team whose RPI is better than 146.
(just for comparison, there were people saying BU's non-conference opponents were on par with the ball played at the "Y", and yet BU's
opponents' record v. DI is 42-35 with 14 wins over teams with RPI's considerably better than the 146.

[RedbirdFan21]

Central Michigan must be pretty good to hang with one of the last undefeated teams in the country!

I wonder how many isu fans will come out to watch their 10-0 team against the marquee team on their schedule this weekend. Of course, it might be too cold.....or there might be a high school basketball game......

I will start the excuses for the attendance now... students are on break... and we are supposed to get a bunch of nasty... real nasty weather... not that it would be a great turnout if the weather is good...

A very ugly win for ISU but I am pretty sure winning ugly is better then losing pretty...

[RedbirdFan21]

Had ISU lost, it not only would have been embarrassing (to lose to a 257 RPI team), but also it would have been doubly
embarrassing, as one of the ISU players got "T"'ed up for taunting and CMU shot the technicals.
If you are 10-0, do you really need to taunt and trash-talk a 257 RPI team at the risk of losing the game?

ISU opponents' combined record v. DI....23-58 and not one of their opponents has a win over any team whose RPI is better than 146.

And we can still say something not may other (if any at all) valley teams can say...NO BAD LOSSES

[Fyrebyrd]

just **** close to miserable losses

[tornado]

I agree....it is better for ISU to win these games, obviously than to lose them, but look how ISU's RPI climbed only from 102 to 96 with this win.