Western Illinois beats Wisconsin

[Da Coach]

I am watching the end of Western Illinois at Wisconsin. WIU has hung close with Wisconsin the entire game, and even lead by as many as 8 points inside the last 5 minutes. But Wisconsin came back to tie at 67 in the last minute.
But WIU went ahead on 2 free throws by Garrett Covington with 10 seconds left, and Wisconsin was unable to score again.
Western Illinois beats Wisconsin 69-67. Wow, what an upset for Billy Wright!

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/playbyplay?gameId=400841778

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CONGRATS to Billy Wright & WIU!!

Time for Bo Ryan to hang 'em up

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BTW - watch this video..

https://twitter.com/WIUMensHoops/status/665380559707889665

check out the WIU assistant coach that gets to say "Good game Bo"...

It's ex-Wisconsin Badger Mark Vershaw!!!

http://goleathernecks.com/coaches.aspx?rc=901&path=mbball

[Da Coach]

A few other upsets in buy games from last night in addition to Western Illinois' win at Wisconsin-

Belmont won at Marquette 83-80
North Florida won at Illinois 93-81
Monmouth won at UCLA 84-81
William & Mary won at North Carolina State 85-68
Sacramento State won at Arizona State 66-63

One score that is interesting-
Chicago State beat Illinois Tech 137-59!

And one strange ending- The game between Pittsburgh and Gonzaga was being played in Okinawa, Japan for the US Armed Forces, and it was cancelled at halftime due to slippery conditions on the court.

http://espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=400809202

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..
Monmouth won at UCLA 84-81
William & Mary won at North Carolina State 85-68..

these two are impressive..
VERY hard to win at UCLA and beating NC State by17!!!!!

One other remarkable stat...
Attendance at Pauley Pavilion to watch NATIONALLY RANKED UCLA 6674
Attendance at Carver Arena to watch a Valley 10th pick, Bradley 6553

wow - in a couple more games we'll be pushing Kentucky...

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someone needs to tell the Wisconsin ladies that their men's team LOST last night

https://twitter.com/ZachHeilprin/status/665588744548827136

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also ...when a team like WIU plays their hearts out and wins...
I hate it when the big national gurus can only say...
"Wisconsin lost cuz they played really bad"

when the proper thing to do is give KUDOS to WIU for playing well enough to WIN against a Preseason TOP 20 Big Ten opponent

[Da Coach]

A couple of upsets today, though not as monumental as Western Illinois' win at Wisconsin-
Radford won at Georgetown 82-80 in OT-

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400818726

And Alabama State won at Virginia Tech, 85-82-

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400839161

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Wrightfully so - WIU's Garret Covington is the Summit League Player of the Week!

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And Wisconsin drops from the Top 25 while WIU actually gets 4 votes!

https://twitter.com/WIUMensHoops/status/666357801984372736

[Da Coach]

Western Illinois, who was picked dead last in the Summit League preseason poll, is now 2-0 after a nice blowout home win over UIC, 84-57-

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400843536

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They are actually 3-0, as they won Sunday....and they ought to win their next two games, too.

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....Western Illinois at Wisconsin.
...
Western Illinois beats Wisconsin 69-67. Wow, what an upset for Billy Wright!
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bask...meId=400841778

now Coach Jim Molinari knocks off Wisconsin as well.... 70-58 ...CONGRATS!!!
(technically making Greg Gard 0-1 as a full-time-and-not-interim head coach)

http://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/nebraska-upsets-wisconsin-advances-to-big-ten-quarterfinals/article_b49af40a-e747-11e5-912f-333c6df4f824.html

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Illinois upsets Iowa
Nebraska upsets Wisconsin
..now another upset --
Michigan just beat Indiana...

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.....
ex-Wisconsin Badger Mark Vershaw!!!....

former ISU assistant and WIU assistant Mark Vershaw
has been promoted at University of Virginia...he's been given an additional position to Graduate Asst. now also Assistant Director of Operations

http://www.virginiasports.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/mark_vershaw_931461.html