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is not the best team in the conference imo. Sorry Sawyer. Illinois has absolutely no offensive scheme whatsoever and they came roaring back. Lots of one man basketball by both teams.

Baylor or Kansas will win it this year.
 
They came roaring back because Mizzou decided to quit playing for about 10 minutes in the second half.

Baylor nearly lost to an unranked BYU team after trailing for half the game. kansas lost to Davidson in a virtual home game. Mizzou had its way with a top 25 Illinois team for most of the game and finished with a win.

How you can look at Mizzou's worst performance of the season and make a prediction like yours when both Baylor and kansas have had worse games is beyond me.
 
Sawyer said:
They came roaring back because Mizzou decided to quit playing for about 10 minutes in the second half.

Baylor nearly lost to an unranked BYU team after trailing for half the game. kansas lost to Davidson in a virtual home game. Mizzou had its way with a top 25 Illinois team for most of the game and finished with a win.

How you can look at Mizzou's worst performance of the season and make a prediction like yours when both Baylor and kansas have had worse games is beyond me.
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Why would Mizzou decide to quit playing for 10 minutes against a rival? Illinois is not a good team. Did you watch the game? No offense whatsoever and Weber sucks and has sucked for a long time. The offensive sets they were running were pitiful.

Where are you going to hangout next year? I hear there is a good Alabama site...
 
BigTime said:
Why would Mizzou decide to quit playing for 10 minutes against a rival? Illinois is not a good team.
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You answered your own questions.

Mizzou let up because they knew Illinois couldn't hang with them. Lots of teams do it. The thing about Illinois, though, is that they actually do have quite a bit of talent. Of the ten guys they played, eight were top 150 recruits (and another was a pretty good three-year starter at the mid-major level). They played three top 40 recruits for most of the game, and two other top 50 freshmen haven't even cracked the rotation yet. Whether or not they're a good team, they do have plenty of individual talent. And when you quit playing against a team like that, they can get back into a game.

And let's not act like Bruce Weber is some kind of coaching idiot, either. Yes, he did it with Bill Self's players, but this guy did play for a national title. He had been a successful mid-major coach before that.

Regardless of whatever flaws Illinois has, I don't think BYU or Davidson are better teams.

I'm not saying MU will win anything based off tonight's game... just that you can't do the opposite, either. Mizzou did not play well, but they're not the only ones who have had games like this. The two teams you put above Mizzou have had arguably worse performances against lesser competition.
 
It would be fun to enforce a twitteresque 140 character limit on sawyer's posts and watch his head explode.
 
200 words too long for you?

It's hardly being a homer to suggest kansas' loss to Davidson is more revealing than MU's win over a top 25 Illinois team.
 
Sawyer said:
200 words too long for you?

It's hardly being a homer to suggest kansas' loss to Davidson is more revealing than MU's win over a top 25 Illinois team.
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Check your other 1400 plus posts on an OU basketball messageboard if you need proof. It would be different if you were a gracious guest on here (ala several other regular posters that cheer for other teams), but you come off as pompous jackalope.
 
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Sawyer's ok in my book, and I don't hate Mizzou, but he seems weirdly defensive lately.
 
Interesting.

I responded directly, factually and (in my mind) objectively to specific points you made about Mizzou. The response? Ignore the actual content of my posts, poke fun at the length and call me a homer. That's been the standard pretty much since day one of my posting here. And I'm the A-hole...

I've been complimentary of Kruger's team all season, and I've never been more negative than OU on here than the average OU fan.
 
Tony said:
Sawyer's ok in my book, and I don't hate Mizzou, but he seems weirdly defensive lately.
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He was offensive for a while, getting in out-of-the-blue digs at OU, and now he's being defensive.

It happens with most opposing fans here. We like to think this is some sort of college hoops utopia, but true colors are eventually revealed.
 
I'm with Sawyer on this. Kansas lost to an unranked team, Baylor struggled against an unranked BYU, and Missouri beat a ranked team. Now Illinois did come roaring back, but Mizzou was able to get a win against a ranked opponent.

If OU had beat Illinois in the same fashion at the LNC no one here would be saying that Illinois is a horrible team.
 
FWIW, before today's games OU and Illinois were 54/55 in the Pomroy rankings.
 
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