Illini May Have Clinched NCAA Tourney Spot

March 18, 2010 at 10:00 am | College Basketball, Illinois
By: South Side Sheik

Look Selection Committee! Another away win against a quality opponent!

After hearing for weeks that the Fighting Illini only had to win one more game against a quality opponent to seal their NCAA tournament berth, it’s become a habit of mine to wonder how each successive game impacts their ability to move off the proverbial bubble.  Well surely their convincing 76-66 win over the Stony Brook Seawolves in a raucous Stony Brook Arena would have vaulted them ahead of say Florida or Utah State.

Who cares that Stony Brook’s RPI was a dismal 143? That took guts to get booted out of their own stadium by French Canadian clowns and hit the road as a #1 seed.

Next up on Monday:

Illinois @ Kent State, 22-9, 46 RPI. Must be a Monster Truck Rally at Assembly Hall that day.


Ballhype: hype it up!

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Comment from Paul M. Banks
Time March 18, 2010 at 4:03 pm

excpet Vandy just got upset in the 1st rd. so that quality win doesn’t look so quality

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Time March 18, 2010 at 8:49 pm

I knew we’d win a must-win eventually!

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