TheWatShot

Nope. 7/7

Need to get it down to 10 or less by the half to have a chance.

We're playing hard, we just aren't as talented.

Feels like the UK game a few years ago when they shot free throws and ended up 35/37.

There was an article somewhere after we got Blackmon praising Crean for getting a McDonald's All American for a fourth straight year. The other bluebloods get more than one of those guys…every year. It shows.

I held off on saying this all week, but I think many of our fans greatly underestimated how difficult this game would be. We had a great year, but we just don't get the same caliber of player teams like Kansas and UNC get.

We look terrible. This will be over soon if we don't start hitting shots.

Didn't know it was legal to catch your own pass.

How did Koenig miss that? Notre Dame basically just let him drive uncontested.

Wow.

How does Brown get that wide open?

I don't know about anyone else, but it feels pretty freaking great that we're still playing while UK and Purdue are out.

    Turned it on just in time to see an IU 5 second call. God, I hated that press. 

I'll start by saying that I don't care if the series is renewed or not. We shouldn't be depending on any team to strengthen our non-conference schedule. UK hasn't had any problem getting tough games without us; it irritates me that we can't seem to do the same.      However…if we really want to bring it back, we should just agree to play them in Indy. I know why IU fans don't want that…and I think that's weak sauce. Think of what that says about Calipari and his influence…he's actually managed to convince our fans that a game in our state is a bad idea.      UK is gonna get their 5 star dudes regardless of whether we play them or not. This isn't 1978 where recruits aren't getting to see the game unless it's in front of them. 

It would be hilarious if that caused them to lose someone they were planning on having back next year. 

I guess Illinois is hoping multiple 3 star recruits will take them from 11th in the Big Ten to…10th? 

I'd love to know what the official was thinking when he just watched Hulls' shoulder get blown up. 

I may have to change my username and profile pic...

  CBSsports posted a picture of this after the game. No surprise, a bunch of UK fans were whining about how classless it was for them to post it. 

I'm going to make it a point to bask in this win over the next few days. Two years ago, we had to watch UK go on that stupid run, hitting miracle shot after miracle shot, and last year they almost ran the table. This year? They'll be watching us from home, and we sent them there. And Purdue? Also watching from home, after suffering an epic choke in the first round.      If I get bored sometime this week, I'll figure out how many days it's been since UK beat us. I'd probably get a similar number for the last time Purdue won an NCAA game. Good times…good times. 

It'll probably be closer to 10:30 than 10:00. Games are running much longer than normal in the tournament because of longer timeouts and officials obsessively checking the monitor. 

Are these Pac-12 refs? Might explain some of these calls. The Pac-12 had to get at least one team through the first weekend. 

St. Joe's only passed up about 5 open looks on that shot clock violation. Pitiful. 

Refs are trying to even the foul count. 

This might happen...