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    ESPN is a joke

    This morning on gameday Digger Phelps and Jay Bilas (supposedly top analysts for ESPN) were comparing resumes for teams and they had to make a choice between the two. They showed on the screen the 3 best wins for each team and their record vs top 50 RPI.
    #37 Bradley:#21 UNI, #25 MSU, #36 Creighton... 6-5 vs top 50
    #49 Seton Hall: #16 Pitt, #22 W. Virginia, #29 NCST... 5-4 vs top 50
    Pick- Digger: Seton Hall Jay: Seton Hall

    This one is actually pretty close, but is anyone surprised at the picks?

    #21 UNI: #7 LSU, #13 Iowa, #47 Bucknell.... 8-6 vs top 50
    (appparently none of their MVC wins were good enough to be included)
    #31 Kentucky: #6 Tenn, #22 W. Virginia, #50 Arkansas... 3-8 vs top 50
    Pick- Diggger: Kentucky Jay: Kentucky

    GET A CLUE!!! I have officially given up on the credibility of the 4-letter network and their Major Conference Bias. Whatever... we should be used to this by now. The only opinions that matter are those of the committee 2 weeks from now. By the way, it should be noted to these analysts that Kentucky couldn't beat Iowa or LSU.
    GO Panthers!! Go MVC!!!
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    If they wanted to be fair, compare wins in non-conference or compare wins in-conference, or compare the top 3 wins period...don't exclude UNI's conference wins. What's that you say? UNI has 6 top 25 wins? Thank you sir...may I please have another?!
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      I saw that also, I can't wait for UNI to get to the sweet 16 just so I can laugh at these so called experts!!! Sounded like that Panthers finally got their act together in the second half yesterday...hope that kind of play carries over for the rest of the weekend. GO PANTHERS!!!!!!!!!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by unidizzle
        #21 UNI: #7 LSU, #13 Iowa, #47 Bucknell.... 8-6 vs top 50
        (appparently none of their MVC wins were good enough to be included)
        #31 Kentucky: #6 Tenn, #22 W. Virginia, #50 Arkansas... 3-8 vs top 50
        Pick- Diggger: Kentucky Jay: Kentucky
        i was also watching....didn't they both say, "this really doesn't matter because both UNI and Kentucky are going to get in....." ????

        sorry, but with more exposure (which ESPN has given to UNI in the form of 5 games on their stations) the panthers are then more open to criticism and debate.....which as we all know is never going to be "fair"......i just went to espn.com and see that Arch Madness is the top story and its 2 hours away from the first game of the day in the valley while Illinois is playing Michigan State right now, among other games.......pub for the valley helps out UNI as we all know....

        sorry, in my mind they are doing as good a job as they can and so are the panthers......just one man's opinion

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        • #5
          Originally posted by B.True
          i was also watching....didn't they both say, "this really doesn't matter because both UNI and Kentucky are going to get in....." ????

          sorry, but with more exposure (which ESPN has given to UNI in the form of 5 games on their stations) the panthers are then more open to criticism and debate.....which as we all know is never going to be "fair"......i just went to espn.com and see that Arch Madness is the top story and its 2 hours away from the first game of the day in the valley while Illinois is playing Michigan State right now, among other games.......pub for the valley helps out UNI as we all know....

          sorry, in my mind they are doing as good a job as they can and so are the panthers......just one man's opinion
          I suppose this is true. UNI's getting a lot of publicity, and has all season (more than Iowa as far as being discussed by the talking heads), just not always having commentators say what we want. That being said, is it too much to expect the "experts" to get their facts right?
          "Lot of people talked about Ohio State or Georgetown or Michigan State or whoever, [or] Maryland in our bracket. When the brackets came out, the first team I looked at was Northern Iowa," Kansas Coach Bill Self.

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