Friday Night Open Thread

[Toledo Prophet]

Games all over the place. Unwinding after work. Lots of games left. Lots of Bubble discussion.

If anyone wants to rant and rave about games tonight, lets go.

I have the following games on my TVs:
Purdue-Illini
Gtown-WVA
Akron-WMU

Coincidentally, I have money on all of them. Probably be channel surfing a lot.

:0corn

 

[Toledo Prophet]

Until Kansas can shake free from Nebraska, I will settle in and watch. With seemingly every bubble team losing, a win by the Huskers could open the door for them. They're 19-11 and they would not be overmatched by either tamu or ksu tomorrow in the semis.

But beyond that unlikely scenario, just watching the Huskers going toe to toe with a KU team that flat out drilled them twice in January is fun to see. Gotta root for them considering how much they were ridiculed for those results.

Up 16-14 right now at the under 7 in the first half.

 

[Toledo Prophet]

Roy Hibbert is alive and well. About time they made him more of a focal point of the offense.

 

[Toledo Prophet]

Despite being tied at the half with Illinois, I dont think Purdue is in danger of losing this game. Illinois just has not been able to close and/or play a full 40 minutes against of the Big 10 contenders this year. They will go into a another scoring and field goal drought before the game is over. Free throws will thwart their chances. They just wont make the plays. I am not trying to be harsh, but I've watched a lot of the Illini this year and thats just what they do. Its been a everything that can go wrong, will go wrong type of season and that Murphy's Law plays itself out within every game. Mostly, though, they just dont shoot well and in the end Purdue will be steady and Illinois will get stuck on a number for a while. Every Illinois game has been scripted like that all winter long.