It’s hard to believe that 29-1 can feel disappointing, isn’t it?
Rick Morrissey with a tepid recounting of the loss.
Eddy Curry can’t figure out why he’s not playing more. We can’t figure out why he’s not playing better.
Phil Rogers says that managers get the shaft from the Hall of Fame. I just wonder who, he thinks, cares?
Kurt Warner wanted a chance to start. Man, Arizona’s not that bad, are they?
Groucho on the demise…again…of the Cavs.
Yesterday was just ugly. And like the Illini, the Cubs took their first loss. OK, so it wasn’t quite as Earth shaking.
Mariotti puts down the doughnut to tell you that he was right and that Dee and Jack were crying.
LaTroy says he only tells the truth. How about you tell the truth and stop throwing thigh high 0-2 fastballs?
Todd Walker’s not a complete butcher in the field.
Peter Gammons loves the Cardinals! This is good news for everybody else.
Ken Rosenthal with further proof that Roger Clemens is the dumbest man in the world, that the Astros are still in a panicked search for a centerfielder and that Jim Bowden thinks good eyesight is all you need to be a stud.
America’s finest news source with a Kansas City dog who’s afraid he’ll never live up to the dog on the dog food bag.
ESPN and others has been waiting for this for a while. It would not surprise me at all to see NC at #1 today with the Illini falling to say, 3rd, and getting the #2 seed in Albuquerque. Ok maybe they wont fall that far, but I still will be shocked if they’re number 1 today.
Do we get a Cubs Live today at 1:05?
I agree – it just feels like the Illini should have finished the season undefeated – at least I would have felt better about it. And I also agree that it’s hard to believe that a 29-1 season is somewhat depressing. :-/
Since the loss though, I’ve been trying to rationalize how this might, in fact, be good for them (in spite of the fact that I was adamantly opposed to the earlier notion that a loss would be in any way “positive”). Perhaps this will awaken or stir a needed sense of urgency for this team. Maybe they will be reminded of the fact that there is such an infinitesimally small margin for error in the tournament and perhaps they will play every game with an intentional sense of urgency to finish the season with the ultimate prize. They’ve felt the loss and they know how much it sucks. A perfect season is out the window – the only thing that will redeem what has been an otherwise incredible season will be final possession of nets – freshly trimmed from St. Louis.
Let’s hope they dislike the taste of losing so much that they play every game from this point forward with a passionate and single-minded sense of determination to win the grandest prize of all.
Would they have done that even if they had finished the season undefeated? Who knows – but I’m just trying to find something positive about that wretched loss yesterday…
For shits and giggles, check out the windsock from Sunday, http://www.suntimes.com/output/mariotti/cst-spt-jay061.html, and todayhttp://www.suntimes.com/output/mariotti/cst-spt-jay072.html.
He was just noncommital enough on Sunday. But good God, is he a hack.
Actually, it was pretty close to 1-4 going down, as Wake won on a last second shot by Paul. Paul punched a guy in the nuts during the game. Nice.
If the Illini were to lose a game, this is the best possible one for them to lose. To get so close to a perfect season and to want it so badly, only to have it taken from you is devastating. They now know what it is like to want something and have it taken from them. They can be angry. They should be angry. And they should remember this through the tourney (both of them). They should remember that they do not want to feel it again. That alone should be enough for them to get fired up for every single game until the magic 64 are widdled down to two..
Gammons calls Grudz “one of the best second basemen at turning the double play” and The Genius predicts he’ll get “65-85 RBIs.” Are they drunk?
Was that Billy Packer doing the game yesterday? I wanted to catch the first Southwest flight to Columbus to light his scrotum on fire.
It was Rafftery doing the Illinois game, Sloth. They don’t let Packer out of ACC country. Can you imagine Duke-UNC without either Packer or Vitale?
Chris Paul got suspended for one game.
Packer was surprisingly tolerable yesterday (for UNC/Duke)… Pretty sad state of affairs that at this point I’d take the former Wake Forest chip-on-the-shoulder over the caricature of his glass-eyed self that Vitale has become… Honestly, I don’t think Vitale even watches the game he’s broadcasting with his “one good eye” anymore….
Tough break for the Illini… If you don’t like seeing them get slighted by Carolina after one loss —– watch what happens if they don’t resurrect completely in the Big 10 tourney…
I sense this committee is going to stress the last 10 games and the skewed RPI even more than in years past. That’s not to say Illinois doesn’t still get and deserve a #1 seed. But I wouldn’t be making any hotel reservations just yet…
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