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[QUOTE="tzznandrew, post: 4937664, member: 168"]
I mean, the only reason you and I are engaging on this is because you jumped in. I really was never directing this at you. You've always been (what I consider to be) appropriately confident in this team.

We don't need to get in a measuring contest here. The committee did a bad job elsewhere, but Illinois is in no way underseeded. There's no logical argument for them to be on the 2 line. The B1G had two teams that were very good: them and Purdue. They never beat Purdue. They lost their two big OOC games to Marquette and Tennessee, both on the 2 line. They were seeded correctly.

I stand by my take on Iowa State. They were seeded correctly but weren't as good as their predictive metrics. They would have been absolutely blown out by Illinois if they shot well from the FT line and Illinois had some discipline. We'd have beaten them by 15+ At this point, my position is clear enough (and intentionally bombastic enough) to let that be after this.

Cheers.
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