[jetpilot]

UK ain't beating Illinois. Xavier is a coin toss.

They're starting to pull away from Xavier. Kentucky has something that Xavier doesn't in Amari Williams, but worried that they're going to be able to pull him so far out onto the floor and away from the rim that it probably isn't going to matter.

Illinois looks pretty good. I took them to beat Tennessee and come out of the bottom of the bracket before losing to Houston.

This would have been a really fun game if Robinson were healthy and both teams were playing well.

Think I'd said this before, but I was really impressed with Illinois when I saw them earlier this year; they've had some injuries and I just saw them three or four times, but the team I saw definitely didn't match their record to end the season.


Agree on Xavier being a toss-up. They don't have any of the best of the best, but the Big East might be the best pound-for-pound conference.

They had a lot of injuries but they are playing great and Milwaukee is a de facto home game for them.