Full Court Press

1. Kansas
2. North Carolina
3. UCLA
4. Tennessee

TENNESSEE WINS IT ALL

BADGERS??? YOU PICKED THE STINKIN BADGERS??
WE DONT PICK NO STINKIN BADGERS AROUND HERE!!!

Roman responds: Around where, Arizona?

I admit, its hard to get excited. I will check out some of it though. I am a big Illinois fan, and we are hurtin bad!

I admit, its hard to get excited. I will check out some of it though. I am a big Illinois fan, and we are hurtin bad!

Hoosiers

being a region rat..I consider myself a Chicagoan...but basketball season?... my no look passes are sick and you can't beat me at horse ..you persons from illi-noise..and so what if my cousins are hot..I saw 'em first

Hoosiers

Roman, of course you and many people are not juiced about the Big Ten Tourney and the NCAA Tourney this year. Overall, the sport of basketball is suffering in the state of Illinois because of bad teams from the Collegiate level and the NBA Bulls. DePaul couldn't even make their own Big East conference tourney and other schools like U of I-Champaign, Illinois St., SIU, NIU, Northwestern, UIC, Loyola... nothing. Not one decent team out of the College and pro ranks. That's the main reason why no one will be juiced about basketball at all until professional superstars or blue chip prospects are signed. The state of Illinois can't even keep their own best high school prospects! Derrick Rose goes to Memphis, Sherron Collins to Kansas for example... even this year's likely Mr. Basketball of Illinois, Michael Dunigan, is enrolling to Oregon! Unbelievable. This is a widespread problem accross the state. I'd like to say perhaps this all goes in cycles, but I just don't see the problem improving anytime soon, not even with the Bulls.

Anytime Gould picks MSU to win anything, it's usually the kiss of death. Love the Spartans, but it looks like Wisconsin.

Oops, sorry, I never answered the actual question. My pick to win the Big Ten Tourney this season: Purdue.

(did I post this..if so, dont post twice)

The original quotation comes from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart. In one of the scenes in the movie a Mexican bandit leader (Gold Hat played by Alfonso Bedoya) is trying to convince Fred C Dobbs (played by Bogart) and company that they are the Federales.

Dobbs: 'If you're the police where are your badges?'
Gold Hat: 'Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!'

Then..

Blazing Saddles (1974) - Memorable quotes
Mexican Bandit: Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.

My personal Fav...

In an episode of the television series The A-Team (c. 1985), Hannibal hatches a plan for the team to dress as cops, but Face observes that they don't have any badges, to which Murdock responds

"Badges? We don't need no steeenking badges!"

But....to bring it all FULL CIRCLE...

In the 1989 "Weird Al" Yankovic film UHF, the host of Raul's Wild Kingdom receives a shipment of badgers in error:

"Badgers? Badgers?!? BADGERS?!? We don't need no stinking BADGERS!!!"

SO....TAKE YOUR PICK...

(not to mention I am an Illini fan, so why would I want Madison to show up Champagne?)

You have such Arizona Envy....

Culzie, dont sleep on Memphis.

Sorry..i didnt mean to make my NCAA picks on a big ten thread.

ooops

Lots of bad teams in the Big 10...none capable of getting to the Final 4.

Is it just me or is Eric Gordon a carbon copy of Raymond McCoy...anybody remember him back in the day. Gordon also has the potential to put on 50 pounds or so.

Hitman I'm also a region rat that just happens to live in NC now and sorry y'all but the "Tar Heels" are taking it all providing they don't have any injuries along the way. If the Bulls can't do anything at least maybe the school that produced the games greatest player can.

Probably needless to say, I pick Michigan State.

Blogger with Overwhelmingly Urgent Comment Leading to Most Likely to Confuse Actual Thread Topic with Nonsensical Ramblings Including, but not Limited to, Random Schools in Conferences Not Called the Big Ten and Weird Al Jankovic.

I come down on the "Don't Care" side of the ledger.

As a Chicagoan, I have no one to cheer for in this tourney.

It's kinda like the Super bowl; although I will admit that the quest for perfection was enough to draw my attention to the game.

But I still had no rooting interest.

New York ended the possibility of any emotional involvement on my part when they beat the Packers.

If Green Bay had been in the Super Bowl, at least then I'd have had someone to root against.

Did anyone else catch ASU getting screwed by that over the back tip dunk to tie the game against USC?

Just watched Marshall beat Washington, and Simeon beat the 'REF' and Champaign Central. GO CHICAGO!

Unfortunately, it's not always talent that prevails in tourneys, but the hot hand and coaching. With that in mind, Purdue pulls the tough trifecta, and beats The Badgers at the line.

Wouldn't be surprised at all if the Illinois game gives the Boilermakers more fits than Wisconsin.

and to Meen ah soooo ta dontyaknow...ehhh, they deserved it tho

Chief Illiniwek slipping all over the ice during intermission of Blackhawks games is funny to me....

Hey...You fired him and he needed a job

quite possibly the worst exhibition of college hoops EVER

Someone please check on Hitman's med levels...

I am sensing cheese slippage from ones cracker!