Kansas is ranked No. 2. Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Duke round out the top five.
Drive and Dish doesn't expect to see many huge upsets involving top 10 teams in the conference tournaments this week, but we wouldn't be terribly surprised if a highly-seeded team or two gets upset in the Big East Tournament. Pitt and Notre Dame are the obvious favorites, but teams like Louisville, Connecticut, St. John's and West Virginia could be dangerous.
Ohio State is easily the class of the Big Ten. Purdue might be able to give them a scare in the Big Ten tournament, but OSU is the clear favorite.
Kansas is the obvious favorite in the Big 12 tournament. But Texas and Kansas State have the horses to deny Coach Bill Self's Jayhawks access to their presumed throne. It should be noted, however, that Drive and Dish always advises against picking Texas in the post season. We've said it again and again over the years, but Coach Rick Barnes' teams just aren't put together to win championships, despite their ever-impressive scores on the proverbial "eye test."
Finally, we expect North Carolina to beat Duke in the ACC tournament final. North Carolina is a young team that's surging at the right time. They enter the conference tournament with perhaps more momentum than any other team in the country. Although they struggled quite a bit early in the season, Coach Roy Williams' Tar Heels should be seen as a strong Final Four contender again this year.
| AP Top 25 | |||
| RK | TEAM | RECORD | PTS |
| 1 | Ohio State (52) | 29-2 | 1,612 |
| 2 | Kansas (13) | 29-2 | 1,569 |
| 3 | Pittsburgh | 27-4 | 1,493 |
| 4 | Notre Dame | 25-5 | 1,416 |
| 5 | Duke | 27-4 | 1,265 |
| 6 | North Carolina | 24-6 | 1,209 |
| 7 | San Diego State | 29-2 | 1,197 |
| 8 | Brigham Young | 28-3 | 1,187 |
| 9 | Purdue | 25-6 | 1,108 |
| 10 | Texas | 25-6 | 1,081 |
| 11 | Syracuse | 25-6 | 984 |
| 12 | Florida | 24-6 | 931 |
| 13 | Wisconsin | 23-7 | 870 |
| 14 | Louisville | 23-8 | 794 |
| 15 | Kentucky | 22-8 | 639 |
| 16 | Arizona | 25-6 | 562 |
| 17 | St. John's | 20-10 | 462 |
| 18 | Xavier | 24-6 | 437 |
| 19 | Kansas State | 22-9 | 345 |
| 20 | West Virginia | 20-10 | 294 |
| 21 | Connecticut | 21-9 | 281 |
| 22 | Georgetown | 21-9 | 244 |
| 23 | Utah State | 28-3 | 234 |
| 24 | Temple | 24-6 | 209 |
| 25 | Cincinnati | 24-7 | 202 |
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how can u say Kansas didnt' get screwed outta the #1 spot!!!!!!!!!!!!! were easily the best team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
your a total idiot. were gonna walk away with the hole darn thing again this year. just like 2008. winning!!!!
hands down self is the best coach out theere. its not even funny. whos ever been better then self!!!! dean smith??? lol. knight??? lol. k???? lol!!!!!!
self. is. the. best. coach. ever.
rock. chalk. jayhawk.
Dear Readers,
Basketball is a hoot. Can you tell me what a lay-up is please. I want to show our children at recess.
Sincerely,
Sister Therese
Sister t, a layup is when the player with the ball in his hands goes up right under the basket and lays the ball into the hoop. Other then the dunk, its the highest percentage shot in basketball. Its the easiest shot too. But it is a shot my illini can't make to save there lifes. At the end of the day, that's on bruce weber. Fire weber and hire jerrance howard before bradley steals him away.
Dr Rockso don't know n-n-n-nothin bout n-n-n-no layups, baby. But last nite, Dr. Rockso put cocaine up his c-c-c-nose and got laid. C-C-C-That's Rockso's idea of a layup baby!!!!
Still wired from last nite baby! Dr. Rockso's on a sleepless bender.
Oops, what's that white powder Dr. Rockso just dropped on the keyboard of Toki Wartooth's laptop? C-C-C-Looks like it might be cocaaaiiiine. Dr. Rockso gonna have to sniff it to find out.
Hmmm. Smells just like something. Dr. Rockso can't put a finger on it ... what's that smell? Looks like DR. Rockso gonna have to sniff up another rail to get a better...
OOOH.
Guess what, Dr. Rockso knows what it smells like now. It smells just like ... cocaine!
I'm Dr. Rockso, the Rock N' Roll Clown.
I do cocaine.
Cocaine!
Badgers gonna be cuttn down da netz at tha B1G tourney, brah!!!!
gotta go now.....got a bowl to smoke, bro!!!! lol!!!!
Man, I see y'all are back to hatin' on my Heels again. I don't know why y'all said the Heels should be "seen as Final Four contenders." Anybody who doesn't think we're the obvious best team in the country is as blind as Ratface's wife (if she wasn't blind, she never would've married him). We're THE PROHIBITIVE FAVORITE to win the whole gulldarn thing again!
Roy and the boys are gonna be takin' those scissors and snippin' those nets after the NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME in Houston this year like Coach Ratface "Relationships" snips his boys' jewel sacks on their first day of practice as freshmen over at "Princeton wannabe U" in Durham (that's why the Puke boys are always such a bunch of pussies).
Since the economy went bad, I've been putting money away, in case things get rough. Well, they got a little rough last summer, but I found another good gig pretty soon, and was able to keep saving up. Fortunately, I've got enough put away now that I can keep making my mortgage payments for months ......even if things get rough for me again. But I'm so confident that the Heels have another National Championship in the bag again this year that I'm gonna go up to Atlantic City and drop the next 8 months' mortgage payments on the Heels to win it all.
This is a sure thing!!
I can't wait to hit the Franklin St. bars after the Heels win it all again!!
University of North Carolina: NCAA Men's Basketball Champions, 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009 .... and soon-to-be 2011.
Go Heels!!
i'm stoked for today's game against mucking fichigan. Beilien is easily the worst coach in the B1G. i dont know how he keeps his job. good for us that he does tho, cuz my illini are going to send scUM back to that ho Ann Arbor's place with another L. cant wait to take off work at noon, head over to joe's on weed st. and watch us punch our ncaa tourny ticket!!!
booyah!!!
Long live Chief Illiniwek!!!
Chugga Chugga Chugga Chugga CHOO CHOO! You be beein wonderin what that sound been hearin. Chugga Chugga Chugga Chugga CHOO CHOO!! That sound be a comin closer. Uh huh. Uh huh. That sound be passin all them other schools by. That sound be beein them Butler train. That train be rollin into a Championship! Them other students be focusing on them diamond ring them Butler kids be focused on the basketball. Uh huh. Uh huh. We be cuttin down them nets! Teeeeeeeee Heeeeeeeeeeeeee! They be playin them one shinin moment. We be stormin them court and I be findin them Shelley Smith. A smoochin well be. Teeeeeeee Heeeeeeeeeeeeeee! soon. We be cuttin down them nets! I be dustin off them ole tux and we be doin some dancin. TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! wE bE cUtTiN dOwN tHeM nEtS!!!!!
sometime eat lot then expect big poopey. other time poopey get stuck or never fully come out. other time eat little and lots poopey fill toilet bowl.
Pooh McGee big poopey, need T.P. for bunghole.
I am the Great Cornholio!
I need teepee for my bunghole!
Are you threatening me?
My people, we have but one bunghole. We need T.P. Are you threatening me? I have no bunghole. I need teepee for my bunghole.
Bungholio.
dont know what to say. wow......just wow! i think i just threw up in my mouth. i have one question......have we ever finished a freakin game since weber's been here? only game we finished under weber was the arizona game.
we totally screwed the pooch today. hell, we totally screwed the pooch all year. i dont have feeling in my extremeties right now. i'm in a complete state of shock. i'm completely through with weber. we need change. now.
at the end of the day, we've gotta get rid of him now, before he can ruin another group of incoming freshmen next year. fire weber tonight. hire jerrance howard before he leaves to take the bradley job.
long live the chief.
the more i think about it, the more pissed off i get. i cant believe how much this team screwed the pooch this yer. its not just today, its the whole season and all the seasons for the last 5 years. this team crapped down there legs in the 2nd half today. i wouldnt want to be the maintenence guy at conseco who had to mop all the diareah off the court. illini players were shooting it outta there shorts all game long, ecspecially in the 2nd half. ill bet that guy is still busy mopping the court down. wouldnt want to be the team manager who has to wash the uniforms after the game either. mike tisdale's shorts prolly look like somebody stuck an m80 inside a pint of chocolate fudge ice cream and exploded it in his shorts......crapped. down. his. leg. all. game. long.
look, at the end of teh day, it is what it is. we suck. theres really nothing more to say. to be honest, we prolly dont deserve anything better then the NIt, but i still think were a lock to get into the ncaa tournament. but i dont see us getting out of the first round....... no matter who we play.
at the end of the day, this is all on bruce weber. look how far this program has fallen since weber took over. were 5 points away from a national championship in 05, but weber spends the next 5 years pissing down his leg. we were elite from 2000 to 2006. now were totally irrelevent. penn state is better then us at this point. holy carp is this sad.
fire weber today!!!! today. if i see weber coach this team for 1 more game, im gonna start rooting for whoever were playing. its gotten to that point. fire weber and make jerrance howard head coach. and make the move right now. not tomorrow, not later tonight, not in 2 hours, not in 20 minutes. do it rite now. do it before jerrance takes the coaching job at bradley. then get dee brown to quit playing pro over in europe and bring him in as jerrance's top assistant.
at the end of the day this program needs an enema in the worst way. and i need another shot of yaeger in the worst way.
fire weber. hire jerrance and dee. bring back the chief.
oskeewowwow!!!
Long live the Chief.
ive been thinking about it some more. this is totally pathetic. how the hell do we loose to beilein and scUM today? beilen's the worst coach in the B1G not named bill carmody. muckin fichigan is a proverbeal celler dweller bottom feeder. how does weber take a team that was 5 points away from winning a national championship and turn us into the laughingstock of the B1G? really.....im asking a serious question. i seriously want to know how you take an elite program and turn it into a complete joke in 5 years. as a microcosm, just look at today's game. how do we blow an 11 point lead and eventually lose to a bunch of dorky, slow white guys coached by somebody as incompotant and over his head as beelein?
losing to scUM is like losing to an all white high school team from the DuPage valley conference. totally. freakin. unacceptable.
hell, now that you mention it, at this point, i dont know if this team could even beat hinsdale central or downers grove north. were still a lock for the ncaa tournament, but i don't like our chances if we get stuck with a 10 seed. as a 10 seed, we'll face somebody legit, so u can already chalk it up as another L. no way we get outta the 1st round in the tournament. i don't even know weber if could win the high school tournament with this team. on the brite side, at least we wont have to play high school teams in the ncaa tournament, cuz if we had to play a stacked team like simeon or whitney young, we'd get blown out faster then seth green trying to run game on scarlett johansson. :(
at the end of the day, we've got a coach who pisses down his leg in every. single. game. at this point, i'd take anybody over weber. anybody. i'd even rather have charlie sheen coach this team. at least charlie sheen knows something about WINNING!!!!
fire weber. hire jerrance howard befroe he takes the coaching job at bradley. then bring back chief illiniwek.
and bring me another 3 shots of jaeger.
oskeewowow.
long live the Chief.
OMG!!! im so drunkk now i cant stand sttrait. lol. to many yager shots during and after illini game. to many guiness chasers. happy st. pattys day....woooohoooo....!!!!!
im sooo pisssed at weber. i wanna fighht him riihte noww.... if i seee thaattt shiithed im goonna kikck himin hte nuts. fuk u bruce!!! go back to freaakkinnn SIU. good thing im not in indy at the B1G tournnnamenttt cuz id find weeberr and kick his puuuussy asss.s,. holdd me backk fore i knock this fking moroann backk too carbooondale.....ohohhh waiit......ii juss t rembereeddd.....burce weever annd teh nnon fiithhhghting illiniii arent in indy anymmmoere eitherrr. .oolol!!
frukking looosssers.
bite me bruece!
bring b eack athe chhhhhheif.
woooooskewowowo.
long lllive the chefi illinkeewek.
Parlay Larry is gay!
To the poster who calls himself I cant get enuff .......
I'm not gay. I've just been in a little bit of a dry spell with the ladies lately. That's all. OK, maybe 6 years is long for a dry spell. But things will pick up sooner or later. Besides, I've been a little bit short on cash for the last well, 5 or 6 years, thanks to my degenerate gambling problem. So its not like the ladies are beating down my door anyway (or like I could afford to go out with any of them even if they were).
my man dr. rockso - who do you want to win the tournament. i hope your enjoying life and your fav pastime.
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