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WOW! What a great mother f'ing win!!!!!!!!! Most of us gave the Bucks a small chance to win this game assuming certain things took place. Well, those certain things did happen and we made it happen. Hell.....YES!

I thought coming out of the gates Sam Thompson provided a HUGE spark with his ability to knock down shots. You see that the ability is there....if he would just add the ability to take people to the hole off the dribble and eitehr pull up in the lane or finish he wil be VERY SPECIAL. He will need to be able to do that next year.

Amir....meh. Although he did get two big blocks late in the game which were key.

Kudo's to Ravenal for stepping up as well. Played within himself, rebounded, and got some transition points, follow-up dunks.

Craft and Scott are LETHAL on the court together. I have been harping on seeing them together more all season. They compliment each other so well......they are fun to watch. As i have said before, next year Scott should start at point and Craft at the two guard.

We played the type of game we needed to play to give us a chance to win. Our defense was outstanding and we kept our composure especially after the start that IU had after halftime. We outscored them in transition for the game as well....MASSIVE. I think i saw a stat where it was 14-2 or 16-2 in favor of us (the 2 being Oladipo's dunk in the second half).

All players provided value during the game, even Amir (late). Speical night. Now we need to finish it off and give Illinois some freaking pay back for the debacle earlier in the year.

IU....I hope your senior night was everything you wanted it to be.....suck asses!!!!!

Anyone notice with about 5 minutes left they showed a stat with Thads record with the lead with 5 minutes to go. Something crazy like 225-5 with 96% winning percentage. I know some people have given Thad some shit through the year, but I don't care that is impressive. We all should feel lucky we have 2 great coaches in the big sports.

Yes, both Sam Thompson and Shannon Scott need to develop the ability to take it to the hole and SCORE. With their tremendous athletic ability, it seems impossible that they would have not developed this skills in high school. . .but they didn't. Shannon is getting better but he still sort of veers off at the end of his drive and often just throws up a hope and a prayer type shot.
Having said that, both of these players are showing amazing improvement the last several games and are a large factor in our improvement as a team. Amir Williams is also getting better at catching the ball and fighting to get it in the hoop . . .and he made some strong defensive plays last night. Go Bucks!

The Aaron Craft (Doubters/Haters) have been aweful silent this last week or so, as if they have never existed. Mouth full of crow must do that to you... Get on board and stay there or never call yourself a Buckeye! Not one Hoosier impressed me last night. And it was great to see coach Clappy with less air-time.

I must admit I am shocked as I have been riding this team all year, although I did predict a 12-6 or 13-5 record in conference. Where in the hell has this kind of effort been all year?? Thompson has looked much more comfortable on the offense but still needs to use his leaping talents on the boards. Craft took control of the second half the way you would expect a 3 year leader to do so making some big shots. I'm sure Thomas was overly excited palying in his home state against a rival on senior night with a chance to win and celebate an outright title as he forced some shots and seem to play out of control at times. Ravs needs to play more than softy Williams. He brought some energy and effort last night! Scott was great on D and if he could ever finish around the hoop and not down more than 25% of his outside shots this team could do some damage in the tourny. Smith as usual played another poor game against a good team. It seems he only plays 1 good game out of every 6 or 7. Thaddy actually outcoached Crean. I mean when Yogi takes twice as many shots as Hulls and shoots more than Watford he has nobody to blame.

Would prefer he make them ... but with the way the defense collapses on him it creates offensive putback opportunies for others crashing the boards. Ravenal had 3 dunks off of misses at the front of the rim.

Your surrender is accepted. Have any quiche Lorraine on ya?

Wow, I think Matta has proved he is 1 of the top 3 or 4 coaches in the country. Ravnel played the best game of his career (after the chewing he got last game), Scott has been coached up as well as Ross. How anyone can't call Craft a All American just shows how little they know about this game of BB. He controls the tempo of the game at both ends of the floor and what guard has ever played defense game after game as well. As his offense improves, so will his stock in the NBA draft. One other point, I thought Dan Dakish did a very good unbiased job analyzing the game last nite, had to be tough on him. Awesome game guys..........GOBUCKS!