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Originally Posted by impur

So we don't get an asterix for the UW loss (without our best player and floor leader) but we do get an asterix for the Stanford win? Come on! If your doeling out asterixs at least be consistant!!

Aaron Brooks is a thug, he deserved more. When did I ever put an asterik by the Stanford game?...I just said it doesn't make you the team to beat

Whats your definition of a "pretty" game anyway? Would you call UCLA's loss to stanford pretty or ugly? You keep downplaying the Duck win over stanford as ugly like it doesn't count. Brook didn't play the first what 1 min for violation of team rules, so what he still played most of the game. So if he had started and played 1 more min it would have a different outcome? It doesn't matter if they won by 1 or 100, if the ball hit the rim 200 times then went in or if it was a swish, it still counts. A win is a win no matter how you slice it. A loss is a loss. You can't say this one doesn't count because you thought it was ugly, your argument does not hold water for this reason.

Read my posts for once

And i never once said the Ducks were the best team in the best conference. I guess you should be asking if YOU read MY posts. I said: "They are in first place. Every team in the toughest conf in the country is chasing them." Maybe that is where you are becoming confused. I simply stated they were in first, they are the team to beat. If it was OSU in first i would say the same thing about them.

the first place team (especially early in the season) does not mean they are the team to beat

I still don't agree with the whole history and banner thing. Are the players staring at the banners or the basket during the game? I haven't been to Pauley, maybe the banners hang right by the baskets? Were these kids even born when UCLA was winning those banners? I don't think the media takes anything i say to heart, and I guarantee they aren't considering anything you say either. LA is a media center, and guess what, thats where UCLA plays!!! Of course they hype them, they do the same thing for USC. The media in Eugene hypes the Ducks, the media in Cornvallis hypes OSU. We just don't have 50million ppl to read into that hype.

Look you clerly don't understand. Have you ever played someone/team that has sooo many titles that it just wows you? if so maybe you understand. And the fact about last year's history plays a huge factor because UCLA has shown they can do it, Ben Howland has shown he can do it, Arron Afflalo shows he can do it. Maybe you understand now?

So since Kentucky has always been a national power but are 16-5 and sit 2nd in their conf are they still the team to beat in their conf?? They have banners too, way more than Florida. How about Indiana? They have banners.

No because their current roster hasnt't had much success. (read above^)But I guarantee you teams in the SEC still want to beat UK.


I still don't get why you care so much about the Pac Ten title, lets say you win the rest of your games and UCLA loses another...you win the Pac Ten, so what? UCLA would still likely get the higher seed right or wrong especially if they won the pac ten tourney ( could be like it was with uw and ua two years ago, winner of the pac ten tourney title game gets 1 seed, loser gets 3 essentially regardless of the regular seasno title