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    *** Official #23 Tennessee vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    Thanks. I really admire Coach Otzelberger and the way he coaches basketball. He's not just trying to make better basketball players, although he does that very well. He's trying, and succeeding admirably, at making better MEN of his players. That is what is really important! No one is going to...
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    *** Official #23 Tennessee vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    A LOT of teams could say the same thing. BYU is certainly one of them.
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    *** Official #23 Tennessee vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    Ecclesiastes 9:11: "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong...but time and chance happen to them all." That's why they PLAY the games instead of just listening to the pundits. Luck ALWAYS plays a part, sometimes more, sometimes less, but it ALWAYS plays a part. ISU did a good...
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    *** Official #23 Tennessee vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    63 other teams will be thinking exactly the same thing, but most of them won't have the chances to win it that ISU will. Hang on to Coach Otzelberger. As long as he is at ISU, the Cyclones will be serious challengers in the Big XII.
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    *** Official #23 Tennessee vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    Your last sentence is Gospel truth. If you remember Herb Brooks' speech from 1980, I think Tamin Lipsey was born to be a Cyclone and coached by T.J. Otzelberger. You'd be VERY hard put to find a better or more congenial match of talents and attitude. Yes, Cyclone fans should be very grateful for...
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    *** Official #23 Tennessee vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    I disagree. I think he would have played if he could. At some point a healthy but less talented guy like Heise is better than a really talented guy like JJ who has a serious mobility and jumping limitation. Plus, he's already hurt. It's not right to ask him to to take a chance on making a bad...
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    *** Official #23 Tennessee vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    ISU did a good job staying this close. Buchanan was just overmatched on the boards without Jefferson. I'm actually amazed that your team beat Kentucky. It's just damned bad luck that you didn't have JJ because with him I think you might well have won this game tonight. That's just one of the...
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    *** Official #23 Tennessee vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    You guys won't have JJ, but I have faith in T.J., Tamin and the boys. You can DO it! Go Clones!
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    *** Official Kentucky vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    What an absolutely crushing exchange for UK. ISU's defense just strangles opposing offenses.
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    *** Official Kentucky vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    ISU has the best defense in the conference, with Houston being second. Defense wins championships, and no one coaches defense better than T.J. Otzelberger. I keep telling people out here he's the second coming of Bobby Knight, except he doesn't swear as much.
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    *** Official Kentucky vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    I just commented on the BYU board that BYU's PG, Rob Wright, could learn a LOT from Lipsey's game. You wouldn't believe the grief I got for saying that. BYU fans just don't want to look at what is staring them in the face sometimes. I'd take Lipsey over Wright any day because Lipsey isn't just a...
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    *** Official Kentucky vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    If someone came to me and said T.J. is the best basketball coach in America, I wouldn't argue the point.
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    *** Official Kentucky vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    JJ is one heck of a ballplayer. It's hard for me to imagine a situation where ISU would be better without him.
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    *** Official #6 IOWA STATE vs #23 BYU Game(Day) Thread ***

    SG, I wish I had been selling them short. Unfortunately, I had a pretty good handle on them. Bad rebounding, not boxing out, too much iso ball, poor defense except in rare spurts, not playing as a team. I didn't think they would go far in either the Big XII tournament or the Dance, and I was...
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    *** Official Kentucky vs #6 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

    That's a wise sister you've got there. Pay attention to her!