Thursday, March 24, 2005

Chicago Regional Semi-Final Recap

(1) Illinois 77 - (12) UW-Milwaukee 63
Just another day at the office for Illinois. They still have not been tested in this tournament and probably have not played their best either. Although, today's performance was much better than their games last week. Dee Brown found his touch again and Williams had a terrific game. If the guard play is this good on Saturday the Illini will have the Allstate arena nets as a souvenier and a trip to St. Louis. Illinois's defense also stepped up as expected and kept UWM under 10 3's and the shooting percentage under 40%. While UWM made a few runs the game was never in doubt. A solid performance for the Illini.

(3) Arizona - (2) Oklahoma St.
Not sure why this game was even close. If you watched this game you would swear that the scorekeeper kept adding points for Oklahoma St. everytime you weren't paying attention. (63% shooting vs 43% shooting in Arizona's favor) +10 rebounding advantage for Arizona as well (+2 on the offensive glass. Oklahoma St. went to sleep midway in the 2nd half. Arizona got easy layup after easy layup. That stretch proved the difference. I still think I am going to wake up tomorrow and see that Arizona actually won by 15.

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