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I'm just saying, you'd think after nine straight years in the tournament the Badgers would've been able to beat more than one higher seed. I'm not buying the hot teams or bad matchups thing.

That they can't beat them? And lately they've been losing to lower seeded teams too. They've beaten a higher seeded team in the tournament once in 9 years.

Yes. The tiebreaker is the record against the top seeded team in the conference. Purdue already lost to Ohio State and a win would make the Badgers 2-0 against Ohio State.

They must get screwed by the commitee then because they don't match up well or run into a hot team every year. The only single digit seeds Ryan has beaten since he became head coach have been St. John's, a 9 seed in his first year and Florida State, a 5 seed a couple years ago. Teams Ryan has beaten in the tournament: 9 seed St. John's, 12 seed Weber State, 13 seed Tulsa, 11 seed Richmond, 11 seed Northern Iowa, 14 seed Bucknell, 10 seed North Carolina State, 15 seed Texas A&M Corpus Christi, 14 seed Cal State Fullerton, 11 seed Kansas State, 5 seed Florida State and 13 seed Wofford. Average seed of those teams is 11.5. Average margin of victory is 8.7. Teams Ryan has lost to in the tournament: 1 seed Maryland, 1 seed Kentucky, 3 seed Pittsburgh, 1 seed North Carolina, 8 seed Arizona, 7 seed UNLV, 10 seed Davidson, 4 seed Xavier and 12 seed Cornell. Average seed of those teams is 5.2. Average margin of defeat is 13. As far as those teams being hot. Look at how far they advanced after they beat Wisconsin. Maryland went on to win the Championship, Kentucky lost in the next round to Marquette, Pittsburgh lost in the next round to Oklahoma State, North Carolina went on to win the Championship, Arizona lost to Villanova in the next round, UNLV lost to Oregon in the next round, Davidson lost to Kansas in the next round, Xavier lost to Pittsburgh in the next round, Cornell lost to Kentucky in the next round. They were clearly going up against great teams in North Carolina and Maryland as they went on to win the championship. It's hard for me to say they don't match up well or ran into a hot team when 7 of the 9 years the team that beat them lost in the next round. It's also hard not to look at how far they've gotten and who they've played when they've gotten to at least the Sweet 16. They got the 12 and 13 seeds to get to the Sweet 16, the 11, 14 and 10 seeds to get the Elite 8 and the 14 and 11 seeds to get to the Sweet 16. Granted, you can only play who wins but the inability of Ryan teams to win in the tournament against better seeds is pretty telling.

His career OPS is barely over .600 in the minors. There is no prospect there, just minor league depth.

Here you go.

John Hammond said on the Pro Hoops Show tonight that the Bucks couldn't match an offer for Ramon Sessions because he was an unrestricted free agent. I have never been as down on the Bucks as I am now.

Anderson De La Rosa FTW!

That's his only chance of being a big league regular imo.

Parra injured.

Prince too.

Brutal start for Yo.

Love the music that leads in to the radio broadcasts. Hollywood Nights. Nice, real nice.

So Salmons, Gooden and Maggette?

I know the first one was a first pitch hit, it also barely snuck through the infield.

Why am I still listening to these guys? Ex-specially. Ugh.

Those two have been brutal all game. Ga-lardo.

Greinke a little shaky in the 1st. 1 hit, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts. Probably threw about 25 pitches. No runs allowed though.

You can listen with an MLB account. You don't need to buy an audio pass.

It's not an arm injury. Joe Strauss says it's just a left hamstring strain.

Now saying it's not serious.

Chris Carpenter injured. Cardinals beat writer says not good.

Umm, Kareem? Allen? Vin Baker was traded for Terrell Brandon who we traded to get Cassell. So we traded Marbury the 4th pick for Allen the 5th pick, drafted Glenn #1 overall and traded a former lottery pick in Baker for Terrell Brandon who we later acquired Cassell for. Cassell/Allen/Robinson were all acquired using lottery picks. Kareem #1 overall pick. We were contenders with Moncrief (5th overall pick), Junior Bridgeman (8th overall pick) and Marques Johnson (3rd overall pick). The only time the Bucks have ever had contending teams is with high draft picks. The problem is Kohl wants to "win now while rebuilding" which leads to a bunch of 30-40 win seasons, not good enough to beat good teams and not bad enough to draft high enough to get star talent. It's amazing how the Bucks decline started when Kohl bought the team.

You might. I'll check today when the game starts.

Team needs more than one lottery pick to fix this mess. At the very least you need one to get a star player and another to clear some contracts.