Uglier Than a Taiwanese Hooker With Leprosy

In not so surprising news, Penn State and Illinois have both been removed from the Big Ten basketball conference and forbidden from ever fielding Division 1 programs again. On the heels of this abortion of a game, it isn't hard to see why.

Honestly, Penn State should be ashamed of itself. Illinois should be really ashamed of itself, and every single person that paid to get into that game should be given a full refund. 38 to 33. Think about that. With under one minute left in a major college basketball game, the score was 34 to 33. Pitt/UConn was 36 to 33 at the half. Most other college games were right in that area. 34 to 33 is a 7th grade girls basketball final score. The ESPN headline for the game was "Battle clutch in powering Penn State past Illinois." Sorry, no one was clutch in this game. The people that sat through this without falling asleep were clutch. Talor Battle had 4 points in the last minute of the game, and that almost DOUBLED his point total for the first 39 minutes. He was the only double digit scorer in the game. He had 11 points. Let me remind you again, these are the best of the best, in terms of high school players. You could put a good high school team out there against a major conference D-1 program and they'd at least get 25 points or so over the course of a game, probably more.

The fact that basketball games like this take place makes me feel bad for all parties involved. If you're Ed DeChellis, can you really walk into the locker room, even though you're 19-8, and say, "Great win guys?" Of course not. What I would say in that situation is, "Enjoy the short flight home, because we're having practice when we get back." I don't care if a win is a win is a win, sometimes a win is a loss. An ugly, awful, aesthetically atrocious LOSS. DeChellis should treat it as such.

He shouldn't be as hard on his team as Bruce Weber is, though. The Fighting Illini didn't attempt a foul shot the entire game. With the way today's games are called, do you have any concept of how difficult a feat that is? That kind of incompetence almost needs to be celebrated. You would think one of these guys would trip over his dick and fall over while shooting to at least get to the stripe once, but no. Not to mention, but ILLINOIS WAS RANKED going into this game. Who the fuck could be rightly placed behind them in the polls after this? A team of blind and deaf midgets? Not sure if they wouldn't give the fightin' shitfuckers a game. I hope this loss drops them from number 16 to number 312, because that's where they belong.

What a fucking disgrace.