WSU VERSUS NIU PREDICTIONS AND PREGAME DISCUSSIONS

[im4wsu]

Common Opponents:
Drake - WSU by 8 and 34, UNI by 24
ILState - WSU by 8, UNI by 1
BU - WSU by 20, UNI by 11
Loyola - WSU by 14 and 11, UNI by 9
SIU - WSU by 12, UNI by 16 and 7
EU - WSU by 20, UNI lost by 3
MSU - WSU by 23, UNI by 14

Good stuff. I have built some additional information based on your thoughts:

	Points For	Points Against	Percent
WSU - Home	332	247	134.4%
WSU - Away	267	205	130.2%
WSU - 9 games	599	452	132.5%
WSU - Average	66.6	50.2
UNI - Home	182	143	127.3%
UNI - Away	289	249	116.1%
UNI - 8 games	471	392	120.2%
UNI - Average	58.9	49.0

[Dave Stalwart]

This is a public service announcement: When posting about another school, PLEASE get their abbreviation right to help keep yourself from looking like a fool. It's UNI, not NIU. The UNI is in their logo, right there for all to see. Also, don't look dumb and predict a double digit win at Northern Iowa or anything like that. Be smart.

/end rant/

This is going to be a hell of a game.

Just to give you the full story, we say NIU on purpose because it has been mistakenly done in the national media before. There are times during the UNI history where they were kinda good but still mid majorish enough for the national media to not know the difference between UNI and NIU. NIU is the huskies. They are generally good at mid level football but not much of a force in basketball...even more mid majory than UNI.

Which leads me to the next point. UNI fans go absolutely nuts when you confuse the two because they feel like getting called NIU is to not respect them as much as they deserve, being a perpetual lock for the dance in their own minds. In the spirit of good rivalry, we often call them NIU on purpose as a slight. Often times, a UNI poster will find their way to our board and go on a rant about how dumb we are for not even knowing their real name...thereby handing us the goal we were looking for by posting NIU as their name in the first place.

:)

As for the part about a double digit win in Cedar Falls, I'm still going for the same thing. 1. Who are these guys? NIU huskies? ... Okay well 2. We are going to own them by 20 :) bring on the annoyed Panthers in 3. 2. 1....

It's done on purpose, the response is predictable and congratulations.

Before you get frustrated that I said "who are these guys? we will beat them by 20" I will add to the equation that anyone on Shockernet will tell you about how I go on my own rants about how much I love the Valley, respect Jacobsen, wish for strong teams to play high level basketball (just like UNI is this year), and root for this conference all season long. I get made fun of for RPI watching and caring at all when most have moved on that this conference is a dead end. I love rivalries. UNI finally gave me a good game to look forward to this year, so naturally I'm going to roast them prior to the game.

I really hope you didn't actually post on their board. Either way, if you did, I hope it makes them super mad and that they come over here and complain that a bunch of us called them UNI when they are actually NIU. They have a really good baseball team this year right?

[Turd Furgeson]

I guess I struck a nerve at the NIU board. I've seen the light. I didn't know how serous this interweb forum predictioning is! Because of this I'm going to revise my prediction.
WSU 107
NIU 43 points, 46 flops

Now let me run over and apologize to their board and tell them how awesome I think they are and how everyone on this board is just a bunch of doo doo poopie heads!

[Shock Therapy]

We are gonna pound NIU worse than Marshall pounded them in their shitty bowl game last month.

[WuShock16]

We are gonna pound NIU worse than Marshall pounded them in their shitty bowl game last month.

Never mind...

[Shock Therapy]

Ummmm.....

Not even gonna bother to explain it. Read the rest of the thread.

[WuShock16]

Not even gonna bother to explain it. Read the rest of the thread.

Yeah, that's why I said 'never mind." I read some earlier posts and understood where you were going with that. Well played.

[Dave Stalwart]

As a future disclaimer, I would like to add that I sometimes called SWOMO by an incorrect abbreviation, SWD-IIMoStCC. It stands for Southwest, Division-2, Missouri State Community College. It comes from a more accurate evaluation of the university rather than what they have told the MVC they would like to be called, which is SWOMO. You will often see ESPN mistakenly refer to them as MOSU, but they only do that because they don't want to confuse them with a real college like Mississippi State University and the more accurate names don't fit where they are trying to put it on the web page.

[Dave Stalwart]

Also, the mascot of Creighton is actually not a blowjob. They are called the Blue Jays in real life.

[Dave Stalwart]

Did you know that Illinois State is actually called the Redbirds? There are people on this board who are so DUMB, they think Illinois State's mascot is a red turd!

[Dave Stalwart]

Since this thread is about the NIU Huskies, whom we are playing this Saturday I think... I wanted to point out to my fellow Shockernetters that Jordan Threloff, formerly of Illinois State is playing for them now.

[WuShock16]

Also, the mascot of Creighton is actually not a blowjob. They are called the Blue Jays in real life.

No way! To think I have called them sCUm this whole time. Boy, don't I feel foolish!

[im4wsu]

KenPom FanMatch has this game as the third highest Thrill Factor

Rk	Game	Prediction	Time (ET)	Location	Venue	Thrill
1	10 North Carolina at 14 Louisville	Louisville 75-71 (63%)	4:00 PM	Louisville, KY	KFC Yum! Center	75.4
2	11 Oklahoma at 24 Oklahoma St.	Oklahoma St. 66-65 (52%)	8:00 PM	Stillwater, OK	Gallagher Iba Arena	74.2
3	9 Wichita St. at 20 Northern Iowa	Northern Iowa 56-55 (54%)	4:00 PM	Cedar Falls, IA	McLeod Center	71.9
4	19 Xavier at 41 Seton Hall	Seton Hall 72-71 (51%)	12:00 PM	Newark, NJ	Prudential Center	70.3
5	18 Texas at 17 Baylor	Baylor 63-60 (67%)	6:00 PM	Waco, TX	Ferrell Center	66.2
6	6 Wisconsin at 45 Iowa	Wisconsin 69-64 (70%)	12:00 PM	Iowa City, IA	Carver Hawkeye Arena	65.9
7	27 Georgia at 49 South Carolina	South Carolina 65-64 (53%)	4:00 PM	Columbia, SC	Colonial Life Arena	65.5
8	43 Arkansas at 35 Florida	Florida 73-68 (69%)	1:00 PM	Gainesville, FL	Stephen C. O'Connell Center	58.8
9	47 Providence at 40 St. John's	St. John's 69-65 (68%)	12:00 PM	New York, NY	Madison Square Garden	56.8
10	42 TCU at 26 Iowa St.	Iowa St. 74-68 (74%)	2:00 PM	Ames, IA	Hilton Coliseum	56.5

[Dave Stalwart]

Sorry let's try this

WSU 89
NIUatCedarFalls 61

Oh no. Not 28 points! You WOULDN'T!

I should probably point out to the rest of shockernet, that this guys name isn't ACTUALLY Turd. It's just his name on here. It comes from SNL. I just want to make sure there is no confusion.

[Dave Stalwart]

Not sure how I feel about them talking about a court storming with a win. On one hand I feel respect that we're worthy of a court storming. On the other, I'm wondering why a #18 team would rush the court over a #12 team. If they think they should win, which they have a great shot at winning, I think everyone agrees with that, then act like you belong.

They probably got out of bed and rushed the court the Monday they first got ranked. They want to rush the court so bad, I don't think they really even need an opponent.