Lock of the Year tomorrow....I will take any punishment if it loses

Chuck Luck · 03-23-09, 10:38 AM

Rumors have been there for months.

Crowd? There are still tickets available? Do you think that would be the case if this game was in rupp?

On ky here

onthewhat · 03-23-09, 10:39 AM

onthewhat · 03-23-09, 10:41 AM

Originally posted by Chuck Luck

Rumors have been there for months.

Crowd? There are still tickets available? Do you think that would be the case if this game was in rupp?

On ky here

I'm not sure if Kentucky would fill Rupp for a NIT game. Creighton expects a sellout.

One team wants it and is a huge game for them playing a big team, the other team doesn't give a shit and has a lameduck coach.

SamsNCharge99 · 03-23-09, 10:42 AM

Good Luck OTW

onthewhat · 03-23-09, 11:46 AM

Here is a Creighton blog on the importance of tonight's game...which is sold out now.

I have ticket stubs from the NCAA Tournament games in Chicago in March 2002. Numerous reminders from Arch Madness games (and championships). Not to mention stubs from some outrageous concerts and Cubs games. But if I’ve kept any, they are stored away in miscellaneous shoe boxes, sandwiches between yearbooks and old photos of high school proms.

At my work desk, I’ve even got some stuffed into my coffee-mug-turned-pen-holder, which over the past 5 years has been a refuge for random stubs rescued from my pants pockets a few days after the event. A ticket from former Mexican president Vicente Fox’s presentation at the Orpheum in November. A stub from last year’s Van Halen concert at the Qwest Center, a night with some musical legends whose heyday happened during those years of Harstad and Gallagher, too. A ticket from this year’s SIU home game and a stub from last year’s NIT win against Rhode Island, two examples of what can happen when a Jays team plays a full 40 minutes and doesn’t give up. There are a few throw-away stubs from some early games in the 2007-2008 season against the powerhouses Houston Baptist and Savannah State.

But tonight’s ticket might take the cake.

As Piv noted in the World-Herald recently, Kentucky has played one true road game against a team from outside the “power” conferences in the past decade. As Panon pointed out yesterday at the bar, it was probably Memphis.

I’ve been struggling with how to weigh the importance of this game since the final buzzer rang against Bowling Green on Wednesday. And as much as I want to say ‘this is just another game’ or ‘anyone is beatable, we shouldn’t treat this any differently,’ I know it isn’t true. Truth is, this is Kentucky, a school that folks in Omaha could only think of seeing in person if they would have been placed in last year’s 1st and 2nd round games at The Phone Booth with Kansas and Wisconsin.

This is most likely a kind of stub I won’t see again in some time, and others in Omaha apparently feel the same way. There are 500 tickets left as of early Monday morning, and you can bet the ducats will have some added value as the clock creeps closer to 6 p.m. this evening. That’s when the biggest game in the Qwest Center’s relatively short history tips off, on national television, a showcase for Dana Altman’s program to take advantage of.

Whether they will or not is beside the point; all Jays fans have asked for is a shot at home against a team that for good reason would never think of making the trek from BCSLand to our humble home at The Phone Booth. It took some fortuitous bounces of the basketball these past few weeks to make it happen, and while I’m sure the Jays watched the Big Dance this weekend and wondered what might have been, this is the type of game that has eluded the Jays (both in the regular and post seasons) for the past few years.

And I, along with more than 17,000 fans, will have a stub to commemorate it. Win or lose, there’s something special about that.

jmathes · 03-23-09, 11:50 AM

I am gonna have to disagree with you on this one. Not that your wrong I just wouldn't go all in on this game. Since Kentucky hasn't made the NCAA Tourney for the 1st time in 18 years and Gillispie being on the rocks, this will motivate them more than anything. Kentucky is a very talented but young team, which next year will be a force considering their starting five are juniors or younger. This is a big motivation game for Kentucky and Gillespie to prove to everyone they still got game. Creighton may win this but I certainly would not go all in.

Nicky Santoro · 03-23-09, 11:57 AM

Originally posted by fiveteamer

Steve Larmer.

Troy Murray

Originally posted by Shortstop

Al Secord

Doug Wilson

Husker04 · 03-23-09, 12:22 PM

A Warning about the comments in the first post. Attendance, while yes there will be a large attendance in this game, but it is at the Qwest Center. Which does seat about 17k for a basketball game, but if you have ever been to the Qwest Center, which i have, it is not that loud and rarely looks like a packed house because of the way it was designed.

Also - tickets for this game are going for 10 bucks on ticketmaster. So for the statement as the biggest game in Creighton history, that is false. They have had Bracket Buster games in the past that get more attention than this game.

I follow MVC and Big 12 and not going to bet on Creighton. I am taking the ML on Kentucky.

Also - I will also be in attendance at this game as well.

Just my two cents.

jjgold · 03-23-09, 12:26 PM

I like Creighton also I might bet action points also

onthewhat · 03-23-09, 12:29 PM

Kentucky backers....I have seen this team disappoint too many times under Gillispie. What makes you think they are going to come out when the guy has basically already been fired?

fiveteamer · 03-23-09, 12:31 PM

Denis Savard!

daggerkobe · 03-23-09, 12:33 PM

Am on KY big myself.

GL tho.

onthewhat · 03-23-09, 12:34 PM

Would stay off game if you don't like Creighton

Kentucky has let me down too many times this year, will happen again

Shortstop · 03-23-09, 12:43 PM

Mike Bossy

robertg · 03-23-09, 12:54 PM

Originally posted by onthewhat

if i felt so strongly about a game, i would play considerably more than 244 to win 200.

onthewhat · 03-23-09, 12:55 PM

I am a small time bettor, $250 is my biggest bet in a while

fiveteamer · 03-23-09, 12:57 PM

onner are you playing at blackdog?

What book are you playing at?

Nicky Santoro · 03-23-09, 12:57 PM

Originally posted by robertg

if i felt so strongly about a game, i would play considerably more than 244 to win 200.

onner is only pretending to bet 200 on this game cause he wants to remain low key.. i know he's betting 4k on this game.. he is trying to fool you guys by pretending he's small time.

how do you think he lives in that big mansion. it's his house, not his parents. he bought it with gambling money.. onner is a professional gambler...

jackpot269 · 03-23-09, 01:40 PM

GL dude I hope you win, I may put a small amount on it myself.

Husker04 · 03-23-09, 08:15 PM

Originally posted by onthewhat

Swear to god if this dont hit I'm fukkin done gambling

Does this mean you are quitting?

kmarinouofm · 03-23-09, 08:18 PM

took the first half creighton
Then 2nd ken

louisvillekid · 03-23-09, 08:25 PM

fukkin Creighton couldn't hit FT's .

HoulihansTX · 03-24-09, 09:01 AM

OTW everytime you fell like you did about creighton.....Fade yourself. But it was a close game. Kentucky Just had the best player on court.

jackpot269 · 03-24-09, 09:30 AM

If I have only learned one thing in my 20+ years of gambling, ITS- if the fix is not in then its not a lock!!!!!!!!!! NEVER EVER SAY LOCK IT WILL JINX YOUR AZZ ALMOST EVER TIME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reggie Dunlop · 03-24-09, 09:43 AM

Nice lock you idiot.

Mac4Lyfe · 03-24-09, 10:26 AM

TIP: Fade all Lock picks and you will do very well..

onthewhat · 03-24-09, 10:27 AM

shut up u fukkin nit wits, yea i lost, thought i had a solid lean on the game, it was a very odd game...oh well

HoulihansTX · 03-24-09, 10:29 AM

Originally posted by Reggie Dunlop

Nice lock you idiot.

Couldnt have said it better myself. Every time i hear LOCK, i either drop my bet if we chose the same team, or fade. Now thats a LOCK.

G's pks · 03-24-09, 11:37 AM

When I say lock

you say>>.. Dac

Lock......DAC

HoulihansTX · 03-24-09, 11:58 AM

If had a dollar for every LOCK thread on this Forum.....

jmathes · 03-24-09, 12:12 PM

Originally posted by jmathes

I am gonna have to disagree with you on this one. Not that your wrong I just wouldn't go all in on this game. Since Kentucky hasn't made the NCAA Tourney for the 1st time in 18 years and Gillispie being on the rocks, this will motivate them more than anything. Kentucky is a very talented but young team, which next year will be a force considering their starting five are juniors or younger. This is a big motivation game for Kentucky and Gillespie to prove to everyone they still got game. Creighton may win this but I certainly would not go all in.

I hate to be the one that says this but I told you so!!

Check out the thread "40 Picks and 40 Nights." The guy is on fire!!

spongerat · 03-24-09, 01:19 PM

so whats the punishment?

daggerkobe · 03-24-09, 01:23 PM

Come on, this is SBR..... if someone loses a leaving-forever-if-this-all-in-do-not-win they are back the next day with another lock. That's the beauty of SBR.

Shark79 · 03-24-09, 01:41 PM

Come out Come out, wherever you are !!

daggerkobe · 03-24-09, 01:42 PM

Hey Shark!

Nice job in the NBA baby!