Moccia: Salukis could host NIT game
CARBONDALE - Hoping to see its seventh straight NCAA men’s basketball tournament bid, Southern Illinois University is preparing for the next best thing.
Tuesday, the university’s athletic department released ticket prices for a first-round home game in the 71st National Invitational Tournament to season-ticket holders. The first three rounds of the 2008 MasterCard NIT will be held at campus sites, according to the tournament’s official Web site. Further rounds will move to New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
With a 17-14 record and a first-round exit at the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, the Saluki men could be a part of the NIT for the first time since 2000.
SIU’s RPI was listed at 63 Wednesday on RealTimeRPI.com, which was the fourth-highest in the MVC. The Salukis’ strength of schedule was listed as 13th in the nation. The Valley was ranked as the eighth-best league in the country by the Web site. The NCAA Selection Committee may have a hard time taking SIU along with 16th-ranked Drake and 23-9 Illinois State.
Drake won the league’s automatic bid Sunday by winning the MVC Tournament over the Redbirds. Illinois State has an RPI of 36 and was listed as a No. 11 seed on ESPN.com’s Bracketology, a popular guesstimate of the NCAA Tournament.
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According the UN statistics, as of 2005, 40% of China’s population is urban with a -.9% rural growth rate. So in 2008, that’s around 750 million farmers. Rounding up 250 million people seems a mighty big exaggeration to me considering how big even a single million is.And yes, I agree, the Chinese brand of Communism is not so good but right now, with so much modernization going on, the country could use a fairly controlling government to regulate the economy. Eventually the system will have to be overthrown (whether by revolution or by a peaceful stepping down) to ensure equal human rights and a more fair distribution of wealth (odd as that might seem), but not right now. Selfish as the government might be, they are doing a good job of getting China back on its feet after so many years of Western interference, a hell of a lot better than most of the Latin American/African countries are doing with their faux democratic system. In the future maybe something like democracy might be able to take root but, again, after a lot more modernization.Also, I don’t understand the non-sequitur about Ron Paul but you won’t appeal to me with him, I am not a fan.While what China is doing in Tibet isn’t exactly the best thing in the world, there do happen to be other countries out there who have done or are doing worse things (the US comes to mind; so do most European countries). It’s regrettable what’s happening to those people but it’s a simple matter of a stronger nation overpowering a weaker nation, which has happened many times throughout history with a lot more blood and a lot more genocide.And yeah, I’m Chinese too, born in Nanjing but raised in the states. I suppose that might skew my opinions to be more pro-China than most, but hey, everybody’s got opinions. I try to be as big-picture as I possibly can and this is what I see as the big picture.
The US overthrew Saddam because he was opressing a portion of his people. Now the country is unstable.
Opression, or stability. Choose wisely.
That would only cause a huge uproar in China. The government will seize the opportunity and rally the Chinese people against the West in the name of nationalism.I still don’t understand how some people think boycotting the Olympics would be a good idea.
It’s not about the “exchange students”. The Chinese government is scared shitless that the billion farmers they opress ever realise that they’re being fucked by their government and decide to rise up and have themselves a revolution. Those exchange students you speak of are probably the sons and daughters of people who are in bed with the political establishment.
Dont worry one bit. Google will block all offensive content routed to China, same way they currently censor the tiennamen square massace in China off their search. This is only temporary. Soon their ads will be served in China again.Hey Google, remember? “Dont be evil”?
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.I’m in China right now, and it’s not only Youtube that’s blocked. The great firewall is filtering 95% of all the information about Tibet that’s out there. For instance, if I go to nyt.com and click on an article about Tibet, the article is blocked. The internet is running to a crawl right now, because the government is combing through everything. Luckily, economist.com doesn’t have blocked articles, yet.In Chinese news sources, there is word of “minor unrest” from a “handful of troubled hoolagins” in Tibet on maybe the 2nd or 3rd page of the newspaper. People here have zero clue that anything is happening out of the ordinary.And yes, you can use proxies, but when the internet is as slow as it is right now, using proxies is borderline impossible. The only good way to get unfiltered information is through a VPN.
Straw man argument? And a billion farmers is a mighty big exaggeration.Right now, most of those farmers are moving into the cities because the living conditions of the peasant-class (you know, lower than lower-class) are shit. But nobody is going to revolt because people are just going to say “then why don’t you move to the cities?”The only ones who could inspire revolution are the sons and daughters of these “folks who are in bed with that evil evil government” because they will probably have something called an education.Anyways, remember when you were a kid? Did you listen to your parents or did you rebel against them constantly, always striving to do things better than them?