Congratulations to the Panthers of UNI!

[gm]

I was going to make this a PM but we might as well discuss it "out in the open" As some of you may know, ChipR is a University of Northern Iowa alumn, and I suspect he's partying his brains out, right about now.

9 seed beats #1 Kansas? Well done, my friend. Very well done. Of course you do realize that everybody's brackets are irreparably screwed up!

[savafan]

I ate my bracket.

[Johnny Footstool]

*fart noise*

[HeatherC1212]

I have it on good authority that he ran around the dining room at BW3s this afternoon at the Redszone gathering when his team won that game. I really wish I had it on video, LOL ;)

Congrats again Chip! :thumbup:

[OnBaseMachine]

Congrats Chip! Hopefully they can knock off Michigan State or Maryland in their next game.

[reds1869]

That was spectacular! Go UNI!

[RichRed]

Congrats to Chip and condolences to Johnny!

[Unassisted]

Biggest basketball news there since landing Eldon Miller (http://articles.latimes.com/1986-02-28/sports/sp-12927_1_northern-iowa). ;)

I wonder who Eldon will be rooting for if UNI ends up playing the #2 seed in that region? :D

[MBZags]

Congrats to UNI and Chip! UNI's win definitely showed that you don't need extreme athleticism to play great team defense. Great win for that program.

[Chip R]

I'm still on Cloud 9. :D

[WVRed]

http://cdn.bleacherreport.com/images_root/images/photos/000/846/779/97904936.jpg.23489_cropped.jpg?1269132167

http://xanthelinnea.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/wolverine.jpg

[IowaRed]

that was an unbelievable 3, not the shot necessarily but taking it rather than pulling it back out to run some clock. My wife is also a UNI grad and called me from Hawaii right after that shot

[cumberlandreds]

that was an unbelievable 3, not the shot necessarily but taking it rather than pulling it back out to run some clock. My wife is also a UNI grad and called me from Hawaii right after that shot

That shot was as Raferty would say "Onions!". What a shot! Congrats Chip. I didn't realize you were a NIU alum. That had to make your day,week and year.

[durl]

So...am I the only one that picked UNI to beat Kansas? :)

[Chip R]

So...am I the only one that picked UNI to beat Kansas? :)

Nope! :D

[UKFlounder]

There was a good article about them in Sports Illustrated a few weeks ago. If you didn't see it, you might want to check si.com for archives.

[Puffy]

I'm still on Cloud 9. :D

You should be - huge win. Congrats :thumbup:

[Chip R]

UNI is getting a new basketball floor. It just happens to be the one they will play on in St. Louis.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/ncaatournament/story/96DEAD1DAC9469DC862576F00011D941?OpenDocument

[redsfan1966]

ChipR---my man, now that my beloved Buckeyes have been eliminated from the tourney, I throw my support totally behind your UNI Purple Panthers! (Why are all teams named Panthers usually purple anyway? :) )

[Chip R]

Uhhhh, thanks? ;) Couldn't quite make it past Sparty but it was a great ride anyway. Oh, and coach Ben Jacobson signed a 10 year deal to stay at UNI. Rumor has it that there is a 7 figure buyout.