Here at Prayers For Blowouts we love to let our members spout off their opinions on anything and everything.

Recently we asked them to tell us their favorite college basketball team, and how far they thought they would go this year.

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Wisconsin Badgers – The media has us #3 in the Big Ten and 20-something nationally which is exactly where Bo Ryan teams like to be. I like our chances to make a run for the B10 title- we’d have to catch some lightning in a bottle to get past the Sweet 16. GO BIG RED!

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My fav college hoops team is the UNC Tarheels, who have already been successfully jinxed by the preseason #1 ranking.  I fully expect them to have a dominant year and easily win twenty, maybe twenty-five, but the odds of a national championship are not in their favor, sadly.  I predict a final four showing, but all the giant killers will be out, and the big trophy will be very hard to obtain.

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Bama.

Slim to None.

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My favorite college team is my alma mater, the Illinois State Redbirds.  Chances on winning the national title?  Less than 0.  But, we have a great chance at winning the ever competitive Missouri Valley Conference and going to the NCAA tournament.  Then at least we have a shot at the title.

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College bball?

Meh.

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My favorite college basketball team is Georgia Tech.  For the third year in a row we’re in “ok, this team is not good, but you should see the recruiting class we have coming in!” mode.  One of these days those great recruits will actually turn into great players, right?  As far as Tech’s chances to win the ACC, since they share the ACC with North Carolina, I call the chances slim and none.  Making the NCAA Tourney this year would be a big accomplishment, much less winning the whole deal.

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Having started college at a Division III school and then eventually graduation from a Division I-A school (that was a big-time commuter college), I feel inadequate answering questions about college basketball, mostly because I only watch the sport (as exciting as it might be) during the month of March.  I can only tolerate so much Dick Vitale.  That being said, my general prediction is this: Tyler Hansborough will go down with a knee injury in January, wrecking UNC’s chances of winning the title, paving the way for the Florida Gators to win the title and once again hold two major college sports titles at the same time.

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Favorite college basketball team is the University of Maryland.
They have little to no shot of winning the ACC much less the NCAA championship. I hope they can just make the ncaa tournament.

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I am a Longhorn fan, all day, everyday, but I don’t keep up with CBB as much as I do CFB.  But I know UT always has a decent BB team and that with Abrams and Atchley as seniors leading the team, they will all play really well together.  I was even surprised when the rankings came out that they were ranked so high.  First big test will come Dec. 4th against a hot UCLA.

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Perhaps you remember a couple of months ago when we mentioned Alex Legion’s mom, the woman who prophesied that her son’s Kentucky Wildcat basketball team would make the final four “providing they play together”?

Well, if you missed it last month, Alex announced he was leaving Kentucky, possibly for Michigan. Then he wasn’t so sure and considered going back to Kentucky. Then his mom wanted him to go to Notre Dame. Then Alex announced he was transferring to Illinois, probably so he could spend hours at a time staring at Bruce Weber’s orange sportcoat.

It’s easy to gloss over the details of this story and assume that Annette Legion is no prophet at all, but if you think about it, The Prophet Legion was actually right all along.

Originally we thought her “providing they play together” comment was a qualifier meant to hedge the bet of her prophecy. But now we see it for what it really was: her subtle way of telling us that Alex wouldn’t be playing with these guys all year, and that as a result, they would not make the Final Four. Of course, if Kentucky does make the Final Four without Alex, well, then we know she’s a fraud.

But at this point, I think she’s pretty safe on that one.

(h/t: Deadspin.com)

Picking up on a story that Deadspin mentioned this week, Annette Legion, the mother of a Kentucky freshman basketball player who claims to be a prophet, is prophesying that the Wildcats will make the Final Four this year “providing they play together.”

If you think she’s making her claim based on what she’s seen in pickup games and unorganized practices, think again. Up until last year she didn’t even know Kentucky had a basketball team.

That’s the sports equivalent of not knowing McDonald’s sells hamburgers.

According to the article, Legion “…also puts “holy oil” in the basketball shoes of her son and his roommate, fellow freshman Patrick Patterson.” Not on the shoes, in the shoes.

While I’m not in a position to confirm or deny her prophetic gift, I can tell you this much: If these kids start getting blisters, the team trainer is going to be knocking down her door. (Then again, if she sees it coming she should be ok.)

(h/t: Deadspin.com)