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What can I say? I was bored, and thought I would take the time to do my first game preview! (and, of course, to bash Dwight Howard some more, and talk about how him being in a Bulls uniform would suck!). So, onward with the preview!

The Bulls (37-10) travel to Orlando (29-17) to face the Magic for seemingly, like, the 15th time this year. In all seriousness, although it feels like the Bulls have faced them 15 times, this will be the third, and final battle between these two teams. The Bulls come in with just a one game lead over the ever-loved Miami Heat, which, contrary to belief around here, makes every game important. Grabbing the one seed and home court advantage would be great to have, I don't know why people wouldn't think it is. It doesn't take precedent over health, of course, which reminds me, Derrick Rose will likely not be playing tonight, and Rip Hamilton will be on the sideline as well, but hopefully he's wearing some kind of Lord of the Rings Mithril Armor (hopefully I'm not the only person here that's a LOTR nerd?). Regardless, it's time for WRIGLEY'S KEYS TO THE GAME!

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Now, I know this may be a difficult topic to discuss, for some of us, at least, however, I would like to discuss the Jayhawks chances of winning the Big 12 regular season championship this year. Obviously, it is pretty much down to two teams right now, Kansas, and Texas. The edge clearly belongs to Texas, within record, AND the schedule the rest of the year. 

TEXAS

Texas Teach 

@Oklahoma 

Baylor 

Okie State 

@Nebraska 

Iowa State 

@Colorado 

KState 

@Baylor @Mizzou

KANSAS

@Nebraska

Mizzou

Iowa State

@KState

Colorado

Okie State

@Oklahoma

Texas AM

@Mizzou

Now, there's a couple games that stick out to me. For Texas, at Baylor is a matchup I believe they could lose, because it's not really clear as to how they handle big time scorers, like Dunn. They have had some good games defending on good scorers (the Morri, Denmon, Middleton) and some bad ones (Wanamaker, Walker). Another one that sticks out to me is Colorado. We've all seen what they can do when they get hot, so I know we will all be crossing our fingers for Burks and company to do so in that one. 

Kansas, on the other hand, actually faces a few ranked teams in the final month. They should win all of their home games, even the ones against Mizzou and AM. Easily. However, Nebraska did give us some trouble last month AT HOME. I'm a little worried for tomorrow, and perhaps the KState one. Although, that team turned from a number one seed into an unwatchable train wreck, and it happened, like, overnight. So I think that's a win. Thus leaving me with two worrisome games, at Nebraska, and at Mizzou. I honestly don't think Nebraska has quite enough talent to beat us, even if T2's mind is more on what he will tweet later than it is on the game. But nonetheless, I think the boys will pull out a win. However, at Mizzou is scary. Some people can doubt them as a good team, because they really haven't beaten any ranked teams, so I'm gonna say if we can shut down the perimeter, we're going to win. 

Well, that leaves it at this. Even if the Jayhawks win out, which is possible, but so is them losing an easy one, it will still be difficult to pull out the Big 12 championship, with Texas having a fairly easy schedule the remainder of the year, and, most importantly, having the head to head advantage. So even with a win out, Texas will have to lose two games in order to KU to pull out the championship. Blah. Let's hope for the best. Rock chalk.