I agree we schedule too many cupcakes, however, this year our SOS will more than balance out from the 7 games against AP-top 10 teams (as it stands right now).
Yeah if a team goes something like 9-1 in Q1/2 games and 20-1 in Q3/4 that’s gonna look better than a team going 9-15 and 7-0. Kinda a weird example but…
The UIC loss and for some reason the 80-57 loss at Nebraska the following year stick in my mind. The EIU loss, while bad, had a backdrop of optimism from the newly hired Brad Underwood and the recent commitment of a some high school kid name Dosunmu.
Witnessed that in person
but it is, for me, second to this one that was the beginning of the end of Weber in my eyes.
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That's the most dispiriting Illini basketball game I've attended.
The 2015-16 Illini was arguably the most hopeless non-Weber team of the 2000s. With the injuries and decommits of the Groce era, if our AD situation had been stabilized by then Groce probably would have been fired. Alas, we had to deal one more frustrating "almost got there" Groce season.
If I remember correctly, Kris Murray and one of the McCaffreys didn’t play in that game. Granted, you still need to beat a bad EIU team, but…
unfortunately, was in attendance for this awful gameClose, but this one felt even worse for me as it was at Assembly Hall
Penn State 38-33 Illinois (Feb 18, 2009) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Illinois Fighting Illini NCAAM game, final score 38-33, from February 18, 2009 on ESPN.www.espn.com
Just awful basketball.
Close, but this one felt even worse for me as it was at Assembly Hall
Penn State 38-33 Illinois (Feb 18, 2009) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Illinois Fighting Illini NCAAM game, final score 38-33, from February 18, 2009 on ESPN.
Just awful basketball.
We did not get to the line even once that game. 🫤Close, but this one felt even worse for me as it was at Assembly Hall
Penn State 38-33 Illinois (Feb 18, 2009) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Illinois Fighting Illini NCAAM game, final score 38-33, from February 18, 2009 on ESPN.
Just awful basketball.
The really sad thing is that as AWFUL as we were shooting, we actually outshot PSU from the field ... it's just that we shot ZERO free throws.
If you had signed up right before the Ottawa game you could have watched all 4 Big10+ games for 9.99. You can still get 3 games.
We have it and there are many Ilinois sports to watch including some old Illini bball and football along with women sports.
That was a bad Illinois roster.... Jaylon Tate at point guard?
So the quality of BTN+ can definitely be hit or miss. In the early days both audio and video feeds were quite uh, well, we'll go with inconsistent, and the broadcasting was reminiscent of a school public channel. In recent times though, the video quality has become quite good, audio can still be hit or miss, and the broadcasting itself has become much much better. Plus it does give you access to a lot more Illini sporting events like volleyball, women's basketball, soccer, wrestling, gymnastics, etc if that's something that interests you.
To add to what others have already mentioned, the user interface is pretty poor. Clunky. I find it somewhat confusing to navigate but if you are just looking for the latest game, then it should be fine. I think they don't put much work into designing a good interface. I think the keywords for the B1G+ website is that it is "good enough". I think until recently if you didn't finish watching a game and came back to it later it would not remember where you left off and it would go back to the beginning. I am probably wrong but it seemed even last year this is the way it was. I finally figured out how to watch previous games, though. If one uses the Event Calendar (I think that is what it is called), you can just enter a date to get to the game you want. Of course, you have to know what date a particular game was played. I just watched last year's NW game (Feb. 23) this way. You can find the dates easily by going to the FightingIllini.com website and selecting previous seasons (under the Schedule section). I just wonder how far back I can go on B1G+. So for me, that feature is very nice. I can watch older games while waiting for the new ones to appear.
