Elite Eight Games

[Ramrod2010]

If I was Duke Zion would be taking every shot from here on out.

 

[Deleted member 746317]

Wait...what? January? This belongs in the recruiting thread.

Stiff citation should issue for wanton violation of the thread code ...

 

[illini80]

Izzo may be hated on this board, but he’s a helluva coach.

 

[KrushCow31]

Ouch on that Duke player. Misses the first free throw then tries to miss the second one and makes it. Can't even miss correctly.

 

[Ga65]

Final Four includes BIG, SEC, ACC, and Big12. Seems like a good balance. Especially when it doesn't include Kansas. Duke. NC or Kentucky. Buying recruits doesn't seem like enough.

 

[westcoastillini]

Final Four includes BIG, SEC, ACC, and Big12. Seems like a good balance.

Sans PAC12 or whatever they are called

 

[LBZ]

Happy to see Duke headed home! Good to see the balance of conferences in the final four too.

 

[FeelYourPaign]

That was a great weekend of basketball. Close, high energy games played very well for 40 or 45 minutes.
Don't see how the tournament could provide a better four pack than that.
and as said above, happy about the conference diversity and no blue bloods.

 

[skyIdub]

Mich. St in Final Four+we beat Mich. St.= We are a Final Four caliber team already!

FLAWLESS LOGIC

 

[skyIdub]

I've never disliked Izzo really...gotta respect him....and Mich St. is in the bottom half of the Illini B1G hatred rankings.

 

[Oldhickory]

Izzo proving he's the best in business. No doubt he had far less talent than Duke and still found a way to beat them.

 

[alexander58]

Izzo proving he's the best in business. No doubt he had far less talent than Duke and still found a way to beat them.

Izzo is very good, but they are also blessed with big,talented players. I think where he excels making his leaders better. Winston is a great guy to have lead your team.

 

[logjam]

Kinda

Izzo is very good, but they are also blessed with big,talented players. I think where he excels making his leaders better. Winston is a great guy to have lead your team.

Kinda looked like he lost it in one of the last timeouts,was going at a big, thinking Goins, somebody put their hands in between.

 

[Deleted member 4333]

Satan to the Final Four puts an exclamation point on the worst season ever for Illini fans.

And he's mocking us . . . wearing orange and blue.

 

[Deleted member 29907]

Final Four includes BIG, SEC, ACC, and Big12. Seems like a good balance. Especially when it doesn't include Kansas. Duke. NC or Kentucky. Buying recruits doesn't seem like enough.

The sad part is 3 ACC teams getting 1 seeds.

 

[Deleted member 29907]

Izzo is very good, but they are also blessed with big,talented players. I think where he excels making his leaders better. Winston is a great guy to have lead your team.

Still not sure why coaches didn't follow our lead o Winston. Basically if you keep the ball out of his hands, MSU struggles. Give BU credit for how he planned against MSU. Once the ball left his hands, we killed ourselves to deny him getting it back.

 

[Deleted member 29907]

Izzo proving he's the best in business. No doubt he had far less talent than Duke and still found a way to beat them.

Duke has individual talent, but I think it was Greenberg who made a comment that K is just rolling the ball out there and letting them play - and it really looked evident during this tourney. Their offense was really very talent driven vs team / scheme driven. Stealing from Calipari i guess.

 

[alexander58]

Kinda
Kinda looked like he lost it in one of the last timeouts,was going at a big, thinking Goins, somebody put their hands in between.

I thought that shot was funny. Izzo was going to let one of his players have it, but someone stopped him. It was almost cartoonish.