What were you saving him for? Overtime!?!
Maryland 59, Illinois 58 POSTGAME
ivwilsoniv
- Aurora, IL
Bad shot selection, no ownership of the offense, passiveness instead of aggressiveness. I get that fouls change the strategy, but 2-14 isn't on the refs. That was only a part of it. This team doesn't know how to win and needs to learn fast.
Giorgi shouldn't have taken those shots. He wasn't going to get a call no matter what. I wouldn't call him selfish.
Feliz looked lost the entire 2nd half and shouldn't have been in the game. Period. Go 2 bigs. Foul trouble or not. Why wait until 2.1 seconds left to bring Kofi back in? Underwood seemed amateur tonight
ivwilsoniv
- Aurora, IL
You missed the joke.
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You’ll look at the box score, and almost all the stats will favor the Illini. They just missed FT, made turnovers and gave up a 35-foot 3 pointer at the absolute worst times. 
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I think we proved they are not a top 10 team tonight. This is on us.
Would’ve been a great resume game but alas no. Kofi fouls took us out of our game plan and snail pace 2nd half took us out of any rhythm. Need Ayo to step up in these late game moments esp if he’s first round NBA material. Lots of little things added up to this result. One rebound, one FT, one substitution, one call, etc.
sdfidaho
- Boise, Idaho
Didn't see any of the game, but did listen to much it on the radio.
Obviously choked it away the second half.
But am I missing some big picture here?
Did this team not just go into the undefeated #3 ranked team's house; lead pretty much the entire game; much of which was by double digits?
If I didn't look at this Board, I would assume this team is getting better, but with some work still to do.
Apparently though, this team #%c@'s, Brad Underwood is clueless and there is no reason to watch this team the rest of this season.
Got it!
Obviously choked it away the second half.
But am I missing some big picture here?
Did this team not just go into the undefeated #3 ranked team's house; lead pretty much the entire game; much of which was by double digits?
If I didn't look at this Board, I would assume this team is getting better, but with some work still to do.
Apparently though, this team #%c@'s, Brad Underwood is clueless and there is no reason to watch this team the rest of this season.
Got it!
What were you going to do? Illinois wasn't going to get a call. The refs would have hit him with a magical foul. The only way for Illinois to score was going to be from the guard position.
No...we let Terps back in. Couple of close calls but we had a frickin 15 point lead and gave it away. Refs didnt give this away. Dre is more at fault than refs....and I don t place full blame on him, not the refs.
So sad...and sickening.
Where was Tevian? He lit them up last year and doesn't even get in for two minutes?
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Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. Sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but just so utterly wrong.
Giorgi (and Kofi )have to learn how to kick it out when they are double teamed. So many bad decisions at the end
Deservedly so.
A loss to the #3 team in the country is not bad.
A loss to the #3 team in the country after leading the whole game and giving away the win only one game after coming out and playing uninspired basketball again a mediocre Miami team is very bad.
You’ll look at the box score, and almost all the stats will favor the Illini. They just missed FT, made turnovers and gave up a 35-foot 3 pointer at the absolute worst times.
If our offense doesn't fall apart in the last ten minutes, that long three pointer doesn't matter all that much.
Steelyunk
- Tobacco Road
The last bit... the foul call. They decided it.
SuperMetroid
- Evanston
Hard to believe we have the ball two games in a row with a chance for a walkoff win...and we literally cannot even get a shot off either time.
The game changed with the fouls. You don't run the same sets. You have people playing that in situations you wouldn't normally play them. Yeah, phantom calls are kind of like body blows. They eventually have an affect.
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This is why it’s such a painful loss. Maryland didn’t put together some furious comeback. They just continued playing and we found a way to implode and lose the game ourselves.
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When did Kofi get his 5 foul requiring him to sit out the rest of the game? Errr, wait, he didn't. Stop blaming the refs.
Screwjob. At some point, this team deserves a break. I don’t care if we played badly.
While I agree with you re: not being expected to win, we had a chance for and desperately needed a signature win to keep our tourney hopes alive. I understand why people are upset.