"We got taken out behind the woodshed and whooped," Illini coach Underwood says.
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. — After what was a mostly perfect start full of back-door cuts, 3-pointers and playing perfectly in-sync, No. 13 Illinois watched that version of itself disappear.
The defensive stops vanished into thin air. The turnovers mounted. The 50-50 balls — again — went to the other team. More importantly, what was once an 11-point lead disappeared and No. 19 Rutgers salted away a 91-88 victory on Sunday afternoon at The RAC.
“Life on the road in the Big Ten,” Illinois coach Brad Underwood said. “Quite the learning lesson. We got taken out behind the woodshed and whooped.”
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The beginning of the article above says it all for me......
Mulcahy ? If i say what i feel about him i will surely get another vacation ,so..........
DW is really stroking it great and when him and curbello went out with fouls , our chances went with them....
That 3-2 zone we played had zero of our guys in the paint most of the time ...whats up with that ?
Miller is going to have to figure it out PDQ that what worked in HS isn't gonna work most of the time in the B1G...looks to be a 3-4 yr player to me
3 losses to (now) 3 ranked teams.....all 3 on the road....( 1 neutral court) this does NOT curb my expectations, but we do have work that needs to be done to elevate our play and stop the TO's , silly fouls , etc
Playing Kofi and Giorgi together works somewhat on offense, but defensively hinders our efficiency and rebounding....
I'm waiting on my new samsung 65" QLED 4k Q90T tv to be delivered....hope to have it up and running before next Illini game , with a lot better results.....
GO ILLINI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!