Illinois 73, Syracuse 44 Postgame

[Dan]

 

[BretMyBeachHouse]

Boeheim Steamrolled

 

[The Galloping Ghost]

This game was invaluable. Seeing and working through the zone will come up big for us later in the season. Yeah, it wasn’t always pretty, but it was worth it. Oh, and our defense was fantastic.

 

[Epsilon]

Big ten to Boeheim.

 

[altgeld88]

I can hear their lamentations as they slink to the AH visitors' locker room.

 

[21ChampaignSt]

Couldn't hit the ugly side of a Hoosier and still won by 30.

 

[foby]

Coleman Hawkins.

 

[InDaAZ]

 

[grantlab]

What happens in the game thread stays in the game thread. Great 29 point win! I don’t wanna hear a peep outta Boeheim about the Big Ten ever again. Congrats CoHawk!

 

[En Fuego]

 

[B-ILL]

The Athletic Department can save some material costs on future renovations if they just collect all the bricks those two teams laid tonight.

 

[Illini8420]

This is the Coleman Hawkins game

 

[Dan]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1597781747844124672

 

[frozenrope9190]

Never in doubt.

Yikes.

 

[BlindLoyalty]

Fun. Boeheim is going to leave that program a smoking crater. You love to see it. Get off my lawn!

 

[jumpingjack]

Couldn't hit the ugly side of a Hoosier and still won by 30.

That's both sides but point taken

 

[InDaAZ]

I can hear their lamentations as they *slink to the AH visitors' locker room.

*Slither in Boeheim’s case…

 

[Miles Leonard]

A sure ugly win turned into a pretty one late. Loved our execution down the stretch.

Congrats, Hawkins. You were more aggressive in the 2nd half. That's the guy we want to see every game.

 

[kyillinifan]

Great win. Hawk was amazing.

 

[GrayGhost77]

If we could shoot and hit FTs tonight we'd have won by at least 50.

 

[The Galloping Ghost]

Really hope Sencire is okay and just kept out for precautionary reasons. If not, get well soon, buddy. We need your energy off the bench.

 

[chiefini]

Looks like no love lost between Brad and Boeheim in the handshake line. So glad the Illini shut that jerk up! -L-L

 

[Orangetool]

Go Hawk.

Shannon was a spark early.
RJ coming through again.
Good win.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

This game was invaluable. Seeing and working through the zone will come up big for us later in the season. Yeah, it wasn’t always pretty, but it was worth it. Oh, and our defense was fantastic.

100% agreed. You need your players to know how to beat a zone, and for such a young team to learn just that and start putting it into motion to blow the doors off is a thing of beauty. Really quality win tonight, not for the team we beat but for what we learned from this. Really glad this was our ACC-B10 opponent this year as this game may prove invaluable to us in the tourney.

 

[blife]

That second half was very nice