Great to see Harris and Rodgers in the presser. Rodgers is vocal and will be a leader next year. Harris is quiet, probably a bit shy in front of the camera. He will have more moments in the spotlight. Both have a great attitude and they understand their roles
Illinois 72, Nebraska 56 Postgame
He did. Not sure how many minutes he played overall that half, but he played solid defense in that time and took a really ill-advised three and a drove to the rim putting up a contested jumper if a recall correctly.
InDaAZ
- Eugene, Oregon
Sheās a necessary part of the positive imagery.
Actually, 9 of them came in 47 seconds.
In 19:13 we allowed 10 points. I'll say that again.
If you watched the second half from the 20:00-12:48 mark, and then the final 12:00 of the game, you saw Nebraska score 10 points on 4/20 shooting and 13 TOs.
Our defense is ELITE.
This team wont win any beauty contests, that's for sure. Can't believe how many 3's we shoot and miss. Sitting there at halftime I said that Underwood should tell the guys "No more shots unless you have at least 1 foot in the paint!" It's weird feeling so unsettled after each win. I-L-L!
Just finished watching because, living where I live, no one cares about Husker basketball and I had a work function.
1) Ty is playing with the same insane energy as earlier in the season but controlled. He's reminds me of Lucas Johnson with more athleticism. (
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2) I've been dealing with some serious depression and the flat-footed Coleman bucket made me laugh harder than I have in a month. My God, I love when this game is fun.
3) We're going to beat some poor random team by 40 this month when we have an above average shooting night from 3... Because the volume, good grief.
4) DEFENSE.
5) Another game, like Wiscy, Minnesota before it, where I thought, boy I'm glad we're in this with our defense and realized we were up by 11.
6) we're going to be really good by mid March.
1) Ty is playing with the same insane energy as earlier in the season but controlled. He's reminds me of Lucas Johnson with more athleticism. (
)2) I've been dealing with some serious depression and the flat-footed Coleman bucket made me laugh harder than I have in a month. My God, I love when this game is fun.
3) We're going to beat some poor random team by 40 this month when we have an above average shooting night from 3... Because the volume, good grief.
4) DEFENSE.
5) Another game, like Wiscy, Minnesota before it, where I thought, boy I'm glad we're in this with our defense and realized we were up by 11.
6) we're going to be really good by mid March.
Wasn't a noice win, but we won. Congrats on the play of the freshmen. On to IA City.
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Illinois vs Nebraska - Men's Basketball - 1/31/2023 - Box Score - Big Ten Conference
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We've all been there.
One thing that's amazing in all of this is that remarkably in just 8 games we've gone from 0-3 and last place in the B10 to 2nd place in the B10. What a crazy season...
Our 9 remaining games in the regular season:
5 Tier 1A: @Iowa, @PSU, @Indiana, @OSU, @Purdue
1 Tier 1: vRutgers
2 Tier 2: vNW, vMich
1 Minnesota
Will be one hell of a wild finish
Our 9 remaining games in the regular season:
5 Tier 1A: @Iowa, @PSU, @Indiana, @OSU, @Purdue
1 Tier 1: vRutgers
2 Tier 2: vNW, vMich
1 Minnesota
Will be one hell of a wild finish
With two min. to go, the Hoosiers will be losing at Maryland and the unimaginable has become a fact. The Illini have climbed from last to solo second. But a tough stretch coming, and a win in Iowa City becomes huge to season goals. Will Illini free throw woes, turnovers, bricked threes, and lack of defensive focus once again show their ugly heads and let the Hawkeyes bring gloom and doom to Illini Nation? Or did Sencire and Ty make an impression on their teammates that only all out effort is acceptable? After all, their combined 50% on FTs was a step up. This next one will be a dog fight...as usual.
Donāt look now but we went from last to 2nd place in 3 weeks! I L L
I'm not taking much from that second half defensively. Nebraska was turning it over like a middle school team and not really because of anything we did.
I like trajectory these freshmen are on.
Early season cupcakes they look like world beaters.
Real competition starts and itās flashes of brilliance surrounded by lots of looking lost and overmatched.
As the season progresses the ratio of brilliance to head scratching flips.
Still lots of learning and surely some speed bumps along the way, but, the future looks bright with these three leading the way.
Early season cupcakes they look like world beaters.
Real competition starts and itās flashes of brilliance surrounded by lots of looking lost and overmatched.
As the season progresses the ratio of brilliance to head scratching flips.
Still lots of learning and surely some speed bumps along the way, but, the future looks bright with these three leading the way.
Efficiency Margin update after today's games:
Notes:
- Purdue running away with margin, difference between Purdue and #2 Illinois (.077) is greater the difference between #2 Illinois and #10 Maryland (.075)
- Illinois a neck up in the mess of a middle, thanks to two games against Nebraska.
- Teams 4-8 are basically interchangeable, except for tournament chances Michigan needs to be better than this.
- Maryland has almost made up the ground they lost getting blasted by 35 against Michigan last month.
- Wisconsin is bad and should feel bad.
- Honestly, the conference is starting to look kind of how everyone expected, except with Purdue at the top, Northwestern in the mix, and MSU off the pace.
- Illinois has the best defensive efficiency in the conference now, again thanks to 2 Nebraska games. Offense is basically league average, and if they can pick it up offensively, they can start really making a run here when the schedule toughens up.
Notes:
- Purdue running away with margin, difference between Purdue and #2 Illinois (.077) is greater the difference between #2 Illinois and #10 Maryland (.075)
- Illinois a neck up in the mess of a middle, thanks to two games against Nebraska.
- Teams 4-8 are basically interchangeable, except for tournament chances Michigan needs to be better than this.
- Maryland has almost made up the ground they lost getting blasted by 35 against Michigan last month.
- Wisconsin is bad and should feel bad.
- Honestly, the conference is starting to look kind of how everyone expected, except with Purdue at the top, Northwestern in the mix, and MSU off the pace.
- Illinois has the best defensive efficiency in the conference now, again thanks to 2 Nebraska games. Offense is basically league average, and if they can pick it up offensively, they can start really making a run here when the schedule toughens up.
Rewatching and I gotta say, Nebraska is one of the weirdest rosters ever now. God bless em, I hope they win out, and they play harder than most of the teams Hoiberg has put together but wow. It's like Last Chance U with a B1G budget - I really hope they pull off some crazy upsets the rest of the season and not just selfishly.
The injuries have really not helped their depth.
Also Griesel is quite a bucket but Rodgers wore his @$# out and TJ was crucial in attacking him in the paint and on the glass.
Alot to like in both halves, just not at the same time until mid second half.
Also, Tominaga probably deserves the game ball for talking @$_# on our court with a 2 point lead.
They scored 6 points in the next 12 minutes.
Ok, maybe not win out, as they'd get the conference tournament bid and then the most unlikely national championship in the history of any sport ever.
But close enough.
The injuries have really not helped their depth.
Also Griesel is quite a bucket but Rodgers wore his @$# out and TJ was crucial in attacking him in the paint and on the glass.
Alot to like in both halves, just not at the same time until mid second half.
Also, Tominaga probably deserves the game ball for talking @$_# on our court with a 2 point lead.
They scored 6 points in the next 12 minutes.
Ok, maybe not win out, as they'd get the conference tournament bid and then the most unlikely national championship in the history of any sport ever.
But close enough.
Harris might've had the best per 40 minutes stats tonight of any Illini this season. I'm gonna check in a bit but wow.
Tys tonight are up there too.
This freshmen class is something.
Tys tonight are up there too.
This freshmen class is something.
this...and for all the angst...he's still averaging 10/game and had 10 this game. When you have shannon averaging 17, mayer around 13-15, epps giving us 10, its ok if your energy guy gets 10 if he's doin all the other stuff coleman brings
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
In the last 12 minutes of the game, Nebraska scored 2 field goals. We ended the game on a 24-6 run. Nebraska was bad, but that's atrocious, and there was a reason for it. We are now top 15 in Kenpom defensive efficiency and tops in the conference.
We absolutely hounded them after the two Tominaga threes.
And I don't know what the dynamic in the locker room is but the fact that Underwood could do what he did, and the team responded the way that they did, reinforces to me that he's built something special.
I'm gonna buy the damn ticket at Purdue.
To put Ty and Sencire's performance tonight into perspective, in the 18min that Ty was on the court he contributed offensively on 14% of Illini possessions to the tune of an incredible 1.85 pts per possession! That is the most efficient single game performance for any Illini during B10 play! Sencire Harris in his 14min contributed offensively on 20% of Illni possessions to the tune of 1.22 pts per possession (a very good number in it of itself). Every single other player on the team finished with below 1.00 pts per possesion (below this mark signifies a poor offensive performance/dragging your team down). And when you consider the Illini on the season average 1.11 pts per possession on offense (adjusted for opponent), the fact that we win this game when only two players are having a better than poor offensive performance is remarkable. Really incredible stuff and a well deserved opportunity to sit at the postgame podium.
A few additional analytical points of note/oddities after this game:
-Currently there are 0 players on the Illini roster who are hitting threes at an efficiency rate above our team average. Meaning that technically the average three any of our players take is a poor shot. I'm not sure I've seen that before. So reducing quantity of threes and increasing the shot quality of threes taken is advised for every single player.
-Our Team 3pt percentage is one of the 5 worst in the B10 in the past 5 years and one of the 10 worst in the B10 in the past 10 years
-Over the past 2 seasons, Kenpom has us having the worst home court advantage of any team in the B10. Rutgers and Iowa have the best.
-Over the past 2 seasons, only Northwestern and MSU have a worse home foul call to road foul call disparity than us, so for the conspiracy theorists thinking we've been screwed hard by refs on the road and still screwed at home, there actually is some statistical credence to that, haha. Maryland, Rutgers, Iowa, and Wisconsin all have Top 30 in the nation home cooking during that time
-We have the best 2pt shooting percentage offense in the B10 and the worst 3pt shooting percentage offense in the B10. Hilariously, OSU has the worst 2pt shooting percentage offense in the B10 and the best 3pt shooting percentage offense in the B10. The last time either of those happened? 2008. And it was the only time in the past 25years.
-Currently there are 0 players on the Illini roster who are hitting threes at an efficiency rate above our team average. Meaning that technically the average three any of our players take is a poor shot. I'm not sure I've seen that before. So reducing quantity of threes and increasing the shot quality of threes taken is advised for every single player.
-Our Team 3pt percentage is one of the 5 worst in the B10 in the past 5 years and one of the 10 worst in the B10 in the past 10 years
-Over the past 2 seasons, Kenpom has us having the worst home court advantage of any team in the B10. Rutgers and Iowa have the best.
-Over the past 2 seasons, only Northwestern and MSU have a worse home foul call to road foul call disparity than us, so for the conspiracy theorists thinking we've been screwed hard by refs on the road and still screwed at home, there actually is some statistical credence to that, haha. Maryland, Rutgers, Iowa, and Wisconsin all have Top 30 in the nation home cooking during that time
-We have the best 2pt shooting percentage offense in the B10 and the worst 3pt shooting percentage offense in the B10. Hilariously, OSU has the worst 2pt shooting percentage offense in the B10 and the best 3pt shooting percentage offense in the B10. The last time either of those happened? 2008. And it was the only time in the past 25years.
Just watched the game off DVR after getting home from work. I didn't read through the game thread so I'm not sure if anyone else noticed. But, early in the 2nd half, Nebraska threw the ball out of bounds and on the subsequent possession, we had a shot clock violation. In real time I kinda thought that it was a quick shot clock so I rewinded it. When the possession changed the shot clock changed to 30. Then before we took the ball out, it changed to 20. Guess I was surprised none of our coaches noticed and said anything
