Pregame: Illinois at Indiana, Saturday, February 18th 11:00am CT, ESPN
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PizzaHutParkingLot
- McPherson, KS
Need to emphasize good starts for the rest of the year
Indiana by double digits.
I'd love to be positive but TJD is gonna go for at least 30
We need to win. I live in Indiana.
Well, you were right about Rutgers. So I’m just really going to hope you’re right about this one too…
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Not that confident, but I came away from this one with a “Meh, moving on!” attitude. In other words, the PSU loss isn’t a deal breaker. Play like we did in Iowa City, and we can beat IU.
We HAVE to hit more threes, though. Every good team does, period. It is indeed kind of frustrating that we traded last year’s strengths AND flaws for the opposite combination and couldn’t mesh them together.
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
This season has been so confusing that I'm inclined to believe you.
Rutgers getting beat by double digits by Nebraska.
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No, he can't make a 3 point shot. Maybe 28 points and 15 rebounds.
Is Race playing?
Hopefully we wear the blue jerseys. I’ll see myself out now.
I'll be at the game and hopefully coming out celebrating a W. Contain TJD. Please double him and make them shoot 3's.
Upset alert:
Illini 66
Indiana 64
Upset alert:
Illini 66
Indiana 64
While I do understand the double TJD and let them shoot threes approach, the only issue I see with it is the following:
Galloway: 50% from 3
Kopp: 46% from 3
Bates: 42% from 3
Schifino: 39% from 3
So if we do this, we're just going to have to hope they have a really off shooting night and are missing open threes left, right, and center. Based on that, I do understand the Brad Underwood approach of let TJD beat you, but it's a pick your poison thing. Indiana sadly is probably our worst B10 opponent matchup so to come away with the win, I think we're going to have to play with a lot of effort, make some shots, and have a lot of luck no matter what we do. I agree that doubling TJD is probably our best option, but my gut feel is that if we do that and Indiana makes 5 or 6 wide open threes to start the game our fanbase isn't going to be thrilled either. Just gotta hope Indiana doesn't have the same shooting night PSU just did.
Yeah, it’s weird. With a “dominant” (depending on the game and who you ask) big man and a plethora of high percentage shooters, you’d think IU wouldn’t have 7 losses already. They have the perfect formula to win.
I wonder why they trip up frequently.
is UW recruiting any 3 point shooters?
Probably not a win and TJD will have another career game.
But who knows, maybe this year we will have a run and make it out of the second round now that expectations are low.
But who knows, maybe this year we will have a run and make it out of the second round now that expectations are low.
IU has been without their starting pg since the Kansas game. And Race Thompson went down in the Iowa game. They pretty much have played their conference schedule down 2 starters. Throw in there that Geronimo and Bates have missed time as well. The Hoosiers seem to be injury plagued. I will point out that they don't shoot nearly as good on the road as they do at home regardless.
All that being said the Illini need to win the 3-pt. battle. Hit their FTs. And contain Schifano.
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