Game Thread: Illinois at Ohio State

[Miles Leonard]

Wtf is Coleman arguing? You touched it last.

 

[New Creation]

 

[Ramrod2010]

That feels like that'll do it.

 

[Illini8420]

Yeah that’s it. Game over

 

[NarrowJ]

Just straight getting cooked by the worst team in the league. Not good... not good...

 

[FeelYourPaign]

Glad for that tv timeout, as I need a minute to pull that dagger out of my heart

 

[grantlab]

Welp. The 7 or 8 minutes of effort were nice.

 

[Illiniprime]

Yikes, Mayer lost us the game, gave them all the momentum

 

[Manual3for4peat]

What a disappointment

 

[PrideOfGreenSt]

Today can’t stop Thornton. An average Big Ten guard destroying them.

 

[Illini8420]

Not sure why Harris wasn’t in down the stretch

 

[illinipimp]

Northwestern losing. Win and we are tied for second. Lose and we are tied for 9th.

 

[BBlock24]

Hate to be negative but this team is going to have another early exit in the tourney. Nothing they do shows me that they can make a run and win multiple games in a row against quality opponents. Happy to be proven wrong but .

 

[Miles Leonard]

This is what happens when you repeatedly don't show up to play in the first half.

 

[Ilanoy]

Just shooting right over Epps. He is a liability on defense and offense right now. Rather have Harris for D.

This game seems to be over now.

I can't understand why Underwood is obsessed with playing Epps more than anyone right now.

His effort on D is zero, his offensive skill is very low. Harris at least brings 100% every possession on defense.

Epps should be getting 5-8 mins a game max. Not literally playing every possession.

 

[Flyin' Illini]

Just shooting right over Epps. He is a liability on defense and offense right now. Rather have Harris for D.

This game seems to be over now.

Eh, that was a pretty good defensive effort by Epps. Just a better shot.

 

[D1959]

Not gonna happen today

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Brutal... This is what happens when you make bad decisions and allow a struggling team to get momentum. Just a really rough stretch.

 

[blife]

Well not surprisingly Thorton is having a career day against us.

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Welp. The 7 or 8 minutes of effort were nice.

What could have been with these guys…

 

[Redbull]

Underwood didn’t take that shot.

Didn’t have them focus on 2s either

 

[HailtotheChief]

We need a guard that’s 6 3 ish and 210 that can guard stronger quick guards. We don’t have that on a steady basis.

 

[LvilleILL]

And of course Ohio State decides to show up for the first time in two months against us. That being said, it's our fault for not playing hard in the first half. Regroup and win on Thursday

 

[IlliniForceOne]

Hot take: if we lose to Michigan (possible) and then at Purdue (very likely), are we a bubble team?

Projected as an 8 coming into today and this would be our worst loss of the season.

 

[azillini1]

OSU shooting 52% ... where's the lock down defense?