Nebraska 80, Illinois 74 OT Postgame

[pweo]

This might be the one that kills my optimism.

 

[NorthShoreIllini]

Underwood is a complete and total joke as a head coach. That end of game sequence was an absolute embarrassment, yet again. Taking out DGL putting in Ben and then letting Ben start OT was bush league.

 

[Trueblue777]

All the talk about KJ being one and done better come to an abrupt halt. He needs another year as he is a turnover machine at this time

 

[Ty’s jump shot]

I feel bad for the Oregon and UCLA fans that had to watch that.

 

[The Galloping Ghost]

At a certain point, the rotation needs to be a meritocracy. When Ben is bad, he's an albatross. If it's not his night, take him out and play the hot hand. It's not that hard.

 

[racinghoss]

We can do one thing well, at times, e.g. 3 pt shooting or rebounding...but we have very seldom done more than one thing at a time well. Tonight included.

I'll watch every minute of every game this year, wearing orange oskee wow wow gear...but ive lost faith in a deep run

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Awful offense in OT... bad threes, bad shot selection... horrible execution throughout.

 

[aveseaboy]

We have something in DGL....... All i can say about tonight. Dude had me thinking of Trent watching him play, no need to sub him out when he was having his coming out party

After tonight I wouldn’t blame him if he left next year

 

[IllinistrandedinHouston]

I do wonder what is the opposite of momentum. That is what we got.

 

[americanoutlaw11]

Glad we played to our strengths and made pretty awesome use of that last timeout to set us up to have to inbound the ball 4 straight times.

 

[Illini John]

Back in mid-November, the sports gurus kept saying that Illinois would be a different team by late January. Boy were they right!

 

[blackdog]

Without Tomi, KJ is a good player, but that's about the extent. He's phenomenal with the two man game, but without it, he's just a terrible decision maker. The turnovers......good God.

His decision making is phenomenal, his ball handling is the problem. Multiple times he just lost the ball on the dribble.

 

[Nuke Dukem]

Out played. Out coached. Why? Why ?Why?!?! sub out DGL for BH at the end of regulation? I really want to know the thought process.

 

[spillini]

We haven't ran an offense all year

A certain kind of “flow”

 

[IlliniCC16]

April’s not gonna be happy after this one…

 

[FloridaMan]

It's absolutely hilarious BU is relying on a DIII player to carry this team. Like, wtf, man. Everybody can see it but the staff?

 

[lblesy]

2023

Nah. This team’s ceiling is sooooo much higher

 

[Jersten]

Is Brad from the Mike Tomlin coaching tree

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

More horrific end of game execution in regulation. Coaching leaving A LOT to be desired.

Outside of DGL.....not one player and not one coach is clean in this. They all played a part in ANOTHER terrible loss.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Just laughable. Not much else to say.

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

If Brad would just own it … I wouldn’t be as upset honestly …

Screwed up in recruiting … Should’ve fired Hamer a while ago … Gave Tyler too much responsibility …

Just own it …

 

[SkyysNotFalling]

Took a 2 game and week hiatus from the board just to say that this team SUCKS.

Ben Humbrickhouse is sooooo bad.

Embarrassment

 

[GrayGhost77]

The current ROI on Ben is -1000%

He's just not a high D1 player.

 

[LurkerintheOpen]

Where have all the every day guys gone? Program feels complacent. Culture starting to show warts…

 

[JFGsCoffeeMug]

For a team that is supposedly full of shooters, we're not very good at making shots.