Illinois 86, Xavier 73 Postgame

[TrueBlueIllini]

Sean burned trying to steal Swain a breather… great move by Brad to ditch the 2 big lineup

 

[HereSoIDontGetFined]

Ernie Johnson: "You watch that team tonight, you'll believe in Illinois."

 

[redwingillini11]

Our best postseason performance since 2005???

 

[Illiniguy13]

How the F was Ben +14

I’ve given up on that metric…hilariously misleading

 

[FoundersClub]

Our best postseason performance since 2005???

Iowa State…

 

[Captain 14]

Imagine if KJ started hitting some 3s again

 

[Illini1429]

Shout out to the Fighting Illini and the Big Ten being undefeated as some in sports media did not give us the love or the league!

 

[Coop70]

So this is now the beginning of the SECOND Big 10 tournament!

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

That three from Riley off that lose ball rebound when everything was going sideways.... just a MONSTER shot.

 

[Illinois_in_MD]

There's nothing like winning in the tourney, even though I'm a nervous wreck unless we're up by 20.

I honestly hadn't realized we were perfect from the line until the announcers mentioned it when Tomi was shooting in the 2nd, and if I'm not mistaken, we didn't miss any after that, did we? What an elite FT shooting performance! Our lead definitely would have been more tenuous if hadn't shot that well from the stripe.

 

[OB positive]

Looks like KJ needed one rebound for triple double.

 

[NASchamp]

Love hearing people come to terms with it (once again)

SEC BIG10

 

[Heisenbobble]

Take the fight to Kentucky and don't play scared like they did against Maryland. Keep cutting and moving on offense. Crash the glass and keep the turnovers down. It'll be a dog fight.

 

[so illini]

The B1G showing up. Undefeated first round.

 

[skyIdub]

I think you have to believe BU now.

Healthy Tomi, healthy Will, a string of full practices together….this team is so versatile.

We did exactly what we had to do. R
Rebound like maniacs and defend the 3 in the half court like we have a pair.

Easy W.

 

[Captain 14]

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There's nothing like winning in the tourney, even though I'm a nervous wreck unless we're up by 20.

I honestly hadn't realized we were perfect from the line until the announcers mentioned it when Tomi was shooting in the 2nd, and if I'm not mistaken, we didn't miss any after that, did we? What an elite FT shooting performance! Our lead definitely would have been more tenuous if hadn't shot that well from the stripe.

18 for 18

 

[jmwillini]

I’ve given up on that metric…hilariously misleading

A lot of analytics are

 

[illini_tommy]

Give Sean a big sloppy kiss for me tonight!!!!!!!!!

 

[kyillinifan]

Great win tonight and on to Sunday.

 

[illini_tommy]

I’ve given up on that metric…hilariously misleading

Morons on this board will use it to !!!! on Ben when they can though

 

[Orangetool]

Feel bad for Ben.

Feel like he will pull through vs. Kentucky

 

[Dan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1903297068829118747

https://twitter.com/x/status/1903297227734261768

 

[HereSoIDontGetFined]

How the F was Ben +14

He's a better defender than Tre.

 

[BatteredWifeSchwartz]

I know he stunk on the stat sheet, but Ben had the best +/- with +18. Clearly was doing something on the defensive end that Tre couldn’t match

 

[WyattEarp]

Someone needs to tell Charles Barkley that Xavier didn’t win.

You might have to wake him up again.