Illinois 88, Ohio State 80 Postgame

[FloridaMan]

Hell of a win in the face of an unconscious effort by Thornton in the 1st half and Pathetic - that's with a capital P - officiating.

Wagler is the real deal. Dude was such a great find by this staff! Along with Mirk!

We are gaining "toughness" and learning how to win. Whenever OSU got the score close we didn't panic and pushed it back out. Another Quad 1 win! Let's keep it going Saturday!

 

[Calvin]

Grind on the road...and a W

 

[Jplatt06]

I don’t think I have ever seen that awful of officiating in my entire life.

 

[ginabackes00]

Never felt like we were going to lose. A lot of poise shown by several players. But Wagler...that kid is ice

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Wagler just as, if not better than advertised.

 

[Butters]

How about them freshman!?

 

[sacraig]

Keaton just played 39 minutes in his first-ever conference game and led the team in points with 23 (on 6-11 shooting) and assists with 5. His maturity and feel for the game are off the charts.

I think the crazy thing about it is he's not even very flashy. He just kind of calmly and quietly cleans house.

 

[IlliniFan42]

This Ohio State team is as bad as I thought. They're not going far if they have to ride Bruce Thornton this hard in conference play. Enjoy the College Basketball Crown, fellas!

 

[BatteredWifeSchwartz]

Without a doubt one of the worst officiated games ever. Both ways. Unwatchable product. This game and the Tennessee game might as well have been 2 different sports.

 

[nmillini]

Freshmen Freethrows Fantastic

 

[BuckFan12]

GG Fellas, poise felt like the difference. You challenged yourselves with your schedule and it paid off. Made winning plays and free throws to close it out. Those freshman are studs. A deep tourney run looks like a real possibility

 

[CleverHandle1]

Did not get to see the game, but did Tomas post up at all?

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Three Q1 wins by first week of December is pretty good.

 

[foby]

Just gonna enjoy this.

WE ARE GOOD.

 

[wpr]

Illini making free throws is amazing. Me likey.

 

[blackdog]

That was an ugly ugly game of refball. Illinois looked like the better more complete team.

 

[blife]

Love our Freshman. Love the poise the team showed tonight. First W in the BIG.

 

[NarrowJ]

10 point road win vs a top half preseason B1G rankings club

Time for a whiskey neat

 

[Mr. Roberts]

Top four scorers were not on the team last year.

 

[Orangetool]

Wagler be gone methinks.

 

[Battle89]

We lost the Bama game on free throws and won this one on free throws.


The charity stripe giveth. The charity stripe taketh away.


Stilll...

If that’s not my favorite GIF all time I don’t know what is.

 

[FGCUIllini]

I'm going to find a way to have one of my daughter's future kids (if a boy) be named Keaton. LOL

ILL

 

[MarvinShee]

The only way to explain this is that the west coast teams threw a giant fit about how we call games because this was an abomination. LOVE A ROAD KILL THOUGH

 

[Dan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1998585547099361506

https://twitter.com/x/status/1998585540610863569

 

[sacraig]

If that’s not my favorite GIF all time I don’t know what is.

It really challenged my rudimentary gif skills, but worth it. And its jankiness is part of the charm, IMO.