Pregame: Illinois at Iowa, Sunday, January 11th, 11:00am CT, FOX

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IlliniFaninHoosierLand
jezzadownunder said:
What happened to Robbie Hummel? Hasn’t done a single Illinois game this year from my memory and did what felt like 10 of them last season.
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He called the UCLA/Wisconsin game with Paul Burmeister earlier this week on Peacock and is calling the Wisconsin/Michigan game tomorrow on CBS with Kevin Harlan and Bill Raftery.
 
#53      
CDRUSN
Stirtz is the only Hawkeye who averages double digit scoring (18 pts/game) and the only one who could start for Illinois. We are taller, rebound better, defend better, score more, have a deeper bench and are more athletic. Same was mostly true when we played Nebraska. If we don't start sluggish and show the effort we did in the first half of the Rutgers game, we should win comfortably by 10 or more. To have a chance to finish first in the B10 (a tall order with Michigan and Purdue both playing great), this Iowa game on their home court is the kind we have to win.
 
#56      
illinitiger
ChiefGritty said:
It's a big time "prove it" game for both teams really.
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This will be a confidence boost either way
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At end of last year I grew tremendous admiration for Ben McCollum and I definitely think Iowa upgraded over McCaffrey.

On this game...
If we play "Mizzou version" of our team, we wiĺl win....
if we play "Nebraska version" we will likely lose!
 
#62      
OrangeBlue98
PleaseMakeABowlGame said:
I think our 11am curse has mostly been at home. The last time we won @Iowa was 11am IIRC.
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The 2024 game was something like a 5
PM tip. My sons and I had a late lunch prior to the game and were in CHA for that one.

However, Illinois did beat Iowa in an 11AM tip back in 2005. I remember that game because a group of us stayed at the same hotel as the team and some doofus Iowa fan pulled the fire alarm at the hotel at 3 in the morning.
 
#63      
altgeld88
hodgesonfire said:
Pearl left Iowa 34 years ago. Guess time doesn’t heals all wounds.
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I was in my mid-20s when his malicious, premeditated lies took away most of the '90s from our basketball program at its absolute zenith and sullied the final years of our beloved coach and his top assistant. So, yeah, it kinda matters to me and those of my generation and older. I'll grant you, however, that it's visceral in the way the Slush Fund scandal isn't, as I was in diapers when that occurred and many years away from joining the Illini family.

Pearl never expressed credible remorse. I have found him consistently over the past 35 years, in a memorable phrase that Christopher Hitchens used about a public figure, entirely "insanitary."

I've been to exactly one sporting event at Iowa: the Michigan football game in 2003. It was a thriller, Iowa upset them, and it was the true beginning of Ferentz' reestablishment of the program after Fry kinda ran it into the ground in his dotage in the late '90s. I was obviously a neutral observer that day but the tailgating and pregame atmosphere were wonderful, it was an idyllic October day, and the fans were friendly, even when we made clear that I was an Illini (I may have been wearing my Champion reverse-weave that day) and my brother a Wolverine.

So, Iowa: don't like them but have no animus toward the people.

Bruce Pearl: insanitary. He's not a wound that hasn't healed; he's a flatulent cloud that surfaces around us occasionally, or excrement on the sidewalk left there inconsiderately by his sociopathic owner that I must step over.
 
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OrangeBlue98
That wound will NEVER heal for me. Sorry, but what that sorry excuse of a human being did is simply unforgivable.
 
#67      
illinifan1987
I'm currently too hungover to watch this. I hope that after a power nap*, I catch up and we're winning by 10+!
I-L-L

Got ahead of myself here...
*LMAO, I'm still drunk :D
 
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CrazyIlliniLady
oskeewowwowboomtime said:
As if there are not already more than enough reasons for wanting an ILLINI beatdown on Sunday of my least favorite NCAA Basketball team, the Iowa Hawkeyes, whose former Assistant Coach Bruce Pearl will always be at the top of my list of college basketball's most despicable people, please consider the following historical coincidence relative to Iowa's new head Coach Ben McCollum:

Ben McCollum and Bruce Pearl share a unique connection: Pearl coached McCollum at a youth basketball camp when Pearl was an assistant at Iowa, telling McCollum's mother he saw himself in the young player, a story McCollum recounted upon becoming Iowa's head coach, linking his own coaching journey to Pearl's early influence. This early interaction foreshadowed McCollum's later success, culminating in him taking over the Iowa head coaching role years later, where Pearl had once served.

The more things change, the more they stay the same in Iowa City. Imagine a head coach who is PROUD of his "link" to Pearl's early influence.

I can think of at least one ILLINI legend who has a different view of Pearl's "early influence" on him and on the ILLINI's beloved Assistant Head Coach Jimmy Collins, whose coaching career Pearl ruined. Pearl reportedly ran into Collins at the Final Four 23 years after the incident and apologized. Deon Thomas didn’t buy it, seeing Pearl as a uniquely malevolent figure, saying, “It’s kind of hard to forgive a snake. I don’t want to really use the word, but he’s evil.”

Satan, you bet . . . I despise Iowa basketball.

Bruce Pearl through the years
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For older fans like myself, Satan is the number one reason I despise Iowa. Thanks for giving me a reason to hate McCollum, too.
 
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Battle89
altgeld88 said:
I was in my mid-20s when his malicious, premeditated lies took away most of the '90s from our basketball program at its absolute zenith and sullied the final years of our beloved coach and his top assistant. So, yeah, it kinda matters to me and those of my generation and older. I'll grant you, however, that it's visceral in the way the Slush Fund scandal isn't, as I was in diapers when that occurred and many years away from joining the Illini family.

Pearl never expressed credible remorse. I have found him consistently over the past 35 years, in a memorable phrase that Christopher Hitchens used about a public figure, entirely "insanitary."

I've been to exactly one sporting event at Iowa: the Michigan football game in 2003. It was a thriller, Iowa upset them, and it was the true beginning of Ferentz' reestablishment of the program after Fry kinda ran it into the ground in his dotage in the late '90s. I was obviously a neutral observer that day but the tailgating and pregame atmosphere were wonderful, it was an idyllic October day, and the fans were friendly, even when we made clear that I was an Illini (I may have been wearing my Champion reverse-weave that day) and my brother a Wolverine.

So, Iowa: don't like them but have no animus toward the people.

Bruce Pearl: insanitary. He's not a wound that hasn't healed; he's a flatulent cloud that surfaces around us occasionally, or excrement on the sidewalk left there inconsiderately by his sociopathic owner that I must step over.
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Exactly how I feel, minus the Michigan neutrality.
 
#73      
rmlsr
Indy Illini Fan said:
I don’t have the official stats … But I’d be willing to bet our record in early games isn’t great … Just off memory … Penn State comes to mind …

Not showing up mentally ready …
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This has been a problem for years and I think you have to take a look at the coaching staff for not getting this corrected year after year. Jmo
 
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