I just hate that both Duke and ScuM cant lose.
Week of 2/16 Games Thread
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All the talk about our disappointing crowds. I have not been impressed with Houston’s atmosphere today.
Houston likes to trap a lot, which does leave them vulnerable to fouling, and they tend to give up a lot of FTs without actually generating many of their own most nights.
Arizona is one of the few teams in the country better at rebounding than Illinois, but they never shoot 3s (362nd at 3 point rate).
Arizona is one of the few teams in the country better at rebounding than Illinois, but they never shoot 3s (362nd at 3 point rate).
Expanding on this, there are basically 3 teams in the country that are better at rebounding than Illinois: Arizona, Florida, and Michigan State. Of those, MSU is bad offensively, Florida doesn't shoot 3s well and turns the ball over a lot, and Arizona effectively lives inside the 3 point line.
Noticed the other day that Tennessee seems to be the best rebounding team in the country. Brought back memories of them owning us on the glass back in December.
EDIT: Just saw your follow up. What about Tennessee? Maybe I was looking at just total rebound rate?
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Tennessee is #1 in offensive rebound rate, #45 in defensive rebound rate. Illinois is #4 in offensive rebound rate, #28 in defensive rebound rate.
I was hoping Arizona would pull away when Houston started fouling at the end of the game, but it hasn't worked out that way
Edit: well, at least they'll get two more than I expected when there was 9s left. A 7pt home loss without Peat should help pull Houston down a bit, though I'm not banking on much
Edit: well, at least they'll get two more than I expected when there was 9s left. A 7pt home loss without Peat should help pull Houston down a bit, though I'm not banking on much
Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
Canned phrases on their cheat sheets will be used, regardless of appropriateness or game clock.
Announcer version of Nuke Laloosh ‘just here to help the ball club’.
Tennessee has the #1 offensive rebounding percentage in the country (45.0%). Florida is 2nd at 42.6% and we're 4th at 39.1%.
Could that have been what you saw?
Houston goes down
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Call me a cranky old geezer, but home teams should only be able to “choose their jersey” if it does not result in the away team wearing white. It’s unnatural, damn it.
You should only get to wear non-white at home if the away team has an option that won’t clash with your jersey choice. And the away team shouldn’t choose white to make that happen.
You should only get to wear non-white at home if the away team has an option that won’t clash with your jersey choice. And the away team shouldn’t choose white to make that happen.
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
As someone who will forever laugh at Wisconsin wearing red while we were absolutely going to wear orange in 2004, resulting in one of the most unwatchable games in tv history, naw. If/when we want to wear orange at home, we should absolutely be allowed to wear orange at home. Home team picks. Away team has to deal.
Seems better for us if Michigan wins?
Honestly couldn’t care less who wins in the scUM game. Really want Nova to beat UCONN though.
That sound you're hearing is USC's bubble popping after they just lost at home to Oregon.
USC blows 6pt lead with 1min left.
Musselman had three timeouts in his back pocket and chose to use none of them on USC's final possession.
I hate Duke but I hope they beat the living crap out of SCUM
I think it’s easy math that we want Michigan to win tonight
Illini in Italy
- Illini HQ, Florida Panhandle
Looking for ‘Nova to pull of this upset to improve our bracket potential. But one must always pull for ScUM to fall to the ninth circle of Dante’s Circles of Hell.
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