Michigan 84, Illinois 70 Postgame

[illini510]

You prioritized Ben Humrichous in 2024 ( ) and Tomislav Ivisic ( ) in 2025 over Morez Johnson

To be fair, Tomi is a better 3 pt shooter and spacer. Tomi has had to take a bit of a backseat for Mirkovic but this time last year, I think most people would've been fine taking Tomi over Morez given the potential we saw

 

[SilverTurbo]

That felt a lot like IL vs IN football game. Start out promising then…ugly

 

[steelmen72]

This is the team Underwood put ogether. You can't win at a high level with these European players. NO DEFENSE AND ANO ATHLECISM. Stojavich put up good numbers on two terrible teams. Illinois is no more than a Sweet 16 team at best. Let us stop talking about them as a Final Four team, period. PITIFUL.

 

[stlrunner]

Man…I really wish we could get a second year of Keaton. Even in that butt kicking…he looks so dang good.

I’m over Andrej, though. Good luck at whatever school he transfers to next year.

 

[SuperMetroid]

Made the score respectable at least. No reason we can’t make a deep postseason run still. This is one of very few teams that has answers to what we do best on offense and can negate our height advantage.

 

[Chillinini]

Better team won. They deserved it. Be excited if we can get to the Elite 8.

 

[BatteredWifeSchwartz]

Michigan is a Tier 1 team. We are a Tier 2 team. Simple as that.

Everything after a Sweet 16 appearance is gravy for this team unfortunately.

 

[Julie Meinart]

There’s still a lot of basketball left, and I like them as people — but at what point do you reconsider bringing the Ivisic brothers back…

(I hope this ages horribly )

Actually there's not a lot of basketball left. We are not fixing our weak areas. If you don't fix what's broken then you are not going to be effective.

 

[azillini1]

We will make it to the 1st or second weekend. Anyone who thinks we have a shot at final 4 is drinking too much orange kool aid. Just look at the stats tonight of Scums bigs versus ours. Not even remotely close..

 

[Jimbo]

I know they’re better than us, but we have to compete harder in the paint. But they do have more interior depth.

 

[Da88]

We're not athletic enough. That could be offset if we were a bunch of tough SOBs, but that isn't the case either.

 

[rdk573]

You prioritized Ben Humrichous in 2024 ( ) and Tomislav Ivisic ( ) in 2025 over Morez Johnson

Morez was signed...Then his family got greedy..

 

[DeeIL89]

I am convinced that you can still build a roster that can be one of the best offense in the country and at the same time be athletic and physical. Lol. This season and last are hampered by not having those traits which make aspects like defense poor. Hair pulling.

 

[FromTheLogo]

Our chemistry and flow early in the year looked incredible.... What happened?

Another question: Who do you "mismatch hunt" when there's no mismatch?

Do we really have the best offensive efficiency numbers in the KenPom era? Ken better change his metrics, sorry.

 

[HereSoIDontGetFined]

Wellllll...... If you didn't see this coming you haven't watched Michigan this year.

Mm.. I knew they were going to be tough. But I've also watched them play subpar at times this year before ultimately pulling out the win. In other to flip that script, we needed to shoot it well. We didn't.

We actually executed very well to get Cadeau his second foul early. A real dream scenario for us. But then we couldn't hit open threes or create good looks inside. And of course we aren't built to beat physical teams. Never have been. We have a good S&C program but how many times have we ever gotten guys who *play* physical basketball? Kofi is really the only guy since Brad has been here who has been truly dominant inside.

 

[NASchamp]

I was worried all year about this game. Briefly got excited about it after our stretch of big wins. But went back to being worried after the recent losses.

We held them off for awhile but we got outplayed all game. Coaches needed a better gameplan than whatever that was.

We’re trending the wrong way at the wrong time…

 

[illini510]

Still think Morez is a traitor and a sellout but he brought it tonight and was cold blooded. He did not let the crowd impact his gameplay. He's a good player and our fanbase is not happy that he sold his soul for the almighty dollar but that's college athletics for you.

 

[illinifreak30]

1. Don't have the athletes to defend teams that do. 2. Boswell 's shot is so broken they're sagging and it's not spreading the floor. 3. We don't play inside out enough.

Always the same every year, other super athletic teams whipe us out of the tourney.

 

[PNWIllini]

We lost to a team capable of big boy basketball.

Sorry but we have a bunch of Euro 10 ply super soft guys. Good shooters until someone hits them. Wagler can’t do it alone, and he isn’t able to sell it enough for FT for some reason.


The content filter won’t allow me to describe what we are when facing a true physical team. MSU and now UM. Alabama too.

First one of those in the tourney and we’re done.

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Wellllll...... If you didn't see this coming you haven't watched Michigan this year.

BS. You think our best effort gets us blown out at home? Absurd. We might still lose, but “seeing this coming” would have very little to do with Michigan and more to do with predicting us to come out flat in one of our biggest home games in 20 years.

 

[HouTexIllini]

You prioritized Ben Humrichous in 2024 ( ) and Tomislav Ivisic ( ) in 2025 over Morez Johnson

No you didn’t! LOL

 

[abchew2]

Thought we came in with a decent shot but locked in Michigan is the real deal. The impact of our shooting bigs pulling Mara out was greatly exaggerated. Guess the assumption was those bigs would hit the shots. At least Keaton got his.

 

[rdk573]

Man…I really wish we could get a second year of Keaton. Even in that butt kicking…he looks so dang good.

I’m over Andrej, though. Good luck at whatever school he transfers to next year.

After the Texas Tech, game I thought he was going to be someone special...What a flameout...So disappointing..

 

[CoachHooleyHoo]

2-4 in the last 6. Digressing at the wrong time of the year. Time to temper expectations for the tourney.

 

[Ryllini]

Everything still in front of this team, but toughness is an issue for me. Credit to Michigan. They bullied out tonight. I’m shocked we don’t have one guy who would be willing to go.