Pregame: Illinois vs Penn, Thursday, March 19th, 8:25pm CT, TNT

[Dan]

NCAA Tournament 1st Round (Greenville, SC)

3 Illinois vs 14 Penn
Thursday, March 19th
8:25pm CT
TNT

 

[band camp]

No way. Fran.

 

[The Galloping Ghost]

Hello Fran, our old friend. We've come to lay the beatdown on you again.

 

[IlliniKat91]

I'm so excited to see FRANCON return

 

[Illini_Jack]

I will take pleasure putting Fran out of his misery

 

[BoiseBaller]

Fran exacts his revenge? I kid. Sort of.

Second round won't be easy with our recent dip.

 

[Grange Grover]

 

[PizzaHutParkingLot]

 

[Mistakenj]

Sweet 16 better be minimum expectation. Early exit and the roster construction needs to change (probably needs to change regardless).

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

UNC in Greenville.

Houston in Houston.

 

[Rap47]

I picked the Illini to play Penn before the show started. They always seem to match the Illini with some team there is a connection

 

[PrandonBaul]

UNC in Greenville.

Houston in Houston.

 

[rdk573]

We have a relatively easy route to the SW16...No excuses for missing it..

 

[IlliniHardwood]

UNC in Greenville.

Houston in Houston.

Both Mirkovic games. He loves the challenge of away game venues.

 

[zentrails]

NCAA Tournament 1st Round (Greenville, SC)

3 Illinois vs 14 Penn
Thursday, March 19th


Time/TV to be announced tonight (last year tip times were released around 7:15pm CT)

Exhibition game or we have more problems than we thought
(and I work at UPenn and am happy for them to make the dance)

 

[March2TheArch]

Said this in the Selection Show thread.

This is an insane weekend 1 for me.
- Born and bred in Champaign
- Penn undergrad
- Moving to North Carolina (Raleigh/RTP) this summer

Excited!

- - -

RTP Illini engineers hopefully show up!

 

[Retro62]

I'm happy that Fran is taking his new school to the tourney; I've always enjoyed his antics and Brad seems to like him. Having said that, a good beatdown by the beloved would be just fine.

 

[TheFlyingIllini1317]

A hot Penn team, obviously still like our chances but we'll have to earn it. The Ivy team always hangs tough for a while.

 

[BrownTown]

UNC in Greenville.

Houston in Houston.

Only fault is our own....

Brad and Co blew a PHENOMENAL path of Stl/Chicago/Indy. It's hard not to be beaten down by such an incredible fall off the last month.

 

[IlliniTaffy]

Fun to dust this off again

 

[2005ILLINIWHITESOX]

Opening line we’re -20.5.

 

[rdk573]

The hotel for the seeding committee is 2 miles from my house...I should stop by and say HI..

 

[nyc_illini]

give me UNC without Caleb Wilson over red hot Vandy who dog walked Floria any day all day

 

[tcb13]

So if Purdue started on the 11 and moved up to 8 based on the tournament, Illinois had to have been better than 11 going into the BTT, right?

 

[Lysol623]

We will see quickly if this team are the road warriors everyone thinks they are. UNC and Houston are road games. We really shot ourselves in the foot losing to Wisconsin in the BTT.