At least we don’t have to watch our team in a national championship game officiated by high knees
UConn 71, Illinois 62 Postgame
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The whole 3 minutes following taking the lead was the story here. Missed FTs, shots not falling, etc. Uconn couldn't score. We were up by one and should have been up by 10 by the time Uconn scored again. Such an odd game.
Just stinks to have one of our worst shooting games on that stage... especially against a team that we had possibly our absolute worst game of the season against earlier. I do not believe UConn is better than us, but we're 0-2... and that's all that matters.
Great season. It'll hurt tonight, but this will be a season we talk about for generations!
Great season
Thought the better team won. They were better about everywhere.
With the passing abilities position wise through the team, you can have only 3 team assists (or go 6-26 from 3 and expect to win). Game prob closer than should have been
Thought the better team won. They were better about everywhere.
With the passing abilities position wise through the team, you can have only 3 team assists (or go 6-26 from 3 and expect to win). Game prob closer than should have been
Battled hard. Really think it was just too many misses and not our day rebounding to get any advantage there.
On other end I said pregame if Ball and Mullins make their threes tip your cap to them. Well they went a combined 7/14 from three today.
On other end I said pregame if Ball and Mullins make their threes tip your cap to them. Well they went a combined 7/14 from three today.
Bad time to have our worst offensive performance of the year- UConn didn’t do anything unexpected- we just dug too deep of a whole
Fun week to make a final four but this game leaves a very sour taste in my mouth- we had the better team and didn’t come close to playing our best
Fun week to make a final four but this game leaves a very sour taste in my mouth- we had the better team and didn’t come close to playing our best
Exactly. Keep the core together, find a dynamic PG( hopefully with size), and ideally a couple of athletes to play on the wings. I'd be inclined to leave the Euro market alone this off-season. Need much better athletes.
Let's face it, the chances of us or UCONN beating Michigan or AZ was remote. Beating those two teams is the goal.
The effort was fantastic tonight. Good looks just did not fall.
We didn’t get the rebounds we needed and couldn’t put it back in when we did. Agreed our shooting percentage was low. Their 60% free throw shooter made 4 in a row and we couldn’t there was a lot that didn’t go our way and we had open shots
We were +7 on the boards.
Don't hang your heads young men. You took us to our first final four in over 20 years. You played your hearts out but our shots weren't falling and they were getting all the lucky bounces. The Illini nation is proud of you and all that you have accomplished this year. I am confident that we will make our way their again soon with Brad and his coaching staff leading the way.
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UConn was better, not the refs fault, we did not play team ball.
If we could hit shots we'd been ok.
Great Year, but FFFFF
If we could hit shots we'd been ok.
Great Year, but FFFFF
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Exactly. The team fought and gave every last bit of effort. Simply can't win missing so many shots, and even then, it was still a 4 point game with under 2 minutes left.
Some of those rim outs go in, we win. Really that simple. UCONN had a banked in 3 and one that hit every part of the rim and fell. Those things happen.
Heck of an effort to make it a game in the end, with so many missed shots.
Yeah we were unlucky on some close layups rolling out or off. They were as lucky as a team can be with long high bouncing landing in or Mullins banking a three. Geez.
Rough one… hate to go out not playing your best game. Cap tip to UCONN. I don’t like them but gotta respect what they’ve accomplished. Not to worry though, this Illini train is just getting rolling. It was a great ride and we’ll be back here again much sooner than 21 years. ILL
Super, fabulous, elite year to make it this far in the tourney - awesome job players and coaches - really, really think about it - we've set benchmarks for this program that have never been accomplished before - looking forward to next year already - retain as many players as possible and bring in only the best that will fit the squad - this can be repeated now - we know how to do this - was quite the ride - we fans loved and enjoyed it - thank you very much - PTL!
If we’re 9/26 from three instead of 6/26 we win, it came down to cold shooting and not getting layups to go in
One of the best seasons in Illini history and the back and forth in tonight's game showed toughness. I really enjoyed it.
Congrats to UCONN - (BTW that staggered screen they ran with the 3 point shooter running strong side to weak side... looks awfully familiar to the final four 21 years ago). But congrats to our guys for picking it up and then defending much better in the second half.
The UCONN double on the ball when it was in Wagler's or Boswell's hands worked well. But again great job by our guys reading and reacting. They realized in the second half the game was going to won (if we were going to win it) at the rim.
I can't put into words just how impressive, even tonight when nothing bounced our way and how well these kids reacted and played.
Congrats to UCONN - (BTW that staggered screen they ran with the 3 point shooter running strong side to weak side... looks awfully familiar to the final four 21 years ago). But congrats to our guys for picking it up and then defending much better in the second half.
The UCONN double on the ball when it was in Wagler's or Boswell's hands worked well. But again great job by our guys reading and reacting. They realized in the second half the game was going to won (if we were going to win it) at the rim.
I can't put into words just how impressive, even tonight when nothing bounced our way and how well these kids reacted and played.
sacraig
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Well, everything except shooting the ball.
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