Recent content by 21ChampaignSt

Measuring by total minutes is tricky because there's so much early season garbage time built in. That's why, when I think about our "real" rotation, I tend to focus on what the rotation looks like in conference. But yeah, ^ that's all true. I think sometimes people think that having a 9th man...

Fun fact: Since Brad has been here, four times has a "9th man" appeared in the majority of conference games and averaged 9 or more mpg. Jake in 2025 Adonis De La Rosa in 2019 Mark Smith and Greg Eboigbodin in 2018 I'd say probably not a coincidence that those are 3 of the 4 worst years of BU's...

Hey man, don't take my word for it.

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Financially, it doesn't make sense for Andrej to leave. But the variable here is that, financially, Andrej's circumstances are a little different than most. Still though, going from one of the highest paid, featured stars on one of cbb's premier teams to playing for the Stockton Kings on a...

You probably know as much or more than I do. I've only watched a few highlight reels. But I'm kind of expecting him to be our 9th guy. Flashes of brilliance in limited minutes. He has great positional size. Kind of like Wagler in the way he's able to make plays without having exceptional...

Yeah that's true. Going to meander a little bit here. But to your point that's why I can't get on board with the "Where would we have been without Keaton?" or "We would've been screwed without Keaton." type of rhetoric. We wouldn't have been as good had Keaton not been an All American. But we...

13th in Torvik's first 2027 projection. Seems like he's not high on Coleman which is holding down our projection. Also doesn't look like he's really expecting any of our guys to make a jump. Although he does account for returning experience in other ways. We were 8th in his preseason...

I think the 2022 team is a good example. 2025, 2022, and 2021 all had 2nd round exits. To someone only looking at tournament results, all three of these seasons would be viewed as equal or close to equal. A more extreme example would be to compare a team like the NC St. Final Four team from...

Thanks! Glad you liked it, @chrisRunner7 I agree. In my scoring system a conference title is worth 8 points and a Final Four is worth 14 (2 points for making the tournament + 2 points for each tournament win to get to the Final Four + 4 point Final Four bonus). So a Final Four is worth as much...

Thanks! I agree the tourney still feels a little undervalued. It's really hard to strike the right balance.

Sharing this infographic that I update at the conclusion of each year. We are fully back. By my objective-ish methodology, the BU era is now equal to the Before and During Dee era (1980 - 2006) of Illini basketball. And BU is quickly becoming the most decorated coach in Illini basketball...

Glad to see we didn't let a little success get in the way of our chronic mania.

Me in 50 years probably.

We're one uniform away from my ideal rotation. FI in all three colors as our default set. And orange and white scripts for alts. Just need the white FI uni to make a comeback. I'm content with our current situation though. How awesome is it that we got fresh uniforms the same year we go back...