Recent content by HensonHall71

I have the same thought- beating UConn would be such a monkey off our back- almost critical to feel like we’ve taken the next step At Duke is going to be an expected loss- they have a Superteam but not one player of the year like the last two years, so in my mind that game is only upside and a...

I thought about that - there was a year in between Liberty and Deon

Pettigrew would be amazing in O&B, presumably he would be a 5 star even with the '27 reclass. If we land him to think we would have a 5-star recruit for three years in a row is insane (Riley, Coleman, Pettigrew). I'm pretty sure you'd have to go back to the 80's the last time that happened (I...

Not to interject stats into a compelling argument, but Illinois’s big men (defined as C and PF, just counting the twins, Mirk, Ben) last year attempted 570 threes on the year- that led the country by a wide margin. We allow our big men to handle the ball on the perimeter more than just about...

Not sure what you are talking about - he said he didn’t want to play center so the staff went out and got Big Z to be the backup center. He would have played exactly 0 minutes at center here. He played a lot of center at Michigan when Mara was out. Tyler’s offense would have allowed Morez a...

Agreed- this is not a good trade for TSJ. The coach just said they figured out how to use TSJ and that was with the ball in his hands getting downhill and creating and getting to the rim. Then they add a ball dominate PG along with Ant and Ayo, TSJ will almost never have the ball in his hands...

I respectfully disagree, while it depends on the definition of PG, I think it’s his most natural position in this offense. He’s a natural distributor, gets to the lane using his size, great vision on the pick and roll. While he needs more consistency in his outside shot, he is a good shooter...

Awful news - wishing nothing but the best for Ty - hopefully it ends with a story of him coming back again and showing what he's capable of

You are correct in that quick point guards have given us trouble the last couple of years even with Boswell on the roster. I think the disconnect with a lot of fans is our philosophy on defense is not predicated on having a super quick on ball defender The staff has been pretty clear we’re...

It will be great to have the whole team together over the summer practicing, we haven't had that in a long time. It can be the difference in how quickly the new pieces fit in and the team starts to play team defense

I agree/ while their KenPom end of year metrics were all time good that seems to be the case every year. Duke beat them and seemed to be the better team, but it is true that Michigan didn’t face anyone in the tourny that gave them trouble so it certainly makes their team all the more dominate...

Agree- I know our defense is a clear weakness on paper but holy cow Batman, Michigan lost the best defensive front out in the country and replaced them with good players but not nearly the same caliber nor experience- Yaxel was their superpower we get 5 of our top 7 back so that alone should...

Yeah, Duke’s roster is absurd and makes no sense as it breaks all the rules of how you would think kids make their college decisions. What makes it different from those Kentucky teams that went 10-11 deep is it has a ton of experienced players on it as well- it’s not all 5 star freshman Just...

To put it another way, on a standard track Ben would have been 2/3 of a lap behind the WR holder when he crossed the finish line - so nowhere close, but I also would think the basketball manager measuring a mile likely isn't exactly precise depending on where they were running it

This is huge news! I know we expected it, but having it confirmed after a brief scare is definitely great news for the season. We will bring back 5 of our top 7 from a final four!