Recent content by Hingle McCringleberry

Matt Hayes (Florida Gator Alum) is clearly a SEC Homer. "The SEC sends more teams to the football, basketball, baseball and softball tournaments — the revenue-producing sports — than any other league in college sports." Since when are college baseball & softball "revenue producing sports"...

If we want a back-up PG, why wouldn't we just hold on to Petro? Yes, I watched him all of his minutes. If you watched any of his tape, you'd easily see why we took him in the first place. Mentality...hmmmm...60% of this board still dreams of Curbelo 😜

If we want a back-up PG, why wouldn't we just hold on to Petro? He'd have a full off-season to level up his D, he can clearly handle the ball and pass, and looked like he had a decent shot from his film.

Thank God for the typo police, I'd never of known who One Man Fast Break was referencing without your astute correction :rolleyes:

Not sure anyone is in the "shoot me now" camp. More like we are in the "who wants a shot now!" camp. 🥃 🥂

The kid wants to play, has nothing to do with fan support. Don't blame him one bit. He was a great teammate and representative of our program. Nothing but the best wishes for him.

Ideally we retain Dre (plus get Blackwell) and Dre just finds someone he can trust that knows a thing or two about shooting mechanics to improve his 3 pt% :)

Andrej didn't come here to sit either, but that is the way it played out. Just sayin'

At least he is focusing his time on the most important issues impacting our lives 🤡

Stagnant offense with too much of Keaton simply dribbling the ball out top looking for a driving angle, not enough bite on defense, no-one attacking except for Andrej, and tight shooting. From the jump it looked like the lights were too bright for us at this point. Getting to the Final Four is...

FIFY We get the game at 7:00 PM PST, as good as it gets.

🏀 Illinois NCAA Tournament Wins (Last 6 Tournaments) Year Result Wins 2025 Beat Xavier, lost to Kentucky 1 2024 Elite Eight (3 wins, lost to UConn) 3 2023 Lost in Round of 64 0 2022 Beat Chattanooga, lost to Houston 1 2021 Beat Drexel, lost to Loyola Chicago 1 2019 Did not make...

🏀 Top 20 Teams by NCAA Tournament Wins (Last 6 Tournaments) 🥇 Tier 1 — Dominant Programs Rank Team Total Wins Key Runs 1 Connecticut Huskies 17 Titles (2023, 2024) 2 Gonzaga Bulldogs 15 Title game (2021), multiple deep runs 3 Houston Cougars 13 Final Four + consistent deep runs 4...

I hope you all are right and that we can find ways to win close games in the tourney.