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    Illinois 65, Houston 55 Postgame

    I happened to watch the full recap and it got a little testy in the last couple minutes when Chris wouldn’t admit that Houston wasn’t a championship caliber farm 😂
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    The Sweet 16

    Made me cackle 😂
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    Pregame: Illinois vs Iowa, Saturday, March 28th, 5:09pm CT, TBS

    Idk man, the Big Ten has turned into a “drive to the rim, get 2 free throws” kind of league. I feel refreshed after watching a game where the better team won based on basketball ability, not flopping ability.
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Houston

    Gotta get to the under 4 commercials 🙄
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    Pregame: Illinois vs Wisconsin, Friday, March 13th, 1:30pm CT, BTN

    Yeah. I just tend to think that 4-5 games either way is too small of a sample to be predictive when we’ve got a season’s worth of data. For my personal brackets, the smallest sample size I’ll use for predictions is 1-15-2026 onward
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    Pregame: Illinois vs Wisconsin, Friday, March 13th, 1:30pm CT, BTN

    If anyone’s cagey about this team heading into single elimination - get this - our team is 6-4 from February onward (no good). However, during that time, Torvik has us as 5th best team in the country (very good), higher than our season average of 6th. We’ve been playing well overall, we’ve just...
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    NBA Draft

    Here’s the flip side of this though: you say that there’s no guarantee that coming back raises your draft stock, but there’s also no guarantee that a specific player ever makes it to a 2nd contract (about a third of first rounders never do). So, while I largely think the “first round go, second...
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Maryland

    Only thing I can think of is that Lunney thought we had an advantage in the hurry-up. Not a winning decision in the long-term analytically though 🤷‍♂️
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Rutgers

    I’ll take a short one. Tuddy time 😤
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Rutgers

    That was a Devon Witherspoon play from Matty!!
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Rutgers

    Doesn’t feel like a game that Rutgers wins by kicking field goals
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    Illini Basketball 2025-2026

    Brett Bielema has talked recently about how players in our football program earn their way to good NIL rather than Brett prioritizing tapping out our NIL budget with high-value transfers. For basketball, it seems like this is the opposite from the outside looking in: we’ve given big, $2M+ offers...
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    Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

    I feel like I just want to disassociate from next year’s team if there aren’t changes to who’s running the defense and even offense. Just have no faith that we’ll get the most out of our talent with the current staff in their current roles. Hope I’m just being overdramatic 🤷‍♂️
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Kentucky

    We’ve been around 141st on Torvik if you filter on the last month…
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    The Selection Show

    Tennessee as a 2 is tough but at that point, we’d already be in the S16 and the rest is gravy
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