Recent content by Illinijoe

Underwood is such an underachiever with talent. Has teams that are elite by metrics and just can’t win in March. Also can’t close out a game. Truly pathetic

Glad those were your expectations. Sorry that they were missed. However, preseason most metrics and predictions had us worse than we are and that was fully healthy. Being top 15 is actually above most expectations. Yes - insanely frustrating games vs Wisconsin and ucla. Reality is we did...

Only fitting that this was on the 2 year anniversary of the debacle vs Penn State.

Disagree about inferring that from the line. Prior to the Andrej injury and now, kenpom and torvik both had this game about 10-11. Both systems do not address for injuries either and torvik has this game at exactly 11. Again, it doesn’t mean either are playing but the advanced metrics...

79-77 IU if we have a 6 man rotation

Orange Krush is pathetic. Time to overhaul the entire organization. I hope students here are reading - you suck. Get a grip and figure it out. Completely unacceptable. Maybe it’s time to stop the donation stuff to drive seating priority. Now for the game, just dead legs at the end. Can’t...

Voters in general are not intelligent or objective. The facts are we are ranked higher by all actual objective metrics. They need to abolish the AP poll. Who cares what some random journalist in Wyoming says. There are a ton of metrics and ranking systems - combine them all and come up with...

Just a reminder the AP poll is made up of a lot of horrible writers at terrible newspapers. These folks don’t watch games and aren’t informed. We have someone who ranked Miami of Ohio 13 and Illinois 12. I don’t care you are undefeated playing Southwest Missouri community college. Iowa is...

Shooting aside - we need AI to replace these refs ASAP. It’s 2026 - train an AI model on what’s a good / bad call with tape and implement. Have a human just in case. We have these idiot officials that want to make a name for themselves and are paid off across the country. Enough is enough -...

Should be top 5 in the AP. Easily a top 5 maybe top 3 resume. The issue is the AP is made up of clowns. Many journalists who have votes are dumber then rocks.

The data would tell otherwise more recently. Illinois has been a top-tier home team in the Big Ten over the last four seasons, generally ranking in the top 3 to 4 in the conference for home-court winning percentage. While teams like Purdue have had historic runs at home recently, Illinois’...

Just another W

Ticket sales always lag by a year so this makes sense. What hurt us in 2022 was low season tickets. It’s similar to 2007 vs 08/09 where we had more season tickets but were far worse. It’s amazing what holding on to those season ticket holders does for attendance. Makes selling out games so...

Tomi absolutely has to be better or the ceiling for this team is way lower. He’s a huge part of why our offense can truly be the the best in the country and him scoring 0 and playing like garbage will really hurt.

Great point - people were melting down after our melt down with that 2024 team. Making statements about whether a team will get to the elite 8 off 20 games let alone 1 game is foolish. Make the tournament with a solid seed and see what happens. We went on an incredible run after losing at rec...