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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    Yeah, sort of. Kenpom had them 4th and they were a 2 seed, so that could be off just a bit. Iowa was 22nd so should have been a 6 seed but was a 9th seed.
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    /s? IL was ranked 17th preseason last year and will be <5th this year. I trust Duke to underperform yearly, Scheyer is Calapari east. There was definitely tourney luck both in seeding, upsets and our team clicking/getting healthy at the end. Honestly seems fitting given how many times IL has...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Wonder what would happen to Cal or Young if they didn't get to just buy the best players.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    126th composite player. Hasn't played a game in college, but is a major upgrade over a dude that started 22 games, had 62.5 ts% and had 2.7 WS on a ff team..? Excited for Martin. And yeah, Jake Davis is not the greatest Illini ever, but man folks need to put some respect on a great...
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    Andrej measured 6 5.5 at the combine without shoes
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    Seems like you're lost and posting on the wrong forum, here you go: https://www.uscbasketball.com/men
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    Or at least on vacation. You should be enjoying some of the airport's finest offerings, sadly no cottage cheese but just about everything else...
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    Ok, for this to not be a false equivalent we'd have to pretend that there's not value in the earned FIFA world points for future tournament seeding. We also have to pretend that we don't see this with college bowl games where even UDFAs opt out of inconsequential bowl games. Lastly we have to...
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    Well put. Latulip also called it out on the field of 68 after dark grades podcast on the main page. If Vaaks were 6'2 everyone would be fine. Which is...dumb.
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    College Sports (Basketball)

    They still would've had guys join mid season (think Nnaji) plus that only 'solves' for Basketball. I can't get over how needlessly confrontational the decision was. Courts have been consistent in siding with players' economic rights, I can't figure out why the NCAA thought this would be different.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    The staff made going euro vogue again (or at least was in early) have to wonder if 2 years from now coaches will be copying the approach of churning top 100 adjacent low NIL lottery tickets.. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/2027-class-recruiting-five-for-five-rule/
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    It'd quickly become a non CFP bowl game scenario. No one slotted as a first round pick would play in it.
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    Illini in the Pros (Basketball)

    Lamelo stole his number. Thief.
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