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    Penn State 30, Illinois 13 Postgame

    What is considered a blowout? Losing by 17 points at home is a close game?
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    Ohio State 72, Illinois 60 Postgame

    Seriously, this team will be fortunate to win another game this season. Michigan is playing very well and Purdue is Purdue. Best chance may be in the Big10 tourney but we keep falling in seeding there so that now becomes a tougher outlook. Poor chemistry on this team, always wants to settle for...
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    Illinois 85, Texas 78 OT Postgame

    100% on it…. Missed free throws has been the Achilles in the 2 losses this year. Great teams make them especially in crunch time. Great win tonight. Gotta give the young guys some confidence for sure.
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    Illinois 41, Northwestern 3 Postgame

    Nice to see the blowout of NW. It is tough to see that Michigan “gets” to play Purdue instead of giving us the re-match that we deserve after getting jobbed at Michigan last week. We gave away a great opportunity with poor play against Purdue, MSU and IU this season, those games together hurt us...
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    Michigan 19, Illinois 17 Postgame

    Are any of those teams ranked or were they when we played them??? NO. The only good win was the Wiscy win but was still not a “quality” win. Iowa was 9-6 and we were fortunate that the refs overturned the fumble recovery for a TD or that was another loss. Play calling in these last three games...
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    Michigan 19, Illinois 17 Postgame

    Would like to think so but after having ridiculous losses to Indiana, Michigan State and Purdue (2 of them at home), not seeing too much silver lining. Close game today but when you wind up on the losing side it really doesn’t matter if it was 2 points or 40 points. Great teams find ways to win...
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    Michigan State 23, Illinois 15 Postgame

    The play calling was horrendous for us…. We do have more than just telegraphing Chase Brown run after run. A little imagination would help sometimes. I could see a tough game coming when we get first down at their 3 yard line and can’t get it across in 4 attempts. No imagination at all...
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    Indiana 23, Illinois 20 Postgame

    New year….same old, same old🤷‍♂️
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    Pregame: Illinois vs Chattanooga, Friday, March 18th, 5:50pm CT, TNT

    It really doesn’t matter who we drew, these are all teams that are playing to stay alive. You have to beat “the very best” to stay and continue playing. If you don’t play them this round, you will play them in the next round. At this stage of play, you can’t afford to have a “bad game” or your...
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    Indiana 65, Illinois 63 Postgame

    It is very concerning to see this loss. This entire season we watch this team get some momentum and a lead then start playing sloppy, NBA, garbage ball. They start playing “hotdog” ball (especially Belo) and instead of playing smart ball that got them on a good spurt, they give away what...
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    Purdue 84, Illinois 68 Postgame

    Yes, the 05 team I believe would handle this squad 8 out of 10 meetings. However, the 89 team is the one that is the greatest we have ever seen. Top 7 players were 6-5” to 6-8” and were more athletic and talented than any team at that time and would dominate even today. Bring back the Flyin’...
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    Purdue 84, Illinois 68 Postgame

    Purdue is a very strong and balanced team. We have an abundance of great 1’s and 2’s and a super 5. We have a tough time handling teams like Purdue and Arizona for example because of our lack of dominating 3’s and 4’s. The players desired at the next level are the dominating 3’s and 4’s. We can...
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    Cincinnati 71, Illinois 51 Postgame

    Pretty sad to realize that the football team is the juggernaut. What a sad team this has turned out to be. Zero chemistry.
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Iowa

    Refs are handing it to Iowa….last I looked, this is tackle football not Iowa powder puff stuff.