Recent content by JoseCuervo

I'll cheer for our former players no matter what unless there was some bad blood in the leaving. I even rooted for Morez amid my salty tears.

you can make a big list of excuses for any team in a single season. look at this year: ty rodgers injures himself and misses the season, stojakovic comes into the season injured, boswell breaks his hand, tomi is injured or sick for the entire offseason, stojakovic twists his ankle, the whole...

that shot by tomi that just.. almost.. barely bounced over the front of the rim and in was enormous. i can't remember the score but that was the start of two plays and baskets for tomi and the beginning of the end for Iowa.

That was the play where you knew he was locked in. Our best player is consistently better in the second half.

Amazing team effort! I just want to commend Boswell for bailing us out 3-4 times on questionable passes. The refs weren't great but dare I say, as an Illini fan, that we benefitted from some calls? This win looked like earlier in the season when great teams didn't belong on the court with us. I...

I just realized part of the annoyance of this end of the year has been the scheduling. Our team is/was special so I looked forward to every game. Waiting a week between games only to be crushed by Michigan or edged out by Wisconsin is really frustrating as a fan and hard for the team to get...

His contract runs out in 2031 with possible extensions and is a non-compete. Where does the lifetime contract thing come from? I've seen it on here a couple times. He's good enough that the buyout isn't worth it. As he gets older, I presume his game-day weaknesses will become more pronounced.

https://www.si.com/college/illinois/basketball/brad-underwood-saved-illinois-basketball-but-has-he-hit-the-ceiling

one hundred percent. at some point you need some more athletic guys. you need some versatility. did we even use all of our scholarships this year? i feel like we were scrambling. i guess we did theoretically have Ty until he injured himself. i think underwood also won't take early losses to...

you all talk about how weak this team is but they were super clutch earlier in the season against great teams. no idea what's happened but it's terrible to watch. I'm hoping we make the sweet sixteen where i was hoping for a final four a couple months ago

w.t.f. and wisky should have been tired too! Boswell with the dumbest single play of the game to get Boyd fired up, get his first foul and get the refs calling everything to "control" the game. Davis missing the front end of a 1 and 1. that was the first moment i was resigned to losing this one

it's crazy that the big ten was called rough all year and now they're calling fouls on screens all day with their eyes closed

the refs were bad. they still let way too much contact go on drives. it's like they'll call it after the third hard bump on Keaton. They tightened the officiating up in the last five minutes and we pulled away. Thank God for mirkovic. Maryland was good and hit a ton of tough shots. Give it up...

perfect bracket. decent first game. probably lose to Michigan if we make the second. go to the tourney with more rest

Oregon was really off their game. Illinois is off but still won by 25. The announcers were off their game too. Underwood is a bit of a psycho for chewing out the senior night walk on for taking a dumb shot during garbage time haha.