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    Illinois 70, Indiana 62 Postgame

    Other teams don’t have to “give the crowd”—specifically the Krush-style sections—anything to work with. Other teams’ Krush equivalents get hype and stay hype. When was the last time you heard/saw Purdue’s audience take plays off just because the game was discouraging or unexciting? Krush is soft...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Wait, there’s a Pagliai’s in Iowa City, too. Are they related?
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    Pregame: Illinois vs Chattanooga, Friday, March 18th, 5:50pm CT, TNT

    Also, Underwood talked recently about how his scouting mentality/division of labor amongst the staff has changed a lot since last season AND that he is very happy with how it has gone. Hopefully that bodes well for our tournament performance!
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    Pregame: Illinois vs Notre Dame, Monday, November 29th, 8:00pm CT, ESPN2

    Agreed with this assessment, but I’ll add that part of Kofi being in the lane is his ability to box out for someone to cut/drive to the basket. We saw that a lot with Ayo and Curbelo both last year and have seen it a few times this year. Our other bigs are not holding up that bargain when Kofi...
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Arkansas State

    If you’re having problems with the stream, we had luck hitting play from beginning. Took us to live.
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    Kofi Cockburn in the transfer portal

    I’m well aware? Maybe it’s the cynic in me, but my understanding is that Uber themselves put that gif together.
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    Kofi Cockburn in the transfer portal

    Booo, bad take. Corporations sneaking advertising into conversations on the internet or otherwise is very different from anything NIL related.
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    Kofi Cockburn in the transfer portal

    Not raggin on you—I hate the corporate “watermarks” making their way into gifs.
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    Coaching Carousel

    Is there no way to delete a comment? I cracked a joke and see someone else already made the same joke and now I am stuck. Please enjoy this gif of me in the mean time:
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    Coaching Carousel

    Y’all thirsty and I for one am parched 🧃🧃🧃
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    Pregame: Illinois at Michigan State, Tuesday, February 23rd, 6:00pm CT, FS1

    Wow, how did I not hear about this? That’s so !!!!!! for him to be having that discussion publicly.
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    Michigan State 76, Illinois 56 POSTGAME

    Wow, that did not match my expectation with how efficient he has been at the three. I must be recalling other games.
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    Michigan State 76, Illinois 56 POSTGAME

    How many of those are Griffin...? Do I even want to know?
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    Missouri 63, Illinois 56 POSTGAME

    Suicide sprints ruined my knees. Careful what you wish on people.
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    Illini Basketball 2019-2020

    Sorry if there's a more appropriate place for this question, but does anyone here have experience with the mobile pass season tickets? Looking into getting season tickets this year, and the mobile passes are an insanely good deal, but I'm assuming we'll be stuck behind the basket for every game...
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