Recent content by msphdillini

Why did this such a good 3 point shooting team become a brick factory since 2nd half of UCLA game and continued till yesterday? Did opposite teams figure out how to stop or coach focused on defence 99% of the time?

Significant improvement by Keaton and Mirk since the first meeting but also Kylan became a liability on offense. 0-5 FG against Houston 0-3 FG against Iowa

Off topic: Muck Fichigan went from 8-24 to Final Four in two years.

Nice win and Illini crowd was great! Watching in person it felt like Illini had 2 different teams, offense and defence like in football. Defense only: Kylan (2 shot attemps), Jake Davis (1 shot attemp), Ben (2 shots attempted) and all of them combine scored zero for attempts. Drey, Mirk, Tomi...

But NOT against iowa

Unfortunately no one is daring to take a shot and passing the ball back to him with few seconds left on the clock. Atleast he is shooting Kylan and Ben with zero point Jake 1 point, T&Z 2 each.

Stakes are high for the match. If Iowa wins, Ben McCollum will become the talk of Curt Cignetti of basketball. On the other hand, if Illinois wins, Brad will reach the same status as Lou Henson. BTW, I was able to get inexpensive tickets (section 106) for the game. See you there!!

Will Nebby/Iowa fans stay back and support fellow B1G team? That would be huge. Last time we went to final four both Michigan state and Illini fans supported both teams

Will Nebby/Iowa fans stay back and support fellow B1G team?

Bret Bielema's current annual salary is $7.7 million, while Ron Zook's (as an example) salary during his last coaching position at Illinois was $1.5 million in 2009. When you spend 3-5X on the program, you need to expect signifcantly better results. Getting to a bowl game or 8 win season is not...

Same goes for Aaron Henry and couple others

Why is BB solely blaming OL when this defense allowed 63 points and that too thanks to Indiana only rushing during 4th quarter not to embarass a fellow Big ten team.

If you want to be good go out and get better OC/DC who can make adjust game plan based on what opposition is throwing at them. BB has recurited well. Don't blame the players.

Most likely they will flip the UI and IU rankings this week. They can just unrank in a week but based on how we perform against USC, UI can be unranked.

You mean, this team would win 5 more games this year and get to 8-4?