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    Quentin Coleman on the USA U18 National Team

    Awesome. Wasn’t sure if the replay would live on in the YouTube world, but should have known better.
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    Quentin Coleman on the USA U18 National Team

    Is the full replay available online? I know highlights are already on here. My son had a soccer game last night, so wasn’t able to watch live.
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    College Sports (Football)

    Because it’s never enough.
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    Quentin Coleman on the USA U18 National Team

    There is without question a profile that the staff wants in their recruits. The Wagler article by CJ Moore in The Athletic talked about that. Positional size, high basketball IQ, and shooting ability are big parts of that.
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    NBA Thread 2026

    Wemby, Castle, Harper. Pretty good young core, huh? :)
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    Illini in the Pros (Basketball)

    Bobby Bonilla approves of this contract! ;)
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    NBA Draft

    I know the Captain has been battle-worn based on his letters to mother, but I didn't think the battles had aged him THAT much! :D
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    I don’t disagree with this, and clearly you can’t argue too much with the results. That being said. I will still contend this type of wrinkle would be a good way to reduce the stagnation issues that did pop up in games last season (like in both UConn games). I’ll concede that it would be hard...
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    It feels like he should be about 50 years old by now.
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    NBA Thread 2026

    Hakeem/Akeem is criminally underrated. Great player at both ends of the floor, but he was so smooth on the court and unassuming off of it. Just made things look effortless.
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    NBA Thread 2026

    I get that the general perception in the NBA is that there isn’t a lot of defense played. I can understand that sentiment more often than not. But last night, the third quarter of the Spurs-OKC game shows that perception isn’t always true. San Antonio put OKC in a vise grip for 12 minutes and...
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    NBA Draft

    And in related news, protective cup sales in Big Ten cities increased tenfold…….. Whoops, @mysterio2525 beat me to it!
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