Recent content by rkarpel

It’s a fraudulent account: https://awfulannouncing.com/college-basketball/new-troll-account-rob-reinhart.html In this new age of social media, misinformation is running rampant, especially on Elon Musk’s version of Twitter known as X. And with opening of the transfer portal, the NCAA...

The "whatever reason” is he’s been out with an injury for 23 games this year: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/basketball/terrence-shannon-jr-could-have-the-chance-rewrite-the-script-on-forgettable-season/ar-AA1UTfxs

Damn, on top of everything else, TSJ is a marketing genius. Or he has marketing genius’s working for him. What a great idea!

Agree that his around-the-rim issues aren’t due to a lack of athleticism. It seems to be a lack of confidence and assertiveness. I assume he can dunk the ball but have never seen him do it even though he’s had several clear opportunities. He also seems to lack a plan near the basket, often just...

Problem with Booth is he may be the softest player ever to put on an Illini uniform.

Would have said the same thing at the beginning of the year but Fears is a much more efficient scorer (43% to 39%, and 41% to 24% on threes) and a way way way better facilitator (6.2 to 3.5 assists, and 3:1 assist/TO ratio to 1.5). Unlike Boswell, he’s a freshman and a true point guard on...

Unless he ups his game from here, replacing Boswell with one or both of the Fears brothers would be an improvement.

If you’ve ever had the flu (I mean the real flu, not a bad cold — the kind where you can’t get out of bed for a week) you might be more sympathetic to a team trying to play a basketball game with several players who appear to be afflicted with it. Hard to believe KJ wasn’t sick — he appeared...

James Harden played his first college game against the Illini in 2007. He was terrible.

He said something about it on the show below. Starts at about 8:50:

Isaac Trotter has us 6th in the Big 10 and "one splashy addition away from potentially being a Big Ten preseason frontrunner" and he actually watches the games. Where should we post that?

Underwood has reportedly consulted with Hawkins and Shannon regarding transfer portal moves this year. Maybe one or both objected to Mulcahy joining the team?

In the chat last night Piper mentioned Colorado State's Isaiah Stevens as a possibility and his stats look very similar to RayJ's: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/4432117/isaiah-stevens

If RayJ signs and Terrence Shannon returns, that would give us five fifth-year seniors. That has to be by far the most ever. Even if they don't sign (ugh) we already have three fifth-year seniors. That's probably already a record.

Erratic is better than consistently bad