Recent content by RollChief

Honestly if we’re talking hindsight from 2024-2025, the fact that we did as well as we did and finished as a top 20 KP team is pretty nuts considering we turned over the entire roster. I’m not sure of many other teams that could have done that considering the relatively limited NIL pool for that...

"Not many people in this Combine have the option to go back to a Final Four team with most of the guys returning. … I'm very thankful for the situation I'm in because going back to school is also a really, really good option for me." Come back to a certified elite college team or play for the...

Based on how the B1G offseason has shaken out, I see maybe 4 losses here conservatively.

Not only did Illinois have the tallest team in the nation last year, we had the second-tallest team since KenPom started tracking average height in 2007. Michigan played big but had a lot of contributors <6'5". Illinois' only player less than 6'6" to see the court was Kylan, everyone else sub...

His "Hakeem Pct" stat is interesting as well. This stat measures defensive disruption (the percentage a possession ends with a steal or a block by the player). This is surprising considering he played on the team that defensively had the lowest turnover and steal % in all of D-1 college...

Going in the late second round to play in the G League your rookie season is beyond me unless you’re out of eligibility, it seems like purgatory. Why go into the draft a season early just to go play for the Carson City Turnip Farmers in front of a Covid crowd when you can probably make the same...

It seems like there’s a comparable case with TSJ for Andrej to stay. In 2023 TSJ was a rising senior projected late second round. He stayed, had a great season that was ultimately stained by the legal issues, but he got a deal that was worth substantially more had he stayed in the 2023 draft...

Campus Ink was founded in Champaign and has the most established customer base & presence there, and I believe B1G schools were where they expanded next (followed by other schools more broadly).

FIFY.... https://www.illinoisloyalty.com/post/illini-basketball.42198/post-2454470 Where exactly should Tomi return from? I hate to be pedantic here, but his usage decreased and his role changed in part because we had a substantially better/deeper front court, so I'll continue to disagree with...

@soupy17

Anyone still getting hung up on player position categorization needs to go listen to MLT’s Illini Inquirer (very justified) rant…

Honestly I think the notion of Tomi having a regression last year may be of a hyperbole that reverberated from a few weeks when he was injured and he didn't perform that well, and then inevitably was a target on this board. Based on most metrics he was a very similar in 2024 and 2025. His...

I would bet serious money that at least 80% of Illinois sports Twitter folks and beat writers are some of the posters swimming around on this board... Someone could probably do a pretty effective writing style scrub reconciling published articles against writing style on here, so careful what...

Man Keaton tore up Oscar Cluff hahaha