Recent content by RollChief

In the Underwood years, it seems like it has only happened to us on very rare occasions when he is especially annoyed with effort lol Great overview on it more generally @Emerson Bigguns

https://www.illinoisloyalty.com/post/illini-basketball-2026-2027.42874/post-2469133 Good lord Blake is jacked… really taking advantage of the access to fletch haha

Not glazing Michigan by any means here but I think they proved last year that if you’ve got the pocket book then you can pretty successfully rebuild a front court on the open market haha

We have the #6 ranked HS recruiting class according to 247, and the fun thing about this season is that it's the first season in a while where our recruiting primarily came from one measurable source. The last few seasons, we've had a few HS recruits, a few good transfers, and then a very strong...

They were ranked top 5 for 5 seasons straight, and bottomed (topped?) out at 86.4 in '22.

Obligatory "not to dog pile", because it's easy to argue against Michigan having the best defense in history last year; But I was curious about actual stats for where Michigan, the number #1 defense last year, was ranked next to other #1 defenses, so I took the last 10 years as a sample set...

One of the main take aways I had from the 49 second video posted yesterday was BU saying something along the lines of "we should be the best shot-blocking teams in the history of college basketball." It seems like every year BU takes a piece of something from the prior year's championship team...

It seems like it's a little bit of a "Real Housewives of the Illinois Loyalty Board" effect for some. I haven't watched the show really but I kind of get the gist. Comparing it to this board, still 4 months away from what is definitely going to be an awesome season: You're a group of...

Brad 3-wood! I didn’t take BU for a sandbagger haha he’s been talking down his golf game all week and does this!

The wuzzup tattoo from David is sick

Only 126 more days! (and praying for some good pre-season televised exhibitions)

I mean you took out my point but yeah the year before if you saw him against the better players in the conference as a freshman then he didn’t look like one of the better players in the conference… he made progress from Y1 to Y2, I doubt he would have even been drafted last year and wasn’t in...

Noticed the chief in one frame of the crowd at the 4-second mark of the longer video, I knew deep down in my heart he wasn't gone, just somewhere else (for now... :unsure:)

This is a bit of a stretch... an absolute rebounding machine sure, but I wouldn't classify anyone in our 2024-2025 frontcourt as one the better players in the B1G after seeing them matched up against Derick Queen and Julian Reese... Quick edit because I see some folks mentioning Z's...