Recent content by TheDukeUIUC

Also, 12 shots in only 15 minutes sounds absurd.

You're right, its impossible to improve shooting percentages through practice. he just shouldn't even try to work on that part of his game and be a more complete player. /s

Blackwell is a senior and our 1A target. With Tomi, Z, Andrej, Jake from State Farm, and Ty on the roster, you have plenty of seniors where you can fill out by skill gap and not worry about class. Obviously some of those could choose to portal, but you get the point.

With us playing at State Farm Center, I've always wondered why State Farm wouldnt try to feature an Illini in their commercials. Keaton coming back would make that a real possibility. Hell, he can even buy car insurance from Jake Davis.

I understand chasing the bag, but when you consume such a high % of the roster budget, how can you expect to compete at any but a few select uber-rich schools (like Duke/Kentucky)? Like Hawkins at KState. Taking a $5M guard versus taking a $3M guard and a $2M wing when your budget is $15M is...

One positive about Mich winning the natty: think about how sad Hoosier fans are going to be over what they could have had

I'm old enough to remember Tre White saying he wanted to run it back before entering the portal a few days later

If Jake leaves, its to Eastern Europe to live with the new wife that Tomi and Z find for him

Two years getting to Sweet 16, 2024 and 2026, out of six (2019 and 2020 weren't NCAA tourney years for very different reasons). We even have an example of having no freshman starters and still couldn't get to the sweet 16 (2022). I would agree that our more successful years generally didn't...

They said during the game that UConn wants to force you into iso-ball, so our mismatch hunting iso-ball was not really putting them into a bind. We didn't get them into rotations and force breakdowns. Even when we got into the lane, we didn't have any dump-off or lobs. They trusted thier D to...

There is a world where he has improved his jumpshot and can take threes. We currently have an slasher wing that is great at driving to hoop and isnt a great 3-point shooter in Andre. I would argue that Ty has been a better overall defender and rebounder before injury (though Andre has really...

They probably want people to buy tickets to attend the game before making it easy to watch in town.

Really dont want Michigan breaking the drought in both football and basketball

UConn cutting the lead while being 1-16 from three-point range

He slurred "illini" so bad that voice-to-text heard "annihilated"