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So I watched Minny/NW and Iowa/Nebraska the other night and sat there thinking "we're better than all four of these teams"
Now I'm watching Wisky/Purdue and thinking "whoa, these teams are WAY better than us"
Now I'm watching Wisky/Purdue and thinking "whoa, these teams are WAY better than us"
Well, Purdue and Wisky both have so many of those top 20 rated players they have to be better than us.
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Yeah. No question there's a big gap between the top few and the middle of the road B1G teams this year.
Wow Purdue is taking it to Wisconsin. This will mean that everyone in the league already has at least one loss. This is going to be an interesting year.
Rejoice Illini fans!
No. 14 North Carolina ran off a 20-0 first-half run to blow Sunday's game open and beat North Carolina State 107-56. (http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game?gameId=400933455)
See. It could be worse!
Oh, does this mean that we can now stop counting the N.C. St. game as a "good win"?
No. 14 North Carolina ran off a 20-0 first-half run to blow Sunday's game open and beat North Carolina State 107-56. (http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game?gameId=400933455)
See. It could be worse!
Oh, does this mean that we can now stop counting the N.C. St. game as a "good win"?
NC St is still #28 in the RPI.
And for those who prefer KenPom. They only dropped from 53 to 57.
So Minnesota looks really really good. Long, athletic, shot blockers...can't see us beating them this year.
Most importantly, they play defense!
Minny is my super early sleeper team that could make the second weekend. So many weapons, versital players, long, athletic, shot blockers, good in transition, experienced point guard (sounds familiar )
)Minny is my super early sleeper team that could make the second weekend. So many weapons, versital players, long, athletic, shot blockers, good in transition, experienced point guard (sounds familiar
I can hardly believe what they've done. They're the most improved team in the nation by a country mile, and it's with mostly the same guys. I guess that still leaves me a little dubious, but they have legit wins, seeing is believing
Lynch and Coffey make them so dangerous.
Lynch and Coffey are huge additions that really change their team, especially on defense. And you've got a couple of guys making the frosh-soph leap, so it's not surprising that they are drastically improved. They also played a pretty soft schedule so kind of snuck up on people, but the 2 road wins in conference play have been eye opening.
Akeem Springs=Waukegan
Only play them once at home this year.
Illini probably need at least 3 wins out of 6 home games against Wisconsin, Michigan, Maryland, Northwestern, Michigan St and Minnesota (assuming that the Illini take care of the lower tiered Iowa and PSU at home).
Anything less than 6-3 at home in B1G probably leaves this Illini looking from the outside in on the Big Dance.
If you don't like the Illini to beat Minnesota, where do you think they get at least 3 wins from the remaining 5?
Michigan, Northwestern, and Michigan St. Still, I don't think 6-3 would be enough. In that case we'd need at least 4 (maybe 5) road wins.
Never said they would!
...and before this loss to UNC, Lunardi had N.C. State as the 5th team out of the tourney.
At this point, the Illini only have one win against a Lunardi projected tourney team and that is VCU and VCU was his last team in. So Illinois' record against projected tourney teams is now 1-4. Where are the other "good wins" going to come from?
In that case then you view Illinois' next game against Michigan as a "must win"?
Yes, or very close to it.
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