Game Thread: Illinois vs Fairleigh Dickinson

[Illiniforlife]

Man what idiot thought we were going to lose tonight in that pregame chat?

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Wow oh wow was that a half. 67-20?!?!?!?! That was some absolute ridiculousness.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

FDU definitely has something to do with it. #339 on Kenpom.

To be fair, Duke played Army who’s #336 and only beat them 84-50.

We’re currently up 65-20.

 

[Battle89]

More transition points in this half than all of last season?

100%

 

[PopChampaign]

Going into the locker room 40+ down at half is rough rough

 

[FloridaMan]

Man what idiot thought we were going to lose tonight in that pregame chat?

It's not over. They theoretically could outscore us by 50 in the second half

 

[skyIdub]

 

[Mr. Roberts]

 

[March2TheArch]

It's early, but Ethan Brown looks like a future All B10 player to me! Kid is good!

Has that Braden Smith look and feel.

 

[CDRUSN]

Fun fact: Most points ever scored by the Illini was in a 127-100 victory against LSU in 1988. Dare we dream of a new school mark?

 

[MULEDOG35]

Man what idiot thought we were going to lose tonight in that pregame chat?

Man what idiot thought we were going to lose tonight in that pregame chat?

 

[Dan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2117434897786683462

 

[orange100]

Coleman is ahead of where Wagler was last year, this time.

 

[Illini4Christ]

This is the best Illini team EVER!!

Deal with it. We better get Tyler locked up, they will be coming for him.

 

[IllinistrandedinHouston]

Going into the locker room 40+ down at half is rough rough

And No time outs!

 

[NarrowJ]

Nobody has mentioned Ethan Brown

8 pts 7 reb 4 ast 1 stl 0 tov

That’s a Quentin Coleman-esque stat line

 

[Illini92and96]

Coleman probably gone, but we are in good hands with Brown-Morillo-Zens-Davis next year.

It will be interesting to see how they do in BIG play

 

[Illini60613]

Off season video returning players watched every day. Muck Fichigan

 

[WolfpackIllini]

Say this out loud:
We are up 47 at half.

Wut?

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2117434897786683462

Don't like this. This is the one thing that you don't want to see in a 47 point game.

 

[EmeraldCityIllini]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2117434897786683462

dont love that being announced so early

 

[FloridaMan]

Coleman on triple double watch with 4/7/6

 

[JKR]

Coleman with 7 rebs and 6 assists in 15 minutes

 

[FromTheLogo]

Give some of the big guns a few minutes in the second half, then play end of the bench. No more injuries, please.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

FDU definitely has something to do with it. #339 on Kenpom.

It’s difficult to do what the Illini did that half to a high school team. I mean that was a masterpiece half. I don’t care who they’re playing. We play Duke that hard on both sides of the ball, shoot that well, and crash the boards like we are we’d be up on them by 20+ at half. There are games where a team looks absolutely unbeatable. That was that first half. We looked incredible.