Game Thread: Illinois vs Penn

[jmm]

How bout them VCU

 

[hoopsfan47]

What’s revised tip time due to the OT in prior game?

ESPN College Basketball scoreboard nows says 8:55 CDT.

 

[zentrails]

Of all the teams I have seen play today, I'm most confident Illinois could probably beat either NC or VCU..

VCU has ONE decent big just like Penn, so we *should* easily handle both, Boz needs to throttle Hill, though

 

[xcatcher]

I'm officially nervous. Lets burying this one early and keep shoveling until the buzzer.

 

[Flyin' Illini]

These guys are a bit ridiculous, putting the Cinderella slipper on VCU in what was essentially a 50/50 match-up.

 

[BBlock24]

Stage is set...beat a 14 seed and an 11 seed

Just like 2024...

 

[New Creation]

GAME TIME::

 

[Homecoming 2019]

Game pushed back to 8:55?

 

[jmm]

VCU has ONE decent big just like Penn, so we *should* easily handle both, Boz needs to throttle Hill, though

Yep but the guards played very well! Great chemistry so the boys gotta gell

 

[Ryne0711]

I-N-I! Beginner’s luck!?! Cheer LOUD for us!

Absolutely!!! CHIEF!!

 

[TheFlyingIllini1317]

Jump on em and bury them, attack the paint and the boards! LET'S GO!

 

[Retro62]

I have to put the TV on mute so I don’t hear Satan. It really is a craptastic team they’ve put together. Mashburn only speaks in cliches and Jalen Rose looks like he’s dressed as Spike Lee for Halloween.

 

[zentrails]

Yep but the guards played very well! Great chemistry so the boys gotta gell

not nearly Donnie Dent level quickness, though, so we should be able to handle them

 

[NarrowJ]

Yeah the spread for a 6 v 11 is usually like 3-5 points and 11s had won like 40% of these since like 1985 if what I was reading the other day was accurate

Hard to even call it much of an upset

 

[zentrails]

Yeah the spread for a 6 v 11 is usually like 3-5 points and 11s had won like 40% of these since like 1985 if what I was reading the other day was accurate

Hard to even call it much of an upset

Yep Texas about to get one, too

 

[logjam]

Yeah the spread for a 6 v 11 is usually like 3-5 points and 11s had won like 40% of these since like 1985 if what I was reading the other day was accurate

Hard to even call it much of an upset

I'd call it a beautiful blessing...!

 

[Jimbo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2034779502849433735

https://twitter.com/x/status/2034779757569564750

Ethan Roberts is out though. That’s big. If we lose to these guys we probably weren’t going to win it all.

 

[CDRUSN]

Can't get too complacent like Wisky and the Tar Heels did, no letup once we get a comfortable lead. Like a group of midgets at a communal urinal trough, we gotta stay on our toes.

 

[tcb13]

Shoothatbitch is the new balkan?

 

[PNWIllini]

Can we just manage not to play scared or give up a big lead? All I ask.

Go Illini.

 

[Flyin' Illini]

Shoothatbitch is the new balkan?

Would be funny if they come back from break and he's no longer on set.

 

[Thaillini22]

Shoothatbitch is the new balkan?

So that IS what he said! Lol

 

[jumpingjack]

LFG. Take care of business on the defensive end first and foremost. And hopefully get AJ Redd a tournament bucket.

 

[Sheldon Ram]

Do we know if we have the same starting lineup

 

[PopChampaign]

#shootthatbitch huh… valid though. Hes good.