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Gonzaga 84, Illinois 78 POSTGAME
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<blockquote data-quote="Punesguy" data-source="post: 1429926" data-attributes="member: 586472"><p>Given the fact that you didn't watch the game, I thought you put together a fantastic recap. For all of the folks that thought we would get blown out by 20+ and that the Vegas spread of 14.5 was crazy low ... please step up and give our guys and the coaches some credit. While there are some obvious areas to work on, they played really hard and had the #3 team in the country scared to death with a minute to play. They were down 13 in the 2nd half and could've easily given up and got blown out by over 20 but they didn't. They forced turnovers with aggressive D and Trent was fantastic. To all of the doomsdayers ... please think back to the last 10 years or so of awful Illinois basketball. This team is not there yet but they are really heading in the right direction. Wins define a program's success and hopefully we make a tournament this year. Maybe we will and maybe we won't but we are 3 games in and this body of work should be really appealing to future recruits! My last comment would be to ask the folks that still aren't happy ... how do you think a John Groce coached team would have fared last night? Turn that frown upside down!<img src="/inc/shield.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":shield:" title="Shield :shield:" data-shortname=":shield:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Punesguy, post: 1429926, member: 586472"] Given the fact that you didn't watch the game, I thought you put together a fantastic recap. For all of the folks that thought we would get blown out by 20+ and that the Vegas spread of 14.5 was crazy low ... please step up and give our guys and the coaches some credit. While there are some obvious areas to work on, they played really hard and had the #3 team in the country scared to death with a minute to play. They were down 13 in the 2nd half and could've easily given up and got blown out by over 20 but they didn't. They forced turnovers with aggressive D and Trent was fantastic. To all of the doomsdayers ... please think back to the last 10 years or so of awful Illinois basketball. This team is not there yet but they are really heading in the right direction. Wins define a program's success and hopefully we make a tournament this year. Maybe we will and maybe we won't but we are 3 games in and this body of work should be really appealing to future recruits! My last comment would be to ask the folks that still aren't happy ... how do you think a John Groce coached team would have fared last night? Turn that frown upside down!:shield: [/QUOTE]
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