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<blockquote data-quote="BananaShampoo" data-source="post: 1206329" data-attributes="member: 3403"><p>I'd argue that but for not having a healthy team this season, we'd already being an upslope on that trend of Groce's tenure. With a healthy Abrams, Thorne, Nunn (for the full season), and Black I'm confident this team would have beaten teams like Providence, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Wiscy, and Penn St both times and we'd have ended up with something closer to 23 wins heading into the NCAA tourney, likely ending up with a 7-9 seed and feeling pretty confident going into next season with our best players as seniors and a great group of sophs. Yes, we'd be arguing about how TJL was going to pick up the slack for Abrams being gone and what big man was going to replace the production of Thorne, but we'd all be in a much happier spot. Sadly, our rebuild got delayed for a year and not making the tourney allowed a couple players to be stupid...and here we are (because Illinois basketball).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BananaShampoo, post: 1206329, member: 3403"] I'd argue that but for not having a healthy team this season, we'd already being an upslope on that trend of Groce's tenure. With a healthy Abrams, Thorne, Nunn (for the full season), and Black I'm confident this team would have beaten teams like Providence, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Wiscy, and Penn St both times and we'd have ended up with something closer to 23 wins heading into the NCAA tourney, likely ending up with a 7-9 seed and feeling pretty confident going into next season with our best players as seniors and a great group of sophs. Yes, we'd be arguing about how TJL was going to pick up the slack for Abrams being gone and what big man was going to replace the production of Thorne, but we'd all be in a much happier spot. Sadly, our rebuild got delayed for a year and not making the tourney allowed a couple players to be stupid...and here we are (because Illinois basketball). [/QUOTE]
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