Illini Basketball 2017-2018

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Is anyone concerned that Illinois beat Tenn-Martin by 3 but Akron beat Tenn-Martin by 17?
 
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CLEARWATERDAN said:
Is anyone concerned that Illinois beat Tenn-Martin by 3 but Akron beat Tenn-Martin by 17?
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On the flip side, are you excited that we beat Southern by 47, but Duke only beat them by 17?

No.

Because this transitive property thing rarely translates well to measuring how good a team is. Especially this early in the season.
 
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Illini Resurgence said:
It seemed to me that this year we had the worst non-conference schedule I could remember. So just for the heck of it I looked at KenPom ratings and non-conference strength of schedule since 2002:

Year / NCSOS / Final Overall Ranking

2018 302 98
2017 158 66
2016 176 125
2015 287 61
2014 278 53
2013 185 39
2012 219 76
2011 68 18
2010 103 57
2009 239 25
2008 70 51
2007 156 36
2006 268 9
2005 157 2
2004 89 13
2003 257 5
2002 32 8
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so this year we really have to win a lot of games
 
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CLEARWATERDAN said:
Is anyone concerned that Illinois beat Tenn-Martin by 3 but Akron beat Tenn-Martin by 17?
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Coaching makes all the difference :D

But seriously there is not transitive property as it relates to basketball scores. There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about this team (depending on your expectations), but I don't think this can reasonably be added to the list.
 
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Calvin said:
Just looking at stats through 4 games, and I'm happy to see that we're going 9 deep. Minutes:

104 Finke
102 Smith
92 Black
83 Alstork
76 Te'Jon
76 DMW
73 Jordan
71 Kipper
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22 Spicey G
23 Rest of team

Other stats of note:
Mark Smith is 20-20 on FTs
Leron has an A/T of 2.0
Te'Jon is picking pockets with 6 steals
Jordan is 50% from 3, while the rest of the team has been ugly, hitting under 23%.
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and it really looks like no one will drop out of that rotation, which bodes well for the pressure D....and hopefully Eboigbodin can drop into it to make it a ten man rotation :D
 
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FiveStar said:
I want to beat them at full strength. I want them to clone Michael porter 12 times and create 2 of every position and a couple managers. Then beat that team too. Want no excuses from either side in this game. Just hoopin.

That said, hope he’s okay come June cause it would suck to be the potential number 1 pick overall and have something like that set you back.
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it didn't hurt Embiid too much and he was hurt in the spring, I don't know if he would have been projected at #1, I think that was always a Wiggins vs Parker thing that year, but he didn't slip so.... I just checked nbadraft.net and they have him listed at #3 at this moment.
 
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