Illini Basketball 2025-2026

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hodgesonfire
PepeSilvia said:
To be fair to Kasparis, he had a slightly lower turnover rate than freshman 6th man of year Curbelo.

And until the very end of the season when Riley emerged, Kasparis was incredibly ball dominant and created most of the opportunities for the offense. He was also constantly getting blitzed because Kylan was an abysmal shooter for most of the season.
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From my stat check curbello had 80 in 1034 minutes. 0.077 per minute.

Kasparov had 123 in 1045 minutes. 0.118 per minute.

This is what I found on the Illinois website under player stats. FWIW.
 
#427      
RabidDawgClassic
EyeoftheIllini said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1957846811080593582
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#429      
PepeSilvia
hodgesonfire said:
From my stat check curbello had 80 in 1034 minutes. 0.077 per minute.

Kasparov had 123 in 1045 minutes. 0.118 per minute.

This is what I found on the Illinois website under player stats. FWIW.
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I pulled it from CBB ref.

For TOV% they have Kasparis at 22.7% and Curbelo was at 23.7 as a freshman and 23.4% as a sophomore.

Per 100 possessions they have Kasparis at 6.5 with Curbelo at 6.7 and 8.5.

TOV% is calculated with more than just turnovers and minutes. I don't know the exact formula but I takes in possessions(field goal attempts and free throws, etc )

For some real world context, last years team played at a much faster pace than the Illini teams Curbelo played on when they had Kofi. So even if Kasparis had more raw turnovers , they were on more possessions which pushes his rate lower than Curbelo.
 
#430      
illinifan1987
Fighter of the Nightman said:
I hate when people (especially younger folks on social media) try to act like the conference championship/tournament/other regular season accomplishments don't matter, but I will say this ... in the Underwood Era, we have checked off all of the boxes short of a Final Four, which takes quite a bit of luck and everything coming together. 2020 brought us back to respectability and national relevance. 2021 brought a BTT championship, a #1 seed and top-10-level prestige. 2022 brought us the regular season championship. 2024 brought us that coveted Elite Eight and Second Weekend experience. Hell, even a somewhat disappointing 2025 season arguably cemented us as a player for putting kids in the NBA on par with the elite programs and re-cemented our ability to recruit at a high level for a sustained period, plus ... finally beating Purdue again!

All of that is to say I am A-okay with being third in the pecking order of the Big Ten. While it likely means a league championship will be very difficult, it also means we will be a very good team that earns a good seed. And at this point in our program's trajectory, my major concern is "stacking the odds in our favor" of a Final Four run ... and in college hoops, that means returning to March Madness with the best possible seed you can every year and rolling the dice to see if you can just keep winning. If you're always in the conversation, eventually you will break through.
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Lol @ not having anything good to say about 2023
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Other than a Monster Energy sponsorship...
 
#433      
DICKnaggie
hodgesonfire said:
From my stat check curbello had 80 in 1034 minutes. 0.077 per minute.

Kasparov had 123 in 1045 minutes. 0.118 per minute.

This is what I found on the Illinois website under player stats. FWIW.
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How many chickens sandwiches did both eat during pressers? That's the real metric.
 
#434      
BretMyBeachHouse
Calvin said:
Seems like a pretty fair take. Offensively should be a very good team. Not seeing the defense being top-15 though.

Sad when he mentioned Ty. Think the expectation is he's out for the season and we'll be without that toughness. Might really need that at times.
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We could have used it last season.

Go back in our history. It seems like underperforming teams lack that element.

We may have enough without Ty. We'll see.
 
#436      
Brosky
The Pantagraph also included previous games and scores of past meetings between the two teams:
1920--Illinois 31, ISNU 21 (this game was played in Normal)
1921--Illinois 42, ISNU 17
1979--Illinois 47, ISU 40. I was at this game. It was disgusting--ISU stalled for what seemed like the whole second half. There was no shot clock, and the Redbirds ran the "four corners" just playing keep away.
1980--Illinois 75, ISU 65. I was also at this game.
i982--Illinois 67, ISU 60. I was also at this game.
2001--Illinois 87, ISU 73
2004--Illinois 80, ISU 73
2011--Illinois 63, ISU 59. This game was played in Cancun in a November tournament.
That makes the Illini record against the Redbirds 8-0.
 
#439      
Fighter of the Nightman
illinifan1987 said:
Lol @ not having anything good to say about 2023
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Other than a Monster Energy sponsorship...
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Haha, here is the one thing I would say that was great about the 2022-23 season in general - it completely shattered the last remaining arguments from rival fans that Illini Basketball wasn't "back" to stay. What I mean by that is haters were able to explain away the 2021 #1 seed/BTT championship team due to Ayo; I DISTINCTLY remember other teams' fans on the national Rivals message board saying things like "Back to the basement after Ayo leaves." Then after 2022 and the Big Ten regular season championship, the haters said the same thing except they substituted Kofi for Ayo. Even though 2023 was a huge disappointment overall, for us to have TOTALLY reloaded with highly touted transfers like TSJ and Mayer was a bit of a statement that we weren't going to be reliant on winning one or two recruiting battles to remain contenders ... we were going to continue to reload with high-level talent.
 
#440      
Battle89
Fighter of the Nightman said:
Haha, here is the one thing I would say that was great about the 2022-23 season in general - it completely shattered the last remaining arguments from rival fans that Illini Basketball wasn't "back" to stay. What I mean by that is haters were able to explain away the 2021 #1 seed/BTT championship team due to Ayo; I DISTINCTLY remember other teams' fans on the national Rivals message board saying things like "Back to the basement after Ayo leaves." Then after 2022 and the Big Ten regular season championship, the haters said the same thing except they substituted Kofi for Ayo. Even though 2023 was a huge disappointment overall, for us to have TOTALLY reloaded with highly touted transfers like TSJ and Mayer was a bit of a statement that we weren't going to be reliant on winning one or two recruiting battles to remain contenders ... we were going to continue to reload with high-level talent.
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Top-5 all-time in-person Illini event for me
 
#445      
AirNeazy
Doubt we ever see a player for us with ice in veins comparable to Ayo ever again. Incredible clutch shot maker. Favorite one is when he destroyed Davison's ankles, nails the three on him, then yells to anyone who could listen how disrespectful it was to have a scrub like that try to guard him.

Say what you want about Trent, Kofi, TSJ...but those Ayo shots put us where we are today and frankly saved Underwood's tenure here. Modern Illinois GOAT in my eyes.
 
#447      
Brosky
Larry Stewart connection? Or am I too late on the draw?
 
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