Illini Basketball 2025-2026

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JKR
thefalcon5 said:
Cmon man. Let’s save this kind of energy for when nw beats us in January, not an exhibition game where you got to see anything other than a box score.
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Do you have a box score ink?
 
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Piotyr said:
Counterpoint: they also beat #1 Kansas a year earlier in a secret scrimmage and lost in the first round as a 9 seed.

Reading too much into results of a scrimmage, particularly a secret scrimmage, is a pointless endeavor.
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I’m too lazy to look it up, but wasn’t that the year Luke Goode broke his foot? I think that kind of set the Illinois program that year back a bit as he was projected to be a starter and (again I am too lazy to look it up) due to the recovery I don’t think he played the role Illinois expected of him. Which in turn may have affected Illinois’ chances in the tourney.
 
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OrangeBlue98
I deal with a lot of this in my day job. It can be an incredibly powerful weapon, especially when used incorrectly.
 
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Guest said:
I’m too lazy to look it up, but wasn’t that the year Luke Goode broke his foot? I think that kind of set the Illinois program that year back a bit as he was projected to be a starter and (again I am too lazy to look it up) due to the recovery I don’t think he played the role Illinois expected of him. Which in turn may have affected Illinois’ chances in the tourney.
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Piotyr said:
Counterpoint: they also beat #1 Kansas a year earlier in a secret scrimmage and lost in the first round as a 9 seed.

Reading too much into results of a scrimmage, particularly a secret scrimmage, is a pointless endeavor.
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Though I meant to add that I agree with your second sentence.
 
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PasadenaIllini
IlliniFan42 said:
I'll flip things around- can we care about the exhibition results, or at least not completely disregard them? The sole year under Underwood that we got out of the first weekend, we beat preseason #1 Kansas in our exhibition game.
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I would be a lot more concerned about the fact that by far our most expensive NIL transfer who we were counting on to lead our team is injured with no firm return date. We are only hearing that he's out "a few weeks more," whatever that means.
 
#859      
RabidDawgClassic
cjw1901 said:
Sorry, but that sounds a poor approach. Why would you wait two months into the Big Ten season to fix problems that are obvious now? That's a good way to start off in middle to the back of the pack and never get yourself near the top again.

No, I'm with Coach Underwood. That's an absolute red flag to give up 53 points in the first half and a serious number of offensive rebounds (in route to giving up 18 offense boards on the game, which is double what Illinois gave opponents last season on a pretty good rebounding team). Yeah, that's a definite problem and one that is not solved by the getting Mihailo or a healthy Andrej out there. Instead, it means putting more attention on toughness and rebounding and like keeping Mirk in most of the game, as one of the few guys with some serious fight in him. Otherwise, expect games like when Maryland big men schooled the Illini in route to a 21-point win on our home court. Yeah, that's what Illinois gets, when they can't play defense and get beat on the boards.
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Spoiler alert: none of us here can fix any of the team’s problems. We’re (presumably) not the coaching staff.
 
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thefalcon5
cjw1901 said:
Sorry, but that sounds a poor approach. Why would you wait two months into the Big Ten season to fix problems that are obvious now? That's a good way to start off in middle to the back of the pack and never get yourself near the top again.

No, I'm with Coach Underwood. That's an absolute red flag to give up 53 points in the first half and a serious number of offensive rebounds (in route to giving up 18 offense boards on the game, which is double what Illinois gave opponents last season on a pretty good rebounding team). Yeah, that's a definite problem and one that is not solved by the getting Mihailo or a healthy Andrej out there. Instead, it means putting more attention on toughness and rebounding and like keeping Mirk in most of the game, as one of the few guys with some serious fight in him. Otherwise, expect games like when Maryland big men schooled the Illini in route to a 21-point win on our home court. Yeah, that's what Illinois gets, when they can't play defense and get beat on the boards.
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I meant your chicken little energy is a bit premature.

As others have pointed out, closed door scrimmages aren’t for stat stuffing, winning or losing, but more so to practice situational basketball. Florida is preseason 3 and we lost by 10 you really need to calm down about the outcome of this game. And again, you watched exactly 0 seconds of this game, you have no idea what happened to lead to the end game results.

Might I suggest three fingers of glenlivet 14 to ease your mind. Feel free to yell about the sky falling when we play real games.
 
#862      
HereSoIDontGetFined
LvilleILL1 said:
The score was indeed 96-86.

Heard that it was extremely close throughout the game. Florida pulled away to win at the very end.

Mihailo played a little bit, but they did not have him out there much (heard 8 minutes-did not want to risk anything).

No Stojakovic as I mentioned earlier this week.

Tomislav Ivisic was on a minute limit and looked "extremely good." Heard he had over 15 points in 18 minutes.

Keaton Wagler with another big step, he was in double digits scoring and knocked down multiple threes.

Boswell led the team in scoring and looked really good. We are in for a big year from him.

Lastly, and most important:

David Mirkovic with 16 and 6 against one of the best frontcourts in the country. "He's the real deal."
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Pretty much all that matters in a scrimmage.. Don't care a bit about the final score. Just want to hear guys are playing well.
 
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jamie13197
Good warm up and lessons. Defense alot of work to do. Great thing. No Injuries Right?
 
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Guest
Does anyone know if Boogie Fland was indeed out? And the reason? Injury? I looked that up and couldn’t find any reference to an injury except for last year. If he were not out, then, well, it seems as if that would bolster our optimism since AS was out and TI and MP had limited minutes. On the other hand, I have to keep repeating to myself that "it’s just a scrimmage, it’s just a scrimmage, (slower and fainter) it’s just a scrimmage”, as I nod off and dream of a natty.
 
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joeybcrazy13
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