Illini Basketball 2025-2026
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PGC Basketball on Instagram: "This is what offensive efficiency looks like 🔥 Watch Illinois and notice how the offensive players hunt space and make 0.5-second decisions every possession. #basketball #thinkthegame #basketballbreakdown"
1,382 likes, 29 comments - pgcbasketball on February 6, 2026: "This is what offensive efficiency looks like 🔥 Watch Illinois and notice how the offensive players hunt space and make 0.5-second decisions every possession. #basketball #thinkthegame #basketballbreakdown".
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both put a lot of emphasis on Nebraska not being at full strength over the last 2 games. I assume neither one of them were alerted to the fact that Kylan hasn't played in 5 games and may not play for another 2 to 4. But we got MU at home!
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My goal right now is 17-3 in the B1G which looks very doable.
36-4 or bust!
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We no longer have a Home court advantage. How do we get it back?
I really hope we don’t limp into the postseason like that year when Trent Frazier had a black eye and looked like he’d gone twelve rounds in a prizefight
Last year Iowa Stare was rolling along and had a few injuries/devastating losses about this time of year. They never recovered, lost their juice, and got beat in the second round.
All of the stats don't mean sh--------i--------t if you can't make free throws. I thought this team might be the real deal but they are just like the other teams that can't hold a lead. pi-----s poor defense!
Another season of hype down the drain.
Another season of hype down the drain.
Eerily similar to that is we have been really short on our bench and playing a lot of people a lot of minutes. That team was just dead at the end of the season.
So whatever happened to all the talk at the beginning of the season about having a really deep bench.
That team wasn't nearly talented acorss the board.
I focused this morning on just the highlights of Wagler. I think to me, the thing that makes him a special talent is how he can shoot 3s off the dribble. He has that side step move where it’s smooth, the footwork is perfect, and at 6’6 nobody can challenge it. And he’s shooting 43% on 3s. Most guys are catch and shoot shooters. He’s off the dribble which is much harder and he still makes it look easy. 6’6 Steph Curry is really the highest praise anyone could put on a player but that’s really who he reminds me of. He doesn’t blow by people off the dribble, but he gets by anyone fairly easily at his own pace and handles the ball well in traffic. As he gets stronger he will really be a load finishing.
I may sound like a homer but I could see the case for taking him #1 bc I think his ceiling could be more developed than the other top freshmen. Boozer already appears fully developed. Same with Peterson. Dybantsa probably will be a better defensive player at that level just given his body type.
Steph Curry lasted till #8. But the NBA was different back then. Now with the game really being about 3s basically, it’d be a pretty easy sell to a GM that we got an 18 year old that plays like a 6’6 version of Curry
I may sound like a homer but I could see the case for taking him #1 bc I think his ceiling could be more developed than the other top freshmen. Boozer already appears fully developed. Same with Peterson. Dybantsa probably will be a better defensive player at that level just given his body type.
Steph Curry lasted till #8. But the NBA was different back then. Now with the game really being about 3s basically, it’d be a pretty easy sell to a GM that we got an 18 year old that plays like a 6’6 version of Curry
Our top 8 is extremely deep. Petrovic is a bust and Lee is a project type freshman. Jakstys has a medical issue and is out. I was hoping that we could get 5-10min out of Petrovic and/or Lee, but Underwood didn't go that route.
Yeah I saw a lot of fatigue and tired legs last night.When you get tired you tend to make mistakes hence the turnovers.
Such talk existed for every Illinois team going back to at least WWII.
All you need is 7-8 guys. We are just down 2 so it seems worse than it really is
Last year, Iowa State didn't have Keshon Gilbert for the tournament at all and Lipsey was hurt, but played. They were in the same location as Illinois last year(Milwaukee).
They literally never recovered. It wasn't a matter of just losing juice and not getting in the same page. Hopefully, we don't lose anyone of that note/importance outside of the prior month.
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