Illini Basketball 2026-2027

RollChief said:

What about Carlos Medlock? Doesn't MSU need a scrappy, undersized PG this year?

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PleaseMakeABowlGame said:

Depth isn’t about removing three players. It’s about how many guys can realistically play in Big Ten games.

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NarrowJ said:

To me, depth is not about 'who are your 9th and 10th players who will play 4 minutes in a lopsided game?' but rather about how well you could withstand player absences.

Big Z is as good of a backup center as there is in the nation, likely is the best.

Jake Davis is as solid of a replacement on the wing as anyone in the country as well.

If a ballhandler goes down, you have the same issue most everyone else has. How good are Michigan St without Fears or USC without Rice? Just for example...

If 3-4 guys go down, again you have the same issue most everyone else has as that's too much to overcome anyhow as you don't have another star or two sitting at the end of the bench.

Deep team, but our 9/10th guys are top 100 while other team's are ranked a bit higher than that, which is really just a big old meh-who-cares-mc-nothing-burger.

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the juiceman cometh said:

Just getting caught up here, but we're sweating the depth of a team that's starting Bonke at the 5?

Temu Big Z in their starting lineup and we think they're deeper than us? Am I getting that right? I mean I swear I searched for "Zvonomir Ivisic" on AliExpress and Bonke popped up for $17.62 (with a free gift ratchet set). Pretty sure that's where Izzo found him.

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