Where do they find a hill like that in Champaign?
Illini Basketball 2026-2027
By DCR fields / baseball complex.
Have I even been a #9thMan argument advocate? I’ve said one of Zens / Williams / Brown should be able to fill those super low responsibilities.
Either way, it’s BARELY in the rotation, if he’s not completely out of it. I see it parallel to Dra Gibbs Lawhorn freshman season.
DGL in 4 tournament games:
10 minutes
8 minutes
6 minutes
9 minutes
Reibe in 6 tournament games:
5 minutes
11 minutes
7 monutes
7 minutes
5 minutes
5 minutes
Perhaps in the regular season Reibe played a little more, but it’s moot.
I mean no matter which side of the #9thman debate we are on, if someone plays in all 40 games and never plays less than 5 minutes in ANY of those 40 games, I think its crazy difficult to argue he isn't "in the rotation". Even if you are playing 5 minutes, its because you are being rotated in to play. None of these games we are talking about were blowouts. I do not see how this is arguable. He averaged 14 minutes per game, he was most certainly a rotation player.
Reibe played 552 minutes, DGL played 200 minutes
Reibe had zero DNPs, DGL had 10 DNPs
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
Let’s check in on how a key participant in today’s third place World Cup game feels about playing in a consolation match.
That would be nice...and offensively that might prove true. But JJ has the size, athleticism, along with maturity/some limited experience to defensively prove an adequate defender against B1G bigs under 7'. Not sure either the frosh or JJ can become dependable, but we will all hold out the hope that it comes to fruition.
Illinicpa14
- Chicago
Can someone let me know when this thread stops being highjacked around USCs bench and where their 9th man is in our hypothetical rotation? Ive never seen such intense opinions on maybe the most irrelevant team to our success.
And I hope they’re good - we play them at home and can get a Q1 win.
The AQI went down to moderate today in Chicagoland, you should be outside.
And I hope they’re good - we play them at home and can get a Q1 win.
The AQI went down to moderate today in Chicagoland, you should be outside.
Ok, for this to not be a false equivalent we'd have to pretend that there's not value in the earned FIFA world points for future tournament seeding.
We also have to pretend that we don't see this with college bowl games where even UDFAs opt out of inconsequential bowl games.
Lastly we have to pretend that England and France don't already have all their fans in country and wouldn't play on broken glass to claim victory in a friendly.
We need to do a lot of pretending to make this a valid point.
Or at least on vacation. You should be enjoying some of the airport's finest offerings, sadly no cottage cheese but just about everything else...
stlrunner
jakeyjakey
- St Louis, MO
Are you...Eric Musselman? Because I don't think anybody is buying USC as the next Michigan...even Eric Musselman.
stlrunner
jakeyjakey
- St Louis, MO
I mean, his anti-Illinois bias is just what I expect, but his take on Maryland being 5th is the weirdest part of this, isn't it? Or am I missing something?
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Torvik has Purdue 8th and Maryland 10th. So he pushed both up 5 spots.