Illini Basketball 2026-2027

illini0440 said:

Just saying…I’d much rather have to figure out how to try and stop people from scoring than try to figure out how to score….

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IlliniHardwood said:

Sounds good to me. Hang the banner.

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Fly Illini Fly! said:

Which is why I like to look at it amongst power 5 teams (problem is you'll kinda need to count all the way down).

Of the top 50 nationally, there were only 7 teams who were from the P5. Though #1 was Cal and #2 was Boston College (both from the ACC).

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Here's the free throw percentage defenses of every BIG TEN team, ranked. Illinois was 8th:

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ChiTown said:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2086630296925966605

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March2TheArch said:

Dope! I didn’t know the rules of HS players spending time on campus prior to official enrollment. Hope we can get Cole Kelly on campus soon too.

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hoopsfan47 said:

You can decide if our beloved Illini earned that title. There was no national championship tournament in 1915...but the Fighting Illini basketball team earned 16 victories without a loss.

But some organization named the Helms Athletic Foundation was founded 21 years after that season. Some part of that Foundation retroactively awarded the national title to the Illini.

So there you have it.

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