Illini Basketball 2026-2027

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HoopsterMan
wc_illini said:
Indeed, sportsbooks have a clear 1st and 2nd tier then it gets muddy (but they still give it a 66% chance it isn't one of the top 4):
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LSU in front of Bama and USC? They have 5 players.

It's often hard to predict. If you look at the last couple surprises in the F4.

Illinois preseason 17 - who saw Wagler coming?
Florida preseson 21 - who saw no names Condin, Haugh, Chinyelu coming?
Arizona - 13 - very young, 3 freshmen, offset with Bradley.

A couple teams are bound to pull our of the 10-25 range and make a run, guessing who is the hard part.

I am not giving Kelsey any chance of winning anything, even with a 30mm roster.
 
#277      
Bigtex
signed up today for Big+ to catch 2 exhibition games and 1 regular season game Lets Go!!
 
#278      
EmpoweredIllini
HoopsterMan said:
Looking at the F4 box, looks like they gave Tomi his shots, focused on shutting down the rest of the floor.

The early season match, Tomi only had 5 shots. Mirk did very little in either game, so it seemed their focus was on shutting down Mirk and keeping the rest of the floor inefficient.

Brad needs to grab that tape and understand how to hedge.
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"here is my advise for illinois coaching staff after quickly glancing at couple box scores"

is rarely so simple, i actually thought the final 4 game that illinois played really well and shots didn't go in or rolled around rim etc etc, while it seemed uconn was getting bounces off top of the backboard and banking in threes and stuff like that
 
#279      
wc_illini
HoopsterMan said:
LSU in front of Bama and USC? They have 5 players.

It's often hard to predict. If you look at the last couple surprises in the F4.

Illinois preseason 17 - who saw Wagler coming?
Florida preseson 21 - who saw no names Condin, Haugh, Chinyelu coming?
Arizona - 13 - very young, 3 freshmen, offset with Bradley.

A couple teams are bound to pull our of the 10-25 range and make a run, guessing who is the hard part.

I am not giving Kelsey any chance of winning anything, even with a 30mm roster.
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Looks like LSU got to 10 players last week
 
#280      
HoopsterMan
EmpoweredIllini said:
"here is my advise for illinois coaching staff after quickly glancing at couple box scores"

is rarely so simple, i actually thought the final 4 game that illinois played really well and shots didn't go in or rolled around rim etc etc, while it seemed uconn was getting bounces off top of the backboard and banking in threes and stuff like that
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There was some of that, but I don't think we're in any place to call it bad bounces against those guys at this point.
 
#281      
wc_illini
HoopsterMan said:
LSU in front of Bama and USC? They have 5 players.

It's often hard to predict. If you look at the last couple surprises in the F4.

Illinois preseason 17 - who saw Wagler coming?
Florida preseson 21 - who saw no names Condin, Haugh, Chinyelu coming?
Arizona - 13 - very young, 3 freshmen, offset with Bradley.

A couple teams are bound to pull our of the 10-25 range and make a run, guessing who is the hard part.

I am not giving Kelsey any chance of winning anything, even with a 30mm roster.
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wc_illini said:
Looks like LSU got to 10 players last week
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And they were 26th in odds a couple months ago (just behind USC, Indiana, and Alabama), so I guess the books are higher on them now with a more complete roster?
 
#282      
RabidDawgClassic
Bigtex said:
signed up today for Big+ to catch 2 exhibition games and 1 regular season game Lets Go!!
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#285      
EmpoweredIllini
HoopsterMan said:
There was some of that, but I don't think we're in any place to call it bad bounces against those guys at this point.
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was speaking of the final 4 game

hard to watch that game and not come away with clear impression that we played them really well but shots didnt go

definitely seemed a corner was turned there
 
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#290      
HoopsterMan
wc_illini said:
And they were 26th in odds a couple months ago (just behind USC, Indiana, and Alabama), so I guess the books are higher on them now with a more complete roster?
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Still makes no sense TBH. I can see them on the back end of the odds, but in front of a lot of those programs. Bama makes absolutely no sense. F4 coach with retention and one player consistently mocked first round.
 
#291      
Curbelo Fanboy
EmpoweredIllini said:
"here is my advise for illinois coaching staff after quickly glancing at couple box scores"

is rarely so simple, i actually thought the final 4 game that illinois played really well and shots didn't go in or rolled around rim etc etc, while it seemed uconn was getting bounces off top of the backboard and banking in threes and stuff like that
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I've contended we were the better team at the final four game. We got high quality shots all game & just could not hit anything. And as you mentioned UConn had a few shooter's luck kind of shots go in. We rebounded well, defended pretty well, just could not shoot for crap that day.
 
#292      
Curbelo Fanboy
wc_illini said:
Indeed, sportsbooks have a clear 1st and 2nd tier then it gets muddy (but they still give it a 66% chance it isn't one of the top 4):
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I've never hoped for a 15/1 ticket to cash quite like the one I am holding on Illinois to win the title. We are clearly in the "A" tier of expected contenders. Just need to play our best at the right time.
 
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