Illini Women's Basketball 2023

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illini80

Forgottonia
Hill seems so have a Goode type injury. Our season may be what we saw the other night.
Ugh.
Season 5 No GIF by The Office

Frustrated The Office GIF
 
#329      

Gamefan49

Westville, Illinois
Good start. Go ILLINI! Wash the nasty taste of the men's loss out of my mouth.
 
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illini80

Forgottonia
Some nice bench minutes today to give the starters a little rest. Hope they can get comfortable quickly. We will be needing them in the tourney.
 
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uofi7477

Silver & Gold Vandals
So refreshing and enjoyable - even more so in comparison. Coach Green had a new team that returned only 5 players (I think) and got 21 wins in her first season. However, even before the games started, she worked successfully to get the players to know each other, and then gel to become a fine Team.
 
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DeonThomas

South Carolina
Illini 11-7 (21-8)
Mich 11-7 (21-8)

Despite the importance of NET and SOS, I refuse to believe that one of these teams will be given a 4-seed in the NCAA tourney and the other will be given a 10-seed. (I guess I didn't realize that Joe Lunardi's bias reached all the way into Women's Bracketology.)
 
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uofi7477

Silver & Gold Vandals
wish we could use the women's bb when we play......anything to help the fella's.....................
Sorry Pru, I wish to help the men too, but it is not the circumference of the ball itself but the distance between their ears that is a bunch of the problem. I.e., the women could use the men's basketball and they would be just as good.
 
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Illini 11-7 (21-8)
Mich 11-7 (21-8)

Despite the importance of NET and SOS, I refuse to believe that one of these teams will be given a 4-seed in the NCAA tourney and the other will be given a 10-seed. (I guess I didn't realize that Joe Lunardi's bias reached all the way into Women's Bracketology.)
The bracketology stuff is like Mock Drafts and gets switched up every few days. Those seeds were updated before both teams played their last game. Michigan beat up on Rutgers day before update and than lost to Wisconsin afterwards(worst BT loss for them). Illinois lost at home to Nebraska by 33 and had not played the Rutgers game at time.

I think part of it has to do with strength of teams at the top. Outside of the top 1-3 seeds overall it is a Crapshoot after that.

It is almost like the Big Ten has different tiers for tourney/bubble teams

Indiana, Maryland, Iowa

Ohio State, Michigan

Illinois

Purdue

Nebraska


Michigan lost to the top tier teams just like us but beat up on the mid tier teams. Illinois lost to Michigan, Purdue, Nebraska split. Illinois has the Iowa win, Michigan had more impressive non-conference wins. Michigan beat Nebraska twice, beat Illinois by 17 and Purdue by 21. Michigan is one of those teams that could stay around 4-5 slot or get bumped down few more slots. Play winner of Penn St/Minnesota. If they win that and than beat Ohio State, likely would stay 4ish area. New update likely out today or tomorrow and keeps changing(be shocked if Illinois isn't 8 or 9, likely 9). Purdue was on 10 line last time and just lost to Minnesota and have Wisconsin left. Purdue is likely in but if they lose to Wisconsin things could get more sketchy and likely one of last 4 teams in.
 
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