Illini Women's Basketball 2025-2026
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Agree, but I think it won’t work against the elite teams. Just don’t see how we can win with really only one frontcourt player in Lety. Parchment and Wallace are great, but aren’t bruisers. I saw Haven play against UCLA last year when Bostic was in foul trouble and she did well. I guess I would like to see Haven and Benson get at least 3 or 4 minutes but what do I know..
Haven definitely has size that you can’t teach. Offensively she doesn’t appear to be someone you want shooting.
Benson has girth and athleticism that could really spell a couple of players. Surprised she’s not being developed in game situations but perhaps we don’t want to provide too much tape? (Wishful thinking)
Excited to see how coach approaches these top tier B1G teams. She definitely has some pieces to work with similar to the men’s.
ptgrd23
- orange county CA
We need to find the assistant coach who turned Zack Edey into a NPOY.
Haven has size but moves in slow motion and seems to struggle with court awareness. I would plant her under the basket and say.
1. grab every rebound you can reach.
2. block any shot within 2 ft
3. Never leave this spot on defense.
4. teach her a baby hook shot.
No reason she cant be as effective as Lety who is same size and slowness. Lety just knows what to do.
Haven has size but moves in slow motion and seems to struggle with court awareness. I would plant her under the basket and say.
1. grab every rebound you can reach.
2. block any shot within 2 ft
3. Never leave this spot on defense.
4. teach her a baby hook shot.
No reason she cant be as effective as Lety who is same size and slowness. Lety just knows what to do.
Hope Berry-Wallace is okay - elbow to the face from the Mean Green player.
JimILL75
- Florida
Very physical game today against North Texas, already an F1 on North Texas and both teams with large number of fouls. N Tex 9 Illini 6 at the end of first Quarter. The kind of game why we have Smith, she got minutes in the first, pushed others around including knocking one player down that they then called for traveling. We are up 16-9 after one.
Maddie Webber with 6 off the bench and looking good again.
Maddie Webber with 6 off the bench and looking good again.
Destiny Jackson is an incredible rebounder
JimILL75
- Florida
Benson with a real nice block to save two at the end of first half. Not a game for the weak or meek, both teams in foul trouble, each team with 6 players that have 2 or more fouls. Jaz has 3 for us. We could use Guyton in this game. Up 42-28 at half and our ability of get scoring from a variety of players help. Along with playing 4 bigs, actually 5 if you count Irene. Just the fact we can sit both Lety and Parchment once they got in foul trouble and still have a taller player against the size of N Texas is nice. Just think if we had this to help Bostic out last year!
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
This is the second game this season where we are on track for regs to call over 60 fouls. Just ridiculous.
So happy to see Benson getting minutes
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
Interesting that the player called for the flagrant at the start of the game never came back in as far as I saw. Wonder what was up with that?
Though we currently stand at 10-1, we aren't finishing games particularly well. Some of our fourth quarter results:
SEMO beat us 24-19
Ill State tied us 20-20
Oregon St. beat us 21-18
Murry St. beat us 18-17
Indiana waxed us 25-10
N. Texas beat us 25-18
Not sure why but I wonder if it isn't a reflection of the number of minutes some of our kids are playing. Wallace and Dolan are our leading scorers, but they are averaging 32 and 30 minutes per game.
A real brute {Tac}. She's only played 24 minutes this season but has 9 fouls. They seem to only play her as an enforcer. There was one play today where Wallace was on the floor fighting for a loose ball and this gal literally dived on top of her.
In today’s game the 4th quarter amplified the advantage North Texas over us at each position. Where we have better athleticism they had size advantage. Where we had size they had athleticism advantage. In the 4th, the full court pressure turned us over and inexplicably we did not call timeout when trapped (Destiny).
We then had forced shots, some blocked (Berry).
And our D was soft especially at the rim.
The refs impact was material too for both teams.
A lot to learn from this 4th for the team, imo. It was tough to watch and Geeen was upset at the officiating.
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
Wow. That's crazy and horrible. No respect for that coach.
MustangWally
- Mayfield
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