Illinois #12 in 3/4 AP Poll

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danielb927
Passed Auburn and Kansas (big drop from #7 to #14). Baylor leapfrogs us to #11 - makes sense that people would rank them ahead of Kansas after the head-to-head win this week.
 
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pruman91
B$G only has the beloved and purdont in top 25..........zero-izzo's with 2 votes.....hmmmmm............down year compared to B12 ,
Big East , and SEC.........Oh well , we are upholding our end of it........

Watched the first game with purdont earlier this morning and sure hope we get off to a better start at home and WITH TSJ..........
Gonna watch purdont's last game they played and see if i can see anything different about them...........It's a thing with me , you know.....seeing how the beloved and other B$G teams look at different times in the season......I really really do.........JMHO..........
 
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NarrowJ
pruman91 said:
B$G only has the beloved and purdont in top 25..........zero-izzo's with 2 votes.....hmmmmm............down year compared to B12 ,
Big East , and SEC.........Oh well , we are upholding our end of it........

Watched the first game with purdont earlier this morning and sure hope we get to a better start at home and WITH TSJ..........
Gonna watch purdont's last game they played and see if i can see anything different about them...........It's a thing with me , you know.....seeing how the beloved and other B$G teams look at different times in the season......I really really do.........JMHO..........
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#10      
derrick6
Too many teams in front that weā€™ll never be ranked ahead ofā€¦until there is no choice
 
#11      
RabidDawgClassic
Iā€™d prefer two-week streak of using this GIF to end the regular season, but Iā€™ll have the ā€œDownerā€ one ready, just in case. šŸ«¤

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#13      
Fighter of the Nightman
Mr. Tibbs said:
if we go 2-0 this week , we will be in the top 10.
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Given how ranked teams have dropped like flies this year and how many good matchups there are this week, I would guess it goes something like this:

0-2 --> #16 or so (remember we have not gone 0-2 in a long time)
1-1, beat Iowa --> #13 or #14 (Iowa game is so late it might not provide a bounce back)
1-1, beat Purdue --> #10
2-0 --> #7 or #8

I feel like your average pollster would see #12 Illinois beat #2 Purdue and win a road game and skyrocket us past anyone in our "neighborhood" that went 1-1 or worse. Then again, the Iowa game being so late on Sunday night might actually affect how much it is considered, as referenced above.
 
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BackThatPassUp
Mr. Tibbs said:
if we go 2-0 this week , we will be in the top 10.
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If we go 2-0 we'll be in the top 7. It seems the pollsters are heavily rewarding teams for top 5 wins regardless of what others do ahead of them. It really doesn't matter now though. Our max is being a two seed if we win out and have a couple of blunders by teams like Marquette, UNC, etc. I think our floor is still a 5 seed. The goal should be to at least do enough to become a 3 seed.
 
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ptgrd23
BackThatPassUp said:
If we go 2-0 we'll be in the top 7. It seems the pollsters are heavily rewarding teams for top 5 wins regardless of what others do ahead of them. It really doesn't matter now though. Our max is being a two seed if we win out and have a couple of blunders by teams like Marquette, UNC, etc. I think our floor is still a 5 seed. The goal should be to at least do enough to become a 3 seed.
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Marquette might be in trouble if he is not back 100% for NCAA. If I am Shaka I rest him for rest of season and Big East tournament. NCAA seed means nothing. They want to make a good NCAA tourney run.

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Marquette star Tyler Kolek (oblique) out at least next two games

Marquette star guard Tyler Kolek will miss at least the final two games of the regular season with an oblique injury.
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Monticello
BackThatPassUp said:
If we go 2-0 we'll be in the top 7. It seems the pollsters are heavily rewarding teams for top 5 wins regardless of what others do ahead of them. It really doesn't matter now though. Our max is being a two seed if we win out and have a couple of blunders by teams like Marquette, UNC, etc. I think our floor is still a 5 seed. The goal should be to at least do enough to become a 3 seed.
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I agree with this. I said last week if we swept Wisconsin, Purdue, and Iowa that we could be a top 5 team come BTT time. If that PSU game was the last of the hiccups, we're hitting our stride at the perfect time!
 
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Bbuck21
pruman91 said:
B$G only has the beloved and purdont in top 25..........zero-izzo's with 2 votes.....hmmmmm............down year compared to B12 ,
Big East , and SEC.........Oh well , we are upholding our end of it........

Watched the first game with purdont earlier this morning and sure hope we get off to a better start at home and WITH TSJ..........
Gonna watch purdont's last game they played and see if i can see anything different about them...........It's a thing with me , you know.....seeing how the beloved and other B$G teams look at different times in the season......I really really do.........JMHO..........
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If you see something, call it in.
 
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