RichardKeenesCousin
Richard Keene's Cousin
Im changing my name is Luke DeCock ASAP.
Illinois #13 in 12/18 AP Poll
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Im changing my name is Luke DeCock ASAP.
2008-2020, may have been one the worst stretches in program history. Thank God, Whitman cleaned up Geunther's mess.
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French plums?
Exhibit A as to why the AP poll is a joke. But, hey, at least he has us "under consideration" in his little column someone lets him publish somewhere. At best, he is an uninformed boob. But I doubt that is the story here. Would be mildly interesting to look into his history and background as I'm sure there is a reason, but not interesting enough to actually do it.Illinois Fighting Illini Basketball at College Poll Tracker
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This is a break down of each week from the preseason on. Looks like Luke DeCock has even had us ranked once this year.
That website displays which teams each voter places above/below average over however many weeks they’ve been ranked. And interestingly enough, that voter has Illinois ranked 0 spots above average over 52 weeks.
Don’t get his bias towards this year’s team, but doesn’t appear to be bias towards Illinois
Don’t get his bias towards this year’s team, but doesn’t appear to be bias towards Illinois
Evanstonians aren’t all bad.
89illini
- Grand Rapids, MI
Went to Loyola with him. He's from Wilmette.
It seems like the 1 seeds are dominant when we are in the upper part of the bracket
Honestly I want to be in a bracket that has upsets around us and presents favorable match ups. In March you have to beat good teams
To me this is more important than your ranking. I understand all the benefits so we don’t need to discuss if rankings matter but they make no sense. Also just like refs get critiqued so should voters. They should have to justify votes
I don’t understand rankings MSU is 5-5 has a NET in the 40s and get votes because they beat Baylor. Just show you the power of your brand.
I think they are a good team who played a tough schedule but only truly has 1 win other 4 wins were against weaker teams
Fair enough. He was just born in Evanston than?
Loyalillini10
- Urbana, IL
That would be if his name was Luke "DeBalls". I'll see myself out.
89illini
- Grand Rapids, MI
No hospitals in Wilmette, born in Evanston, just like me.
Twig and berries, as they say across the pond
DeCock got burned by Kofi too many times. Still holding a grudge it seems.
These comments …. SMH
MSU is an outlier. How many years has Izzo scheduled tough, lost several, and then used that to fuel a great run through the conference or tourney? And if you believe in statistical measures, that is a very, very tough record, James Madison not withstanding. Some of the stats sites: Sagarin has them at 22, schedule 3rd in the country, and 9 of their games as top-25. Torvik has MSU at #7, 5th best offense, and projects them at 14-6 in conf. KenPom has them 23. Their resume is deceptive. That's still a very, very good team and will be tough in the conference race. Izzo is doing what Izzo does (i.e. not worried about Nov/Dec and focused on March).
That is last year's final Sagarin rating. He is not doing it anymore.
Retro62
- North Bethesda, Maryland
Jerry Glanville always left tickets for Elvis...I say Underwood and Whitman always have a ticket for Bill Murray...who at least could show up...unless Glanville knew something none of the rest of us knew.
The sports writer in Louisville Kentucky has us 10th in his poll.
Bigtex
- DFW
Fortunately Whitman cleaned up the mess Mike Thomas did in such a short amount of time.
Guether ran Self out of town. Refused to even renegotiate his contract. Then hired Weber and killed a mini golden age of Illinois Basketball.
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