41% shooting, 26% from 3, and we win by double digits. Nice to have the man-mountain in the middle.
Illinois 76, Maryland 64 Postgame
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
Nope, played every single second.
Ignatius Shang
5th year PhD, school of Information Sciences
- Champaign, IL
... and that Big Ten winning streak should be 11 if we count the conference tournament games.
Epsilon
M tipping over
- Pdx
Yeah I’m a bit concerned about next year, but that’s a problem for mañana I guess.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
We're losing the luxury of no number next to our name
Scary without Kofi, but he's an absolute beast when he is on the floor. Glad he's an Illini!
And, I just gotta say, he puts up with so much trash from this league it's ridiculous! Constantly beat on, pushed (Ayala clearly pushed him with both hands in the back on one dunk), then some no-name punk hangs on the rim to try to posterize him with no T called. If he looks at someone the wrong way it's a foul called on him. It's sickening that the league allows this crap night after night, season after season to a legitimate POY candidate from their own league. They should be thoroughly ashamed of it.
Sorry for the rant, but it's infuriating at this point to me.
And, I just gotta say, he puts up with so much trash from this league it's ridiculous! Constantly beat on, pushed (Ayala clearly pushed him with both hands in the back on one dunk), then some no-name punk hangs on the rim to try to posterize him with no T called. If he looks at someone the wrong way it's a foul called on him. It's sickening that the league allows this crap night after night, season after season to a legitimate POY candidate from their own league. They should be thoroughly ashamed of it.
Sorry for the rant, but it's infuriating at this point to me.
I've said it before.
We must sit back and enjoy these Kofi days.
We must sit back and enjoy these Kofi days.
I have to revise my post #202 in Game Thread, we didn't win by 15. Only 12. Boom.
DeonThomas
- South Carolina
Pregame: Illinois vs Maryland, Thursday, January 6th, 6:00pm CT, ESPN2
Agree completely, I'm much more afraid of bad losses than hard games. Maybe getting more shots at the lower tier big ten teams in a year where we're on the bubble is a positive, but a freak loss to a sub 100 team is going to do more damage to a resume than a couple losses to top 25 teams. Give...
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Thinking this one played out just as expected!
Yeah, just what I thought. Another dominant win.
Agree with this totally. My wife gets tired of me complaining about it.
19 offensive rebounds!!! Oof
Kofi - 18 and 12 in the second half.
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
Plus 28. Holy $hit.
Go*&%@#it! I love, love, love hearing Laphonso have to talk about an Illini win after gushing about Maryland at halftime!!! LOL
As does mine, brother!
Sure but the flipside is that he only had 3 total fouls in the game - would he really have gotten to 5 if he had played 5 more minutes in the first half?
sacraig
- The desert
FIFYKofi vs. NCAA condensed highlights:
