Illinois 76, Rutgers 58 Postgame
Just a great effort all around. If we manage to clean up the ball handling we look like a legit top-10 level team. Defense and rebounding are scary good, and offense seems to be coming around.
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
It's not going in the box score, but Dain played solid and important defense that first half when both he and Hawk had two fouls. Managed to not gain his third foul in the process while holding Cliff to 0 points in the half. No chance he could have done that last season. That's the maturity we want and need out of him.
Loves Domask's game he's so patient with the ball, just plays at his own pace and beats people.
Also, I think Harmon is really flying under the radar here. Great depth piece, good on the boards, capable of scoring, and will be able to spell Rodgers effectively while Domask and Shannon play nearly every minute of close games.
Also, I think Harmon is really flying under the radar here. Great depth piece, good on the boards, capable of scoring, and will be able to spell Rodgers effectively while Domask and Shannon play nearly every minute of close games.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Utterly impressed. All I can say! 
A good win in a place that can be pretty hostile.
We took the crowd out of the game for the most part, got pretty quiet.
We took the crowd out of the game for the most part, got pretty quiet.
The Illini took the Scarlet Pimpernels to school, took their lunch money, gave them wet willies, purple nurples, wrist burners, top poppers, Moe slaps,nose twisties, skull noogies, doughboy pokes, and atomic wedgies, then pantsed them, stuffed them in the home team lockers, and dared them to try to get back some of their self respect. It was a borderline dominant performance.
For as much complaints about Ty as PG, I think he has done a great job. Most of his TOs were in the press today. Think he has been pretty good in the half court offense, and has found the open guy plenty of times.
Where he has really thrived is on defense and rebounding. We could have the best defensive/rebounding “PG” in the country.
Excited to see his offensive game continue to grow. For the casual fan, complain about the TOs all you want… Ty has exceeded expectations so far.
Where he has really thrived is on defense and rebounding. We could have the best defensive/rebounding “PG” in the country.
Excited to see his offensive game continue to grow. For the casual fan, complain about the TOs all you want… Ty has exceeded expectations so far.
blackdog
- Champaign
Quincy is soooo good at getting rebounds "out of his area". Whoever is playing the 5 boxes out and he comes flying in for it. On the offensive side they seem to be more aggressive than some years at sneaking in on the weak side to be disruptive.
InDaAZ
- Eugene, Oregon
Postgame radio: BU thinks it was around +27
blackdog
- Champaign
He continued his trend from the last game of running the floor hard too which is great to see. Lead to his awesome dunk and another play where he blew the layup and was still back on D early to force a stop in transition.
+25
Yep he did great getting us to the half without really serious foul trouble on the bigs
Some good minutes by Hansbury, too
Great start to the Big Ten season! Overall defense and rebounding on this team is really impressive so far.
I think we could play Dain and Guerrier with two fouls in the first half. They aren't going to be allowed to play in the final minutes anyway, due to free-throw shooting. No reason to save them.