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Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
InDaAZ
- Eugene, Oregon
From 2000 miles?
Had you heard of Coleman or Vaaks a year ago?
.Noblesville Illini
- Nappanee, IN
Oh, no. Now he is going to transfer to UCLA? Something else for us to worry about. /s
Joel Goodson
- it's all ball bearings, nowadays
everyone wants to play for Cronin
More like she’s going to transfer to us
Good job mirk.
You're not wrong about height. But if anything it's become a bad thing for IL to telegraph their moves too far ahead, others will create a bidding war.
Dylan Betts is 7'4, and otherwise you have to trust the staff. Who did we think was coming this time the past 2 years?
Illin618
- The Dirty Dale
He’s also tall and has a full head of hair
Seems like they did that with Lincoln Williams.
Noblesville Illini
- Nappanee, IN
Been following Illinois basketball since 1979 and I can’t recall a dating relationship like Mirk’s that drew an otherwise outside recruit towards Illinois. Sure, we had midwestern kids with the girlfriend attending the beloved, but this one’s new to me! If we get Betts, that will be somewhat hilarious! But that’s Mirk in a nutshell!!
A final four sure helped. The sentiment can come back if we don't make F4 this year. /s
Yep. We will have to keep scheduling UConn until we beat them. Hopefully it is this year.
This board had back to back mental breakdowns in wins against PSU on the road and home against Rutgers where we won by 8 and 26 respectively.
So I have little doubt that sentiment would show up long before a final four lol.
I still think the PSU postgame thread might have been peak Illini loyalty embarrassment for me. And I say that with love
For me it was Rutgers.
The game was wrapped up in the first 10 minutes, but the postgame thread was a mess because we “lost the 2nd half.” (led at halftime by 27 and won by 26)
I think the most outraged postgame thread from last year was Nebraska. However, when you lose, outrage is perhaps more justified than the Rutgers or Penn State games.
Penn St had a nice 'close but no cigar' run in the middle of the season... of course we lost our minds beating them by 8 in a road game
I agree with you - both on how insane the forum was, but also I can get it a bit more.
I was frustrated with the Nebraska one because it felt like after the Tennessee and OSU road game, we were rolling a bit. We came out slow at home and let Sandfort get way too comfortable, and we couldn’t quite make it up.
Didn’t help we then had a big ten schedule break and we didn’t really know how good Nebraska was yet
They just made an absurd amount of threes. Those games happen to everybody.
For example, Wagler’s Purdue game. Is it sustainable? No. Is it ever gonna happen again? No. Was it an amazing performance and incredible shooting display on that very day? Yes.
It’s also how Wisconsin beat Michigan. They went 15/33 (46%) and couldn’t miss.
It happens.
It had to be UCLA right?
Were up 33-10 and then let them claw back and take it to OT.
Then didn't even try to deny Dent the ball or make it difficult to get him the ball while on the run and just let him go coast to coast for a layup to win.
Insanely bad way to lose a basketball game and all together to reminiscent of the Jordan Gainey buzzer beater the year before.
Also, it was the 3rd OT loss in 5 games after being on the verge of being a potential one seed before that stretch.