Illinois named NCAA Team of the Week

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Loyalillini10

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Illinois has a great case for calling themselves the champs. I believe more people recognize that than are being vocal about it.
 
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MiloMinderbender

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Andy's article perfectly encapsulates why Illinois fans are salty about not being named co-champions. Implies that he's giving Michigan more credence since they won the B1G.

3. Illinois (4): The Illini crushed Michigan without Ayo.
4. Michigan (2): The Wolverines still won the Big Ten.
 
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Castor95

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It stinks for team but letā€™s play the underdog the rest of the way and collect some hardware. If we keep talking about the conference champs and loss before you get to elite eight then all the critics will talk down on Illinois. Letā€™s go gets some BOOM!!!!!
 
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JFGsCoffeeMug

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MiloMinderbender said:
Andy's article perfectly encapsulates why Illinois fans are salty about not being named co-champions. Implies that he's giving Michigan more credence since they won the B1G.

3. Illinois (4): The Illini crushed Michigan without Ayo.
4. Michigan (2): The Wolverines still won the Big Ten.
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There are people who will see that Michigan won the regular season title in a historically strong B1G and assume they were the best team in the conference this year.

After the BTT and NCAA tournament, they will finally realize the truth.

:illinois:
 
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PapaKvells

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The debate over who the BIG regular season champs are is not the same as the debate over who is the best team in the BIG.

if the criteria for winning the regular season title is winning percentage with a critical mass of 10 games played, fine. Michigan is at 82% and we are at 80%. I could live with that.

But right now we are the hottest team in the BIG winning 11 of the last 12 including ending the season beating three ranked teams on the road including Michigan in Ann Arbor without our best player by 23 points (and it wasnā€™t that close). Illinois and Michigan are both 1 seeds and each have a legitimate bragging right. They have fewer BIG losses and the BIG regular season title. We have more BIG wins and ate their freaking souls in the only head to head matchup. If I had to choose, I would take the latter. Iā€™m cool with this.
 
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The one team that will stick out in everyones mind that won their conference tourney and the ncaa tourney is Kemba Walker's UCONN team.