Illinois vs Penn, Thursday, November 5th, 7:30pm CT, FS1

#104      
ILLforever
Not worried about winning this one. As we know Fran's typical teams are strong offense weak defense. So I want to see how we do defensively. I see no problem outscoring their good offense with our exceptional offense.
 
#105      
RichardKeenesCousin
hangdog said:
It seems very counterproductive to worry about things you have no control over.

Furthermore, I'm very happy with this team's stakeholders current stakeholders.
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#107      
Det_Illini_fan
Wait, didn’t we just beat University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) a KenPom 107 ranked team, 101-66? And isn’t Penn 22 spots worse than UIC?

Listen, I am a cautiously-optimistic person. And an Illini fan my whole life; college years during the Groce era. I know to keep my expectations in check. I know to only relax when the clock is 00:00. But I’m going to give our guys and coaching staff some credit.

This will be Penn’s season opener, we’re at home, we’re attacking more in transition, keeping a faster tempo, working with a greater set of bodies in rotation, and playing a stronger defense. All things that will help us. If we want to be “that team” we need to take out a Penn team with our talent.
 
#110      
CDRUSN
We can send in hockey line type substitutions of players and dare the Quakers to keep up with our speed, length, shooting, rebounding, and athleticism. Our whole roster faces better than the Quakers' talent level every day in practice. Instead of melting down, Fran's going to be slack jawed.

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#112      
TampaToo
Shouldn’t we be more focused on which uniforms we’re going to be wearing tonight. People on the football forum are way more focused. Pick it up folks.
 
#118      
TGB
Kernal12 said:
Am I the only one slightly worried about this game tonight? Veteran tournament team from last year with their best guys back and a high level coach. And we are starting three freshman, including two that might not have even been recruited by Penn. I love our team and what it could become this year but are we really 28 points better than this Penn team right now? I guess we'll find out.
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People on this thread say the craziest things. I guess you’re either a pessimist or an optimist.
 
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