We miss Ayo’s late game heroics. But more importantly, we miss his leadership and composure.
Marquette 67, Illinois 66 Postgame
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It was a lock what do you want me to say! Sometimes locks get picked
Why didn’t Plummer replace Curbelo with Trent at PG for the final 5 minutes? Curbelo was hot trash today
SuperMetroid
- Evanston
That’s the kind of loss that makes me question why in the living hell I get invested in sports. Just maddening.
Someone with some common sense. Goodness we got people already declaring the season is over after tonight.
Yes we had a terrible game...something tells me we'll be better than .500 in league play with Kofi
I cannot blame Curbelo. Obviously, he is doing what he is coached to do. When he is on the court with the ball in his hands at the end after missing 14 mostly bad shots and dribbling wildly into 7 turnovers, there is no other explanation. That was the game plan.
Just complete immaturity from Curbelo tonight.
Not sure that is a good thing if the turnovers and bad decision making continue, he may be sitting behind Epps who can make a jump shot
It's better to have one of these games now then later in the season. But AC cost us this game pure and simple. Too much dribbling, half-!!! passing, and sloppy hero ball. But I blame BU for not taking him out and reminding him of them. And even more for not calling that time out. They needed to have a set play after watching the Cubelo show for the last 9 possesions. We didn't deserve to win that game, but even worse neither did Marquette. They were terrible.
I attended a couple recent Mizzou games, so I beg to differ...
Not if the Point cant get him the ball
We can cool his All BIG and All American talk too
You guys should cheer up, you’ve been dying to unload on Curbelo for the last 12 months and now you have your chance.
frozenrope9190
- Aurora, IL
Wow. OK, well. Illinois has always had a bad game to start the season. Let's not think about rankings and awards, dust ourselves off, and go out and knock out Cincinnati.
This was the ugliest loss we’ve had in a while, no way should we have lost that game if we just played a halfway decent game.
Hopefully BU has a method to his madness letting AC keep playing hero ball. If not, we’re a fringe top 25 team at best.
But as we all know, the Illini always lay eggs early in the year, regardless of who coaches the guys. Super frustrating, but let’s beat Cincy and go from there.
Hopefully BU has a method to his madness letting AC keep playing hero ball. If not, we’re a fringe top 25 team at best.
But as we all know, the Illini always lay eggs early in the year, regardless of who coaches the guys. Super frustrating, but let’s beat Cincy and go from there.
Cook
- Richmond, VA
That's because Underwood coughs up absurd losses early in the season every year (and a just a few yrs ago it was all season)
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I’m not going to make some sweeping negative generalization based on one road loss without our All American, but I think it’s pretty obvious we are in trouble without Kofi, suspension or foul trouble.
I highly doubt we play that poorly again with our full team, and I’m hoping this can serve as a learning experience. Last year, we lost to a terrible Missouri team on the road and a subpar Maryland team at home and got a 1-seed, so this is hardly some season-ruining loss. However, if we don’t address some issues next Monday against Cincinnati, we are likely not the team we thought we were.
I highly doubt we play that poorly again with our full team, and I’m hoping this can serve as a learning experience. Last year, we lost to a terrible Missouri team on the road and a subpar Maryland team at home and got a 1-seed, so this is hardly some season-ruining loss. However, if we don’t address some issues next Monday against Cincinnati, we are likely not the team we thought we were.
I hope it haunts Curbelo and he learns from it. Unfortunately, I’m not convinced it will or he will.
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