Maryland 76, Illinois 67 Postgame

pruman91 · Jan 14, 2024

purdont lost to nebby and nu............................It happens.............................

So many shots that rimmed in and out ....the one by ty that circled around the top part of the rim summed it up for me.....Just wasn;t our day.............

our defense was lacking in defending the 2 man game with Young and Reese.....................Cohawk getting 2 fouls with 10 minutes left in the first half hurt big time......So many rebounds were in our hands then out......QC with the ball being deflected off his leg by Reese was another big play that didn't go our way.........

it will be intersting to see what the media thinks when the AP Poll comes out tomorrow..........So many teams in the top ten lost this weekend that we might either stay where we a5re out or fall to # 12 or 13....................JMHO

Manual3for4peat · Jan 14, 2024

Deep said:
Oh well
Can someone explain why we don't double post when a team can't shoot 3's???!!!!

Anyway......we move on

Or throw a zone out there when we are only playing 6 guys anyways.

NorthShoreIllini · Jan 14, 2024

Butters said:
In a game where Guerrier struggled the whole way through, Hawkins was in foul trouble, and both of them looked exhausted at points, Dain still gets what, 9 minutes? Hansberry with 0. DGL with 0. I guess at this point it's clear what Brad thinks of the bench.

Hansberry wasn’t available

DB11Headband · Jan 14, 2024

jaked1121 said:
Not the same without TSJ

The sky is also blue

GallopingGhost · Jan 14, 2024

That’s a Quad 3 loss, yall.

SummerofGeorge · Jan 14, 2024

Awful performance but every team in the country has at least one, if not a few, poor performances during the year. Will they get stuck in this or grow from it? That’s all that matters now.

CDRUSN · Jan 14, 2024

Maryland's been living rent free in the Illini's head for almost the entire Underwood era, like a homeless family squatting in a billionaire's vacant estate. We got outhustled and outplayed badly the whole second half, the familiar script when we play the Terps.

GetAWin · Jan 14, 2024

blackdog said:
Team looked lost and disconnected for most of the game.

And half asleep

thefalcon5 · Jan 14, 2024

think we missed some easy shots then just got too far back. Defense and rebounding has to be better.

Maryland wanted this more.

SkyysNotFalling · Jan 14, 2024

That was about on par of the Penn State home game last year. Need some fart noises coming from Brads mic postgame like I need air to breath. Let em have it.

IllinistuckinGopherland · Jan 14, 2024

Bad game. No real issues with coaching on this one. Lazy in the first half, and then a 3 for 24 stretch in the second half (9 for 40 total half). Maybe guys are still sick. Regardless, don’t think we’ll have that poor of a shooting half the rest of the year.

Second place is 1st loser · Jan 14, 2024

frozenrope9190 said:
Yeah, we coulda used Shannon in this one.

It's not going to happen. Embrace that. The effort and execution sucked. Make layups. Beginning and end of story.

JSpence · Jan 14, 2024

IllinistuckinGopherland said:
Bad game. No real issues with coaching on this one. Lazy in the first half, and then a 3 for 24 stretch in the second half (9 for 40 total half). Maybe guys are still sick. Regardless, don’t think we’ll have that poor of a shooting half the rest of the year.

Was there coaching in this one?

FloridaMan · Jan 14, 2024

aaeismacgychel said:
It was already hinted at midway through the game thread by an insider. And frankly, based on how they were playing, I can buy that certain players were hungover today. We played really abnormal today

If true, then we really are mentally soft as a team. With no leaders. That's inexcusable for this program.

Illiniguy2442 · Jan 14, 2024

Point blank. The team looked gassed. Honestly not surprised by today. Emotional win Thursday (and playing 6 guys), TSJ decision getting deferred Friday, and an early ish game Sunday a recipe for disaster. We will be okay.

Keisersose · Jan 14, 2024

Zorak said:
They just changed coaches, so apparently the previous staff had Brad's number too.

Well he was there last year and iirc it felt a lot like this afternoon’s game when we played them.

aaeismacgychel · Jan 14, 2024

Butters said:
In a game where Guerrier struggled the whole way through, Hawkins was in foul trouble, and both of them looked exhausted at points, Dain still gets what, 9 minutes? Hansberry with 0. DGL with 0. I guess at this point it's clear what Brad thinks of the bench.

Amani is still out with a back injury. With Hawkins in foul trouble, we were very thin. That said, yeah, Dain probably should have played more today especially as Guerrier struggled in the 2nd half

ORANGEANDBLUE2011 · Jan 14, 2024

Correct me if I am wrong, did we not make any adjustments all game? Or did we make them and not execute the plan?

FromTheLogo · Jan 14, 2024

krushdad said:
You play on Thursday night and basically play 6 guys. You give it all. You have been doing that the last several games. It has been a 6 man rotation. You can not do that in the big ten. We looked like 6 tired guys today. Legs, bodies, everything was moving in sand. We must increase the rotation.

This x 1000

illinifan1971 · Jan 14, 2024

We need TSJ back asap.

Flyin' Illini · Jan 14, 2024

illini011 said:
Without Shannon, this team is not top 25.

We're going to find out over the next few weeks. I think it's a borderline Top 25 team, but could easily see them falling out of the rankings and into the second tier of the Big 10. You can't lose this game today at home and expect to compete for a Big 10 title

1970 John · Jan 14, 2024

pruman91 said:
Shots.....Didn't.....Fall.........

Exactly. As poorly as we played on defense, we could have been in single digits on shooting percentage. Anyone keeping track?

That said, women are leading Northwestern 58-27 in the third quarter. If you have BTN+, drop in. It will help.

Homecoming 2019 · Jan 14, 2024

ORANGEANDBLUE2011 said:
Correct me if I am wrong, did we not make any adjustments all game? Or did we make them and not execute the plan?

I'm guessing the latter with how quickly BU called a TO in the 2nd half.

abchew2 · Jan 14, 2024

I hate it but that performance really took a flamethrower to my expectations and therefore excitement for the season. This is a very bad Maryland team and they will continue to be very bad. If we had lost to Michigan State I’d be sad but could rationalize it. This? No way to rationalize. Destroyed my belief that the strength of this team was avoiding these types of losses with the balance they have.

IlliniShelt · Jan 14, 2024

Butters said:
In a game where Guerrier struggled the whole way through, Hawkins was in foul trouble, and both of them looked exhausted at points, Dain still gets what, 9 minutes? Hansberry with 0. DGL with 0. I guess at this point it's clear what Brad thinks of the bench.

Hansberry was ruled out before the game and DGL was or is sick so probably not 100%. I don't think we can draw any kind of conclusions like that.