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Penn State 74, Illinois 52 POSTGAME
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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefIllini" data-source="post: 1374304" data-attributes="member: 588522"><p>We lost a ton of heartbreakers early. Mentality is more important than a lot of people realize. We had chances to string together quality wins and fell short 80% of the time. Like a lot of others have said, sometimes, it looks like we are maybe a piece or two away from being a top 5 B1G team, and other it looks like we dont have a single D1 player on the roster. I choose to believe the former because of how this year has gone. Actually, its probably somewhere in the middle of the two, but this team is still better than their record shows. I dont think BU is the savior everybody thought he'd be, but I do think he was the best option we could've gotten.</p><p></p><p>Also, this game showed just how influential bigs are to the new age guard oriented game. When Watkins was out, we had oops open and successful drives. I think people need to take away that Finke is at least moderately important to this team, or I should say anybody as big as Finke is important. Obviously wasnt the only reasons we lost, but it was a major issue and extremely obvious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefIllini, post: 1374304, member: 588522"] We lost a ton of heartbreakers early. Mentality is more important than a lot of people realize. We had chances to string together quality wins and fell short 80% of the time. Like a lot of others have said, sometimes, it looks like we are maybe a piece or two away from being a top 5 B1G team, and other it looks like we dont have a single D1 player on the roster. I choose to believe the former because of how this year has gone. Actually, its probably somewhere in the middle of the two, but this team is still better than their record shows. I dont think BU is the savior everybody thought he'd be, but I do think he was the best option we could've gotten. Also, this game showed just how influential bigs are to the new age guard oriented game. When Watkins was out, we had oops open and successful drives. I think people need to take away that Finke is at least moderately important to this team, or I should say anybody as big as Finke is important. Obviously wasnt the only reasons we lost, but it was a major issue and extremely obvious. [/QUOTE]
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