Pregame: Illinois at Texas Tech, Tuesday, November 10th, 7:00pm CT, Peacock

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Marthgiela
When's the last time we swept a noncon series? It feels like we always drop at least one (Tennessee, UConn, Arizona, Alabama etc). It would be nice to finally get both games against someone.
 
#204      
InDaAZ
illiniguy24 said:
Can’t believe these teams agreed to play a basketball game on the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald /s
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The Wreck of the Grant McCasland

The legend lives on from DGL down

Of the arena they call United

The court it is said will leave us for dead

When the crowd of November turns gloomy

But with a load of Vaaks, Stoj, Coleman, no Toppen

For Red Raiders, the Illini will be no stoppin'

Brad's army will swarm Cruz Davis, and blow

Out TTU in a gale - a blizzard of threes show

*apologies to Gordon Lightfoot
 
#206      
Sheldon Ram
Rebounding Dog said:
Pick on DGL all night…. all our parameter guys can take him to the rim! like picking a scab… bleed him🙂!
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I watched several of his games last year at UNLV. One in person. He has turned into a dog. Hunts his shots and usually finds them. Curious if we start Brown on him. Coleman cannot get in foul trouble. Should be a good one in Lubbock
 
#207      
HensonHall71
We’ll have 5 freshman playing significant minutes on the road in a hostile environment for their first time. As good as Keaton was last year - his games against Alabama and UConn last year were bad. (And those were technically neutral) But he bounced back against Tennessee

It might be more of a struggle than people think if the freshman play like freshman in this one. The good news is if we get good games out of 1-2 of them that might be enough, so we have strength in numbers
 
#208      
Rebounding Dog
Sheldon Ram said:
I watched several of his games last year at UNLV. One in person. He has turned into a dog. Hunts his shots and usually finds them. Curious if we start Brown on him. Coleman cannot get in foul trouble. Should be a good one in Lubbock
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I watched him last year… plays hard!
 
#210      
My2Cents
I would like to see them avoid Coleman on DGL for the first half. Challenge Lincoln to guard him and remind him he has 5 fouls to use. My worry with Coleman guarding him the first 5 minutes is he will be over-amped in his first true road game and get in foul trouble. Close game till the 8 minute mark or so. Illinois stretches a steady 6-8 point lead into an easy 91-74 victory. How Coleman handles the first 5-10 minutes should give us a pretty good idea of how the rest of the game will go. IMO
 
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lstewart53x3
BWA said:
Guys I loved DGL on the Illini and he had a great year last year, but if DGL is our biggest concern tonight I think we are going to be ok.
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I must reverse the possible jinx you just put out into the universe:

DGL is a great player. I’m terrified to play him tonight. He’s going to put up 30+. Why oh why do we have to play against DGL.
 
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