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Plummer? Grandison? Kofi? What…?
Pregame: Illinois vs Arizona, Saturday, December 11th, 4:00pm CT, FOX
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So, as far as I can tell from the previous few pages, as long as Arizona doesn't have an Alan Turing to crack our enigma machine, we should be set. That's reassuring.
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Which might cause an occasional 10 second violation. The horror!
You can tell BU was determined to slow down Iowa. And it worked pretty damn well. I think it will be a nice blueprint for AZ.
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And we’d be ranked in the Top 25
The Houston Astros say ...that's probably not a good idea
Who knew the refs were going to be counting by 2's to determine the 10 second count
Am I the only one getting a “gut feeling” that we lose this game? My brain says this is a tossup, we will need to continue playing well to win. Hope our guys bring it!
I've watched them play a couple of times, they are big and athletic. This one scares me, although not as badly as it did 2 weeks ago. If we're sloppy with the ball it could get ugly, but bring our A game and we got a decent chance.
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Are they a good rebounding team? If we turn the ball over AND can’t make up for it by taking or keeping possession of the ball with rebounding then I’m a bit more worried.
edit: Arizona is a good rebounding team. We are 5th in rebounding margin (+14) while they are 13th (+11). Hmmm. I guess we’ll just have to make a lot of our shots…
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Trent missed one against Iowa.
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One area where we have a good advantage over AZ is 3 pt shooting. We are tied for 79th, at 36.04 percent while Arizona is 199th, at 32.96 percent. We have also taken about 30 more shots over our 9 games to-date. So if we can slow them down a bit, keep slightly better control of the ball, edge them out in rebounding, and make more 3 pointers I think we can get the win. Two of those things we are already statistically better at, so here’s to hope!
Trent's first missed FT of the season, they said.
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Thank you! I got confused because I remembered that whomever it was got jinxed because they put that stat up right before the shot lol. Still, super impressed with our improvement in FT shooting this year.
Bigtex
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They no longer count but use shot clockWho knew the refs were going to be counting by 2's to determine the 10 second count
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One more interesting factoid. We are 282nd (out of 358) in turnover percentage at about 18.7%, while Arizona was 54th, at about 14.1%. I think the Iowa game had about 70 possessions, so if that is the same tempo as this game will be, that’s about a net loss of 3 possessions, which is exactly how much better our rebounding margin is. I’ll be really interested to see how this game plays out.
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Probably 1.5. Refs seem to let opposing players maul Kofi without consequence.
I don't remember Efrem being that strong.
I think you guys are giving too much credit to Arizona. The Michigan score looked bad because Michigan shot a horrendous 1-14 from 3. Other than that, I feel like fast paced "running" teams look good early against the small schools because they run up the score. Play a half court game and it's an easy win.
To echo the turnover issue, Illini are 330th in turnover margin at -4.6 per game. Arizona is 34th at +4.4 per game.One more interesting factoid. We are 282nd (out of 358) in turnover percentage at about 18.7%, while Arizona was 54th, at about 14.1%. I think the Iowa game had about 70 possessions, so if that is the same tempo as this game will be, that’s about a net loss of 3 possessions, which is exactly how much better our rebounding margin is. I’ll be really interested to see how this game plays out.
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We do have a common opponent. Zona played that UTRGV team that hung around with us late in the game. Zona beat them by 54. Now, I think we have gotten better since then and maybe UTRGV got better between Zona and when they played us, but Zona smoked a team we struggled with. I'd love to see us blow out Zona, but that's a tall order.
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