Pregame: Illinois vs Houston, 9:05pm CT, TBS

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RandyfromTuscola
Not sure if I missed this or its on another thread. Does anyone have the post-season incentives for Brad Underwood based on each round he gets to? Just curious what a win tonight means for him.
 
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PepeSilvia
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We are #1 in the country in free throw rate against. Houston is #351 (nearly dead last) in going to the free throw line, and #274 in free throw rate against (i.e. they foul and send other teams to the line A LOT).

Something is seriously wrong if the foul counts and free throws are even close to even tonight.

Praying we don't see High Knees or Courtney Green.
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The NCAA tournament seems to get reffed in a fashion that lets teams play for the most part in recent years.

I wouldn't be surprised to see minimal fouls for both teams. I expect the refs will let Houston be plenty physical and Illinois is going to have to match that.
 
#180      
jamie13197
Did Mirk miss the bus...?
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🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 I like that the warriors are loose today. A few things I disdain. Bruce Pearl and Kelvin Sampson. Make him cry like his Depends busted!
 
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jamie13197
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Has Mirk ever Dunked? 🤣 🤣 🤣. But everything else his does will make him more than 3 million +, this fall!
 
#185      
RabidDawgClassic
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beat Houston and then the squaks please. Anybody else remember this blast from the past?
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I watched that game on a 7 inch screen in the master control room of a TV station in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Drove down from Fayetteville and asked a co-worker to dial it up on the bird for me. So much easier these days to simply call up the game on my phone.
 
#189      
AnnoyedWithGarza
If the game is in the 60s I don’t see us winning. I see Houston scoring 80 given our recent defensive efforts. As such…

I don’t think we’re gonna have as much issue with their defense if we were able to score as well as we did against Michigan, MSU, Purdue, Nebraska, Iowa (all Sweet 16 teams). But we gave up 30 each to Boyd and Blackwell. We let Fears get 20/15. We let that Maryland frosh go ape !!!! on us.

I just don’t think we can stop their offense. So our only chance to win is to score 80+ points. Thats gonna be:

- Twelve 3s (36pts)

- Fifteen 2s (30pts)

- 14/19 FTs (ie we need to draw some shooting fouls, and hopefully convert on some 1 and 1s)

Now the latter two categories seem doable, as Houston does foul a bit.

But where do we get Twelve 3s:
- Keaton needs 2 (they’re gonna run him off the line)
- Ben needs 3
- Jake needs 3
- Tomi needs 2
- Boswell/Andrej/Z need to clutch up to collectively find the other 4.

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We have to accept Houston will score 80pts. They play slow tempo. Maybe only 65 possessions. They anchor more on 2s than 3s. So need to limit their points/possession to 1.2.

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With the tempo Houston plays at, unless we’re getting more possessions than them via ORebs, and we’re scoring more pts/possession (ie we hit more 3s than they do), I don’t see how we’ll have enough scoring opportunities to hit 85 or so points. Unless we’re torching the nets.

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I feel like Houston know we love the 3 ball and will try to force offense inside the paint. I hope the Ivisic bros seal well to give Mirk and Keaton a chance to score inside. If they dare us into 3s, have to just take them and play for the OReb.
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You forgot Mirk.
 
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Chad Fleck
It's been a great day.

Cubs lose.

Cardinals looking like they've had a big comeback win.

I had an excellent work day that kept my mind off the time moving slow.

Just 1 thing left....
 
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