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I'm no bracketology expert. Without looking at teams outside the B1G, I have a difficult time foreseeing us losing a 1 seed when we have 11 quad one wins.You may need to talk with Seth Davis........
You may need to talk with Seth Davis........We have #1 seed regardless of what happens today or tomorrow.
The "Big Time" crew! We may be seeing a lot of one another over the next 3-4 weeks.CBS: Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery & Tracy Wolfson
Big Ten Tournament Notes | Illinois vs. Iowa - University of Illinois Athletics
No. 2 seed Illinois faces No. 3 seed Iowa in Saturday's Big Ten Tournament semifinals. (2:30 p.m. CT, CBS).fightingillini.com
Livers is out indefinitely with a stress fracture, so today's match with Iowa may well be for the tournament championship. Illinois proved it can hammer Michigan with the Illini's best player sidelined, but there is no way Michigan beats Illinois or Iowa without Livers. Hate to see any kid sidelined given all the work they put in to get here, but no one felt bad for us having to play the toughest stretch of our regular schedule without Ayo. Plus, I hate the way Michigan backed in to the Big Ten season championship without playing all the games, then rubbed it in our faces.
Agree. Losing him at the "4" is probably the least damaging loss of a starter they can suffer. Having said that, IIRC, they lost him in advance of their game in The Barn when MN crushed them.Livers is a big loss but they have guys who can reasonably fill his shoes.
Iowa fans on Reddit are claiming they will steal ILL 1 seed if they win today.
I really appreciate your post and totally agree with you on all points. How your muscles are built, fast twitch v slow twitch. I have tons of the latter, as I was always an endurance athlete. I lift more now than ever at 47, turned my spare bedroom into a gym during the pandemic, and am stronger than I have ever been.I take your point about, e.g., Garza looking soft. I have a different view. I've never been a D-1 athlete, like you and altenberger22, not even close. (Forgive the self-promotion I deadlifted 485 lbs yesterday afternoon @ 55 yrs old and I've studied the S&C topic a great deal over the years so have a decently-informed opinion about it. And I played BB competitively through high school so understand the thinking/taboos over the years about weight training and basketball.
The ability to look "ripped" at a given muscle mass depends to a large extent on genetics. Gaining muscle entails gaining fat; losing fat comes with losing muscle. Some guys (like Garza, I suspect) carry more fat per muscle kg than (for example) I did at that age. It's his physiology. I have no doubt Garza and his teammates are in excellent condition, as all of these guys must be in order to play every day. How strong is he relative to our Fletch-trained guys? Can't tell. Might be stronger, depending on the Iowa BB S&C regimen. Watching him go at it with Kofi can give an indication of relative strength.
We can be ripped and much weaker than a guy of the same height having greater muscle mass and fat. I weight 30 pounds more at 55 than I did when I resumed lifting at 49 but you'd barely know it to look at me. I'm just a lot denser (heh!) Strength is the ability to exert a force against an external resistance, nothing more. It's safe to say that every set of BT starters are in relatively comparable "condition" in terms of endurance and VO2 uptake. But at this level, adjusting for the genetics that give a player a 36" vertical jump b/c he's got an innate excess of fast-twitch muscle fibers and six-sigma neuromuscular efficiency, strength is what separates one player from another. It's hard to tell on the surface how it differs until, say, one guy tries to screen or post up another. And even then confounding variables interfere.
My two cents. Sorry if that seems pedantic. Can we all just agree that the Iowa players are aesthetically repellant?
I find the S&C topic really interesting. Can't wait for the tip this afternoon. Haven't been able to look forward to the BT semis in what, 11 yrs?!
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Iowa is serving up more food for the Illini and we are hungry.Iowa fans on Reddit are claiming they will steal ILL 1 seed if they win today.
And imagine what happens if we beat Iowa today and Michigan tomorrow!For those who care, Illinois currently up to #3 in KenPom... passed Baylor AND Iowa today
Please no Larry? There’s 3 other refs right?
Not sure what it means. Clue me in, I'm not up on who's who with these stupid refs.
Iowa fans need to worry about how they lost to IU twice and Minnesota. That's why they won't get a 1 seed.Iowa fans on Reddit are claiming they will steal ILL 1 seed if they win today.
Does that mean we get Kelly Pfeifer and Bo Borosky?
Well we don’t want Larry Scirotto that’s for sure.Not sure what it means. Clue me in, I'm not up on who's who with these stupid refs.
Does that mean we get Kelly Pfeifer and Bo Borosky?
I don't think a win today would "steal" it, but a win today and tomorrow might. It would be 50/50 at that point. Splitting hairs between teams.Iowa fans on Reddit are claiming they will steal ILL 1 seed if they win today.
No it wouldn’tI don't think a win today would "steal" it, but a win today and tomorrow might. It would be 50/50 at that point. Splitting hairs between teams.
INI..Lol, great post.
Garza's legs are soft serve, insert Jarling's custard cup gif.
Hope we run them out of the gym today.
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