Pregame: Illinois vs Maryland, Wednesday, January 21st, 6:00pm CT, BTN

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illinifan1987
Is Maryland bad? Yes. Is Maryland terrible? Yes. Will Maryland play us like they're a top 10 team? Not this year. F these twerps. I'll go with an easy 96-74 win...
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#52      
fatt lacosse
In only one season at Illinois (2018-19) has Brad Underwood failed to lose to Maryland. That being said, the fact that there are two Maryland games on the schedule gives us a chance Wednesday
 
#53      
IlliniFanTX
SuperintendentChalmers said:
As the recent point-shaving case highlights the pervasiveness of gambling within college sports, I'm not sure how coaches (ours included) can continue to get away with completely concealing injury information. There are always people around a program who know a player's true status and it's naive to think that some of them aren't exploiting that knowledge.

Of course, I'm not sure modern medicine has ever developed a healing elixir like an upcoming game with the Illini. There are even some versions of the Bible that explain the miracle of Lazarus by saying his team was scheduled to play us the next night.
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#54      
DeonThomas
2025-26 stands out to me.

I can't recall another season --- dating back to our initial rise under Lou Henson --- in which the top conference teams have somehow avoided playing each other for the entire first half of the season. We're no exception, of course, with just the one game at home vs. NEB. What's happened so far, you ask?

-- ILL lost at home to NEB
-- MSU lost in Lincoln to NEB

That's it. Period.

There sure are going to be a lot of monster games coming up when all of the undefeated and 1-loss teams start playing one another. Next one on the BigTen schedule is 3:00pm eastern next Saturday in West Lafayette. No others from now through Sunday evening.

Beat the Terps!
 
#56      
Bigtex
DeonThomas said:
2025-26 stands out to me.

I can't recall another season --- dating back to our initial rise under Lou Henson --- in which the top conference teams have somehow avoided playing each other for the entire first half of the season. We're no exception, of course, with just the one game at home vs. NEB. What's happened so far, you ask?

-- ILL lost at home to NEB
-- MSU lost in Lincoln to NEB

That's it. Period.

There sure are going to be a lot of monster games coming up when all of the undefeated and 1-loss teams start playing one another. Next one on the BigTen schedule is 3:00pm eastern next Saturday in West Lafayette. No others from now through Sunday evening.

Beat the Terps!
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Imo b1g front loaded the schedule and scheduled the perceived leaders in 2nd half of the schedule

Just like we didn’t anticipate the Wagler production, b1g didn’t anticipate the Nebraska results.

Purdue, Michigan, illlinois and Michigan st were all expected to be among the leaders. Not a coincidence all games are scheduled later in the conference schedule.
 
#57      
Brosky
We've won seven straight. Let's make it eight before we head to Purdue. The home loss to Neb. still haunts me, although the ending was flukish.
 
#58      
DeonThomas
Bigtex said:
Imo b1g front loaded the schedule and scheduled the perceived leaders in 2nd half of the schedule

Just like we didn’t anticipate the Wagler production, b1g didn’t anticipate the Nebraska results.

Purdue, Michigan, illlinois and Michigan st were all expected to be among the leaders. Not a coincidence all games are scheduled later in the conference schedule.
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Valid.

For the first 25-30 years of this 45 year time frame, schedules were essentially geography-based. All of the Big 10 teams traveled in pairs and played two-game stints throughout the season (predominantly on Thursday nights and then Saturday afternoons):

The Traveling Partners:
Mich/MSU
ILL/Purd
OSU/Ind
NW/Iowa
Wisc/Minn
Rutg/PSU
 
#59      
RabidDawgClassic
DeonThomas said:
Valid.

For the first 25-30 years of this 45 year time frame, schedules were essentially geography-based. All of the Big 10 teams traveled in pairs and played two-game stints throughout the season (predominantly on Thursday nights and then Saturday afternoons):

The Traveling Partners:
Mich/MSU
ILL/Purd
OSU/Ind
NW/Iowa
Wisc/Minn
Rutg/PSU
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I remember when they started having some games on Wednesday nights and I was like “WHOA!!” 😂
 
#60      
RabidDawgClassic
DeonThomas said:
Valid.

For the first 25-30 years of this 45 year time frame, schedules were essentially geography-based. All of the Big 10 teams traveled in pairs and played two-game stints throughout the season (predominantly on Thursday nights and then Saturday afternoons):

The Traveling Partners:
Mich/MSU
ILL/Purd
OSU/Ind
NW/Iowa
Wisc/Minn
Rutg/PSU
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I think they did away with the traveling partners when Penn State joined the league, bringing the total number of teams to an uneven eleven. Rutgers joined with Maryland after Nebraska brought us to an even twelve.

And if I remember correctly, Iowa and Minnesota were traveling partners while Wisconsin was joined with Northwestern.
 
#71      
Birdus
I think Mihalio and Lee will both see significant playing time. It is good that we have them. Need Boswell back and healthy for tournament time. The bummer is that winning the conference is probably not going to happen.
 
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