Just you all watch, we'll win this game! HAHHAHAH
MSU starters Frazier, Black, Ebo, Alstork, Nichols....at least maybe Kipper can get going by starting?
Is BU trying to push Lucas out the door? I don't get why you would take him off suspension and then not play him. Why not just keep him suspended if he's still in the doghouse?
After watching the MSU-IU game right before our game, this is a brutal matchup for us. Ward, Bridges and Jackson Jr. are gonna be a lot to handle. Good game to test our mettle.
Is BU trying to push Lucas out the door? I don't get why you would take him off suspension and then not play him. Why not just keep him suspended if he's still in the doghouse?
After watching the MSU-IU game right before our game, this is a brutal matchup for us. Ward, Bridges and Jackson Jr. are gonna be a lot to handle. Good game to test our mettle.
MSU starters Frazier, Black, Ebo, Alstork, Nichols....at least maybe Kipper can get going by starting?
we are going to be put on a spit and roasted inside...Ward must be licking his chops seeing how meager we are inside....
MSU 85
Illini 60
hope I'm wrong
This one should be interesting to see what the staff and team can do to try and turn this program around in 3 days. At least we're on our home court. If you're a diehard Illini fan, all you can do at this point is say, "Go Illini, win it!"
I think this needs to happen. Tough call against a ranked team in front of the home crowd though. Nobody wants to watch a blowout with the starters on the bench.This game could be interesting, but not from a box score perspective because I have zero confidence in this one, but from a personnel perspective. This should be a “all hands on deck” type of game, but not playing Tejon or giving him fewer minutes along with a few others could, I think, have post season implications. Guys who don’t have a role or who don’t play generally want to stick around.
BU said postgame he was going to stop giving minutes to guys who repeatedly make the same mistakes.
My thoughts too. if it was close and TF fouled out or got injured I think we may have seen TJL.The last time TJL took the court, he had 21 fairly decent minutes against Michigan. It is hard to see that as the reason he never left the bench in his home state.
I think this was some sort of "you're still suspended, so you won't play, but we'll let you dress in your home state" sort of thing. That may not make a lot of sense, but neither does anything else that has him dressing but not playing.