Pregame: Illinois vs Morehead State, Thursday, March 21st, 2:10pm CT, truTV

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Was just about to buy my ticket cause it's only 2 hours from kc then remembered my truck is going in the shop Thurs morning dang it!
 
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NarrowJ said:
Look at how dangerous the 12 seeds are this year, super glad we finished strong and didn't have to worry about being a 5
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Yep, going by the final rankings, we didn't beat a single top 20 team, did we?
And yet people are complaining about us being a 3 seed and potentially having some tough match ups.

I'm just happy we're not playing Loyola in the second round assuming we win this game. LOL
 
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KCBassin said:
Was just about to buy my ticket cause it's only 2 hours from kc then remembered my truck is going in the shop Thurs morning dang it!
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Se Il Illini said:
Since I watched Ja Morant play in person multiple times in Murray, Kentucky, and since I was at the Ford Center in Evansville at the OVC tournament on the Friday night that Magic Johnson was there scouting Ja Morant, I am well aware that Ja Morant played for Murray State. I apologize for not including Murray State or the Ja Morant era in my comments. I assumed, wrongly, that the name of Ja Morant is always associated with Murray State and the Ohio Valley Conference, and I was trying to specify a time frame.
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I see. Well I went to another OVC school (EIU) so I could tell you pretty well about Jacksonville State not being a basketball power.
 
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Steelyunk said:
Why do so many Illini fans suffer from an inferiority complex?
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Since the start of seeding in the NCAA, Illinois has underperformed its seed 17 times, and over performed its seed twice, a 5 v 4 and a 9 v 8 “upset”. We’ve lost in 1 v 2 matchups, 1 v 3 matchups, 1 v 8 matchups , 3 v 14, 5 v 12, 6 v 14, another 5 v 12, 3 v 6, and FIVE TIMES we have lost the when we were the 4 playing the 5. It probably has some thing to do with that. And the fact that most of the fans watching the 1951, 1952 Final Four teams are no longer with us.
 
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IlliniInCAN said:
Just as a reference, BYU is ranked 12 in net as a 6 seed. Texas tech is 28th as a 6 seed.

Iowa state is 6 in Net as a 2, Marquette is 13 as a 2.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear the NCAA selection committee hates Illinois.
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The vast majority of the big wins that got them that net were at home in Provo where they had a massive altitude adaptation advantage over their Big 12 opponents...none of whom reside at high elevation. With the exception of BYU's Kansas win, they are a completely different team at Omaha altitude level. And I watched the Kansas BYU game at Phog. Kansas did everything they could to choke that game away, including missing nearly all of their foul shots down the stretch. If we are prepared to play focused basketball, we'll be fine against BYU.
 
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