Pregame: Illinois vs Ohio State, Friday, March 15th, 5:30pm CT, BTN

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Mar 14, 2024

Dan

Admin

Dan

Big Ten Tournament Quarterfinals (Target Center, Minneapolis, MN)

#2 Illinois vs #10 Ohio State
Friday, March 15th
5:30pm CT
BTN

B1G Tournament Bracket

 

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Mar 14, 2024

Illiniam1984

I

Illiniam1984

Tomorrow’s game is going to be a battle. OSU is a different team than the last time we played them.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

PizzaHutParkingLot

McPherson, KS

PizzaHutParkingLot

 

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Mar 14, 2024

LvilleILL

LvilleILL

Gonna be a tough one, OSU is playing great ball. With that being said, I wanted them over playing Iowa again 3rd time in 3 weeks

 

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Mar 14, 2024

cs04

cs04

It’s march, gotta play like each game is the last.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

Illini_1979

Oregon

Illini_1979

 

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Mar 14, 2024

JFGsCoffeeMug

BU:1 Trash cans:0

Chicago

JFGsCoffeeMug

I think we're going to win by double digits.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

altgeld88

Arlington, Virginia

altgeld88

This is the Ohio State team I expected to see this season. Still, we'll handle them.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

illiniguy24

illiniguy24

Ending Iowa’s season and hopefully Ohio States season within a week of each other sounds incredible to my petty O&B heart

 

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Mar 14, 2024

Spokane Illini

Spokane Illini

This is a greatly improved OSU team over earlier this year. Going to be a battle, They are more desperate than us.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

LvilleILL

LvilleILL

Gonna need to come out fighting. Some results might be going our way if they hold, which opens the door for a 3 seed

 

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Mar 14, 2024

kyillinifan

K

kyillinifan

Let’s kick them in bucknuts tomorrow. I wish Ia would have given them a tougher game. Don’t let Battle get on a roll.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

foby

Bonnaroo Land

foby

They are playing for their tournament life, so we need to play like we belong in the Final Four.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

JJE

Bethalto, IL

JJE

 

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Mar 14, 2024

CleverHandle1

C

CleverHandle1

85 - 79, The Beloved.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

jrichisamazing

J

jrichisamazing

This is a legit sweet 16 caliber matchup with the way the Buckeyes are playing. They've been a top 10-15 caliber team the past 3ish weeks. Sucks that it won't be treated that way on our resume.

What's interesting is their metrics have changed. Most of the season they had a good offense but leaky defense. But during this stretch their defense has really picked it up, while their offense has still been solid.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

FloridaMan

F

FloridaMan

Duke and Creighton did their part. We have to do ours and a 3 is well within reach. Gotta think OSU doesn't shoot as well as they did today from 3 but ya never know. Gotta run them off the line!

 

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Mar 14, 2024

PapaKvells

P

PapaKvells

They won 6 of their last 7 including Purdue. It’s hard to win on back to back nights though when your opponent is fresh. Edge to us, but this is a tough matchup. Let’s win and level up our seeding.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

RockfordIllini

R

RockfordIllini

Think this might be a great game to play Dain and Coleman together. Let Coleman hound battle and shut off his water. Dain can feast against either Okoro or Key.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

Navy_illini

N

Navy_illini

Have to defend the 3 can’t let them shoot over 50%. Also have to stop Battle and Thornton

 

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Mar 14, 2024

jimbo72

J

jimbo72

Duke and Creighton went down. Need Marquette to lose to Nova. Win 2 in tournament and we're cooking at 25 wins. 3 or last 2 seed!

 

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Mar 14, 2024

jimbo72

J

jimbo72

Navy_illini said:

Have to defend the 3 can’t let them shoot over 50%. Also have to stop Battle and Thornton

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TSjr.and Ty glued to Battle for 35 minutes.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

One Man Fast Break

O

One Man Fast Break

Glad they got Ohio St. A third game against Iowa right after you beat them on the road feels super "trappy". On paper not much difference between Ohio St. and Iowa, but I'm a big believer in "hard to beat a team three times" and would rather them play the team they only played once and haven't seen in a month and a half.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

abchew2

A

abchew2

FloridaMan said:

Duke and Creighton did their part. We have to do ours and a 3 is well within reach. Gotta think OSU doesn't shoot as well as they did today from 3 but ya never know. Gotta run them off the line!

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We already beat one team shooting as well as they did this year. Hopefully they don’t but we can still keep pace with a shootout worse case scenario.

 

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Mar 14, 2024

Thaillini22

Thaillini22

Survive and advance, doesn't need to be pretty.