Things you just love to see. We definitely will have the crowd advantage Thursday. Got my tickets last night.
Team is pissed off and will be playing with a fire up their !!! (see Luke Goode's post). It's go time now, time to do what this team was built for
This take reminds me of lyrics from great Counting Crows...."We will win this game by double digits. From here on out, you will see the team that was on the floor for the 2nd half of today's Purdue game.
Just got ours this morning! We absolutely should have the crowd advantage whenever we play at the UC regardless of opponent, but I think you are definitely correct! This is on my StubHub app for two tickets:Things you just love to see. We definitely will have the crowd advantage Thursday. Got my tickets last night...
Another poster earlier said that 202 is for sure an "Illini section," which is behind the bench to the right of the scorers table (if you are looking at the scorers table). So, I'm going with that! In other words, assuming PSU brings a pretty small showing, these would be the only sections to really avoid if you want to be around Illini fans:Bringing this up again since I don't think anyone answered..where would our bench be at UC? Since we are the home team against PSU I'm assuming to the right of the scorers table? Anyone have any insight on that?
Another poster earlier said that 202 is for sure an "Illini section," which is behind the bench to the right of the scorers table (if you are looking at the scorers table). So, I'm going with that! In other words, assuming PSU brings a pretty small showing, these would be the only sections to really avoid if you want to be around Illini fans:
119-121
229-233
I highly doubt there would be enough PSU fans to start filling the 300s, haha. In the sections besides those ones, the crowd will likely be over 80% Illini fans. Maryland, Minnesota and Nebraska have never brought many fans to the BTT.
This is why I loved our draw. Thursday and Friday we would definitely have the crowd advantage. Side note:IU fans probably cheering against us Friday night. And if Maryland or any other team beats IU Friday, Saturday would be a good crowd for us too.Another poster earlier said that 202 is for sure an "Illini section," which is behind the bench to the right of the scorers table (if you are looking at the scorers table). So, I'm going with that! In other words, assuming PSU brings a pretty small showing, these would be the only sections to really avoid if you want to be around Illini fans:
119-121
229-233
I highly doubt there would be enough PSU fans to start filling the 300s, haha. In the sections besides those ones, the crowd will likely be over 80% Illini fans. Maryland, Minnesota and Nebraska have never brought many fans to the BTT.
His name is Sencire Harris. Start him on Pickett. Start Dain on the bench. It needs to be this kind of drastic change that throws their game plan off.sorry to be such a negative nancy, but unless Trent Frazier is able to come out of retirement to shut down Picket, I've got no confidence going in that they can shut them down.
If we can keep them as a team to around 35% from 3 instead of 50% and 42% like the previous matchups, we will win.Dread 5-9 from 3
Funk 6-9 from 3
Lundy 16 points
In the first matchup….that can’t happen
If we think that PSU is a terrible draw, we should be in the NIT. That is a team that's squarely on the bubble and it's as close to a home game as possible within tournament play. With that mentality, outside of Minnesota, who would be a good draw?This is a terrible draw. We don’t match up with penn state. Maybe losing in the first riund will push us to a 10 or 11 seed. That i could live with. Better than the 8/9 line.
According to STATS LLC., there have been 981 similar matchups across Division I college basketball over the past 10 seasons. The teams entering the third game 2-0 are a combined 710-271 (.724 winning percentage) in the third meeting.
Exactly. I think my hypothesis agrees. Something like: "when controlling for the estimated quality of two teams based on all available results in a season, the likelihood of Team A beating Team B does not change measurably based on their record in two (or even one) previous meetings."
Technically, the phrase is “it’s hard to beat a team three times.” Not “the third time you play a team you’ve beaten twice you’ll likely lose.”
Regardless of outcome, I would imagine in a large majority of third-game scenarios, it is indeed hard to beat a team that has seen first hand your strengths and weaknesses a third time in one season.
Stopping Pickett should be priority #1
Pickett is listed as 6'4" 209 lbs
I would vote for rotating bigger players on him -
Rodgers 6'6" 200 - Fixed his last name for you.
Coleman 6'10" 225
Matt 6'9" 225
Rodgers 6'6" 200 good option but in the last game while not guarding him much - Pickett ate him up.
Coleman 6'10" 225 - Love his height but has to keep him in front of him.
Matt 6'9" 225 No!!! loses his man too often - doesn't seem to work that hard on defense - yes get some blocks but his man also gets easy shots.
I think Ty gets the start over Sencire. And Ty is a pretty good defender.His name is Sencire Harris. Start him on Pickett. Start Dain on the bench. It needs to be this kind of drastic change that throws their game plan off.
Yep, this is the crux of the issue I brought up earlier. It wasn't just Pickett who destroyed us. Dread, Funk, and Lundy all had extremely efficient games and were getting any shot they wanted. We regularly lost track of them and the fact is that every single PSU player can drain open threes at a highly efficient rate. The interesting thing is how each of those players performed against us vs. how they performed on the season as a whole:Dread 5-9 from 3
Funk 6-9 from 3
Lundy 16 points
In the first matchup….that can’t happen