Yep, bad non-travel call. Beal clearly traveled.
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Pregame: Illinois vs Purdue, Sunday, January 10th, 5:00pm CT, BTN
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Yep, bad non-travel call. Beal clearly traveled.
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NCAA changed the rule concerning teams playing on their home floors in the NCAA tournament after this game. If I remember correctly, Kentucky lost its next game to a Patrick Ewing led Georgetown Hoya team.
If you mean the 84-85 team, Montgomery had graduated by then and that team also had Meents and Shafer for depth on the front line. Altenberger was a hard nosed guy at the 3, too. That's when Illinois started playing 3 guards and more often than not since then, that's been the case.
Montgomery had not graduated yet in '84-'85 and was a starter most of the year until breaking his foot in February. He was replaced in the lineup by Ken Norman. Schafer was indeed part of that team but he ended up transferring shortly after the Big Ten season started.
Good catch, I was thinking of Welch's broken foot the season prior and forgot about George getting injured. Anyway, both of those teams had plenty of size and Lou's teams could always rebound the ball. We could use some of that today for sure.
HoopCity
- Huntsville, AL
Could this be the game that Leron Black comes back for?
Leron Black's first game North Dakota State 11-15-2015
Last game for Leron was Western Carolina 12-5-2015
How much longer will he be out of action if he was ok to play in November?
Illinois 104 North Dakota State
## Player GS FGM-FGA 3FGM-3FGA FTM-FTA OFF-DEF TOT PF TP A TO BLK STL MIN
12 Black, Leron 2-3 0-0 1-2 2-3 5 2 5 1 0 1 0 15
Foggy Notion
- San Francisco
Yeah, he's tough. He seems to be able to find good shots near the basket, but he tends to miss them.
Early in the MSU game off the bench he provided a little spark...making a couple shots. Glad we have him.
Watched Groce teach Post defence once.
Emphasized 3 levels to the players
1) Pressure on the ball intensely so the pass can't be made
2) Pressure over the front of the post player to deny the entry
3) Back side help to jump the pass.
I think you are on the same page. Control access to the ball even when you are undersized. Problem there is PU has some decent guards with ability to shoot and penetrate
That's better than the 15 we took @ MSU.
Unfortunately we are bad at 1). Not very long at guard/wing spots. When we get up close to pressure, they just go around us. This may work OK for us for awhile on lockouts if their shooters aren't on, but if their drivers just throw it up to the rim (floaters, e.g.), they'll probably kill us on rebounding. We need to be on fire from the arc the whole game to win.
Derek Piper said that a surprise player could return for this game.
IlliniRunIn07
- Tampa, FL
I always figured Black would be back first, but hasn't Thorne been involved in practice lately?
Thorne has been on the court, but not for very much time, I think. If someone is coming back, it will be Black, but my guess is that no one comes back.
Three things need to happen for us to win this game - and we need all three:
1. We need to show up for both halves;
2. The 3's need to be working tonight; and,
3. When Purdue commits fouls, the refs need to call them. All of 'em. There's physical defense, and then there is just mugging, and Purdue has a history of getting away with the latter.
The last item is least in our control. I see us losing by a dozen.
Three things need to happen for us to win this game - and we need all three:
1. We need to show up for both halves;
2. The 3's need to be working tonight; and,
3. When Purdue commits fouls, the refs need to call them. All of 'em. There's physical defense, and then there is just mugging, and Purdue has a history of getting away with the latter.
The last item is least in our control. I see us losing by a dozen.
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