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- Chicago Burbs
Up charge is about 300% so call it $10? Depends if you know the tender or not
Granted it’s been a few years since I was at Kams so not sure if those #s still make sense
Pregame: Illinois vs Wisconsin, Friday, March 13th, 1:30pm CT, BTN
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Granted it’s been a few years since I was at Kams so not sure if those #s still make sense
Love a rematch with Wisconsin. We have an advantage in that we can score at the rim on them. We just need to limit one of Blackwell or Boyd. Should have won the first one. If we want to get where everyone hopes we get, we need to be able to handle a team like Wisconsin.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
$10??? That’s a steal! At USC beers are $18.50 and at UCLA $17.50.Up charge is about 300% so call it $10? Depends if you know the tender or not
Granted it’s been a few years since I was at Kams so not sure if those #s still make sense
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Ozamataz Buckshank
- Millywaukee
there are currently 1 or 2 teams I could see Michigan losing to, and 0 of those teams are from the big ten.
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Metrics can be dumb sometimes. No way Illinois is playing better lately. Cmon now.
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As I stated a week or two ago or so, before the season if you told me Illinois would finish 24-7 (15-5), I'd have jumped on it. So, while it wasn't a great finish, it was still a very good regular season.
That's where I'm at. Beat Wisconsin, who is very good, then after seeing them once already.... we'll definitely know where we stand.
I think this tournament is going to be exciting, but only 4 teams really have a shot of winning it.
I love our draw because I think there is great benefit in playing the best teams possible right before the NCAA Tournament. Seeing guys like Boyd, Blackwell, and Yaxel and Morez if we get there gives this team another litmus test on where they are.
If Washington were to somehow upset Wisconsin, we gain nothing and learn nothing by playing Washington.
JMHO.
Absolutely and going into the season, you'd think that record would have had us in the mix, but Michigan happened.
OSU, no, little chance Michigan loses to them in my opinion. But Iowa? Iowa I could see having a shot... Iowa and Minnesota in my opinion are the 2 deeper seeds that have a shot of making the semis, though I think neither pulls it off
Yeah. We're gonna have to pray that OSU somehow upsets Michigan. They're the one team who looks completely unbeatable in this tournament, and with the exception of 2-3 teams (Duke and Arizona are literally the only 2 teams who can beat them, in my opinion. Maybe Wisconsin if they haven't run out of upset magic.) in MM as well.
I dunno… they literally measure how well you play, they factor in way more data points than any human could, and they suffer from none of the human elements such as bias or context loss
It is pretty wild that we have veterans on this team and the effort is being questioned by the head coach at this point in the season.. This team definitely feels like one that could get bounced by Wisconsin, win our first game in the NCAA tourney, and then get bounced in the 2nd game.
I hope we figure it out- and quick
I hope we figure it out- and quick
We were coming off a loss that game. And it was short rest from a tough, physical OT game in East Lansing.
And on top of that we were down two men. I’m really not sure we were in some great form that game.
I'd agree, it was a good regular season. No bad losses, which had bit us in previous years.
But for me, this year is about the post season. S16 or bust for me. We need to start making the second weekend consistently.
Tomi last 6 games from 3: 5-28, a whopping 17.8%
Big Z last 6 games from 3: 1-11, a whopping 9% (13 rebounds over that span, for a whopping 2 per game).
If you add his last 8 games from 3: 2-19... 10.5%
Collectively- what are they bringing? they aren't shooting well, don't play good defense, hardly rebound, aren't physically tough.. Tomi did have some nice passes today and has generally been rebounding better. But man alive- these are some bad stats
Big Z last 6 games from 3: 1-11, a whopping 9% (13 rebounds over that span, for a whopping 2 per game).
If you add his last 8 games from 3: 2-19... 10.5%
Collectively- what are they bringing? they aren't shooting well, don't play good defense, hardly rebound, aren't physically tough.. Tomi did have some nice passes today and has generally been rebounding better. But man alive- these are some bad stats
We still have the 6th or 7th best odds to win it all
Give me a tired Wisconsin
That said, our avg game score on Torvik for the last 5 is lower than the preceding 5. I wonder if our rank obscures that because other teams around us have faltered even worse.
Last 5 games: USC, UCLA, Michigan, Oregon, Maryland
Preceding 5 games: Nebraska, Northwestern, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Indiana.
One other thing to keep in mind is that these are NATIONAL rankings. So it could be other teams not playing well at the same time.
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Hate to say this but not feeling good about the Illini for the BTT or the NCAAs. It's possible they could turn it around but this team looks to be trending in the wrong direction. Don't know if it's illness (Stoyakavic), injury(Wagler), or just poor perimeter shooting (Tomi,Kylan, AS,Wagler?). It's been several games where they look not only lethargic, slow, and defensively challenged but struggling to shoot well from 3. Will admit Maryland hit a fair share of tough 2s especially in the 1st half. But again they let someone go off like Millz for 30pts. Wisconsin will most likely be their opponent. They are playing well beat Maryland by 32pts after just winning@Purdue. IL has issues with fast downhill guards(Boyd,Blackwell) that can penetrate and dish for open 3s. Wisconsin has been hitting them. Hope I'm wrong
On Torvik, I'm seeing:
Feb 1-17: AdjO/D: 134.3/93.6 (+40.7), Barthag: 0.9846, Rank: 3
Feb 18-Mar 8: AdjO/D: 133.5/100.8 (+32.7), Barthag: 0.9622, Rank: 6
We were worse in our last 5 in every way. But still a very respectable 6th (behind Duke, Florida, Arizona, Michigan, and UCLA).
Im struggling with whom to root for in the USC-UW game.
On one end, I’d like USC to be a quad 1.
However, I think UW is the better team and I’d want the better team to win so Wisconsin can lose.
I think I’d slightly lean towards Washington.
On one end, I’d like USC to be a quad 1.
However, I think UW is the better team and I’d want the better team to win so Wisconsin can lose.
I think I’d slightly lean towards Washington.
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