Pregame: Illinois vs Wisconsin, Tuesday, February 10th, 7:00pm CT, Peacock/YTTV
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Wisconsin has the best guard duo in the Big Ten IMO. Both can really fill it up, and we'll have to match up without Boswell.
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Illini in Indiana
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Play with the same physicality and win the rebound battle!
Get the standard home B1G whistle and we will win by 20. Get high knees and uncle fester and we will have to scratch and claw to survive.
Super scary game coming off an emotional loss and on short prep. Wisconsin on their best night can rain threes and beat anyone. And they have dynamic scoring guards and our best guard defender is still out. As good as I think we are, this game feels like a difficult matchup to me. We'll need an A or at least B game to win.
It took a top 10 away OT loss for us to have a 12 game win streak snapped. I think the guys will be motivated more than dejected. Wisconsin is also on short rest after an OT game.
Wisconsin, while like every big ten team can be dangerous, is not a top 25 team. ee should handle them.
I have a lot of confidence going into this final stretch of games, and it has little to do with who the opponents are.
It took A LOT of things to go awry for the 10th ranked team to squeak by us in overtime on their home court.
Also Boswell would’ve stymied a lot of what Fears was doing.
It took A LOT of things to go awry for the 10th ranked team to squeak by us in overtime on their home court.
Also Boswell would’ve stymied a lot of what Fears was doing.
Fighter of the Nightman
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As was mentioned in the SFC thread, refs get influenced (even if subconsciously) by the crowd. Our crowd simply must be better.
I reckon Boswell is back for Indiana game.
I hope you're right, but I say the UCLA game.
Will be at this game, let’s get a good home environment and come out pissed!!
Boswell would've helped the Illini on D vs Fears. But would it have killed us to go under the screen set for Fears vs. trailing him over/around the pick at the top of the key? Could Fears have made enough 3s to hurt us vs. killing us on his crafty drives to the hoop? Even if Boswell had been in the MSU game, the Illini would've been better served imo by going under the pick/screen... at least some of the time.
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When is Boswell expected back? Can’t be soon enough
Stirtz has found his groove
!!!! all this talk about being more like Sparty and Izzo.... That isn't modern basketball nore is that brand of basketball gonna make a comeback... That is dying gasp of a bygone era.... ILL will never be them and I for one am happy
Win three straight and we're easily back in the elite mix going into the Michigan game. And unlike last night's carnival show, we'll be facing scUM at home.
If the
needed any more motivation, that MSU game did it. Keaton bounces back with a 32 point effort in a comfortable (10+) win 
Keaton will turn up the heat next game.
Remember, Michael Jordan was off many games inn his career.
Game 4 of the 1997 Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat, Jordan started the game shooting 0-for-14and was 2-for-22 through three quarters.
Shooters of Keaton’d caliber don’t have a conscience to a bad game.
Remember, Michael Jordan was off many games inn his career.
Game 4 of the 1997 Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat, Jordan started the game shooting 0-for-14and was 2-for-22 through three quarters.
Shooters of Keaton’d caliber don’t have a conscience to a bad game.
I really think this is a very difficult spot. Last yr after we lost at MSU, we lost by 21 at home to Maryland.
We don't have Kylan. I'm worried how we contain Boyd and Blackwell.
We don't have Kylan. I'm worried how we contain Boyd and Blackwell.
1) Maryland was a way better team than Wisconsin
2) We’re a way better team than we were last year
3) I think we were without Tre White, Tomislav, and Will Riley
I think the real test of what the Illini are made of comes against Wisconsin and Indiana. Need to win both
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