Week of 1/19 Games Thread

[Chad Fleck]

We want Illinois to win, then nothing else really matters.

You don't find it interesting to follow other games and root towards Illinois' future seeding interests?

If you don't, why are you in the other games thread?

 

[EmeraldCityIllini]

Texas Tech getting some serious homecooking.

There's just wayyy too many flagrants in college basketball.

When not even 2 flagrant fouls can cause an ejection, you've made the call far too common

 

[FreshlySqueezed]

Man, im the same. They just seem to hit every timely shot, and can start defensive runs in every big spot.

I keep waiting for that to even out. But maybe it won't.

My wife is a Nebraska alum so I've watched more Nebraska games than most (she has no interest really but I don't mind having a secondary team to follow).

I also keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But it never does.

Hoiberg was a homerun for them, especially in this era of free transfers. His old Iowa State teams had success using a lot of transfers too.

 

[EmeraldCityIllini]

UCONN on the ropes a bit here. down 2 with a minute left and the ball

 

[EmeraldCityIllini]

tied with 43 seconds. Really hope Nova can find a way for a 2 for 1 here. Drives me nuts college teams dont do it nearly as much as I think they should.

 

[Chad Fleck]

tied with 43 seconds. Really hope Nova can find a way for a 2 for 1 here. Drives me nuts college teams dont do it nearly as much as I think they should.

Terrible possession.

 

[FreshlySqueezed]

tied with 43 seconds. Really hope Nova can find a way for a 2 for 1 here. Drives me nuts college teams dont do it nearly as much as I think they should.

I can only imagine the game thread if Illinois had the possession Villanova just had.

 

[3nDGuy]

He's had a handful of better games (I believe he was like 45% from deep vs you guys)

Did you watch today? I've watched every game and that game was good but he's done that or better at least a half dozen times.

He's averaging 25 a game the last 4 games.

I'm telling you it really wasn't that out of the ordinary. He's just that good of a shooter.

We've played backups in almost every game lately. It's crazy to watch. I still don't know what to make of it, just enjoying it

Against Illinois he scored your first 15 points, 26 in the first half, finished with career high 32. He hasn’t had another heater like he did in the first 10 minutes of that game.

 

[EmeraldCityIllini]

I can only imagine the game thread if Illinois had the possession Villanova just had.

And UCONN's not much better LOL

 

[kyillinifan]

Overtime at UConn. No

 

[PleaseMakeABowlGame]

Looks like overtime. Will ultimately end up being UConn.

 

[Piotyr]

You don't find it interesting to follow other games and root towards Illinois' future seeding interests?

If you don't, why are you in the other games thread?

I find it enjoyable to watch good other games. The effect on Illinois is minimal compared to the Illini winning.

 

[Chad Fleck]

I find it enjoyable to watch good other games. The effect on Illinois is minimal compared to the Illini winning.

For sure. But that's not what this thread is about.

 

[doowink]

What the hell is happening....

Indiana is a football school and
Nebraska is a basketball school

 

[Piotyr]

It's about other games...what are you referring to?

 

[FreshlySqueezed]

 

[DeeIL89]

UConn avoid the upset against Villanova in overtime.

 

[GBR]

Yes he has. More than 1 actually. He kinda just did about 2 hours ago (scored 7 to start the 2nd half, then a couple minutes later scored 11 of 14 points for us...20 second half points).

Not worth debating. Just making the point that he gets really hot and put up 15 points in a blink and he's done it repeatedly this year. No disrespect, but I don't think we're just getting lucky. The next 4 games tells us everything though...@Mich, vs you all, (skip Rutgers), then home vs Purdont (hopefully 3 loss by then).

 

[NarrowJ]

Texas Tech continues to be a great win for us:

 

[FreshlySqueezed]

MSU did to Maryland what we should have done to Maryland and they jumped all the way to #4 on KP with an all-time good defense.

 

[fatboyslim]

MSU did to Maryland what we should have done to Maryland

Some of yall say some of the silliest stuff. After the win today this is what you thought of

 

[FreshlySqueezed]

Some people can do two things at once?

Our win was great, we were adjusting to playing without Boswell...just unfortunate timing of things.

 

[Boomauer]

DGL with 27 for UNLV today in a loss. Took 14 more shots than any other teammate. Picked a good place to play.

 

[Bucktown]

MSU did to Maryland what we should have done to Maryland and they jumped all the way to #4 on KP with an all-time good defense.

We'd be 4 in KP without the garbage time points by Maryland.

 

[ChiefGritty]

DGL with 27 for UNLV today in a loss. Took 14 more shots than any other teammate. Picked a good place to play.

The cutaway shots to him on the bench today would have been pure cinema, alas