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Week of 11/11 News & Games Thread
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Chad Fleck
- Eureka, IL
This Wisonsin game is a fun one. I have no issue rooting for Wisky this time of year against Arizona.
Marquette stinks. Mark my words
Just saw the Purdue box score. I thought Braden Smith’s assists were supposed to be down without Edey. Maybe just not against top 5 teams.
Noblesville Illini
- Nappanee, IN
Too early for the league???
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
If he can do it consistently throughout the season, he may just play himself into the league.He more than held his own against those lottery picks cause sometimes this are the kind of opportunities you need to get on NBA radar.
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To be fair 41 of those points came from free throws. It was a foul fest!
Don't look now, but DePaul is 4-0. They won 3 games all of last year. Nice start by Holtman. Apparently, as a part of his deal with DePaul, they had to agree to increase their NIL funds "substantially". Not sure what that adds up to, but after flipping channels, they LOOK like they have some legitimate players.
The combination of DePaul’s success as a kid and a friend being a fan (actually an Illinois alum, but he’s always been Blue Demons’ fan above all else in MBB world) has led me to follow the team somewhat over the years. They haven’t played anyone yet (opponents are a cumulative 4-9) and don’t until Dec, but they have been taking care of business. Much better than they were with Stubblefield.
Oregon State is also 4-0 after not playing anyone yet. That will change as they play Oregon next and then North Texas on the road. They brought in 7 or 8 transfers after losing its two best players (Pope to Texas and Bilodeau to UCLA) and I’ve liked the effort.
Speaking of Bilodeau, he had 15 points and 5 rebounds in UCLA’s win over Lehigh. Skyy Clark pitched in with 9 points and 2 assists.
sacraig
- The desert
My takeaway: Skyy Clark is a Bruin now? JCL part deux? Well, maybe more like Adam Miller part deux.
Yep. Obviously small sample size, but his stats are very similar to what he put up as an Illini. Major difference so far is he’s cut down on TOs some to get his A/T ratio up to 2.0. He also has more steals already than he had in an Illini uniform.
Seemed like a number of posters here threw shade his way calling him over-rated or benefiting greatly from having Edey. Really says a lot about Painter IMO that he can lose a lottery guy and still look like a top-10 team.
Agreed. I remember practically this entire board was completely dismissive of Purdue when discussing season prognostications. Purdue has experience playing together, basketball intelligence, three point shooting, handles, and one of the best coaches in the game. Yeah, it's early, but a gritty win over a stacked Bama team AFTER losing their starting center for the season should give all those naysayers quite a bit of pause. We have our work cut out for us this season. I'm excited to see how well we'll do against the challenges we're going to face.
It is what it is. They at least kept it more competitive than they did against the other B1G they have faced thus far. Which is about all you can expect as a low major getting paid to play against high major schools and take a beating. Neither team could hit 3s last night. Probably main reason EIU was able to keep it as close as they did.
foby
- Bonnaroo Land
I wasn't. I was impractical.
Oakland is playing KU on ESPN plus
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sacraig
- The desert
Go Golden Grizzlies!
Bowling Green up 32-22 on Sparty with 8:30 left in the first half. Big man (and I do mean BIG) Marcus Johnson looking like Prime Hakeem out there for Bowling Green.
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