Week of 11/4 News & Games Thread

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Illini B-Ball Fan
Fighter of the Nightman said:
Your wish is my command, lol:

Purdue: 100.0%
Michigan State: 100.0%
Rutgers: 100.0%
Indiana: 98.6%
Illinois: 98.1%
Nebraska: 94.4%
Michigan: 81.3%
Northwestern: 78.4%
Wisconsin: 78.0%
Maryland: 73.3%
Iowa: 50.48%
Penn State: 50.4%
Minnesota: 47.7%
Oregon: 44.4%
UCLA: 32.5%
USC: 32.1%

Regarding the other sentiment about this being more "fair," FWIW, I see both statistics as useful in different ways. For example, as you said, Rutgers fans bought all 8,000 available tickets ... they did their jobs as fans and "filled the arena." On the other hand, the fact remains that a sellout at Illinois involves almost twice as many human beings showing up to support the Illini as a sellout at Rutgers. On this same note for football, while it's great when we can sell out Memorial Stadium and meet that mark, it's still worth remembering that tens of thousands of more people are showing up to a Penn State game even if they are at 80% capacity.
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And Ohio State.
 
#78      
billybaroo
Fighter of the Nightman said:
Your wish is my command, lol:

Purdue: 100.0%
Michigan State: 100.0%
Rutgers: 100.0%
Indiana: 98.6%
Illinois: 98.1%
Nebraska: 94.4%
Michigan: 81.3%
Northwestern: 78.4%
Wisconsin: 78.0%
Maryland: 73.3%
Iowa: 50.48%
Penn State: 50.4%
Minnesota: 47.7%
Oregon: 44.4%
UCLA: 32.5%
USC: 32.1%

Regarding the other sentiment about this being more "fair," FWIW, I see both statistics as useful in different ways. For example, as you said, Rutgers fans bought all 8,000 available tickets ... they did their jobs as fans and "filled the arena." On the other hand, the fact remains that a sellout at Illinois involves almost twice as many human beings showing up to support the Illini as a sellout at Rutgers. On this same note for football, while it's great when we can sell out Memorial Stadium and meet that mark, it's still worth remembering that tens of thousands of more people are showing up to a Penn State game even if they are at 80% capacity.
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A little surprised seeing Iowa at 50% capacity. I would have expected Wisconsin to be closer to a sell-out, too.
 
#79      
EyeoftheIllini
Piotyr said:
The B1G is one of only two leagues in which every team won their first game (ACC). Granted most were buy games, but the same could be said about the other conferences.

This conference should be fascinating this year, because there are effectively no "bad" teams (nobody is 100+ in KP or BT). There are also no "great" teams (nobody currently in top 10 of KP or BT). Everyone is clustered between 15 and 75 on BT and 11 and 76 on KP. Aside from Washington, everybody has a "squint hard enough and you could see it happening" chance at the NCAA tournament, to the point where 10+ teams could feasibly make the tournament without anyone really nailing down a top 2 seed.

Of course, it also means that come conference season, there won't be a single game on the schedule where you could take the night off and still win, which will be grueling. I just hope this Illini team is ready for the gauntlet by then.
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Nope. All Big East teams won their first games too. Villanova lost its second game.
 
#80      
PepeSilvia
mysterio2525 said:
Agreed. They have studs inside with him, reneau and ballo but with so many big men they turn the ball over a lot and still don't have 3pt shooting in their starting lineup... Only off the bench.
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Really just going to depend on if Carlyle and Rice can make strides from 3. Neither one shot the ball well from 3 as freshman but both shot a good clip from the free throw line and those are the types of guys that can develop from deep.

If those two and Mgbako can hit at average clips they're going to be dangerous because of how the inside game will open up wide open 3's and how dominant that frontcourt should be on the offensive boards.

Kind of like how last year's Illini team wasn't necessarily a great 3 pt shooting team but they had great size and just bullied teams on the boards.
 
#81      
IlliniInIndy85
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going into the weekend
 
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OrangeBlue98
#86      
21ChampaignSt
OrangeBlue98 said:
He is SO arrogant. Great coach, but his schtick is really messed up.

Fully agree with others that he needs an underwhelming season or two to help him understand he's not God's gift to basketball.
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All I know of him is his on-camera persona, so this probably isn't fair. But he seems like he is just a miserable human? Great basketball coach but not someone I'd ever care to know personally. If he acts that way in front of the camera, I can't imagine how he treats people privately.
 
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mysterio2525
21ChampaignSt said:
All I know of him is his on-camera persona, so this probably isn't fair. But he seems like he is just a miserable human? Great basketball coach but not someone I'd ever care to know personally. If he acts that way in front of the camera, I can't imagine how he treats people privately.
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Frankly I'm sick of UConn being so good. You can't have dominant runs and multiple random flukey runs for championships. Pick one buddy! You can't have both!
 
#91      
Combo
mysterio2525 said:
Frankly I'm sick of UConn being so good. You can't have dominant runs and multiple random flukey runs for championships. Pick one buddy! You can't have both!
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I like UConn. They're easily the team of the last quarter century - not blood bloods Duke, KY, UNC or KS.

Having said that, yeah Hurley is obnoxious.
 
#93      
AZILL
bleedorange and blue said:
At one point in time Bobby Knight was very good if not great for the game, times change
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I agree 100%. There was a time I lived across the Wabash in Grayville, IL and as a 7-8 yo used to almost daily go down by the river at Memorial Park and Skip rocks, search for arrowheads and beads along the now gone RR tracks, and wonder what those Indiana folks were up to. Did they live like I did? lol. I had an uncle who was, and still is to this day 50ish years later, a die hard IU fan. Everything I knew about college ball was through that lens and I freely admit I was totally captivated by the Hoosiers when they won their undefeated National Championship. Coach Knight hollered at players??? Well, between my Dad, my 4 uncles, my Grandmother and pretty much any other male adult in my life, I got hollered at damn near every day, lol. It was during that same time that I also started following the Illini and then Larry Bird came along. As a young adult I started to actually watch every game I could. Larry was my idol, through college and up until the day he retired. I am long since converted to a die-hard Illini fan, my youthful ignorance must be forgiven, lol.

Yes, times change. They way I grew up, and probably most of us on here, is a rarity these day. Many things that at one time WERE acceptable, no longer are. It's good in some ways, not so much in others. Apologies for the trip down memory lane, I'm sure many have a similar youthful experience. ;)
 
#95      
grue2
Sometimes you need the extreme example to get people off the fence and enable change.
 
#96      
Chad Fleck
Dan Hurley is a heel, in professional wrestling terms.

I've come around on this after listening to Trevor Bauer explain his baseball antics. Having someone to hate really makes following sports more fun. I'd say Dickenson is the same sort of character.
 
#100      
Jimbo
Kansas has some players. My goodness. We’ll have to tighten up the d to be able to stick with the .
 
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