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In December, Illinois was beating and competing with Top 10 teams.

Then Brad made some changes.

He is an awful coach.
 

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Illini go to war with Indiana in about 10 min. Better bring it hard against those guys.
 

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They call me crazy but I think the next 5 minutes might change us from a 3 seed to a 10 seed.

Win this and take second place, might earn higher than 4? 2?
 

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Wow what a amazing ? performance and literally wriggling his way down there ? he was the only one who could have been the first to make the most of the season and then the next step is to take action ? ? ? ? ? sorry I am so into this trip I made my phone make those words hahahahahahaba
 

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That second half did not suck!!!

Northwestern 25, Terrence Shannon 24. (Illini 47)

Nice!
 

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Illinois is probably going to fall into the 8-10seed area unless they have a big run in the conference tournament. Maybe UW can beat a higher ranked team this time around!

I don’t get how he ran such a fast paced & efficient offense at OSU and then came here and decided to run a slow, methodical, plodding inefficient offense. Very hard to have postseason success just relying on defense and a slow offense, excluding Virginia(although they did lose to a 16 seed and had several other flameouts).
 

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Well, I certainly agree Illinois had some crap losses, but they beat Texas and UCLA and have a better record than MSU but, of course, the pundits project Izzo to get the higher seed.

Illinois could be in so much better shape if not for a few missteps. Getting blown out twice by Penn State is inexcusable.

Yes, a decent BTT run would be a big plus, if not too late.
 

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Brad, whatever the fuck you are drawing up for your guys in the first half of ball games, change it.

Ohio State is God awful and kicking your asses.

So predictable.
 

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Brad, whatever the fuck you are drawing up for your guys in the first half of ball games, change it.

Ohio State is God awful and kicking your asses.

So predictable.

I just never fully believed in him. The loss to Loyola was unforgivable. He’s just not the guy to get this program back in the Final 4. Most bracketologists have Illinois trending towards the bubble. Massive letdown again by him. His teams play nothing like the Oklahoma State teams he coached.
 

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Well, he only coached one OSU team and that team went 0-1 in the tourney so I guess he does.
 

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Well, he only coached one OSU team and that team went 0-1 in the tourney so I guess he does.
Is it just mandatory that once you play Big 10 basketball, that offense must be a slow half-court slog?
 

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Sansabaugh was Marcus Smart and we had no answer, got bullied on senior night.

But yea, we can’t go 0-1 in big 10 tourney and guarantee we are in. Win one, hopefully avoid play in.
 

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Welcome to the bubble Illinois!

Get rid of underwood immediately



Edit: holy fuck. How did they come back in overtime down 8??? I turned it off
 
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