*Official* 2017-2018 B1G In-Season Thread
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We were w/o a major piece as well, bro. A walk-on started in his place.
And we still won.
Agree - Just like it will be a huge reason if Illinois were to get their first conference win tonight playing against a team without their starting center.
Ok. We started a walk-on in the place of a Top 50 player. A freshman as well.
And still won.
Yeah, I already see that excuse coming. We don't have a starting center, so it shouldn't matter.
Big game for us. 6-3 with this team would be amazing. We will have our hands full.
I have a volleyball game to play in at 7:45, so I'm not even going to get to check the score until halftime of the game probably.
How do you view the reasons you have given for Illinois being 0-8? I mean they sure sound like excuses. Maybe not. IDk. But man----thats what it sounds like to me.
FTR---If we lose tonight, It will have nadda to do with not having Davis. Non-factor.
Booooo
I dated a volleyball player in college. I’m pretty sure she wasn’t that good, but I had a hard time focusing.
I've said it on here a bunch of times that they don't have the players to play their system.
You Indiana fans are all up in arms because I said Illinois would've faired better with your schedule. I'm speaking to the layout and the injuries. It's not complicated.
Why would that piss ANYBODY off? He's 65-69 in the Big 10. Including 2-7 this year. SHit I hope Iowa never fires him.
IUs wins don’t count but Illinois will even with a missing piece? Terrible trolling.
And you’re right it will have nothing to do with DeRon if IU does lose. Just funny
Just that ole Bad Luck for Illinois and good luck for IU
not at all. Iowa is stuck with him. This is a big advantage for all the other B1G bball programs. Fran is worth 8 points to the opposition. I hope he stays for the next 20 years.
Thought experiment.
Would you have rather played all of your games in the order that you played them or Illinois played them?
Minnesota completely healthy and Maryland completely healthy, or both of those teams missing significant pieces? Would you rather have played Northwestern at home, or would you rather play them away? Michigan state would have been a loss for either one of us away or home.
That's all I was getting at.
Would you have rather played all of your games in the order that you played them or Illinois played them?
Minnesota completely healthy and Maryland completely healthy, or both of those teams missing significant pieces? Would you rather have played Northwestern at home, or would you rather play them away? Michigan state would have been a loss for either one of us away or home.
That's all I was getting at.
And that is possibly true. BUT.........How confident are you this Illinois team wins @ Minny, even had they been shorthanded? And sure you could've faired better. But what is better----------2-6? 3-5?
Funny how you say Illinois doesn't have the players to play their syste. I can say the same thing about IU. No shooters. Zero. None. No depth. Starting a walk-on. Tallest starter is 6'8". No PG of any count. Most of our back-up's are freshman. All these guys are mostly Crean holdovers.
Yet, Miller has IU at 5-3.
I'll take it.
we will see if you will still be saying that the end of this year and going into the 18-19 Season.
if Fran can have just 2 top 100 4* players and take Iowa to the NIT Championship game, then to 3 straight NCAAT game produceing back to back 3rd place finishes in the BT. just think what he will do with 4 top 100 4* players and 2 4* players just outside the top 100....
You seem to focus on something so irrelevant because that’s all you’ve got. So what if Fran is 7-6 against Purdue? Mike Davis went like 10-2 against Purdue.
And it is a fair point. But you are totally ignoring the fact that IU lost a significant piece as well. Forced Miller to start a freshman and a walk-on. I don't think we beat Minny if they have Coffeee and Lynch. Maryland I do think we win. Northwestern is a toss-up. But I think we are better than NW. We didn't just squeeze by them. We beat them by 20.
To win at Minny a few days after losing De'Ron was big. Impressive really.
Anyways, good luck tonight.
NIT Championship isn’t something to brag about. So you were essentially the 66th/67th best team that year? Yeehaw!
I’m hoping for a Chester Frazier/Eric Gordon mid court altercation.
Yeah I know. Is what it is. Tonight will be tough. Always is up there. But yeah it is funny how he discredit's our wins b/c teams were missing key pieces. But IU missing Davis doesn't count. A 6'11", 4* guy playing 25+mpg, averaging 10/5 is no big deal.
Kinda like crean. It was a sad day when he got fired.
That was something, huh? I don't see that tonight. Really no bad blood than I am aware of.
This game hasn't mattered since. The argument upsets some Illinois and older IU fans, but I do not give a shit about Illinois.
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