After MSU and maybe even OSU or Maryland, it’s pretty tough to be certain of anything with the next tier of teams.
Really like what I’m hearing about TJD and Franklin. Maybe even more excited about Franklin and his ability to knock down shots. If he can come off the bench, not turn over the ball and knock down an occasional open jumper, that would be huge for us.
I would take that as well, we need shooters and Leal looks like the real deal. I've also seen Lander play and he can really score, we just need to add a big in there and maybe a wing that can shoot.
I’d even leave at after MSU it’s pretty wide open besides a select few teams that obviously don’t have the talent.
I wouldn’t argue against that. Think that’s fair, too. I’m seriously starting to think Illinois might be a dark horse top four/five type team.
Yeah. I could see Illinois finishing anywhere from 3rd to 11th.
Should be a telling year for what caliber of coach Underwood is going to be. He’s certainly going to have talent.
If we're 11th with the talent we have on this roster, the Underwood experiment will have been a total failure. With his offensive prowess, I think the floor is 9th (and that would be bad), but his defense still has a lot to prove.
I'd say Underwood has shown that he's a capable coach. Made the tourney his first 3 seasons at SFA, and then came into OK St and flipped that team into a tourney team. He's good enough to get teams to the tournament. Is he good enough to make us an upper tier B10 team, or will he be a Fran McCaffery and float at the bottom of the top tier and sink to the top of the bottom tier is the question.
I think this might be the year for Illinois, they improved a lot last year even though it didn't show up in their actual record. Ayo is a flat out stud as well.
I'm not sold on Underwood but I'd certainly have more trust in him than Lovie if I were an Illini fan. That hire was really fvcking strange.
I don't see us being worse than the first 4 teams you mentioned.
Jealousy is an ugly color. You don't wear it well, dear.
All of love Illinois is getting. It hurts to be the ugly stepchild in the B10 doesn't it? Is ok bb.
That's how you think that rivalries are developed?
You've had 6 in the past 26 seasons and went through a stretch of 1 in 17 years. You're Iowa. You can't talk shit.
And now we're getting our dicks sucked.
Missouri is probably the closest thing. We don't really have a traditional rival. The Big Ten is trying to push NW, but it's not a competitive rivalry in either sport. I think you'll get different answers depending on who you ask and where they reside in the state.
