Did you watch the NCAA tournament? It’s where Illinois got face fvcked by a mid major
Peaked too early and won the BTT. Also had the most wins in regular season- usually that means you win the regular season? Let’s not pretend like Illinois wasn’t ranked #2 in the nation heading into the tournament. The team had something to prove in the BTT because of the ‘Michigan way’ and that didn’t help for NCAA.
Nice, you may finish top 5 in the conference now lol
I don’t understand how people don’t understand that Kofi was more valuable to last years team than Ayo. Ayo was the better player but his replacements are much better than Kofi’s.
UK sources confirming what Illinois sources have been saying that Kofi will return. Just leaking early.
Something to prove ?
Don’t disagree with you here. That game costed Kofi from playing in the G-League next year after a solid BTT.
Michigan fans: Single elimination tournaments mean everything
Kofi had 21 and 9 in that game. His defense in that game wasn't great, but him not making the g-league is bigger than that.
That’s fair but when you had Bruce Weber recruiting his own players and John Groce coaching there’s bigger issues. Guys you have to let us pound our chest on something. Have you seen our football program or what it was like to be Illinois basketball fan since ‘05?
In the game of trolling, I think the H2H is more important. From a realistic perspective, I'd rather have the E8, but I also think that the Loyola game wasn't reflective of how good Illinois actually was.
We lost our best ****ing player had the toughest 8 seed draw with a team that should of been a fvcking 6 seed than also drew the toughest 4 seed and still made the elite 8 gfy with your trash take
Not going to lie I probably would’ve been in that bunch after NCAA tournament. Clearly recruiting wasn’t shown yet and by year 3 it was painfully obvious. The difference is this is year 5 and it’s happened multiple years.
Livers was your best player? I would’ve guessed 4th but obviously Smith and Dickinson were more important.
We played 10th ranked Loyola in the second round according to KenPom.
I think it's safe to say that Underwood is in a league above Groce. Maybe 2. He just landed 2 top 100 guards for 2022 which makes 7 since he's been here. Weber and Groce landed 6 from 2004-2017. He's going to have a tourney team for what should've been the third year in a row.
Our full body of work was better too.
Oh, so you want me to use eye test only for these two teams?
Teams tried that last year. He got in foul trouble in like 5 games all year.
