IU at Illinois Game Thread (1/24 - 9pm - BTN)

[Brass Cannon 24,068]

And this is why some people are unhappy this year. Unrealistic expectations. 

[Hoosier Guy 7,472]

It’s not unrealistic expectations to expect a win at Illinois. They’re 0-8 in conference. IU shouldn’t lose. That’s not to say that they can’t, but they shouldn’t

[TheWatShot 13,335]

Being a 2 point underdog on the road basically means we're favored.

[bigrod 2,786]

1 minute ago, TheWatShot said:

Being a 2 point underdog on the road basically means we're favored.

by ~1.

[Josh 12,380]

It’s not unrealistic expectations to expect a win at Illinois. They’re 0-8 in conference. IU shouldn’t lose. That’s not to say that they can’t, but they shouldn’t

Agreed. The apathy by many is frustrating.

[JSHoosier 19,581]

16 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

And this is why some people are unhappy this year. Unrealistic expectations. 

Expecting to beat a sub .500 team that hasn't won a conference game, that doesn't shoot well and doesn't take good care of the ball, is unrealistic? 

What are expectations for some people, just to show up?

 

[Brass Cannon 24,068]

7 minutes ago, Hoosier Guy said:

It’s not unrealistic expectations to expect a win at Illinois. They’re 0-8 in conference. IU shouldn’t lose. That’s not to say that they can’t, but they shouldn’t

So we get Morale victories when we play Duke close but not illinois for playing close game after close game. Ok makes sense

[Brass Cannon 24,068]

Just now, JSHoosier said:

Expecting to beat a sub .500 team that hasn't won a conference game, that doesn't shoot well and doesn't take good care of the ball, is unrealistic? 

What are expectations for some people, just to show up?

 

If this were at home i would agree but we are on the road. How many true road games have we won this year

[Hoosier Guy 7,472]

1 minute ago, Brass Cannon said:

So we get Morale victories when we play Duke close but not illinois for playing close game after close game. Ok makes sense

I don’t know who said I was happy about losing to Duke. They played them tough but I expected to win. Losing is losing

[JSHoosier 19,581]

2 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

If this were at home i would agree but we are on the road. How many true road games have we won this year

If we were at home I'd expect a fairly comfortable win, on the road I expect a close win.  By record and stats Illinois isn't good.

[Brass Cannon 24,068]

1 minute ago, Hoosier Guy said:

I don’t know who said I was happy about losing to Duke. They played them tough but I expected to win. Losing is losing

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better

[WayneFleekHoosier 46,834]

We are on the road. I'm worried. Illinois is tired of being embarrassed. I'm worried. I'm never confident in road games even when we are good.

It seems we are due for one of these games where we hit a ton of shots but I'm feeling like this team is incapable of hitting a bunch of shots.

Hoping we can grind out a W!


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[Brass Cannon 24,068]

Just now, JSHoosier said:

If we were at home I'd expect a fairly comfortable win, on the road I expect a close win.  By record and stats Illinois isn't good.

By stats we arent very good

[dbmhoosier 851]

I'm telling you all we have a better chance of beating Purdue than we have of winning tonight.

[Brass Cannon 24,068]

1 minute ago, dbmhoosier said:

I'm telling you all we have a better chance of beating Purdue than we have of winning tonight.

Are you gonna spike their gatorade or something because otherwise thats not even close to true

[HoosierAloha 29,900]

I'm telling you all we have a better chance of beating Purdue than we have of winning tonight.

A pu team that will be playing their super bowl at Assembly Hall in less than a week? IU can win at Ill without a hot shooting night, grinding out a win by playing solid defense and getting in the paint. IU will need a hot shooting night and lockdown on defense to beat pu at home. How many games have you seen IU have this season?


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[patrickmorriso9 236]

We're all on the same team here fellas. Whether people are expecting us to win or not obviously everyone here will be cheering on the Hoosiers tonight. We don't need to be arguing about if we should be favored or not, let's just get excited to watch our team come out and grind out a hard fought win tonight!

[coonhounds 8,694]

Man you can tell we have had a rough patch lol. We are fighting about potentially losing a game 7 hours before it even tips off lol.

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[mdn82 25,464]

IU is not losing this game. Get the ball down low and quiet the crowd. Never takes much to shut them up. I expect us to control this team tbh. We are playing our best ball of the season. I expect that continues tonight.


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[Hutch89 2,939]

6 minutes ago, mdn82 said:

IU is not losing this game. Get the ball down low and quiet the crowd. Never takes much to shut them up. I expect us to control this team tbh. We are playing our best ball of the season. I expect that continues tonight.


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Hear! Hear!!