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Just now, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Illinois just fights. Complete opposite of us. Still laughable how so many thought they’d be worse than us.


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They also have a lot of talent on that roster. Ayo and Kofi were both top 30 recurits. But you're right they play hard. Both teams do and would crush us the way they are playing today. 

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Illinois just fights. Complete opposite of us. Still laughable how so many thought they’d be worse than us.  

 

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Not sure why it would be laughable if someone thought that. If you watched Illinois go to OT with Nicholls earlier in the year and saw them lose at home to Miami or Missouri on a neutral court I would have no problem with someone saying IU was better then them at the time. Clearly Illinois has turned it around and is definitely playing better then IU but not sure why it would be laughable to think otherwise

 

 

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Wow. What a game. I’ve got to stop watching so many IU games, this is great basketball! Ha. Both teams run an offense that looks like it had purpose and a goal with the movement to get the ball to a specific shot/guy on the floor. I’ve been a defender of IU, trying to oppose the negativity by saying how we’re close, and it’s just a tough league. But this game between Iowa/ILL makes me think we actually aren’t a very good basketball team. At least not at running a deliberate offense and executing a scheme. 

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Not sure why it would be laughable if someone thought that. If you watched Illinois go to OT with Nicholls earlier in the year and saw them lose at home to Miami or Missouri on a neutral court I would have no problem with someone saying IU was better then them at the time. Clearly Illinois has turned it around and is definitely playing better then IU but not sure why it would be laughable to think otherwise  
 
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Reminds me of the 15-16 IU team a little.


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Reminds me of the 15-16 IU team a little.


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Illinois has a brutal stretch of games coming up.
This one looks like a loss then they get Sparty and Maryland at home which in my opinion are the 2 best B1G teams then they go on the road to Rutgers and penn St


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Just now, TXHoosierDaddy said:

Anyone catch the end of that Illini-Iowa game? Looked like things got testy in the handshake line. 

Yeah, I saw it. Started to be some jawing and a little scuffle. The Iowa staff escorted their guys into the tunnel. Left the Illini guys at the scorer’s table waiting to shake hands. I guess a good move to keep it from escalating, but looked bad having the Illinois guys standing there trying to congratulate them in the handshake line with Iowa already in the locker room. 

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Illinois up 2 at Iowa at the under 8 timeout. This has been a heck of a basketball game. Nine lead changes. Both teams playing like their hair is on fire. I’ve got more respect for the Illini than I did before this game. I felt their schedule had been beneficial and with this five-game stretch starting today against ranked teams they were likely gonna go 1-4 or 0-5. I retract that thought. They play hard and are balanced in the front and back court. Now, they still may go 1-4 because the league is that tough, but they will be a tough out in the tourney at a 5-7 seed. 
Very fun game to watch. Glad Iowa won. Illinois fans are coming out of the woodwork over here.

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22 minutes ago, JerryYeagley23 said:

Yeah, I saw it. Started to be some jawing and a little scuffle. The Iowa staff escorted their guys into the tunnel. Left the Illini guys at the scorer’s table waiting to shake hands. I guess a good move to keep it from escalating, but looked bad having the Illinois guys standing there trying to congratulate them in the handshake line with Iowa already in the locker room. 

Yep looked at it again...odd that it was the coaches and not the players. Illinois assistant seemed to instigate it by yelling that is BS because of a dunk when Iowa was up 8 and Illinois was trying to foul at end of game....He was actulaly directing it to the Iowa player who dunked and Fran going by him in handshake line obviously wasn't going to take that and got his team off the court. Bad look by whoever that assistant was. 

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