2022-23 Prediction League - Game 18 at Illinois Thu 1/19/23 8:30pm FS1

[LIHoosier]

How this works!!!

Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s).

It's a simple concept:

Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week)
+25 PTs if you guess the winner
-25 PTs if you pick the loser
+10 PTs if guess IU score correctly
+10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct
-The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter)
-The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter)

*** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits.

The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins

[rcbowla]

Illinois 77
IU 73

Honestly no idea because we have no idea what team shows up

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[Crazy about IU]

Illinois 86

IU. 74

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Ain’t Groce no more 78

IU 69

[incrediboy]

Hoosiers 62

Slighting Illini 59

[Scotty R]

UI 74 

IU 69

[Napleshoosier]

75-69 IU wins on the road!  Bring that defense with you though.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Still Not Road Warriors         77

 

Brad Underwear's Team      68                           

[Henryville Hoosier]

IU 68

ILL 76

[choosierred1]

IU - 78.
UI - 77.

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[Stuhoo]

Now Illinois Assistant Coach Chester Frazier apparently Tweet-predicts that Illinois will take a pre-game cheap shot and then lose to Indiana:

 

 

[Dave from Dayton]

Indiana                                                          74

Ililililil nye                                                        68

[HoosierCoop]

Eric Gordon's alma mater  75

Chester Frasier wannabe's  72

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

On 1/16/2023 at 8:53 AM, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Still Not Road Warriors         77

 

Brad Underwear's Team      68                           

Damn.  Good thing I doublechecked.  Had my scores reversed,

Still Not Road Warriors      68

 

Brad Underwear's Team     77

[Henryville Hoosier]

7 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Damn.  Good thing I doublechecked.  Had my scores reversed,

Still Not Road Warriors      68

 

Brad Underwear's Team     77

Let’s hope we’re both wrong again. 

[Uspshoosier]

Since Hova is retired from the prediction league this year I will post what his score would have looked like for the  Illinois game since he loves that team so much.  Lol

 

IU-150

Illinois and their #15 jersey wearing fan- 0 

[craigyv88]

IU - 79

ILL - 77

[Stuhoo]

Heartening but heartbreaking:

Illinois 74

IU 73

[ALASKA HOOSIER]

us- 103

them-72

[BottomLine]

We aren't as bad as the team that lost to Penn State (Hard to overcome 18 3's).  We aren't as good as the team that beat Wisconsin (Down year and best player out).  We aren't as good as we were earlier in the year when we were ranked.  So how do we stack up against Illinois?

The team that Woody built is a wreck right now.  Thompson and Johnson are out and the bench has been stripped to plug in the holes in the starting lineup.  That leaves us with a weaker starting lineup and a bench that isn't going to contribute much.  We have two senior leaders on the bench.  We are down to only one consistent rebounder.  It is not a good place to be.  As for the "Next man up" philosophy,  that doesn't work very well when the bench hasn't shown much growth since the start of the season.  Sometimes s*** just happens and there isn't much you can do about it.

So Indiana, a poor road team, goes off to Illinois to face a team that is still intact.  This is a game the November Hoosiers would have won, but this is January.

The good news is I think we might win our next three despite everything.

Hoosiers 68

Illini  75