Illini Basketball 2021-2022

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DeonThomas
illini55 said:
What a great morning to wake up as an Illini fan!

I'll go ahead and put this thought out there: Would it be possible to call for a moratorium on complaining about bad referee calls? Our program has now attained "pre-blue blood " status. No question. Whining constantly about the referees is simply not in line with being fans of one of the premier teams in America.

Let me try an analogy. (for Iowa fans, that means, oh never mind, you're from Iowa) If you play golf, you are no doubt aware of a situation in which you stripe a beautiful drive right down the middle. Let's say you end up in a divot hole. A bad golfer whines and moans, even though this situation is inevitable if you play long enough. A good golfer understands that the phase "s*** happens" sold 100 million bumper stickers for a reason. A good golfer looks at the divot hole as an opportunity to pull off a great shot under poor conditions. During the course of ANY game, bad breaks will happen. It's how you deal with the bad breaks/bad calls, that's what separates the great from the rest. Let's be great and overcome the tendency to whine. You know who you are.........
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I second that nomination.......

Thank you for this. It's one of my personal pet peeves pertaining to this site. (Alliteration intended.) BTW, we could mandate that all those who complain about NCAA refs put on a striped jersey and referee an entire season of U11/U12/U13 travel basketball in the greater Champaign-Urbana area next fall.

(Honestly, we were the fortunate beneficiaries of some debatable calls in yesterday's game.)
 
#103      
WyattEarp
DeonThomas said:
I second that nomination.......

Thank you for this. It's one of my personal pet peeves pertaining to this site. (Alliteration intended.) BTW, we could mandate that all those who complain about NCAA refs put on a striped jersey and referee an entire season of U11/U12/U13 travel basketball in the greater Champaign-Urbana area next fall.

(Honestly, we were the fortunate beneficiaries of some debatable calls in yesterday's game.)
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Oh, no…do I have to? No, point taken. It’s a tough tough gig at any level.
 
#104      
alaskaillini
I like a lot of the takes on here. I would add one thing. This team can win when one or more of its stars are having less than stellar games. One of our starters - Grandison - sat out and contributed nothing last night. Trent was 1-9 from the field. Curbelo was 4-12. Yet we won. I like our chances going forward.
 
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Nuke Dukem
illini55 said:
What a great morning to wake up as an Illini fan!

I'll go ahead and put this thought out there: Would it be possible to call for a moratorium on complaining about bad referee calls? Our program has now attained "pre-blue blood " status. No question. Whining constantly about the referees is simply not in line with being fans of one of the premier teams in America.

Let me try an analogy. (for Iowa fans, that means, oh never mind, you're from Iowa) If you play golf, you are no doubt aware of a situation in which you stripe a beautiful drive right down the middle. Let's say you end up in a divot hole. A bad golfer whines and moans, even though this situation is inevitable if you play long enough. A good golfer understands that the phase "s*** happens" sold 100 million bumper stickers for a reason. A good golfer looks at the divot hole as an opportunity to pull off a great shot under poor conditions. During the course of ANY game, bad breaks will happen. It's how you deal with the bad breaks/bad calls, that's what separates the great from the rest. Let's be great and overcome the tendency to whine. You know who you are.........
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I swear. I am not Tom Izzo.
 
#107      
Flyin' Illini
Rather than start a new thread, this one seemed like the most appropriate place for this question.

I'm going to be traveling next weekend (Round 2 of the NCAA Tournament) and will be in the car basically the entire day Saturday and Sunday.

What is the best way to listen to the tournament games on the radio, and especially the Illinois games? Sirius XM might be an option, but is there any other way to listen to Illinois radio feeds out of market?
 
#108      
illini55
Flyin' Illini said:
Rather than start a new thread, this one seemed like the most appropriate place for this question.

I'm going to be traveling next weekend (Round 2 of the NCAA Tournament) and will be in the car basically the entire day Saturday and Sunday.

What is the best way to listen to the tournament games on the radio, and especially the Illinois games? Sirius XM might be an option, but is there any other way to listen to Illinois radio feeds out of market?
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"Tune In" radio works, but I'm not sure how to get it in the car. I'd download that App and see what you can get.

When I tell Alexa to play News Talk 1400 WDWS radio, it goes immediately to the Illini and Brian Barnhart, but again, not every car has Alexa enabled capability. I'm not at all certain the NCAA games can even be aired on local radio. I'm pretty certain you can get the tourney on Sirius XM. Good luck.
 
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jumpingjack
Flyin' Illini said:
Rather than start a new thread, this one seemed like the most appropriate place for this question.

I'm going to be traveling next weekend (Round 2 of the NCAA Tournament) and will be in the car basically the entire day Saturday and Sunday.

What is the best way to listen to the tournament games on the radio, and especially the Illinois games? Sirius XM might be an option, but is there any other way to listen to Illinois radio feeds out of market?
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I have it worse. I'm supporting an all day tournament 3 hours from home on April 2nd. Just🤞 that they don't notice a judge watching Hulu on his cellphone and randomly shouting "I L L...I N I" and "TREEEEENT FRAAAAAAAZIER" at nobody in particular.
 
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89illini
Flyin' Illini said:
Rather than start a new thread, this one seemed like the most appropriate place for this question.

I'm going to be traveling next weekend (Round 2 of the NCAA Tournament) and will be in the car basically the entire day Saturday and Sunday.

What is the best way to listen to the tournament games on the radio, and especially the Illinois games? Sirius XM might be an option, but is there any other way to listen to Illinois radio feeds out of market?
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I was driving in Arizona yesterday and I was able to listen on my cell phone at the WDWS website. Click on the Orange "Listen now" at top of the page.
 
#115      
the juiceman cometh
I just realized that if Kofi comes back for one more year, he has a legit chance to surpass Deon Thomas as our all-time leading scorer. He is currently 643 points away. Kofi's gonna do what's best for Kofi, and I fully support that. It would really be cool to see him take that top spot though.

Also, if he hadn't missed so many games to injury and suspension, he would've had a very good chance at the single season points record (Donnie Freeman - 668).

Edit: He'd also be a near lock to take over the all-time rebounding spot from Augustine too.
 
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Illinirog70
I LOVED Donnie Freeman! I was at U of I as a freshman in '65-66 when he scored those points. What a great team we has that year and he was the leader.

Unfortunately, it was all torn down the next year with the slush fund scandal.
 
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the juiceman cometh
Illinirog70 said:
I LOVED Donnie Freeman! I was at U of I as a freshman in '65-66 when he scored those points. What a great team we has that year and he was the leader.

Unfortunately, it was all torn down the next year with the slush fund scandal.
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Before my time, so I didn't witness it, but I find it very impressive that he set that mark in just 24 games. Can't imagine we'll see anyone score almost 28 ppg again anytime soon, if ever.*

* have to qualify I mean at Illinois. I realize other players have done that in recent years, typically at mid or low majors.
 
#119      
Nuke Dukem
Flyin' Illini said:
Rather than start a new thread, this one seemed like the most appropriate place for this question.

I'm going to be traveling next weekend (Round 2 of the NCAA Tournament) and will be in the car basically the entire day Saturday and Sunday.

What is the best way to listen to the tournament games on the radio, and especially the Illinois games? Sirius XM might be an option, but is there any other way to listen to Illinois radio feeds out of market?
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WLS on the Audacy app broadcasts Illini games. Also WLS broadcast signal 890 AM is pretty good in the northen half of the state if you wanna go old school
 
#121      
Ga65
DMWSuperFan said:
It’s nice to see the national media recognize DMW and appreciate him more than some of our own fans do…big congrats to the all-glue guy!
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This is the type of recognition that goes with being on a winning team. Same player for Nebraska gets zippo. Hope the recruits are paying attention.
 
#124      
DMWSuperFan
Ga65 said:
This is the type of recognition that goes with being on a winning team. Same player for Nebraska gets zippo. Hope the recruits are paying attention.
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Hard to really be a glue guy without winning though isn’t it? The whole idea of the glue guy is someone that helps the team win…
 
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