I’m watching the sleepers guys in a recent pod on YouTube. And they’re discussing an over/under for BU and how many final 4s he will get to. At one point in the discussion they drop information they believe BU will head to MSU after Izzo is gone…..WHAT!? Where did this come from I thought BU was gonna retire here. Sure hope that’s the case he’s built a winning brand here.
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He may have to take the reigns from his dad in 10 years.
I’m guessing he has a great mentor /s on the “guessing”
On a serious note, the matchup hunting worked against us in some critical games last season. I hope that is addressed too.
Govoner Vaugn Fan
- New Orleans
Be interesting to see our SOS this season.Slow day for me at work ... and I was thinking how wild this would have been to tell my dad or something 30+ years ago that one day Illinois would play the following programs in one regular season. I know it is partially due to realignment, but just from a historical prestige perspective, this is wild that we are getting this many historically relevant(ish) programs that were not in the pre-PSU Big Ten:
UCLA in Champaign
Duke at MSG
Arkansas in Kansas City
Maryland in Champaign
Alabama in Birmingham
Tennessee in Champaign
Missouri in St. Louis
This is obviously in addition to historically great programs like MSU (x2), Indiana in Bloomington, Purdue in Champaign, etc. I think realignment sucks as much as anyone, but the combination of that plus our aggressive/awesome non-conference scheduling has given us a ridiculous schedule this year from a historical perspective. For reference, this is our schedule laid out in terms of where programs rank in the "all-time top 35" (link) for AP Poll appearances. (FTR, we are #10 all-time.)
vs. #3 Duke (New York, NY)
vs. #5 UCLA
at #8 Indiana
vs. #11 Michigan State
at #11 Michigan State
vs. #12 Ohio State
vs. #14 Maryland
at #14 Michigan (yes, they're tied with Maryland)
vs. #17 Purdue
vs. #21 Iowa
vs. #24 Tennessee
vs. #25 Alabama (Birmingham, AL)
vs. #31 Wisconsin
at #31 Wisconsin
vs. #32 Missouri (St. Louis, MO)
vs. #34 Arkansas (Kansas City, MO)
And just for fun, remaining Big Ten schools' rankings:
#42 Minnesota
#48 USC
#56 Washington
#59 Oregon
#112 Rutgers
#114 Nebraska
#123 Penn State
... DRUM ROLL ...
#139 Northwestern at 18 weeks or 1.4% of all weeks since the poll started.
Offensive wizard hmm.... Illinois' offense would have been the number 1 kenpom offense every year except 1 in the last 6 years. That's not good enough!
I'm joking of course. Glad to see he's working out. It's definitely a change to just outscore people like we did last year. I'm sure we will find our balance on both sides but doesn't hurt to put up 100
Per Jerry Palm's bracket projection on CBS, he doesn't think much of it. He has our Non Conference strength of schedule at 150 and has us as an 11 seed.
These projections seem to be fairly consistent with most of the "news" outlets.
These projections seem to be fairly consistent with most of the "news" outlets.
Joel Goodson
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foby
- Bonnaroo Land
Two things brother P.
1) Get all better really, really soon.
2) I always have to crank up the volume a few clicks when that song comes on.
Oh yeah, one more thing.....
#1 Baby. I can feel it.
Nebraska vs. IU who has the worse Non-Con?
I'm leaning IU personally just because they got so much hype with their recruiting only to take such an easy road.
I'm leaning IU personally just because they got so much hype with their recruiting only to take such an easy road.
Gotta be top 10; if not top 5.
get well soon!!
Govoner Vaugn Fan
- New Orleans
I assume there is a non-zero chance that Pru is leveraging this unfortunate situation into added attention from the NLs.I’ve been wondering where you were, @pruman91. You were missed. Sorry to hear this. I hope you mend quickly and feel better soon.
Sorry to hear this. Get better, my Illini friend!
Heal quickly Pru.....come back stronger and better!
IlliniwekKDR
- Colorado Springs, CO
Nebraska is the only high major team in the the Diamond Head Classic (although many of the mid majors are tournament teams with some having won some games recently). Nebraska's schedule has to be worse
Nebraska is also scheduling non-home games against Creighton and St. Mary's. Nebraska's schedule is leagues tougher.
foby
- Bonnaroo Land
IU at least is in a loaded tournament. I have to give the edge on mediocrity to Nebby.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Yeah, I would think it would be really high. The only thing that could drag it down would be if some of our cupcakes are just really, really bad (I have no idea and have not looked). The three Big Ten teams that we get twice (MSU, Wisconsin and Northwestern) should hardly be a drag on that statistic.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
The legend continues...Two things brother P.
1) Get all better really, really soon.
2) I always have to crank up the volume a few clicks when that song comes on.
Oh yeah, one more thing.....
#1 Baby. I can feel it.
SPEED ON MY WAYWARD BRO....I
Hang in there Pru
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Nebraska is weaker because IU has a tougher field in Battle for Atlantis, but still IU is pretty weak compared to their talent.
This is the field for Battle for Atlantis, IU might face two quality teams.
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