Illini Basketball 2024-2025

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Welcome to the Illini Basketball 2024-2025 & College Basketball news thread :illinois:


Tickets
Season Ticket Info
(Single game ticket info has not yet been released.)


Schedule
Reported unofficial non-conference schedule-
Eastern Illinois (Monday, November 4th)
Oakland (date TBD)
Alabama in Birmingham, AL (Wednesday, November 20th)
Arkansas in Kansas City, MO (Thanksgiving Day - Thursday, November 28th)
Tennessee (Saturday, December 14th)
Missouri in St. Louis, MO (Sunday, December 22nd)
Duke at Madison Square Garden, NYC (Saturday, February 22nd)

Big Ten opponents-
Home Only – Iowa, Maryland, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, UCLA, USC,
Away Only – Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Rutgers, Washington
Home & Away – Michigan State, Northwestern, Wisconsin


Roster
IL Returnees
1) Ty Rodgers
2) Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn

IL Signees
1) Morez Johnson (2024 PF) committed on November 4th, 2021.
2) Jason Jakstys (2024 F) committed on July 23rd, 2023.
3) Jake Davis (Mercer guard) committed on April 1st.
4) Tre White (Louisville wing) committed on April 9th.
5) Kylan Boswell (Arizona guard) committed on April 14th.
6) Carey Booth (Notre Dame forward) committed on April 16th.
7) Ben Humrichous (Evansville forward) committed on April 30th.
8) Tomislav Ivisic (Croatian center) committed on May 6th.
9) Kasparas Jakucionis (Lithuanian guard) committed on May 28th.
10) Will Riley (2024 F) committed on June 23rd.
 
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Illini in Italy
Woo hoo!

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Second place is 1st loser
BBlock24 said:
Preseason projections have started apparently. Rothstein has Illinois at 8 in his preseason power rankings.

Means very little, but interesting nonetheless.
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I haven't seen our squad anywhere near the top 25 in most, but not all, of the preseason rankings. We're projected to be on the bubble as well.

Interesting to see the difference between some here who have us in the mix to win the conference and making a deep tournament run vs those from the outside looking at us from 50,000 feet.
 
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Illini8420
I think we might be a Sweet 16 caliber team right now but there’s a lot of unknowns and we’ll have to see how guys mesh early on.
 
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Grandpa
We are similar to the baseball teams that spend a bunch of money and get a powerhouse roster. Sometimes they win it all, and sometimes the are below .500.
I'm voting for winning it all.
 
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Second place is 1st loser
derrick6 said:
Coach of the Year opportunity
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This is exactly correct. If this team is in upper echelon of the conference, BU will have won BTCOY.
The complete roster overhaul, a young team, no players(outside of probably KB), that have carried any sort of load on a winning college level team, trying to implement European players to a new culture and a faster game, implementing two freshman into the mix, etc is an enormous task.

It'll be quite the ride. For this one year, the floor is going to be lower than the last few teams, but the ceiling could be sky high. This is the first time in a long, long time where we truly don't know what we're going to be going into the season.

I suspect that it's going to be a rough ride early, but hopefully we're in a good enough position late in the year to make something happen. If that occurs, coach U will be at the top of the list for a couple of awards.
 
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TheGMan
So honest question for people who know better, but in the highlights, I noticed that KJ jumps pretty far forward on his 3 point shots, is that good form or something that will need to be fixed?
 
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Brosky
Dan said:
Welcome to the Illini Basketball 2024-2025 & College Basketball news thread :illinois:


Tickets
Season Ticket Info
(Single game ticket info has not yet been released.)


Schedule
Reported unofficial non-conference schedule-
Eastern Illinois (Monday, November 4th)
Oakland (date TBD)
Alabama in Birmingham, AL (Wednesday, November 20th)
Arkansas in Kansas City, MO (Thanksgiving Day - Thursday, November 28th)
Tennessee (Saturday, December 14th)
Missouri in St. Louis, MO (Sunday, December 22nd)
Duke at Madison Square Garden, NYC (Saturday, February 22nd)

Big Ten opponents-
Home Only – Iowa, Maryland, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, UCLA, USC,
Away Only – Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Rutgers, Washington
Home & Away – Michigan State, Northwestern, Wisconsin


Roster
IL Returnees
1) Ty Rodgers
2) Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn

IL Signees
1) Morez Johnson (2024 PF) committed on November 4th, 2021.
2) Jason Jakstys (2024 F) committed on July 23rd, 2023.
3) Jake Davis (Mercer guard) committed on April 1st.
4) Tre White (Louisville wing) committed on April 9th.
5) Kylan Boswell (Arizona guard) committed on April 14th.
6) Carey Booth (Notre Dame forward) committed on April 16th.
7) Ben Humrichous (Evansville forward) committed on April 30th.
8) Tomislav Ivisic (Croatian center) committed on May 6th.
9) Kasparas Jakucionis (Lithuanian guard) committed on May 28th.
10) Will Riley (2024 F) committed on June 23rd.
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any TV listings for these early games?
 
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Illini4Christ
TheGMan said:
So honest question for people who know better, but in the highlights, I noticed that KJ jumps pretty far forward on his 3 point shots, is that good form or something that will need to be fixed?
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I noticed that also. It does create a lot of free-throw opportunities on the 3 point shot and traffic doesn’t seem to interfere with his release.
 
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Elite 8 - 2024
Wow GMan we are in pretty good shape when we can only worry about KJ's jump shot mechanics. If they go in, do not over think it. I really like the talent upgrade on this team.
 
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Bert2022
TheGMan said:
So honest question for people who know better, but in the highlights, I noticed that KJ jumps pretty far forward on his 3 point shots, is that good form or something that will need to be fixed?
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That's KJ Strategery...turning a run-of-the-mill 3-pointer into a sure thing 4-pointer...cue the gentelman pointing to his brain with the index finger.
 
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