UConn 77, Illinois 52 Postgame

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#351      
PepeSilvia
One small bright spot was Hansberry.

Dude is incredibly strong for a freshman. I know he's picked up fouls but watched him twice now square up with both Edey and Clingan and give absolutely no ground.

He's going to be a problem. His shot looked good today and he really reminds me of the slightly undersized but tough bigs that have played at Houston.
 
#353      
skyIdub
I watched Ty interview and I'm holding back tears...then I just saw DGL post and already I'm ready to run through a wall for next year's squad!!

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also apologies for posting giant screen shots of my orange drank!! I tried to shrink them!!

DAMN YOU BEZOS!
 
#354      
One Man Fast Break
PepeSilvia said:
One small bright spot was Hansberry.

Dude is incredibly strong for a freshman. I know he's picked up fouls but watched him twice now square up with both Edey and Clingan and give absolutely no ground.

He's going to be a problem. His shot looked good today and he really reminds me of the slightly undersized but tough bigs that have played at Houston.
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Give him whatever NIL it takes to keep him. I want him on the roster for next year.
 
#356      
JSpence
PepeSilvia said:
One small bright spot was Hansberry.

Dude is incredibly strong for a freshman. I know he's picked up fouls but watched him twice now square up with both Edey and Clingan and give absolutely no ground.

He's going to be a problem. His shot looked good today and he really reminds me of the slightly undersized but tough bigs that have played at Houston.
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Um, yeah. This year's Indiana team should be our floor next year. Portal efforts will be on top of that. I wouldn't be satisfied with it, but it's a fine starting point.

Of course, that assumes no Domask, no CoHawk, and no transfers out.
 
#357      
JSpence
skyIdub said:
I watched Ty interview and I'm holding back tears...then I just saw DGL post and already I'm ready to run through a wall for next year's squad!!
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Two questions:

When does basketball season start?

Does Dra have what it takes to be the next Coleman on social media?
 
#358      
travelin' man
I'm hoisting about four fingers of Weller 107 (I drank all my Blanton's celebrating the victory over ISU), not to drown my sorrows but to celebrate a great season. My heartfelt thanks to the players, coaches, and staff that worked so hard to give us this wonderful gift. Not many of us know what it takes to perform
so well at such a high level, and I hope that the players that can stay, will stay to continue to build the incredible culture that has been building over the last five years.
 
#359      
hoopsfan47
sacraig said:
I think Edey will eat his lunch if they meet in the championship, but Clingan is surrounded by better players than Edey is.
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There is no evidence of either team being significantly better than the other. Edey is surrounded by shooters and UConn surrounds Clingan with athletes, some who can shoot. As I see it, six of one and a half dozen of others.

Let them decide it on the hardwood in Arizona. Root for who you like. I will be pulling for Purdue, but UConn is also a great team....could be the best. I looked for this collision all year as I see both with challenges that the dozen others would find difficult with which to deal for 40 minutes.

The Illini were one of those dozen and gave us a great season to cherish and appreciate. Watching this team grow, learn to play as a team and count on each other's skills to win so many games, giving me personally (along with 63, 89, and 05 teams) an elitely enjoyable Winter of hoops, was a blessing.

A special thanks to CoHawk...his growth on and off the court was sensational and his future is bright.

Thanks to TSJr. for coming home so we could watch him turn into one a college basketball's best ever.

Thanks to Marcus Domask for showing the nation that basketball is not just about running and dunking.

And thanks to all the Illini for supporting one another, working their tails off to get better, listening to their coaches, and taking steps to become B1G warriors and part of Illini history. It was all special to me, but most of all, I hope you learned that if you work hard enough, anything is possible. You will do well...enjoy the process wherever it leads.
 
#360      
IlliniFan42
While refs aren't assigned to a specific conference in basketball, they are biased by the conference(s) they work during for during the season. Of the three refs tonight, only one reffed Big Ten games during the season.
 
#361      
ChiefGritty
IlliniFan42 said:
While refs aren't assigned to a specific conference in basketball, they are biased by the conference(s) they work during for during the season. Of the three refs tonight, only one reffed Big Ten games during the season.
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The refs were okay in this game. They were better against ISU bar the ridiculous block call on Hawkins. A relatively even, consistent game called in both cases.

But it is a little frustrating how extremely differently the two games were called. Way, way tighter in the ISU game.
 
#363      
OrangeBlue98
ChiefGritty said:
The refs were okay in this game. They were better against ISU bar the ridiculous block call on Hawkins. A relatively even, consistent game called in both cases.

But it is a little frustrating how extremely differently the two games were called. Way, way tighter in the ISU game.
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The game was very inconsistently called. Clingnan was allowed to mug people while Illinois was called for phantom touch fouls under the basket. You could see the frustration on the faces of the players. I honestly wish Underwood would have earned a technical foul to 1) wake the team up and 2) show that Danny Hurley isn't the only one who can berate and bully officials.

I just don't understand how officials who have worked Final Fours and national championship games could be so awful. Officials can have off nights as well, but that was a total clunker of a game from that crew compared to how well the Iowa State game was called.

Anyway, I found the comparison for Clingnan I was looking for. He'll be a staple on YouTube getting dunked on in G League games in front of 500 fans in Sioux Falls, Grand Rapids, and Stockton in a couple of years.

 
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One Man Fast Break
hoopsfan47 said:
Better....there is no defining proof. Clingan is a poor FT shooter, misses a ton of bunnies, and can only play 20-22 min. while Edey can play 30 min. Clingan is more athletic and quicker, but Edey does not commit and get taken out of plays. He is also deadly with his shooting inside 8 ft. I like the teams both coaches have assembled around both of them, but overall prefer Edey....but Clingan would be a pretty terrific consolation prize.
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Clingan is younger though. Edey had some growing pains of his own.
 
#367      
phats22
Ughhh, such a tough way to end the season. UConn is legit but we also crapped the bed coming out of half.

Everyone but Domask seemed tight, QG/Coleman kept passing up good looks from 3.

....wasn't meant to be. Bad bad feeling tonight but, man, what a season.

Love this team and the grit they showed for everything they went through.
 
#368      
IlliniFan42
I just hate that the stats from this game will show what they show. It's "easy" to block shots when you know they won't call a foul. It's "easy" to drop an 0-fer for that long when if you had gotten a foul called on the defense the missed shot wouldn't count. And I fully expected us to lose this game, but it's a garbage way to lose.

Shannon's game is built on driving at the defense and drawing fouls on the unavoidable contact. That leads to more openings as the defense has to back off. A lot of college fans hate it because it's "gaming" the rulebook that many NBA players are experts at. Today the refs decided not to call the fouls Shannon, by the rulebook, is supposed to draw (for conference bias reasons is my primary suspicion).

When fouls didn't get called in the paint, we were forced to chuck it when we're a decent but not great three-point shooting team. It's also easy to defend for UConn who knows scoring within the paint was taken away from us. I noticed that when there was around five minutes left and the game was out of reach, that's when the calls started flowing to balance things out.
 
#369      
phats22
ChiefGritty said:
The refs were okay in this game. They were better against ISU bar the ridiculous block call on Hawkins. A relatively even, consistent game called in both cases.

But it is a little frustrating how extremely differently the two games were called. Way, way tighter in the ISU game.
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They were consistent but definitely called a physical game that was not in our favor. I give props to SVG (I think) who flat out called the refs out for missing the calls early.

Was funny when he had to pivot to stating college game is more physical than NBA as his only rationale for the way the game was called
 
#370      
ChiefGritty
phats22 said:
They were consistent but definitely called a physical game that was not in our favor. I give props to SVG (I think) who flat out called the refs out for missing the calls early.

Was funny when he had to pivot to stating college game is more physical than NBA as his only rationale for the way the game was called
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SVG and Kevin Harlan are both great.
 
#373      
Keisersose
Terry Oglesby has frustrated me plenty as an official. I seem to remember a certain braggin rights game early in Brad’s tenure where Oglesby was especially unkind to Illinois.
 
#374      
OrangeKrush1981
Officiating stinks every game. Every game. It just stinks.

I don't think officials care a whit who wins though, so sooner or later things will even out. Might take a century or two though, grrrr.

Anyway, never mind the dudes in stripes. Somehow, over the course of a game or a season or a decade, a program has to just fight to win. Zebras always, always, always blow (very much because coaches demand misinterpretations of the historical rules of the game. Ha ha, put that in your pipe and smoke it!)
 
#375      
chiefini
Well, our Illini had a fantastic season, finishing with a 29-9 record, the third-most wins in program history. They lost big, but UConn is #1 in the country for a reason; they are very, very good...I’m really going to miss these seniors who have helped build on Coach Underwood’s every day guy culture. They had an incredible and memorable run, and they get to raise a B1G Tournament Champion banner and an Elite Eight banner, beating some very good teams in the process. I thank them all for their hard work in bringing our Illini Basketball program back to where it belongs, one of the top eight in the country. They will never be forgotten.
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