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Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM

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Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« on: February 18, 2025, 04:25:00 PM »
Since you fuckers have driven this team off the runway like a Trump run FAA, looks like I need to take over....

All stolen from fightingillini.com (unless otherwise indicated) because I am a lazy fuck....

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ILLINOIS (17-9, 9-7 B1G) vs. #11 Wisconsin (20-5, 10-4 B1G)
Date | Time   Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 | 7:30 p.m. CT
Location   Madison, Wis. | Kohl Center (Judge Judy should be there by now)
TV   FS1 (Brandon Gaudin & LaPhonso Ellis)
Radio   Busey Bank Illini Sports Network | Varsity Network App | SiriusXM 209 or 197, SXM App 959

Head Coach Brad Underwood
Career Record: 269-124 (.684), 12th year
At Illinois: 160-97 (.623), 8th year [Seems longer...]
Big Ten: 89-65 (.578)

Series History vs. Wisconsin
All-Time Record / Streak: Illinois leads 119-89 / Illinois W-9
Last Meeting: Illinois 86, #20 Wisconsin 80 (12/10/2024 in Champaign)
Record in Madison / Streak: Wisconsin leads 58-43 / Illinois W-4
Last Meeting in Madison: #13 Illinois 91, Wisconsin 83 (3/2/2024)
Underwood vs. Wisconsin: 9-4
[These are some good numbers!]

Opening Tips
The contest vs. the Badgers is the second game of a six-game span to close the regular season in which the Illini face five Quad 1 matchups against top-25 ranked foes. {NOT GOING SO WELL, IS IT?}

Illinois will play three of its next four games away from State Farm Center. After Wisconsin, the Illini step out of Big Ten play for a marquee Saturday night matchup vs. #3 Duke in the SentinelOne Classic at Madison Square Garden. Following the Feb. 25 home game vs. Iowa, the team travels to #12 Michigan for the penultimate game of the regular season schedule.  {FUCK}

Brad Underwood has led the Illini to nine consecutive wins over Wisconsin, a streak that began on Jan. 8, 2020. The teams met earlier this season in Champaign, an 86-80 Illini victory over the #20 Badgers. {YAY US}

In Illinois' 86-80 home win over Wisconsin on Dec. 10, the Illini were led by a career-high 24 points from Kasparas Jakucionis, while Trey White poured in 23 and Kylan Boswell added 19. Jakucionis' game marked the fourth of his program-record six consecutive 20-point games between Nov. 25 and Dec. 22.   

Illinois has won four straight at Kohl Center, the first Big Ten team to accomplish that feat. Illinois has not lost at Wisconsin in six years, since a 64-58 setback on Feb. 18, 2019. {SUCK IT BADGER}

Illinois is aiming to secure double-digit wins in conference play for a sixth straight season, which would be the program's longest streak since doing so for seven years in a row from 2000 through 2006. {REMEMBER THE ROAR?}

Illinois is one of the nation's top rebounding teams, leading the NCAA in defensive rebounds per game (30.8 rpg), and ranking second in both total rebounds per game (44.3) and rebound margin (+10.7 rpg). {BECAUSE THE ILLINI BRICK SO MANY 3S}

Illinois is 16-1 this season when scoring 80+ points, including 9-0 in Big Ten play. {NOW THERE IS A STAT}

Illinois is No. 18 in the latest NCAA NET rankings, one of seven Big Ten teams in the top 25. 

The Illini are tied for fifth nationally with seven Quad 1 wins. Illinois is slated to play a total of 18 regular-season Quad 1 games, its highest total in the seven-year history of the NET. {WOW!}

The Illini are 7-7 in Quad 1 games and 3-4 vs. top-25 opponents this season. {MEH}

Illinois is coming off a 79-65 home loss to #11 Michigan State on Saturday in which the team was led in scoring by three freshmen. Kasparas Jakucionis and Morez Johnson Jr. each tallied 17 points, and Will Riley added 13 points off the bench while dishing out a game-high six assists and matching Tomislav Ivisic with a team-high seven rebounds.

Illini Team Notables
Illinois leads the Big Ten in six team statistical categories, with the following NCAA rankings: defensive rebounds per game (1st; 30.8), total rebounds per game (2nd in NCAA; 44.3), rebound margin (2nd; 10.7), 3-point attempts per game (6th; 30.3), scoring offense (9th; 84.3), and offensive rebounds per game (23rd; 13.5).

Illinois is 16-1 on the season when scoring at least 80 points. The Illini's 17 games with 80+ points are tied for the Big Ten lead with Iowa (17), and tied for eighth nationally. Among teams with at least 15 80-point games, Illinois' .941 win percentage ranks tied for fourth in the nation behind Arkansas State at 15-0 (1.000), Auburn at 18-1 (.947), and Akron at 17-1 (.944).

Illinois is a combined 6-5 away from State Farm Center this season, with a 4-4 mark in true road contests. The Illini's win at Minnesota (Feb. 8) snapped a three-game road losing streak.

Illinois is 33-25 (.569) in Big Ten road games since the start of the 2019-20 season, the best mark in the league over the last six seasons. The Illini have finished .500 or better on the road in league play in four of the last five seasons.

Illinois is No. 20 in the latest KenPom rankings with an adjusted efficiency margin of 24.21. The Fighting Illini are on pace for their fourth top-20 rating in the last five seasons under Brad Underwood.

The Illini rank No. 28 in KenPom adjusted defensive efficiency (97.1), on pace for the program's fourth top-30 defensive ranking in the last five seasons.

Illinois is No. 9 nationally in KenPom's effective field goal percentage defense (.450), including a No. 7 ranking in 2-point defense (.441).

According to KenPom, the Illini rank No. 27 nationally, and seventh among Power Conference programs, with a 3-point attempt rate (3-point attempts/total field goal attempts) of 47.1%. Among major conference teams, Illinois ranks first nationally with five games of 15+ made 3-pointers.

Illinois is averaging 84.3 points, the team's highest output since the 1988-89 Flyin' Illini averaged 86.4 ppg.

Illinois ranks second in the Big Ten with a scoring margin of +12.7 points. That is on pace for No. 4 in the Illini record book since 1960 behind 2004-05 (+15.9 ppg), 2022-23 (+13.0) and 1988-89 (+12.8).

Illinois is second nationally in rebounding at 44.3 boards per game, on pace for the program's best average in 53 seasons, since (48.0 rpg in 1971-72). The Orange and Blue have outrebounded their opponent in 22 of 26 games this season.

Illinois is 3-4 against Top-25 ranked teams this season with wins over No. 19 Arkansas, No. 20 Wisconsin, and at No. 9 Oregon. The Illini's three ranked wins are tied for 17th most in the nation. The Illini's final five regular-season games feature matchups against four top-25 opponents.

Brad Underwood has led the Illini program to Top-25 rankings in seven consecutive seasons. The Illini are currently receiving votes in both the AP and coaches polls. Illinois has been ranked for a total of nine weeks this season, including a streak of seven-consecutive weeks, and has reached as high as 13th. {"CURRENTLY RECEIVING VOTES...."}

Illinois has registered 78 wins in league play since the start of the 2019-20 season, one behind Purdue for the most in the conference over the last six seasons. And when including the conference tournament, the Illini's 83 wins during this time span also rank second in the league behind Boilermakers.

The Illini won the 2024 Big Ten Tournament championship as the #2 seed, captured the regular season championship in 2022, and led the conference in wins while adding a B1G Tournament crown in 2021, and the team's three total championships during that span are tied with Purdue for the most in the Big Ten.  {NO ONE CARES EXCEPT PEOPLE HERE}

Following the 2024 Elite Eight appearance and Big Ten Tournament Championship, Illinois has a dramatically different roster this season. The program returns just one rotation player – last year's ninth-leading scorer Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn – and returns just 2.9% of its minutes, 2.2% of its points, and 2.0% of its rebounds overall.

Newcomers to the Illini roster have accounted for 91.7% of the team's scoring so far (2,009 of 2,192 total points), with UI freshmen accounting for 43.9% of those points (882).

Illinois' top three scorers, and top three rebounders are all in their first year of collegiate basketball. Freshman G Kasparas Jakucionis ranks first in scoring (16.0 ppg) and third in rebounding (5.5 rpg). Sophomore C Tomislav Ivisic nearly averages a double-double at 12.7 points (second on team) and team-leading 8.5 rebounds. Freshman F Will Riley is the Illini's No. 3 scorer at 11.9 points per game. And Freshman F Morez Johnson Jr. ranks second on the team at 6.6 rebounds per game with a team-leading 70 offensive boards (2.7 per game).

Eight different Illini players have recorded a 20-point game this season, tied for the top mark in the NCAA, and the most by any Big Ten program since at least 2004-05.

Just win, bitches.

Edit - odds are Illini +3.5 per VSiN aggregations. The vig has moved up and down but not the spread. Take Wisconsin. This should be easy money at this point.....
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2025, 04:32:42 PM »
O/u on 3 point attempts.
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2025, 06:17:23 PM »
Hopefully this is one of those nice surprise games where I expect we're getting bent over but everyone is locked in and we win a close one.

Line is only 3.5/4 which seems low.
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2025, 06:37:12 PM »
+3.5 without Morez and the season on the brink. Hmmm
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2025, 06:59:51 PM »
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2025, 07:24:28 PM »
I look forward to chucking up a bunch of threes during a scoring draught
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2025, 07:50:17 PM »
Tre White from doghouse to starting. Jake Davis starting. Ivisic possibly out.

Just...yikes.
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2025, 08:09:26 PM »
Here comes scoring draught #1
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2025, 08:34:47 PM »
The guys are trying, White looks like a "whipped" dog though...very hesitant looking imo. Humrichous is at least giving us double figures, Ivisic is sick and still out there. KJ hasn't done anything but turn the ball over and over and over.

We will be lucky if we don't lose by 20 in the end even with the short handed effort in a very tough place to win, although we have done it as of late.
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2025, 08:41:56 PM »
Ivisic got there today, per Brian Barnhardt on the radio broadcast.
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2025, 08:44:05 PM »
The kids are battling their tails off. I'll give 'em that.
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2025, 08:51:29 PM »
Turnovers:

Wisky - 8
KJ - 6
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2025, 09:15:15 PM »
Maybe when Underachiever said this was a Final Four team, he meant the NIT Final Four?
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2025, 09:37:04 PM »
This dope keeps talking us up like some dangerous 7 seed that no one wants to see in the tourney. Yeah sorry I'm not seeing it.
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Re: Hey Tempo and Custard! Illini @ Wisconsin 2/18 @ 730PM
« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2025, 09:41:09 PM »
Quote from: Miles Leonard on February 18, 2025, 09:37:04 PM
This dope keeps talking us up like some dangerous 7 seed that no one wants to see in the tourney. Yeah sorry I'm not seeing it.

I'm skeptical he can change tactics to reflect what this team is at this point.
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