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Illinois vs Michigan

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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #30 on: February 27, 2026, 09:30:12 PM »
And look, Michigan is loaded. They are a nightmare matchup for just about every team in the country. This is not loser talk or copium, we certainly didn't come close to matching their intensity or physicality. It's calling it what it is.

Focus on beating Oregon and Maryland and reset for the dance.
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #31 on: February 27, 2026, 09:35:20 PM »
Quote from: Miles Leonard on February 27, 2026, 09:30:12 PM
And look, Michigan is loaded. They are a nightmare matchup for just about every team in the country. This is not loser talk or copium, we certainly didn't come close to matching their intensity or physicality. It's calling it what it is.

Focus on beating Oregon and Maryland and reset for the dance.
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #32 on: February 27, 2026, 10:01:30 PM »
And we may be looking at a 5 seed in tBTT
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #33 on: February 27, 2026, 10:45:41 PM »
Quote from: Somewhere in Mn on February 27, 2026, 10:01:30 PM
And we may be looking at a 5 seed in tBTT
This could very well happen and should not after the year we have had.
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #34 on: February 28, 2026, 12:29:15 AM »
Just outmatched. I thought we were built to give them trouble but they abused us at most positions most of the night. We couldn’t hit water from a boat, which might have made it interesting, but a lot of credit to their physicality and aggressiveness for us rushing shots and missing ones we normally make. Once I saw how they were going to swallow the whistle whenever Wagler got mugged I knew we were screwed.
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #35 on: February 28, 2026, 12:41:29 AM »
Basically we would need a very good game to play them evenly and we played below average tonight. We didn't even get back on defense well and that's entirely controllable even when shots aren't failing.
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #36 on: February 28, 2026, 01:31:25 AM »
Quote from: Miles Leonard on February 27, 2026, 09:30:12 PM
And look, Michigan is loaded. They are a nightmare matchup for just about every team in the country. This is not loser talk or copium, we certainly didn't come close to matching their intensity or physicality. It's calling it what it is.

Focus on beating Oregon and Maryland and reset for the dance.

They lost to Duke and even Wisconsin.
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #37 on: February 28, 2026, 01:40:53 AM »
Quote from: ThePAMan on February 28, 2026, 01:31:25 AM
They lost to Duke and even Wisconsin.

It’s only been 50 years since any team went undefeated, and those are pretty damn good losses in a day and age where these guys are rich and lazy like DJ Moore and can mentally take games off. Hopefully rich Illini alums like Murph can pony up so we can assemble a juggernaut team like Michigan has!
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #38 on: February 28, 2026, 01:42:54 AM »
Quote from: Custard on February 28, 2026, 01:40:53 AM
It’s only been 50 years since any team went undefeated, and those are pretty damn good losses in a day and age where these guys are rich and lazy like DJ Moore and can mentally take games off. Hopefully rich Illini alums like Murph can pony up so we can assemble a juggernaut team like Michigan has!

You may want to keep the players you have versus chasing them off.
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #39 on: February 28, 2026, 01:55:22 AM »
Michigan is extremely talented and athletic.
Illinois was overmatched physically.
They would beat us 7 times out of ten.

Illinois is skilled but not built to go deep in NCAAs IMO due to defensive liabilities. Not sure they can be rectified.

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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #40 on: February 28, 2026, 06:02:25 AM »
michigan is good
« Last Edit: February 28, 2026, 07:59:09 AM by bringbackself »
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #41 on: February 28, 2026, 08:09:38 AM »
Thinking back last night after the beer haze wore off. Most disappointing thing is that their bigs totally outplayed ours.

Maybe that's a wake up call for the twins. We're supposed to be one of the biggest and best teams in the nation and we just looked average.
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #42 on: February 28, 2026, 10:36:19 AM »
Our bigs are pretty much just tall wings who can shoot the three sometimes pretty well. It's five out position less basketball taken to an extreme but no inside presence when you need one.
We are pretty soft team really except for Boswell and they shut him down in second half

We really do not have any big who can take advantage of a mismatch inside off of switches.

Meanwhile inside on D we spent the night with Johnson and Mara's nuts in our face.

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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #43 on: February 28, 2026, 10:49:03 AM »
It's not the end of the world. Yet.

We've looked like we've lost our legs and have 2 games left. Get some rest and win the next 2.

If 4 teams finish 15-5 it looks like we get a 3 or 4 seed in the BTT. PU would get the 5 seed.

If Nebraska wins out, they have a left coast swing at UCLA and USC coming up, to finish 16-4 they would get the 2 seed and PU still gets the 5 seed.

All is subject to change but I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't.
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Re: Illinois vs Michigan
« Reply #44 on: March 01, 2026, 10:57:39 AM »
What a fucking embarrassing performance, i remember when we rarely ever lost at home even to good teams, let alone by fucking 20
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