Not even sure why I’m wasting my time responding to this nonsense. He never did anything close to what Underwood has done with their own players.
Yeah he got to the round of 8 after being gifted the only 16 seed to ever make it to the second round, and then lost to an 11 seed. Yay.
After the rebuild, Underwood has gotten two top 10 metrics teams in the second round and missed a tourney due to the Chinese hoax virus. He also had an old school big in Kofi (to whom you credit all his success) that effectively lowered the team’s ceiling in modern tournament play.
Illinois lost 89% of our scoring from a B1G championship team and are ranked to start the season, which is a huge show of respect to what the staff has been doing.
Dude. You’re seriously blaming Kofi for Illinois sucking in the NCAA tourney?
If not for Kofi being on the team, Underwood would have been fired by now. He lost 20+ games without Kofi on the team each season
And the precise reason they lost 20+ games was bc Underwood coached a dumbass gambling pressure defense, the same defense he’s playing this year. He’s trying to play the style at Illinois he did at SFA. That 3/4 court trap looks great against shit teams. Against actual Big 10 teams it will get shredded which why nobody plays that way.