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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: Miles Leonard on December 09, 2025, 05:44:16 PM

Title: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Miles Leonard on December 09, 2025, 05:44:16 PM
Another Q1 opportunity here. Just keep stacking wins.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Custard on December 09, 2025, 05:59:40 PM
Hoping to catch the second half after one of the girls’ ball games. Only 3.5 point favorites. Gotta show up every game.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Beach Bum on December 09, 2025, 06:32:23 PM
Oh shit I have the channel hell yeah
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: ILLINICHIEF on December 09, 2025, 07:03:44 PM
Somebody may want to actually guard Thornton...my god, he's good, but he isn't 16 pts outta 24 pts good so far, geesh, thought we brought in a defensive guru.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: ILLINICHIEF on December 09, 2025, 07:06:46 PM
19 pts - 7 for 7 C'mon ILLINI
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Miles Leonard on December 09, 2025, 07:12:42 PM
Oh shit I have the channel hell yeah

Oh shit so do I.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Miles Leonard on December 09, 2025, 07:26:08 PM
50% from three and perfection from the free shot line has helped us stave off the OSU Thorntons. For now.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 09, 2025, 07:27:44 PM
Thornton can't do that for 40 minutes.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Miles Leonard on December 09, 2025, 07:46:56 PM
Thornton can't do that for 40 minutes.

Same with our 3 point shooting. But we already knew that.  ;D
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 09, 2025, 08:01:03 PM
Same with our 3 point shooting. But we already knew that.  ;D
I didn't want to say anything. 😂
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 09, 2025, 08:03:01 PM
11 1/2 to go and both teams in the bonus. Gonna be a long 11 1/2 minutes
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Miles Leonard on December 09, 2025, 08:03:24 PM
Refs were starting to feel left out
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: ILLINICHIEF on December 09, 2025, 08:11:43 PM
19-20 damn good thing we were practicing
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: ridingthegrange on December 09, 2025, 08:17:17 PM
Best keep it up.  Foulapalooza
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 09, 2025, 08:22:10 PM
Great hustle by Mirkovic
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: ILLINICHIEF on December 09, 2025, 08:34:31 PM
Tomi with 4 pts and 2 rebounds in 26 minutes?
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Judge Judy on December 09, 2025, 08:34:44 PM
45 fouls with 2 minutes to go…
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Judge Judy on December 09, 2025, 08:36:34 PM
Settled for a 3…
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: sven on December 09, 2025, 08:46:27 PM
Nice road win. But why doesn’t Brad just tell the boys to win every game by 30 points? It’s a very underused strategy.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 09, 2025, 08:49:07 PM
A good road win.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Beach Bum on December 09, 2025, 08:50:28 PM
Looking good
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 09, 2025, 08:50:55 PM
Nice road win. But why doesn’t Brad just tell the boys to win every game by 30 points? It’s a very underused strategy.
Good one, Sven.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Custard on December 09, 2025, 08:55:03 PM
Thornton’s first half was giving me flashbacks to unconscious BP3 putting up 43 against ranked tOSU in the Hall years ago.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Custard on December 09, 2025, 08:55:39 PM
Nice road win. But why doesn’t Brad just tell the boys to win every game by 30 points? It’s a very underused strategy.

Good point. Unlike Michigan we get lazy when we could have all the points in the lane we could ever want and insist on taking threes.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: ILLINICHIEF on December 09, 2025, 09:02:56 PM
O...H.... you lost....good ILLINI win, regardless of who scored/who didn't/we made FT and we didn't get homered by the refs....they should have swallowed the whistles a little though....man, F*&K peacock also
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: murphstahoe on December 09, 2025, 09:07:54 PM
Nice road win. But why doesn’t Brad just tell the boys to win every game by 30 points? It’s a very underused strategy.

Now do the Broncos
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Miles Leonard on December 09, 2025, 09:19:44 PM
Excellent job having to overcome Thornton going nuts in the first half and the ref ball in the 2nd half to grind out a Q1 road win.

Favorite stat tonight: 29/32 from the free shot line.

Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: illinicalvin on December 09, 2025, 09:24:23 PM
Always good to win on the road against a solid Big Ten team. We've got a solid 6 guys who can score double figures so we're not totally boned if Boswell or anyone else has a bad game.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Judge Judy on December 09, 2025, 09:24:48 PM
Wagler’s the real deal…
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Miles Leonard on December 09, 2025, 09:39:19 PM
Wagler’s the real deal…

For real. And we plucked him out of Kansas with zero resistance from Bill Self. In fact, I think our biggest competition for him was...Minnesota?
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Judge Judy on December 09, 2025, 09:49:04 PM
For real. And we plucked him out of Kansas with zero resistance from Bill Self. In fact, I think our biggest competition for him was...Minnesota?

Minnesota was his only other D1 offer…
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on December 09, 2025, 10:03:29 PM
Postgame Wagler said his H.S. coach knew Underwood from his Kansas days, so probably when Underwood was at Kansas State.
Thanks, Shawnee Mission NW coach.

KW was 2024-25 Kansas MaxPreps High School Basketball Player of the Year and
2025 Gatorade Kansas Player of the Year.
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: ILLove1997 on December 10, 2025, 02:58:41 PM
Good win, hated the ref ball in the second half made the game borderline unwatchable
Title: Re: Illini @ Ohio St
Post by: ridingthegrange on December 10, 2025, 04:04:11 PM
Good win, hated the ref ball in the second half made the game borderline unwatchable

Exactly.  Stat sheet looked solid, especially the FTs.