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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: Custard on January 29, 2026, 12:51:16 PM
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Illini are 12.5 point favorites, line started a little higher than that. Possibly the trappiest of all trap games here coming off a huge road win at Mackey and Nebraska in Lincoln looming this weekend. Hopefully the Illini come out focused and kick their asses.
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A little nervous about this one.
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A little nervous about this one.
I'm not, I believe the ILLINI will throw a myriad of defensive schemes at Washingtons best player Steinbach will be fairly neutralized by our B1G's, but Humrichous HAS to have a outstanding game as he is the best match up. Big Z will play a huge roll as well.
Kepnang another Big could cause us issues, however our guards/wings are so much better than theirs, talent and size wise.
Claude was the only player that I believe could have given us much to worry about, he has since recently stepped away from the team due to injuries.
ILLINI at home win and cover the spread and the over.
ILLINI 103 - Washington 77
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Did anybody tell our players it’s not bed time yet?!
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Stojakovic shaming his old man with that airball 😬
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Some mighty fine shooting for both teams
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We broke out a zone defense and it's actually effective
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Alrighty, which one of you gurus were calling for Wagler to be All big ten and/or better in the preseason?
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Free shots. They matter. Make them.
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ILLINI at home win and cover the spread and the over.
ILLINI 103 - Washington 77
LONG WAY TO GO....Geesh
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Snoozer of a game so far, I expect them to step on the gas 2nd half and blow em out, they were sleepwalking through the first half and still up lol
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Figures Washington finds their shooting stroke against us. Yawn.
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bored
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9-1 in conference. Bring on the Huskers
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That was a game that happened and is now over
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9-1 in conference. Bring on the Huskers
Need some revenge…
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Yep I like our chances.
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A little nervous about this one.
Saw this coming a mile away. Washington is talented and plays extremely hard. Knew they weren't about to roll over for us. Classic letdown game. Ben played his ass off on both ends and Wagler is still HIM.
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That was a game that happened and is now over
This
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Saw this coming a mile away. Washington is talented and plays extremely hard. Knew they weren't about to roll over for us. Classic letdown game. Ben played his ass off on both ends and Wagler is still HIM.
Hadn’t seen them play this year but agree they do play hard and make it ugly. Game was always within reach for them but never felt like we were in any real danger.
Would be nice to just put a team like this away early and rest the starters but I’ll take the W. Short rest for a big time matchup in Lincoln. Nebraska coming off a hard fought first loss on the road and being at home will be as tough a test as we’ve had this year.
Not saying this is a must win, but with a road trip to Sparty and a visit from Sven’s team looming, it kind of feels like it.
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Not saying this is a must win, but with a road trip to Sparty and a visit from Sven’s team looming, it kind of feels like it.
All of the remaining games will be MUST wins for us....we are going into the most critical part of the season with Boswell down. 3-0 since Boswell went down, one of which was unexpected to most and the same one that we had to get a superhuman (Wagler) effort for pts to win.
These next 3 will be harder to come by, 1-2 is probably the most obvious outcome....2-1 would be nice, 3-0 probably a unicorn outcome.
Swept by Nebby, win at NW, win at MSU....then we have a chance to win out with Fichigan being the only outlier.
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Saw this coming a mile away. Washington is talented and plays extremely hard. Knew they weren't about to roll over for us. Classic letdown game. Ben played his ass off on both ends and Wagler is still HIM.
Yeah Washington definitely has some physical players, thank god most of them can't shoot all that well, that one white dude is a baller damn, he dunked the fuck on Ben H
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LMAO
https://old.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/1qrbn46/illinois_hc_brad_underwood_on_tom_izzos_mom/
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Izzo’s mom catching strays 🤣
Jobu wants to fuck her I bet
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Izzo’s mom catching strays 🤣
Jobu wants to fuck her I bet
Wouldn't surprise me
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Izzo’s mom catching strays 🤣
Jobu wants to fuck her I bet
Lol he is one dirty SOB
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Wouldn't surprise me
Hey, Spark!
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Toss Up....see how much home cooking is involved. Good bet would be to get the guards (especially Hoiberg) down low for foul calls against them.
ILLINI 78-Nebby 73 cover the 1.5, under on the total just barely.
We will see if Mast is back, if so, then he would not be presumably at full speed with limited practice. They almost beat Michigan without him so....