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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: ILLINICHIEF on February 15, 2026, 08:45:12 AM
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https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game/_/gameId/401825518/indiana-illinois
ILLINI win this one 87 - 77 just miss the cover, Over on the total.
Might we see Boswell in this one? Might Andrej's high ankle sprain be better? Who knows till game time according to BU.
Wilkerson to Indy is the same as Wagler to us....the 2 should neutralize each other as far as pts/overall roles in game, the losses both teams have had is when both of these guys are subpar. Both can get 30 no problem, both shoot very high % overall.
Nick Dorn will be Indiana wild card, we cannot let him have a career game (29) against us.....Mirk will be our wild card.....he should have a double double today.
Indy will shoot and make a fair amount of 3's, how we defend their guards/wings will determine how much we win by.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/stats/team, across the board the teams are fairly even except rebounding. We gotta dominate the boards against yet another inferior team on the inside (MSU-Wisky-Indy) we should have won based on this alone....we did not the 1st two games, we will see today.
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I got pressured into betting a buddy $100 and took Illinois -5.5. So just know that if it’s closer than that or we lose, its 100% my fault
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It's open season on Wagler. Refs clearly won't do shit about it.
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It's open season on Wagler. Refs clearly won't do shit about it.
He will get most if not all the calls come March, ref's will tighten things up....they always do, that's one of the reasons as to why the B1G hasn't had a champ in waht 20+ years?
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Missed the over for sure....gameplan was to beat em up inside....man did they ever.
Very good showing for what we can do come March, limited the 3's....still manhandled the opposition.
This team has the chance to be very special in about 4-6 weeks from now, even more so than now.
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We're back in the winning column. 👍
Next up is a Wed nightcap at USC.
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I got pressured into betting a buddy $100 and took Illinois -5.5. So just know that if it’s closer than that or we lose, its 100% my fault
Nice! Good call. Guess the website is solvent for a bit longer?
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Overall solid win. Defended very well and just bullied them with our size.
The tricky west coast trip now awaits.
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Shoot 7-31 from 3. Win by 20.
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Good win. The west coast road trip concerns me. We *could* win out but we won’t. Need Andrej back.
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Good win. The west coast road trip concerns me. We *could* win out but we won’t. Need Andrej back.
Missed Tempo meme opportunity. You are slipping
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https://youtu.be/Tge8Gzmt5a8
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Missed Tempo meme opportunity. You are slipping
Don’t want to disappoint anyone, but wouldn’t be surprised if I did.
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We're back in the winning column. 👍
Next up is a Wed nightcap at USC.
Should win out on the West Coast. USC has a couple of athletes, UCLA is a mess as usual.
UCLA lost to Indiana by (1) at home (guard play with Dent biggest challenge). Same gameplan as Indiana, we smoke them by 15+.
USC beat Indiana by (5) at home (Ausar-who I really liked in the portal-Arena's-freshman biggest + for them) We should beat them by at least 15+ as well.
5-0 to finish out regular season 17-3 conference, B1G win coming against Michigan at home.
Orange glasses in focus.
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Should win out on the West Coast. USC has a couple of athletes, UCLA is a mess as usual.
UCLA lost to Indiana by (1) at home (guard play with Dent biggest challenge). Same gameplan as Indiana, we smoke them by 15+.
USC beat Indiana by (5) at home (Ausar-who I really liked in the portal-Arena's-freshman biggest + for them) We should beat them by at least 15+ as well.
5-0 to finish out regular season 17-3 conference, B1G win coming against Michigan at home.
Orange glasses in focus.
I really wanna beat Michigan…
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I really wanna beat Michigan…
Would be something to see Humrichous defense (improving-rebounding) against Rez/Yaxel....we might need him to score, but on perimeter we will need him, rebounding we will need him, we will need him to direct either to ZIvisic.