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Title: Rankings this week
Post by: ILLINICHIEF on February 23, 2026, 01:17:22 PM
Illinois holds at #10 due to blow out at USC and monumental collapse at UCLA...one game move on after hot takes.....BUT layups have got to stop, at the end of the game or during...we are better than that.

No one can bitch about how ILLINI get shafted in rankings after a loss anymore.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/48015393/duke-back-no-1-ap-men-basketball-poll-thanks-michigan-win
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: bringbackself on February 23, 2026, 01:58:34 PM
Illinois holds at #10 due to blow out at USC and monumental collapse at UCLA...one game move on after hot takes.....BUT layups have got to stop, at the end of the game or during...we are better than that.

No one can bitch about how ILLINI get shafted in rankings after a loss anymore.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/48015393/duke-back-no-1-ap-men-basketball-poll-thanks-michigan-win

So the polls aren't out to get the illini unlike the refs, ncaa, announcers, cheerleaders, other assistant coaches, Chicago high school coaches, student sections, bracketologist???
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: ThePAMan on February 23, 2026, 02:30:48 PM
So the polls aren't out to get the illini unlike the refs, ncaa, announcers, cheerleaders, other assistant coaches, Chicago high school coaches, student sections, bracketologist???

Which cheerleaders were out to get the Illini? I must have missed that one.
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: ILLINICHIEF on February 23, 2026, 02:45:33 PM
So the polls aren't out to get the illini unlike the refs, ncaa, announcers, cheerleaders, other assistant coaches, Chicago high school coaches, student sections, bracketologist???

Just the ass coaches and the Chi-Town hustlers....everyone else I don't think so....
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: Beach Bum on February 23, 2026, 02:56:23 PM
33-10
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: bringbackself on February 23, 2026, 02:58:17 PM
Which cheerleaders were out to get the Illini? I must have missed that one.

I was being sarcastic with some of these
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: illiniray on February 23, 2026, 02:59:10 PM
So the polls aren't out to get the illini unlike the refs, ncaa, announcers, cheerleaders, other assistant coaches, Chicago high school coaches, student sections, bracketologist???

Refs: they are mostly just bad, though Wagler getting no respect

NCAA: not anymore

Announcers: just bad in general. They talk about everything except the game they are watching

Cheerleaders: huh?

Other assistants: ?

Chicago hs coaches: they no longer have any leverage. Illini have an International recruiting base. nil leveled the playing field

Student Sections: something new since taunting Terrance Shannon?

Bracketologists: ?
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: ThePAMan on February 23, 2026, 03:20:23 PM
I was being sarcastic with some of these

I wouldn't doubt it given everyone else on the list is out to get The Illini.
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: ILLINICHIEF on February 23, 2026, 03:30:15 PM
I was being sarcastic with some of these
I was about all of them.
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: No one in Mn on February 23, 2026, 08:55:12 PM
These 3 were out to get us. And they were successful.

(https://i.postimg.cc/yd9hJcLC/image000001003.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Looking at the results since the last poll and movement in the top 15 I can kind of understand staying at #10 but it wouldn't have surprised me to drop 2-3 spots
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: ThePAMan on February 23, 2026, 08:57:39 PM
These 3 were out to get us. And they were successful.

(https://i.postimg.cc/yd9hJcLC/image000001003.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Looking at the results since the last poll and movement in the top 15 I can kind of understand staying at #10 but it wouldn't have surprised me to drop 2-3 spots

Mn on top of things, yet again.
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: bringbackself on February 24, 2026, 05:21:50 AM
I was just mocking loyalty since posters over there think everyone is out to get Illinois
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: ILLINICHIEF on February 24, 2026, 08:14:10 AM
I was just mocking loyalty since posters over there think everyone is out to get Illinois

Thats been the ILLINI fans in some regards since oh.............bout the 80's.
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: Jobu on February 24, 2026, 09:47:24 AM
Refs: they are mostly just bad, though Wagler getting no respect

NCAA: not anymore

Announcers: just bad in general. They talk about everything except the game they are watching

Cheerleaders: huh?

Other assistants: ?

Chicago hs coaches: they no longer have any leverage. Illini have an International recruiting base. nil leveled the playing field

Student Sections: something new since taunting Terrance Shannon?

Bracketologists: ?

Nichi spent a quantifiable amount of time dissecting a jasn post.

That's awesome
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: bringbackself on February 24, 2026, 10:07:26 AM
Nichi spent a quantifiable amount of time dissecting a jasn post.

That's awesome

He really didn't get it
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: illiniray on February 24, 2026, 06:22:26 PM
It's not paranoid when they really are all conspiring against you..
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: ILLINICHIEF on February 24, 2026, 06:38:56 PM
It's not paranoid when they really are all conspiring against you..

and by they, you would mean just their identifying pronouns right?
Title: Re: Rankings this week
Post by: illiniray on February 24, 2026, 07:17:00 PM
and by they, you would mean just their identifying pronouns right?

IDKWTI