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Christie will be playing in his backyard. His family lives very close to this campus and he attended bball camps at M’W. Motivation? Hope so. He played very well in Urbana. Shots need to fall. Need an A game all around. The Indiana game was a huge disappointment. I think they will play better...

I think Ryan has a pretty good job.

This was an ugly game, for sure! I was there. Been a season ticket holder many years. Believe me, I’ve seen many ugly games, and this ranks up there with the worst of them. The team was flat, for whatever reason, made some horrible passes that turned into turnovers, and shots that were not bad...

Horrible shooting.

We “should” shoot better at home. If we do, and handle Ware, we win! I’ll be there!

Agree that handling Ware is a key to the game. We did not to it in Bloomington. Tonight? Let’s see what we’ve learned!

2point loss to the Badgers.

Have not watched the game yet because we were at the Caitlin Clark show at The Barn. Spot the home team 3 or 4, and recognize that the Illini are bigger, stronger, and more experienced at virtually every position (exception Garcia re experience), our guys played an amazing game — especially...

To diminish a player based on his appearance and/or his name is bush league. Whether or not you like him or the Illini, he is a tenacious competitor and an all B1G player. Having said that, if we can defend him well, and make his contributions unimportant in this game, that’d be great, and would...

Guess entitled priority only takes you so far!🙂 We are not even that many rows up. I’ll be easy to spot. Will be wearing MN hoodie.

Coleman Hawkins is (IMO) the soul of this Illini team and will give the Gophers fits. Payne not able to guard him, and he is much stronger than Garcia and can take him outside. As others have mentioned, we do not match up well at guard. Would need Christie to grow up quick. I will DVR because...

Well, I couldn’t have been more wrong on this (other than Tominanga not being a factor). We did not match up well, Gary was the dominant post player, and Garcia and Hawkins did not show mature leadership at the end. illinois will be even tougher with Coleman Hawkins and Shannon, 2 of the best...

Of course, in order to rack up assists, your teammates have to score.

Yes, but they are also better.

We stay out of foul trouble and Carrington (again) shuts down Tomaninga, we match up pretty well against the Huskers. Then Garcia and Hawkins give us the winning edge to overcome Nebraska home court advantage.

Apologize for not being clear, was referring to height/strength differential between a Arrington and Thornton. I believe Thornton is slightly taller and certainly stronger tan Hawkins. And yes, very good point about the 3s

Yes. I agree this is a key to the game. Thornton is much stronger than Hawkins and dominated him, taking him to the hoop in the first game. Putting BC on him would be a good move, as Braedon is about 4 inches taller and maybe nearly as strong. In addition, little question that Ben (and Garcia)...

In some ways the days of paper tix were far better. You could almost always walk up at or near game time and get a good deal on tix outside the arena. Miss the days of guys standing on the corner of Univ and Oak scalping tix.

So what section are you in? “Dying” to know. Party, party! Hey, I have an idea. How about if all GH contributors wear Gopher hoodies or t-shirts, either maroon or gold? That way we can identify each other. It will be like a club. We can high five each other and stuff. 🙂

True, not suggesting they were not good in the past. I have followed college basketball for a long time. This was one of the greatest wins in their program history and this year’s team is one of their best. All I am saying is that they are on the way back up to the top tier.