BruceDouglas

Huh, I though winning in Columbus was pretty easy. *shrug*

That was...odd. No way even the speedy TSJ gets that (and I think that is what Willard told him), but that has to be some kind of violation?

No way, clearly a chock! 🤣

Tough loss for the cats

Yep, those were the rumors. And it wasn't a certainty he'd get into Illinois either as the school generally does not allow 3rd year transfers as there's a minimum # of credit hours you need to graduate from Illinois. I think the AD may have had to get an exception there. But of course TSJ ended up staying 2 years anyway, so moot point. Holtmann, Miller and Underwood. Brad stands alone. 😁 I still find Holtmann's career path to Ohio St to be so strange. Was head coach and a rising star at Gardner-Webb. Leaves that job to become an assistant at Butler. OK, whatever. But then Brandon Miller unexpectedly quits and now he's head coach there, essentially following Brad Stevens. A couple good seasons at Butler and he gets a Big Ten job. Fortunate to have KBD there to get him off to a great start but kind of a steady slide downhill from there.

Whatever Aikens said, Chester Frazier didn't like it. 🤣

You probably don't want this part where he's out in the middle of the court doing it when there's no time out called....

No idea why Brad left him out there and kept Rodgers on the bench. Illini defense has been horrible the last month or so. Gotta get that fixed asap.

Well we already had Domask. We picked up Williams after missing out on RayJ Dennis. But then I guess dropped him due to the gambling investigation that the NCAA completely biffed.

Williams, another guy I wish Illinois could have hung on to. There was considerable skepticism about him due to his injury but he's clearly a very capable guard.

Jayden Epps 30% usage rate, he's having a blast.

Yeah, he was good until he started trying too hard to be controversial.

Indeed Ref allegedly cursed at Brad which set him off. 🤣 And Shannon was held by Tominaga on the inbound pass, no call.

Another step on the road but the real "beginning of the end" was probably a long time ago. Maybe when they started losing court cases like losing the control of TV rights back in the 80s. That's when the $$ really started growing...

Not enough info. Quadrants don't mean much here and there's also potentially huge variances in terms of net efficiencies.

He was a Chin Coleman recruit so decommitted when Coleman and Antigua went to UK.

I think there's still a caste type system, stars get more calls. Upperclassmen get more calls then freshmen. Not as bad as the NBA but it's there. And they still just mess up calls, too. Unfortunately he's still doing a lot of Big Ten games. Probably. Big Ten doesn't get as many athletes as SEC/B12 so lends itself to a more physical style. Man, wish we could have kept that commitment. He's better than expected.

So how exactly does this work Big Ten Director of officiating calls all these guys and tells them to do B1G games...differently? And that never leaks out? And in the heat of a game they're going to remember where they are and what calls to make? I think the explanation is simpler, the B1G has lead the country in attendance for many years, it's the crowds and home venues. Refs are human and having 10-15K people screaming at every call affects them.

Courtney Green Illinois fouls at about the same rate as Purdue

Good to see Woody figured out that 3>2. 😁

TN firing back.

Unbalanced schedules getting more unbalanced. Conference title gets even more meaningless.

Did this get cut off? I don't see Ty Rodgers.

So without Ware and Reneau, we barely won. Brutal.