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Amazing pass to Kobe for that buzzer beater!

CLOWN SHOW

Sham is this year's 'Kevin Cross is open at the top of the key' belt holder

Thor chucking Miller at the ball was a heady move

Underwood mad about that Stevenson drive like he's Mugatu from Zoolander. HE ONLY HAS ONE LOOK!!

Illinois 76 - Nebraska 61

Nebraska Cornhuskers (5-16) at #5 Illinois Fighting Illini (16-6) Date: Thursday, Feb 25th, 2021 Time: 6:00 p.m. Arena: State Farm Center Broadcast: BTN Illinois Info Head Coach: Brad Underwood Location: Champaign, IL Conference: B1G Nickname: Fightin Illini Mascot: Chief Illiniwek They got rid of Chief Illiniwek in 2007 Line: Illinois by 14.5 Typical Rotation Depth: 8-9 KenPom rank: 6 Key Inury: Ayo Dosunmu is out with a broken nose Players to watch: Kofi Cockburn How can you not watch this throwback center who clocks in at 7'0" 285#? Averages a double-double and leads the team in blocks. Generates a lot of contact so Nebraska's centers will be wise to either foul hard or just get off the tracks when Cockburn has the ball deep in the paint. Cockburn isn't much of a threat to pass so look for Nebraska to bring the house when he touches the ball. Roster points PG SG SF PF C Pct 1 1 Trent Frazier 6-2 175 Sr 44 Adam Miller 6-3 180 Fr 11 Ayo Dosunmu 6-5 200 Jr 3 Jacob Grandison 6-6 205 Jr 21 Kofi Cockburn 7-0 285 So 17.7 2 1 Trent Frazier 6-2 175 Sr 44 Adam Miller 6-3 180 Fr 20 Da'Monte Williams 6-3 215 Sr 11 Ayo Dosunmu 6-5 200 Jr 21 Kofi Cockburn 7-0 285 So 16.4 This team is shooting nearly 40% from 3 as Dosunmu and Cockburn generate lots of open looks for teammates Frazier has moved to a secondary scorer with this team but can still drop 20 in a game if needed. Without Dosunmu you might see Frazier carry the load. 2020 Mr Illinois Adam Miller living up to the hype, starting day one for this Final 4 contender Holy Cross transfer Jacob Grandison has worked his way into the starting lineup since conference play, brings length and 3pt shooting Da'Monte Williams doesn't shoot much, but they're going in when he does. Shooting a remarkable 57% from 3 this year. Giorgi Bezhanishvili functions as Cockburn's backup. Freshman Andre Curbelo is a pure point guard and a guy who you can see just knows how to play. Potentially sees more minutes tonight with Dosunmu out The Skinny: With Nebraska nearly pulling off the upset during their last meetup and Illinois coming off a loss at Michigan St, this would seeming be a highly motivated Illini team tonight. The matter is slightly complicated by the fact that leading scorer Ayo Dosunmu won't play tonight after having his nose broken late in East Lansing. Kofi Cockburn will be fed early and often and after that it's possible that Trent Frazier takes on the Dosunmu role of scorer-distributor, a role he had early in his career. Really, it could be anyone who goes off in this game which in some regards makes thing harder to game plan. I think you see Illinois clamp down defensively tonight. If Nebraska can figure out a way to stay in this game, Dosunmu won't be able to take this one over. Prediction: Illinois 76 - Nebraska 61 View full article

We're a Covid outbreak at the B1G tournament away from making the NCAA tournament

Start getting Yvan to granny his FT shots. He's 4-23 in conference play, personally lowering our average in these games from 65.0% to 60.6%. Actively rooting for him to not be fouled these days.

Yeah, fit be dammed; our kind of guy!

If Teddy's distribution game is going to continue to evolve, adjust the offense to flow through Teddy. Everyone else figure out where they're supposed to be and when the defense sends multiple guys Teddy Dimes will find them. Illinois doesn't help much but let the man operate vs Minnesota.

Fort broke his leg in a pickup game after the season after being drafted by the Celtics in the 3rd round and after that it didn't work out. However he was able to parlay his pro-basketball career into an insurance career. I need to make the time this summer to fix all these @hhcdave gems

No need to wonder https://huskerhoopscentral.com/scholarship-matrix/

I think we'll see Kobe run it back and Thorir move on though it's not like if either have made a decision one way or another that there isn't time to change their mind.

It's like 1? 2? people. Jack is a passionate over-exaggerator of the scope of things.

We call this the Cam Mack effect

https://pittsburgh.forums.rivals.com/threads/xavier-johnson-transferring.186995/ Seems like Capel and Johnson weren't seeing eye to eye to the point where Johnson is unhappy enough to leave before the end of the season. This is exactly the sort of dude we recruit here.

Assuming that going to an established winning program isn't what Xavier Johnson is looking for, he seems like exactly like the guy we're looking for and the type of guy we might target. Pitt wasn't exactly running a high speed offense so if that is what Johnson is looking for he actually might come here. Here is a writeup about from Pitt Rivals about this. https://pittsburgh.rivals.com/news/johnson-leaves-pitt-1

He was there with Sham as well. You never know how guys get along.

woah! The question is what does the PG position look like for Indiana as Kenya Hunter was the reason he almost went here. Otherwise the familiarity with Nebraska and the potential for playing time here have to be at least appealing.

I don't disagree with you as it's a bit of the cornerstone of what Penn State does in order to add enough possessions in order to offset their lack of shooting. We can send more bodies at the boards but given how poorly we rebound on the defensive end I think that any benefit we'd add from extra possessions would be offset in the amount of transition baskets we give up. A caveat on that might be teams determined to play slowly....so when we playing Maryland and they were walking the ball up the court on most possessions I think we could have crashed the boards more than normal.

Philosophically I think we value getting back and set on defense vs trying to crash the boards. Given our roster makeup this seems like the right course of action, no? To me the problem with Penn St out rebounding us on the offensive boards is their 16, not our 2. Harrar was getting rebounds last night that he had no business getting.

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