Ill-NW

[bac2therac]

NW playing very very tough tonight without Vic Law. Great gameplan by Collins. I see them working hard for this game. Its a better game to watch than the RU-Nebby game. I do see Illinois finishing the season a bit like RU....shaky start, got some big wins and then poor play down the stretch..


NW down 2 going to line with 17 seconds...Giorgi just fouled out

 

[bac2therac]

tie game 61 all....14.5 sec Illinois ball

 

[MadRU]

Bad job by Underwood today

 

[bac2therac]

1.2...Illinois drove in for what looked like a good look but NW contested...may have been a foul but you know what, this conference is not going to call those fouls..its not the Big East

 

[bac2therac]

wow....1.2 left great out of bounds play and Ill blew the layup as Pardon contested

send it into overtime

 

[MadRU]

Illinois 5 star freshman has been a no show today

 

[RW90]

Bac, I give you a ton of credit. I find it incredibly hard to watch hoops after that egg we just laid.

 

[bac2therac]

what a great game..two teams not wanting to go home

 

[bac2therac]

looks like Illinois is going to pull it out....NW some shaky shot selections..didnt need the 3

 

[bac2therac]

can Illinois beat Iowa tomorrow...definitely

at the end of the day Illinios is just 12-20...shows how hard it is to actually win consistently and get where you need to go

I am going to say that this Illinois team has a little in common with RU...slow out of the gate to gel..well really slow for them but they had brutal scheduling.....then picked things up and got really good beat Maryland and Michigan State and then seem to hit a wall and the play down the stretch waned but they showed up tonight

 

[MadRU]

Being in Chicago helped these teams some. A little more juice in the building than our game.

 

[bac2therac]

definitely good crowd with juice and Illinois is going to be last years Rutgers

 

[bac2therac]

they stumped Giorgi with resiliency in the post game interview...lol....seems like a great kid, wish we had him

one big orange family

 

[Night Man]

Not much of a bar to clear, I'm sure there were Big Sky 1st round games tonight played at a higher level than the RU/Neb game.