Rutgers vs Illinois / Game Thread

[tfio]

Missed obvious hook against us would have helped a lot

 

[BOCA93]

No calls all game long, now the refs find their whistles in the last minute of OT

 

[R1766U_rivals]

Agreed about Geo. It is almost like he is getting overly confident and that is leading to forced shots and turnovers.

 

[RU848789]

Big missed opportunity today. Should've won this game.

 

[DHajekRC84]

C'mon Geo, can't afford that dumb TO there - he has 5 of our 15

Shush. Not allowed.

 

[ScarletDave]

Score 90 points, great. Give up 100 points and 50 to the same stupid freshman, great.

 

[CollegeAve]

harper just got laid out. give me a break

 

[bac2therac]

come on guys..compose yourself

 

[IL Lusciato]

Gorgi is an arrogant ****.

 

[RUTrack94]

Illinois was on a roll coming in ... was expecting an *** whooping, so actually OK with close road losses. Little steps.

 

[Bob Chaewsky_rivals]

Agreed about Geo. It is almost like he is getting overly confident and that is leading to forced shots and turnovers.

The opposite - looks like he's playing with very little confidence.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Tough one, that’s all, we win this game the next 2 years.

 

[koleszar]

O well good fight but we lose again.

 

[RU848789]

Tough to lose this one, especially with Pike's mother passing away today. Gonna be a long flight home. Condolences to Coach.

 

[whofrewdatmataRU13]

oh well.

Illinois deserves this one...they made the plays. Nothing we did wrong, They stepped up. Congrats to them

Nothing we did wrong besides not adjust to a guy scoring 35 doing the same thing and missing Free Throws, but yeah we played perfect

 

[sct1111]

Gorgi is an arrogant ****. Definitely looking forward to him hopefully getting his **** kicked in in future games and heckling his *** at the RAC .

Oh stop. He's a good player.

 

[zappaa]

Do we not defend a guy differently who scores 40 points

 

[PatrickRU92]

hard to be mad

easy to be sad.

 

[Plum Street]

Used to this .

 

[Scarlet Knut]

Tough loss.

 

[RuBird]

Very true - if we lose that's where we lost it.

Fts and refs no help either

 

[RUJMM78]

99-94 Illinois.Great effort by Rutgers.

 

[bac2therac]

Gorgi is an arrogant ****.

dude we wish we had a Georgie...not sure why you are calling him an arrogant ****, if we were doing this at the RAC you would be cheering our player., The kid came up huge and is going to show it.

please stop

 

[whofrewdatmataRU13]

Do we not defend a guy differently who scores 40 points

Zero adjustments by coaching staff

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

very long stretch there with no calls on Illinois.. even in the end there sending harper into the stands on that 3

 

[MadRU]

Frack

 

[RU82]

Missed opportunity

 

[BOCA93]

harper just got laid out. give me a break

Did Georgi literally tackle Harper on that 3 that he “blocked” ?

 

[JQRU91]

Our freshmen played great. Their freshman played better. This could be a terrific rivalry game the next few years though.

 

[anon_0k9zlfz6lz9oy]

Ya know man, i feel bad for eugene on D for pike giving him zero help and embarassing him. Georgi just slowly backed him down. I mean, **** man, thats inexcusable. A writer NEEDS to press pike on this, maybe not tonight with his mother but i mean this ones on pike. It is such such such a simple simple simple day 1 thing to double the post.

I totally get eugenes frustration, pike just allowed him to get embarassed on D wihh zero help. Its just inexcusable

 

[scarlet_knight]

Caleb played awesome.

 

[SJScarlet]

Did Georgi literally tackle Harper on that 3 that he “blocked” ?

Yes, just a laughable no call. What can you do?

 

[bac2therac]

Big missed opportunity today. Should've won this game.

why should we have won.....I think the team that made the more plays won today....what did we do to deserve over Illinois, so you cant say should have won, give alot of credit to them, they didnt fold in overtime down 4.

 

[RUSK97]

Sigh...there’s always next time. So tired of losing.

 

[DHajekRC84]

No problem with today except for the post defense.

Oxymoron

 

[BIGRUBIGDBIGredmachine]

Did Georgi literally tackle Harper on that 3 that he “blocked” ?

Refs were afraid to make the call.

 

[RUJMM78]

Just think if Rutgers had scored 70 plus points in some of the previous losses.Its never easy being a Rutgers fan.

 

[Jim_from_RU]

Sigh...there’s always next time. So tired of losing.

Shut up. Whiny b*tch.

 

[BIGRUBIGDBIGredmachine]

ILL 19-26 FT (73.1%)
RU 13-21 FT (61.9%)

Damn

 

[RutHut_rivals]

Seen Illinois play a few times this year and thought thier big was excellent for a freshman. Would not expect that dominance. Illini fans can say the same of Caleb. College basketball is great that way sometimes.