They have absolutely owned Iowa in basketball the last five years. Gets old losing to them.
Sick of losing to Illinois
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I feel like Husker fans must have felt Thu night. The one team I really despise in the B1G is IL and to lose to those guys stings.
Absolutely great season though! Elite 8, amazing! The future is very bright!!!
Absolutely great season though! Elite 8, amazing! The future is very bright!!!
That's what buying a roster full of top recruits and foreign giants will get you.
Cheap, but unfortunately no longer illegal.
Basically the last 30.
BMac is going to turn seasons like this into an expectation soon enough. Incredible run. These dudes are champs.
It wasn't Illinois, we lost to the Balkans. Their roster spend is more than double Iowa's.
What's a 7 footer go for?
Has to be $3M for both of them.
Has to be $3M for both of them.
Alvaro being a complete no-show was some very good fortune for Illinois.
Imagine being a Nebraska fan.
Their Final Four game will make for some entertaining hate watching. Go "whoever they play"!!!
Yeah, he didn’t get a ton of minutes, but he sure didn’t earn more with his play when he was in today.
Can't wait to obliterate them in football.
At this point every year I am usually rooting for the team/coach I hate the least
St. John’s doesn’t recruit high school kids. Pitino states it publicly to anybody that will listen.
other schools target Europe.
crazy how things changed in a blink of the eye.
other schools target Europe.
crazy how things changed in a blink of the eye.
Illinois Basketball is the number one sports program on their campus, by far. Iowa Basketball is arguably fourth on the Iowa campus. Hopefully that’s changing with addition of Ben. Iowa needs to spend the money Illinois does for their basketball program and Iowa will be fine.
Best team money can buy my God. Basicly the Serbian national team. Looked like men vs boys I knew it was a bad matchup.
I’m glad we lost by 12 or whatever the final score was and not by a last second shot or miss. I couldn’t take another UNLV, although we had a 10 point lead at some point. Still, this doesn’t hurt as bad as 1987, thank God!
I remember when the opposite was the case. I’m sure Illinois fans hated it too.
Iowa/Illinois is likely going to turn into a real rivalry again.
I don’t dislike this Illinois team like I did some in years past. They don’t play dirty, have elite talent, are hitting their stride, and Underwood seems like one of the good guys in coaching. Would much rather see them win it all over UConn or Duke. I could be saying this because it’s been a while that I’ve dealt with any of their fans though too…
Aside from spelling, Iowa was crushed on the boards. That was the main aspect
Well, they had a crappy football program for many years while we kicked their @SS more times than not, so we are even.
Check the Arizona roster...
Lithuania
France
Australia
Senegal
Germany
Netherlands
Sudan
United Kingdom
true but they stayed in the game until 3/4 minutes left.
I think Iowa has lost 12 of the last 13 and six straight to Illinois. And yes, it's time for that BS to end. I imagine Ben will get that taken care of next season. It'll be a great day.
What game are you talking about? Iowa was leading Illinois 51-50 with 7 minutes to play and trailed by 4 with 2 minutes left--and if the officials had called the offensive goal tending that even the Illinois broadcast crew on TBS recognized--it would have been a TWO-POINT GAME with 2 minutes to play. Iowa led for 63% of the game. The final score was Illinois' largest margin and failed to reflect how close this game was until the final 60 seconds. Those are facts, BTW, and you could look them up if you knew how.
And yet if the officials had called the game the same way on both ends, Iowa could easily have won. As it was, the Hawkeyes were only down 4 with two minutes to play.
Yes but by hitting shots, not winning the boards. Several if the Hawks were bullied
Get over it. Re watch the game without knowing the score. IL had more O rebounds that Iowa had total. That is a drubbing.
"Crushed" is a pretty accurate description since Illinois was playing rugby and Iowa was playing basketball. How is it, do you suppose, that Iowa tied #1 Florida on the boards, the defending national champions and the leading rebounding team in the country (+15 per game)--and that includes Illinois--yet couldn't come close to that yesterday? Did Iowa suddenly forget how to box out and jump? LOL
Iowa was being manhandled all night long in ways that are patently prohibited by the rules of basketball. Fighting for your life all night drains you, and that really impacts your jump shot. So again, with Illinois playing rugby and Iowa playing basketball, it wasn't exactly a fair fight. And yet that's all we wanted. Just call the game the same on both ends, and let's see who wins. But no, Iowa can't get that, not even in an Elite Eight game.