- Illinois is 5-1 so far in the season and ranked 24th.
- Purdue (#1) and Illinois are the only Big 10 teams ranked in the Top 25 in what appears to be a down year for Big 10.
- All of Illinois' 5 wins have been against Mid Majors with all by double digits. In fact, 4 of their 5 wins have been by 23 points or more.
- Illinois only loss was to #3 Marquette by 7 points at home.
- In an exhibition prior to the season opener, Illinois beat Kansas by 7 at home fwiw.
- Illinois is a Veteran Led Team with such key players including: Terrence Shannon (Grad - 19.5PPG) / Luke Goode (Jr - 9 PPG) /Coleman Hawkins (Sr - 6 PPG) / Dain Dainja (Jr - 10 PPG) / Marcus Domask (Grad 8 PPG).
- Obviously Shannon is the man for Illinois and we will need to defend him quite well.
- Illinois other key player - Coleman Hawkins - has only played 3 games to date and is only averaging 6 PPG so far as he has been injured. His knee is bothering him and he has not played in the last 3 games. Will be very interesting / important to see if he plays on Saturday.
- Another injury for Illinois is Redshirt Freshman G Niccolo Moretti who is out with a foot injury.
- After our game, Illinois plays in Jimmy V vs #13 FAU and then they travel to #10 Tennessee - so hopefully they're looking past us...:). Real tough 3 game sked for Illinois starting Saturday
- HC is Brad Underwood (the Undertaker).
- To date, Illinois has a FG % of 47% / 3 Pt % of 31% and FT % of 57% (hmmmmm - they may be worse FT Shooting team than us).
- Looked up Kofi and he's playing professionally in South Korea. He played HS Ball in Queens (NY) and thus I wonder if he's not in Korea - whether he travels to Piscataway to root for his alma mater.
- Purdue (#1) and Illinois are the only Big 10 teams ranked in the Top 25 in what appears to be a down year for Big 10.
- All of Illinois' 5 wins have been against Mid Majors with all by double digits. In fact, 4 of their 5 wins have been by 23 points or more.
- Illinois only loss was to #3 Marquette by 7 points at home.
- In an exhibition prior to the season opener, Illinois beat Kansas by 7 at home fwiw.
- Illinois is a Veteran Led Team with such key players including: Terrence Shannon (Grad - 19.5PPG) / Luke Goode (Jr - 9 PPG) /Coleman Hawkins (Sr - 6 PPG) / Dain Dainja (Jr - 10 PPG) / Marcus Domask (Grad 8 PPG).
- Obviously Shannon is the man for Illinois and we will need to defend him quite well.
- Illinois other key player - Coleman Hawkins - has only played 3 games to date and is only averaging 6 PPG so far as he has been injured. His knee is bothering him and he has not played in the last 3 games. Will be very interesting / important to see if he plays on Saturday.
- Another injury for Illinois is Redshirt Freshman G Niccolo Moretti who is out with a foot injury.
- After our game, Illinois plays in Jimmy V vs #13 FAU and then they travel to #10 Tennessee - so hopefully they're looking past us...:). Real tough 3 game sked for Illinois starting Saturday
- HC is Brad Underwood (the Undertaker).
- To date, Illinois has a FG % of 47% / 3 Pt % of 31% and FT % of 57% (hmmmmm - they may be worse FT Shooting team than us).
- Looked up Kofi and he's playing professionally in South Korea. He played HS Ball in Queens (NY) and thus I wonder if he's not in Korea - whether he travels to Piscataway to root for his alma mater.
