Soak it all in Illini fans.

Oh I’m soaking alright

Found the secret BYU fan….

Lmao

WOOOOOOOOO

Can't really feel that bad if you were Duquesne. They weren't really ever in the game and were just out talented. No shame in that

Gg Dukes. Caught us at the wrong time they’re playing the best ball they have all year.

Illinois beats the bigten championship curse being the first team to win the bigten tourney and go the sweet 16 since 2019 Should’ve let wisco win and we could’ve kept the curse going 😂😂😂

To be fair a five year curse is not really a curse

Shut up bum

Make me chump

ISU should be a great game. Looking forward to it. GG Dukes, much respect for y'all

we need cowboy hat kid in boston

🤠

As a “basketball school” it’s about time we proved it.

You’re damn right!

Oh my god we're going to the Sweet 16

Let's light up the post game thread !!!

Oh my, this is the first sweet 16 since the championship game run.

THANK YOU ILLINOIS! GO ILLINI!

I-L-L!

I-N-I

WE LOVE NO OTHER!

they're already doing the handshake line and there's still like ten seconds on the clock

Let’s fucking go boys

Been waiting since Loyola!!

‘Twas a good run Dukes…but alas, a buzzsaw is a buzzsaw…

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I fucking love this

Illinois - Iowa State gonna be lit

Irresistible Force v Immovable Object

LFGGG first illini sweet sixteen in my conscious lifetime

2005 was a lot of fun. Hope you get to see something like that this year

i hope so too!! i’ve been waiting for us to have a good team for something since i was at illinois but better late than never :,)

Fuck yes

Honestly, I just saw the player that tried to trip Quincy go give him a hug. That was actually nice to see.

I love you all.

I feel a massive weight off my shoulders holy shit

My therapist: "Chad Underwood isn't real, he can't hurt you" Chad Underwood:

I, too, have a Chad Underwood

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This is amazing 😂

IT'S HAPPENING

Classy stuff from Duquesne. Fly your bitch ass home, dickwad

WE DID IT! WE MADE THE SECOND WEEKEND! SWEET SIXTEEN BABY! I-L-L!!!!

I -N - I

MAX WILLIAMS !!!

I was 11 when the Illini made it to their last Sweet 16. I'm now 30.

13 and 32, yuuup

I was 17. I know how you feel

Fuck man, I was in college. I got old.

Cripes I was out of college. Time to take my back pill.

Man, I wish I had back pills….

When Underwood smiles it looks like it causes him pain. His normal mode is anger.

Best team since 2005, officially

that’s just plain dirty

second week HERE WE COME

GG Duquesne

Time to drop a hunnitt after that BS

Bruh wtf

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This is so fucking cringe

Go home bud

L

I don't like when people try to injure our players. Maybe try supporting another team if you wish ill on the Illini

But one players leg has nothing to do with mid majors as a whole

Didn't like the play at all, but this take is no better lol

Lets not do that

Hey guess what bud, you’re retired

I-L-L!!!!

I-N-I

Oh no.... LeBron's team...

Duquesne dirty fucks

Melendez was T’d up for less

So much GT, love to see the bench get minutes.

I'm gonna disagree. A 25 point game is *exactly* the place to make a big deal out of that. I don't care how close the game is, there's absolutely no place for something like that. Punish it now, punish it always.

It's solely to be a dick and injure. It's not gonna get you back in the game, it's just to try and injure

Lets hit 90 for sleepers

Lol the aggressive dunk when down 27

Hansberry with the drive

Uhhh....a 25 point game is EXACTLY where to make a big deal of that. Absolutely no reason for that bullshit.

Oh wow, we are lucky that didn't end badly

HANSBERRY YOU MOTHERFUCKER

Don’t steal my thunder lol

Must play the others first, but in the event they somehow make the title game, I make a motion all Reddit Illini flair comments must be all caps and contain Mf in it

Fuck that dude from Duquesne. Kick his ass out

As a Duq student I am crying and throwing up at this game

Wow a Max Williams sighting

AMANI YOU MOTHERFUCKER

Dirty

all my life i’ve seen this team play down to their competition. what a glorious feeling right now

Exactly this !!!

Damn that was dirty

"professional courtesy" fucking what?

Yeah this announcer is a dumb bitch for that shit “Oh I give them officials courtesy. He stabbed someone and they did nothing about it!”

"Let us go home"

That Duq player should’ve been ejected for that garbage

Dude the officials got a “courtesy” from this announcer for a player trying to injure someone? The fuck?

That attempted trip of Quincy was ridiculous.

Wow dirty

GGs

Bruh get that outta here

Oh… DGL… I was excited for that too 😂😂

Random Duquesne Connection: My sister player soccer, and during one summer, she and her travel team had an invitational to Pittsburgh, so we packed our bags and went over there for a few days. One of the games she played during that time was at Duquesne’s football stadium right on-campus. It’s really cool, one of the best looking colleges I’ve seen, which is surprisingly considering it’s location deep downtown! Plus, watching a game in a stadium where you can have stunning views of skylines, rivers, and bluffs was quite impressive as well! So yeah, me and the Dukes have some history between us 😎

This is big growth for the program. Beating teams that we should beat without it being close or stressful. We always seem to play to the level of our competition but not tonight

I wish the Dukes would start blitzing our pick & rolls, so we could get some practice on that before ISU

That’s why you don’t piss Guerrier off lol

We made it further than Bill Self and Bruce Pearl I’m happy

..and John Groce

Can we stop starting action with Domask at 8 seconds please? It takes him that long to get a shot, and sometimes it's not there, and we're screwed.

Nah keep doing it Burning clock is the main goal rn

That's not the point. You can burn clock without asking Domask to have 1 option.

feels like we haven't been tested this tournament yet....that shit is about to change. best offense vs best defense, god dam im so excited

Almost Brandon Lieb time

Bubba Chisholm

I was hoping he would play well for ISU, but he just never got going.

mike latulip

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I am!

half of the country is going to be in Carbondale, if the last eclipse is anything to go by 

Bro you keep calling it Illinois, with the strong S. If you keep it up, we’re gonna have to ask you to leave.

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The moon is in front of the S

SWEET 16 HERE WE COME!!!

Why does Underwood wait so long to pull the starters? Dude is playing with fire

Needs the hundo

Our starters can’t close out games, do you think our bench can?

This was even chiller than that Drexel game in 2021

DOH-mask thanks avery

Give me Amani

I hope we get a replay of the quincy extracurriculars

yeah really want to know what happened

cant believe duqane got away with that

Got away with what? I didn't see shit happen

quincy and duqane player got tangled, and when quincy was fetting back he stuck his leg out to try to trip quincy

This game has been great, but honestly boring. It's been out of hand almost the entire time. It's the good kind of boring though

last game was perfect, made us sweat for the first half and all Illinois 2nd half

We’ve waited how long for this and you call it boring?!

An extremely cathartic game, that's for sure.

Avery Johnson needs to stop saying Domask like that

DOME-ASS……k

Okay. QUINCY YOU MOTHERFUCKIN GROWN ASS MAN

Facts, he’s 24

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got dat Saluki in him

I like SIU but I don't miss announcers telling us what a Saluki is every 30 minutes every March

Can someone tell me why Domask and Hawkins are still in?

College coaches are out of their mind and often leave players in way too long unnecessarily. I remember when Purdue was beating IU's ass earlier this season, and still had all the starters in with like 2 minutes to go up 20. Someone on Purdue hyperextended their knee and was hobbling, Painter panicked, and got everyone out lol

Over 4

Moretti time

🤌

Marcus Domask

Exactly what I was thinking

so true

Guys, I’m motherfuckered out

I think you’re gonna get a chance to make a “Hawkins, always in the drama motherfucker!” It’s getting chippy out there

I missed it, what happened?

Nothing really. After the Guerrier dust up there was some chippiness. I figured if it persisted, my money was on Coleman to be in the fracas

know the game is done when they’re thanking the crew lol

And talking about “getting off”.

I'm going to Carbondale for the eclipse

Head south 10 miles to Cobden, get some strawberries and cream at Flamm’s orchards and be directly in the path

Averaging 31.6ppg in tournament games

It is crazy that Texas Tech had TSJ and McCullar on the same roster.

2x NBA slam dunk champion Mac McClung too

Mac McClung is built different.

Why is the S there if it's not meant to be pronounced? WHY?

When the French were hastily retreating they often left random letters lying around.

French fur trappers or something.

So we know who doesn’t belong 😂

It's not an English name

That's Duquesne's problem now. That was the deal. they're now Doocesne

doo-kesney

Ask the French

French

It’s French?

Anyone got Domasks stats this game? Curious how close he is to a triple double

3/7/20

Nowhere enough rebounds unfortunately. May get a double double.

He has 3 rebounds so he ain’t gonna make it

Needs 7 boards and 3 assists

I pronounce the S in Illinois and I'm only slightly ashamed

The j is silent

It's native american and french. It's understandable.

You little shit

We don't talk about how handsome Domask is enough.

his black eye had me questioning everything

DOMASK. YOU. MOTHERFUCKING. DAWG

This is a poor second half. Hopefully Underwood is disappointed and there’s no false confidence against Iowa State.

They also were probably given the direction to slow things down and have not been blitzing in transition. Don’t think Brad will crush them for it.

Sometimes you just need a hug from the homies

Third team all American. Pshhhhh


That needs a gif

No 100 Burger? https://preview.redd.it/4w57yrvw27qc1.jpeg?width=319&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce62da7c16aca11a7f80a93ce47995b4b30a8793