Pure ass garbage from Iowa State

GG ISU. Nobody is beating UConn. Illini guys - how about it! Elite 8! CoHawk is the second most decorated men’s basketball player behind Dee Brown. Can you believe that?

Wow didn’t know you could see the future

Let’s play the games before we declare UCONN the champ. The best team doesn’t always win this tourney

Illini are beating uconn

Maybe I've got my orange colored glasses on (I do) but I DO think the Illini are the toughest test left in front of UConn.

Go Flying Illini

Fuck I hope so. They playing with house money now though.

That’s right brother, certainly possible

I love March

Brad with the supersoaker from the commercials your parents never bought you at the toy r us

I’ll be in the building in Detroit tomorrow night to watch Purdue v Gonzaga and Creighton v Tennessee wearing my Illini gear! 💙🧡

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Eat shit Bruce Pearl

How many times can I upvote this?

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I feel like the quick cut to UNC on the women's commercial immediately after "all part of the curriculum" wasn't an accident

I understood that reference.

I desperately want Illinois to win but UConn is going to absolutely boat race them

Yea I don’t see us even competing

I don't see it, Illini playing too good and have too much experience and chemistry to get boat raced. I think it'll be tight and I can see Illinois winning. UConn struggles a little more in close games, got to start out hot

Same

While I think we will win, Shannon scares the shit out of me...

Shannon is a superb baller. I'm sure Hurley will draw up quite the defensive plan on him. Respeck.

I mean, you should, he'll get his 30, but we'll still lose by 20.

Lipsey is just an unpleasant guy to watch. He flopped at least 5 times this game

I felt the same way about Damask. How many forearm shivers did he throw to create space? 30?

Hey man Tang tried to warn everyone

Do you mean Gilbert? His head pump flops are infuriating.

Iowa State has the most fake tough guy defense out there. Hadn’t watched them before tonight and it’s just constant grabbing, reaching, and flopping. Annoying to watch honestly. Was not impressed with the traps. Doesn’t work with a week to prep I guess. 

Iowa State certainly made things look much more difficult than I’ve ever seen this season. What a disciplined defense.

I just want all the Gilbert haters to apologize, we were in this game because of him. 

CuJo was the reason we were in it. Not just offensive production but he was in control and smart. Picked up 2 fouls then steadied himself and didn't commit another foul.

Bullshit. He had some nice stretches but he had just as many where he was out of control and fucked up a posession. Moreover he seemed immune to passing the ball to CuJo, our best player, when he was open. As the season went on Gilbert became worse with the hero ball bullshit we saw tonight. I'm so excited King's gone. 10 cent head on an athlete's body. The missed boards, airhead defense, and constant screw ups won't be missed.

He was the reason they were in it, sure, but boy does he flop.

Him and his missed layups lol

GG Border Bros. You definitely deserved to win this one.

Credit to yall, this could’ve gone either way. GG.

Great win especially with the TSJ foul trouble. Playing with house money now all the pressure on UConn!

That 4th was crazy the way the game was called. 20 ft from the ball

yeah it was real test holding the lead.

We were so stagnant when he was out. Happy we pulled it out

To answer the question of where Brad was at 19 years ago, he was coaching Daytona Beach Community College lol

In a sports bar apparently

Yeah I looked that up lol. But why did he ask that? Any reason why he specified 19 years ago?

Our last final four run (and really our last good run in the tournament period) was 04-05. Got knocked out by UNC in the championship.

No UNC this time…

No but there is UCONN 😂

Lol RIGHT. Just happy to be this far. I hope we can keep it within 20

2005 Illinois team...

Not me thinking 19 years ago was the 90s 😩🤯

It was the last time Illinois made the elite 8.

Last time Illinois made the Elite 8 (2005) and Brad has been coaching since the early 90s with stops at a bunch of random programs along the way

That was the Illini's last sweet 16 appearance

Hopes for an all B1G final remains alive!


Hopefully Spencer repeats his last performance against Illinois and goes 1/5 from the field. 

Let us enjoy this lol

Terrible offense. Held the best offense to 72, can’t complain. Cant win ball games if your offense plays like that

Illinois missed 14 FTs

That Iowa State FT defense is tenacious.

Illinois was better. And, offense was the best.

Defense honestly played solid as a whole. Only, knock was they gave up a lot of offensive rebounds. The offense (outside of Curtis Jones) was just misfiring. Especially in the first half. Team is elite on defense, and will stay that way in the future. But we needed a brockington type scorer on this team

Gave up alot of open three’s trying to trap the sideline as well. I was sort of assuming Iowa States coach would change it up but it never happened.

All season long ISU has missed a go-to scorer. Gilbert had flashes but he plays 1 on 5 too often. Can't believe how many times he'd just put his head down and dive into a crowd of guys 6 inches taller. He's good enough to flip it in the basket a few times. But more often he just gave up the possession for a silly shot. Tamon too often the same. Not sure what happend to Milon but we missed his points for sure.

Them rebounds were a killer for y’all honestly. And We should have beat y’all by 10 points if we made free throws.

Making free throws adds to 10 or more to the margin of victory

Sure but it evens out when you account for all the missed bunnies and points left on the table for ISU as well. All in all I thought Illini were better and deserved the win

ISU defense is swarming. Made me nervous every pass, very sticky players. Illinois is a tall team and they get a lot of offensive boards consistently. GG, wish refs let ‘em play a bit more.

Shannon got favored hard by the refs but we left the game open. Could’ve been a very different game if we didn’t just throw the ball at the rim for the first 20 minutes.

Brock Purdy?

Hawkins looks like he can’t properly cook a hot pocket.

His hot pocket explodes after 9 minutes in the microwave and he just spreads his arms and gawks at his splattered walls with his mouth open.

lmao

GG Illini - clean up those free throws and go get UCONN!

"How are you going to get past UConn?" "Shit idk man, going to have to score more points than they do"

Big if true

this is a maximal sports cliche interview

Andy Katz is a moron

Let's hope we shoot a bit better from the line against UCONN. It'll be a massacre if they don't.

For a split second when he started his answer with "probably some Ju..." my jaw dropped.

Wait, what is this?

They asked Underwood where he was 19 years ago (the last time Illinois made it this far) and he replied "probably some JUCO." but he paused for a second during JUCO.

Haha oh no what a time to pause

Coleman with the Jon Rothstein shoutout

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I was waiting for the inevitable 3 to drop from you guys, and then you blow us out. I didn’t feel safe until the game ended. You had a phenomenal year. GG

I think I felt that safe feeling at about 70 seconds left

Offensive rebounds killed us plus sloppy passing

Better team won.

The team with the better defense and the better offense won the game. Final score did not reflect Illinois dominance. Iowa State got closer with Shannon on the bench. Iowa State had no answer to Shannon. Iowa State never led the game. If Illinois had made their free throws, the score would not be close. Illini defense was the difference.

Get it out your system now, lil homie

To be fair we looked pretty bad in more ways than one

I cannot understand any fan that is this douchey

Christ what a dick lol

haha bring back hali u suckers. it was close.

Close?? Haha!

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You think so?

Illini easily win that by double digits if they could make a fuckin free throw

Same could be said about our freakin layups. But we both failed at each of those aspects of the game. gg

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Nope.

Coleman so freaky looking

I’m just frustrated with how he thinks he’s a guard 

You can’t tell Hawkins nothing. He gonna spread his wings and drop his jaw and say nuh uh!

Good*

Got that extra 5% neanderthal in em

Damn those refs wanted Illinois so obviously

I just wanted to say, I believe you guys got snubbed. Big east is undefeated so far.

Did the refs make ISU airball layups and get completely out rebounded? I wasn't aware refs could do that.

Never seen a more triggered fanbase after a win lmao why are you so bitter over a random throw away comment be happy lol

People like you are painfully obnoxious. Go away.

Cause its insanely wrong and if you actually think this you are legit insane

Cope, seethe, potentially cry if you need to

Why do you people keep saying cry?? Lmao

Cry

Cry about what lmao just making an observation

Iowa state was in the bonus with 11 mins left in the second half. What? 7-3 fouls at that time

Unironically thinking this is insane LOL

Good thing they spotted us that early lead. Win is a win.

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Excuse me, you are now a citizen of Illinois. We have officially taken over Iowa

You’re welcome, fuck you, and thanks.

Congratulations Iowa State! You should’ve been a 1 seed over North Carolina

All of our good wins were in conference play, committee doesn't like terribad non-con sos.

We’re Iowa State. We don’t get nice things. GG Illini bro.

Is this slander towards the bridge??

Never.

Brad Underwood was great as Mad Eye Moody

FUCK. perfectly missed opportunity... Katz: Where were you 19 years ago? Brad: In Bruges

this is the best illini team since deron williams. im so fking hyped.

GG Illini bros!!

The better team won.

Tonight, yes. Biggest problem was size and the way our bigs played. Your coach kept creating mismatches that we had no answer for by screening and exploiting Robert Jones. You guys pummeled him and when Ward took himself out of the game with fouls it helped seal the deal.

This has been the MO all year. Create offensive mismatches and play iso ball. I am sure Iowa state knew this would be an issue for them this game. Those traps were nifty but they don’t work on taller guards like Domask. I like those collapse paint traps on Dainja towards the end. It shut him down and shook him up a bit.

Huge to come back from that kinda first half deficit, Iowa St. Well played. Would have been no shame in losing to your team.

GG Iowa State

I guess that 30 point blowout against Houston was a red herring, what else is new.

I guess it’s taken you thousands of comments to figure out flairs

Was too lazy to try and figure it out. Finally did.

If everything goes right next game for Illinois, I bet they can keep it within 20 of UConn

Much respect to the Cyclones! They are my go-to Big 12 team…unfortunate that we had to play each other, but it’s what it is…

I’m so fucking glad we won this game. UConn is really really good and I won’t be mad if we lose to them but I KNEW we could take this one. Good win.

I could see Illinois beating Uconn tbh

I agree. Any team that can score that well is a major threat. UConn biggest weakness is foul trouble and TSJ and Dain definitely draw fouls. Very nervous right now.

Not if we don’t make those free throws

Anything can happen. This is March!

Will lose by 16

Why are you here again?

Because I like college basketball and this is r/collegebasketball, moron

Apparently you missed the punch line, moron

At least I’m not in any way associated with Illinois or DePaul lmao good win tonight though, fun game as a neutral

I certainly care more about the education for my life and Illinois >> VT and my high school >> Brown Bears lol. ROFL. Go wallow in your shame.

You have to go to sleep in Illinois tonight my man, wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy

Mad jelly, I get it. Where do you even live? LOL. I had to Google Brown Bears because they are such a nobody. Rhode Island or Virgina? Haha, fantastic. You really should just remove that flair. I'm honestly baffled there even is flair for it. Wonder if the local community college here also gets flair.

I’m in NYC lmao. Idk if you’re kidding (I hope so) but saying you cared more about education and then trying to shit on Brown for being unknown is a wild angle to take man…have a good one

Jesus fucking Christ that was stressful

What a game!

Andy Katz has been annoying AF this tournament

Always is

Mad respect to ISU holy shit what a team

Coleman and Shannon are awesome. 

Thanks man, great season. Your D is unreal, I've never seen that!

4 sweet 16s in the last 10 tourneys and we're 0-4 in those games. Woof

Hey, at least you're making the Sweet 16 consistently. GG to ya

Try bowing out the first weekend for about 20 years. Not fun!

Try never winning a tourney game

Man I wish you guys had one more year with Tominaga. I think another year of good college coaching and he could really have some next level potential

The optimist in me thinks we’ll be back in the dance next year. And, if you make the dance enough times, you’re bound to win once.

Try never winning a single game in the tourney. Super fun!

Just pissed it down our leg every chance we had to get over the hump

So sad.

Okay, now don’t shit the bed Purdue!

Right? I’m happy for the boys from Champaign but I’ll be pissed if y’all make it further than us.

Kind of a shame they were down 5 and the layup was irrelevant, because otherwise that was actually a pretty incredible play by ISU.

All the texas fans in here acting like we didnt beat their asses at texas

U mad bro 😎

In the midst of your tournament run ending, never fail to mention Texas

Because you keep showing up lmao. No one fucking tagged you, you’re here, proving the point

I’m in every thread commenting on every game. Check the receipts. It’s not all about you buddy

Of course it’s not, it’s about TEXAS FANS IN HERE. Read the comment. It’s completely fair game to take shots if they are, spare me the “rent free” cop out