The Bruce Weber era is over at Illinois.
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During and after the embarrassing performance at Nebraska, there were players crying on the bench and in the locker room. You can cry when your grandmother dies. You don't f#$%ing cry when you lose a basketball game.
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The Illinois basketball team is in a bit of a tailspin. They have lost 6 of their last 7 including 2 losses at home. Illini fans are not used to watching the team lose at home and may not accept another loss to a rebuilding Purdue team that easily handled them earlier in the year. The team then goes on the road for 2 games which we should probably expect to lose. That would make for a 6 game losing streak. Would the team just give up at that point? The flipside is that they could win easily, save Bruces job, get a couple road wins and make a run in the tournament.
It certainly adds some drama and pressure to what would be a fairly humdrum game.
7:30 on the Big Ten Network
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Seriously. Any shed. Anywhere. Any time.
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"Everybody on our team. Everybody in the stands. The cheerleaders. Everybody in this whole organization is gonna have to be at their best on Saturday"
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Pushed out or not willing to fight?
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This game was electric and will become the hottest ticket of the year if the powers that be can just figure out the setup. It will do wonders for both programs. Let's hope they can see the value and get it done.
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Comparisons to the 2005 Team?
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Congrats to Bruce Webber and staff on a long awaited win in a drawn out recruiting battle. This commit should also propel the Illini into the stratosphere of recruiting rankings, which were already at a very respectable 13th before the Shaw commitment.
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