Game 2- Princeton

[kreed5120]

16 minutes ago, lance99 said:

My question is this: Does this give this win give them "Others receiving Votes" in the polls?

 

No

[lance99]

1 minute ago, kreed5120 said:

 

No

Not even One?

[kreed5120]

1 minute ago, lance99 said:

Not even One?

We're two games into the season. The teams ahead of us are going to mostly all still be 2-0. A few might be 1-1 with a ranked loss. It's not like we've beat anyone that would catch voters attention this early in the season. Generally voters don't drop teams that win.

[NWAkron]

32 minutes ago, lance99 said:

My question is this: Does this give this win give them "Others receiving Votes" in the polls?

7 or 8 at least

[clarkwgriswold]

1 turnover to 6 assists for Tavari today.  Only 7 turnovers for the entire team.

[NWAkron]

Halligan would start on a lot of MAC teams

[Zippy87]

2 hours ago, Illini Zip said:

I hope Barre does better against players closer to his own size. The box score has him with 3 fouls in 5 minutes. Ouch!!

 

I think it's important to for us all to remember with a lot of these guys that they are coming from different teams/systems (Ev. Mahaffey, Barre) or are just starting their careers (Er. Mahaffey, Stankovic). For example, I thought Eric and Evan both looked much more comfortable today than they did in the opener. I have a hard time believing that a player who started 1/3 of the games last year at a solid A10 school isn't good enough to even see the floor for us. It was good to see Barre out there and would assume he will play a lot Wednesday. I think we certainly need his size off the bench if we want to reach the goals we all have for this team. 

[LZIp]

28 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

 

I think it's important to for us all to remember with a lot of these guys that they are coming from different teams/systems (Ev. Mahaffey, Barre) or are just starting their careers (Er. Mahaffey, Stankovic). For example, I thought Eric and Evan both looked much more comfortable today than they did in the opener. I have a hard time believing that a player who started 1/3 of the games last year at a solid A10 school isn't good enough to even see the floor for us. It was good to see Barre out there and would assume he will play a lot Wednesday. I think we certainly need his size off the bench if we want to reach the goals we all have for this team. 

Agreed. Barre or Briscoe will need to be able to perform when called upon.

[clarkwgriswold]

Another factor I forget about Barre until now is that he spent some of the time in the off-season in a walking boot with a bad ankle, further setting him back. 

[Illini Zip]

8 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

Another factor I forget about Barre until now is that he spent some of the time in the off-season in a walking boot with a bad ankle, further setting him back. 

I remember that now. I didn’t hear any talk about his injury. 
 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by Illini Zip

[MDZip]

3 hours ago, lance99 said:

My question is this: Does this give this win give them "Others receiving Votes" in the polls?

Beat Purdue - then we can talk. 😉

[roopride]

Defense was stellar!!

[72 Roo]

2 hours ago, LZIp said:

Agreed. Barre or Briscoe will need to be able to perform when called upon.

This staff has a brilliant record in developing players. Of course Enrique comes to mind, but also how about Amani, MMK. If Briscoe and Barre are willing to work the staff will have them ready for more minutes. 

[akzipper]

2 hours ago, MDZip said:

Beat Purdue - then we can talk. 😉

 

Have we ever beaten a ranked team? I know it hasn't happened in the 15+ years since I've been a fan. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

1 hour ago, akzipper said:

 

Have we ever beaten a ranked team? I know it hasn't happened in the 15+ years since I've been a fan. 

 

Not to my knowledge. Nevada was the closest we came outside of UCLA in the 2022 NCAA Tourney. I don't recall if VCU was ranked when they came to the JAR with Shaka, but that would've been a close game, too. 

[Illini Zip]

8 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

 

Not to my knowledge. Nevada was the closest we came outside of UCLA in the 2022 NCAA Tourney. I don't recall if VCU was ranked when they came to the JAR with Shaka, but that would've been a close game, too. 

The UCLA game haunts me. I thought we were the better team that day. Ugh!!

[Blue & Gold]

Zips X feed was on fire yesterday so instead of posting ~20 highlights, here is the link to X.