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What a ride,
#Illini
nation. The guys do their best to sum up how they’re feeling after the Uconn game. Tune in for one final time this season.
Apple:
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Spike Albrecht
2011 Crown Point HS
2012 Northfield Mount Hermon School
2013 Michigan
2016 Purdue
2018 BioPharmaceutical Rep
2019 Distributor Sales Specialist
2020 High School Assistant Coach
2021 Graduate Assistant
2022 Salesforce Rep
It’s fine when you jump around though
Bag chasin. If I’m a coach, I want NOTHING to do with a kid like this.
This dude will get you beat.
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Chase Brown is the first running back in Big Ten history to rush for 1600+ yards and lead the Big Ten in rushing and not be named First Team All Big Ten
There were 28 other occurrences and each running back was a first team selection
Make it make sense
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#373
ranked recruit
Started every game & broke the scoring record as a freshman
Benched in favor of a future All American
Showed up every day with a smile & accepted his role. He even roomed with the guy who took his job
The ultimate teammate & B1G champ
Giorgi is our culture
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In his 4 years at Illinois, Coleman Hawkins had
- No losses to Mich, Wisc, Minn, Neb
- More titles than MSU, Iowa, IU, MD, RUT, NW, OSU
- More BTT titles than every team
- 70% WP% in B10 play
- More tourney success than IU, MSU, Wisc, OSU
Clear why the B10 didn’t like him 😂😂
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There’s no better program guy than Isaiah Williams
He committed to a 2-10 team as a 5 star
The head coach he committed to got fired
The new HC asked him to switch from QB to WR
The assistant coach who coached him for 5 yrs in jr high /HS left
Isaiah stayed
We are not worthy
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Andy Katz: “Sister Jean has Loyola beating Illinois and making it all the way to the elite 8”
Charles Barkley: “Can you get her on the phone? I want that bet. They’re not beating Illinois”
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Full circle moment
Coleman Hawkins started his career as the bench celebration guy on the road at Michigan
Now, his senior year he’s the best player on the court at Michigan
So many kids transferred, Coleman stayed loyal
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Coleman Hawkins is the first player to commit to Brad Underwood and play at Illinois for 4 years
Bleeds orange and blue
Illini for life
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BREAKING: Will Smith has been suspended for the remainder of awards season (Emmys, Grammys, etc.).
He will be allowed to coach in the Big Ten tournament
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Kofi visited campus during 1 of the worst losses in program in history. He believed
Illinois went 19-37 in conference the 3 yrs before he arrived,he still believed
We went 44-16 in his 3 years. He was the best player on a team that won a Big Ten title
Thanks for believing Kofi
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Committed to Groce, stuck with Underwood
Led big ten freshmen in PPG and APG
He sacrificed scoring, bought in on D despite being undersized, and made the All-Defense team
15 guys signed with Illinois from 2016-2018. He & Monte are the ONLY ones who stayed all 4 years
Loyalty
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Minutes per game as Freshmen
Epps: 24.6
Clark: 24.4
Rodgers: 17.3
Epps & Clark left and got more shots at other schools but paid the price going 2-18 in the Big East & 3-17 in the ACC
Ty Rodgers cared about one thing, winning
And now he’s playing for a chance at the final 4
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Sometimes you’re born on 3rd and think you hit a triple
Michigan & Wisconsin combined for 4 final 4’s from 2013-18
Gard & Juwan inherited winning programs and won 3 Big 10 Coach of the year awards
Underwood rebuilt Illinois, 0 awards
He’s 15-0 vs Howard and Gard since 19-20
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Juwan Howard’s Michigan stats of the day:
3 deleted tweets
0 Terrance Shannon’s
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Ayo Dosunmu… still clutch. 26 and 6 to end his sensational rookie year
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First thing Skyy Clark says about why he chose Illinois
“They’re a proven winning program”
Man it feels good to have that reputation amongst recruits again
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-Bob Cousy Award Winner
-USA Today NPOY
-Consensus 1st Team All American
-2x 1st Team All B1G
-Big Ten Tournament Most Outstanding Player
And maybe most importantly:
-Only
#1
recruit from the state of Illinois to choose the Illini in the last 10 years
Thank you
@AyoDos_11
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Illinois beating Duke at Cameron so bad that Coach K cancelled the rest of their non conference season
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Liddell clearly got him with the body. You can’t mess this up with 4 seconds left in a 2 point game
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Kofi Cockburn is the epitome of consistency.
Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2020
1st Team All Big Ten in 2021
1st Team All Big Ten in 2022
2nd Team All-American in 2021
1st Team All-American in 2022
Walking 21 and 10. Best Center in Illinois history
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Josh Whitman in 2017 (after announcing Groce had been fired)
Flash forward 5 years and student tickets are sold out in 36 minutes and a Big Ten Championship is back in Champaign.
Chills. The champ is here once again
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Chicago Bulls Illinois Fighting
Illini
🤝
Beating Indiana on the road this weekend and loving Ayo Dosunmu
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A dude who cares so much about his teammates and this program
Illini nation loves you Ty
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Committed to Illinois when they were down bad (lost to FAU)
Big Ten Freshman of the Year
First-team All-Big Ten
Second-team All-American
Big Ten champ
All-around WINNER
Thank you
@kxng_alpha
💙🧡
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Imagine if Brad Underwood lost to a 16 seed, 15 seed, and 13 seed in consecutive tournaments
Twitter would melt down
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Jacob Grandison did a postgrad year at Exeter and had 1 D1 offer - Holy Cross
He bet on himself and transferred to Illinois.
After sitting out a year, he was a:
41% 3 point shooter
Elite post entry passer
Big Ten Champ
30-9 in games he started
Thank you Grandy Man
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Can’t stop watching this.
Your best player makes the play of the game
Your second best player of the game puts his body on the line
Then your third best plays fantastic help defense
These guys want to win so bad
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Hunter Dickinson officially ends his career with 0 wins against Illinois as a Michigan Wolverine
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened
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When they ask where Illinois is ranked to start the season
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Two amazing quotes from Coleman on his twitch:
“The video of coach yelling is because I did a step back three instead of driving against a slow as shit 7 footer”
“Grown man burner accounts on Twitter are far more harmful than whatever coach says”
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Kofi is undefeated in his career against Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Penn State, Nebraska, and Northwestern.
6 out of the 13 other Big Ten schools have never beaten Kofi.
28-0
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Reminder that Brad Underwood and Illinois have the most big ten wins in the 20’s decade
Not Purdue, not MSU, Illinois
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We started 0-8 in the Big Ten your freshman year. Now we’re in first place
Thank YOU for believing in us
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Marcus Domask was the 3rd or 4th best player for Illinois today and had the 10th triple double in NCAA tournament history
This team’s depth is awesome
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The most important man in the state of Illinois….and the governor
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Riding with these guys always… wouldn’t be here without them
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“… but we will win. It’s not an overnight fix, but it starts today”
6 years ago
@IlliniAD
had a goal. Having the football and basketball program in the top 25 is a monumental achievement towards that goal.
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Best of luck to Coleman Hawkins in the NBA Draft
Proud of a kid who:
Played 6 mpg as a freshman
Lost a starting job as a sophomore
Was constantly scrutinized as a junior
He bought in to tough coaching, improved every year and turned into one of our best players
Loyal to ILL
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Big Ten Record since 2019-20
Brad Underwood: 69-31
Matt Painter*: 68-31
Greg Gard** 59-41
Tom Izzo: 55-44
Juwan Howard*: 49-48
Chris Collins*: 40-59
* indicates won coach of the year
Illinois was the only team in the Big Ten to go over .500 in each of the 5 seasons
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If you're wondering what Curbelo almost got t'd up for... Keisei Tominaga put his hand up to block Trent's free throw.
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Zach Bryan in Chicago rocking an Illinois shirt
Illinois back to owning this state
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Committed to Cubit. Played for Lovie.
Tore his ACL. Captain. 2nd all time in forced fumbles at Illinois.
If this is the end of his career, let’s enjoy the hell out of Jake Hansen’s final game
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91 players made all-league teams in the 6 high major conferences this year
56 (62%) were transfers/now in the portal
35 stayed at 1 school
Of the 35, only 6 played fewer than 10 minutes per game as freshmen
The guy who averaged the least MPG year 1 & stayed:
Coleman Hawkins
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Record in Big Ten play since Kofi Cockburn arrived at Illinois:
Illinois 30-11
Mich 24-13
Iowa 25-16
Wisc 24-16
Mary 24-17
OSU 23-17
MSU 23-17
Purdue 23-17
The big ten tourney occurred once in those 2 seasons. It was won by Illinois
B1G runs through Champaign until he leaves
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They really put Hunter Dickinson over Kofi
Hunter: 14.4 and 7.7, 60.0 % FG
Kofi: 17.5 and 9.8, 66.5% FG
Head to head: 76-53 Illinois
Hunter: 1-8, 6 points and 5 rebounds
Kofi: 6-10, 12 points and 7 rebounds
From 3⃣0⃣ ➡ 1⃣0⃣
The
@JerseyMikes
Naismith Men's Player of the Year Semifinalists have been announced 🏆
📎:
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Malik gets hit in the face. Malik gets called for foul.
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Big Ten Record since 19-20
Illinois 55-25
Purdue 51-28
Iowa 48-32
Wisconsin 48-32
Michigan 46-31
Michigan St 45-34
4 years atop of one of the best conferences in the country
The 20’s belong to the Illini
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Brad Underwood to Trent after missing two threes for a tie/lead in back to back games in 2018
“Your times coming… those will go in”
Trent in 2022:
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Record vs the Big Ten West
Lovie Smith: 4-26
Bret Bielema: 5-3
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Non top 25 schools:
Oklahoma, Notre Dame, LSU, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Miami, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska
Top 25 school:
ILLINOIS
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Congrats to Michigan and their 19 win season!
8th place in the Big Ten was really impressive
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Just so much hate on the TL for kids who just won a trophy for our program.
Not their afternoon but don’t ride with them and celebrate last Sunday if you’re gonna shit on them 5 days later.
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5 years ago today, Ayo Dosunmu changed the course of Illinois basketball history by committing to a program at its lowest point
He walked away an All-American, Bob Cousy Award winner, and turned around the Illinois program
He put Illinois back on the map
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Illinois lost 15 straight games against Wisconsin from 2011-2019. Absolute rock bottom for a program
7-0 against the Badgers since this moment
Forever grateful for the dragons that Ayo Dosunmu slayed
Glad his legacy is still being carried on
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He had so many years of sacrificing personal accolades in favor of winning.
Now he’s recognized as a top ten player in the Big Ten. So deserving. We love you Trent
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Da’monte Williams has played the most ever games in Illini basketball history officially with 141. Trent has 139.
Covid year obviously gives them the record, but in the age of the transfer portal these guys are directly responsible for bringing Illini basketball back.
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Iowa was up 7 with 11:30 left
Illinois went on a 19-6 run to take control
Andre Curbelo scored 9 points, assisted RJ and Coleman’s 3’s. Accounted for 15 of the 19 points.
But yes let’s continue to talk about his turnovers, even though he had the 3rd best +/- on the team
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Fitting end to the Brad Underwood vs Juwan Howard era
8-0
Highlights include:
Ayo Buzzer Beater
Covid Beatdown in Ann Arbor
Double OT win in ‘23
29 point blowout in ‘24
Thanks for the memories Juwan… you always found new ways to lose
Illini fans will miss you ❤️
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Why does this always happen to us
Michigan saved again by refs.
How is this not a pick play? You can block now before a pass?
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Thank you Josh Whitman
How it started: How it’s going:
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20 million dollars is generational wealth
Can’t express how happy we are for Ayo
He could’ve gone anywhere but put his faith in an Illinois basketball program at its lowest point in 30 years
He put Illinois basketball back on the map
So relieved that his decision paid off
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Watching the preseason trailer the night before senior night to get the juices flowing. Just an awesome season with a group of guys that stayed true to the values Trent and Ayo helped build
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Those who stay will be rewarded
Each guy pictured below was the 3rd highest rated player in their class per 247 sports
In each class, the top 2 ranked guys transferred & none of those 6 have played in a tournament game
Thankful for Luke, Coleman & Ty in the transfer portal era
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Illinois Basketball
2019-20 started 9-5 -> 21-10
2020-21 started 9-5 -> 24-7
2022-23 is now 9-5
Brad Underwood has proven he can turn it around
But this one feels different without Ayo, Kofi, & Trent
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Ayo Dosunmu tonight:
24 points
8 rebounds
5 assists
1 steal
0 turnovers
10-12 FG
Keep hating
Ayo Dosunmu’s legendary Snell tribute last night:
26 Minutes
0 Points
0 Rebounds
0 Assists
0 Blocks
0 Steals
BRO WAS JUST OUT THERE TAKING UP OXYGEN 💔💔💔
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If Bret Bielema lost 22 straight games, he’d still have a better record than Lovie Smith at Illinois
Bret: 18-17 (12-13 in the big ten)
Lovie: 17-39 (10-33 in the big ten)
BB has raised the floor of the Illinois program
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Looks like Kofi was giving out lessons on the first day of classes
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Seems like "One of those nights" happen pretty often when a team's best player is facing Trent Frazier
cc
@RobbieHummel
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Interesting schedule observation:
Michigan State got 5 Saturday Big Ten home games (the prime recruiting visit day)
Illinois had 0
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There’s 1 First Team All-American in the south region.
His name is Kofi Cockburn.
The Illini will have the best player on the floor in every game they play.
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Can’t say enough about the minutes from Brandin Podziemski
Layup down 6 with 7 minutes left
Massive 3 down 5 with 5 minutes left
He hadn’t scored in non-garbage time since Braggin rights, but stayed ready when his # was called
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Ayo Dosunmu
Giorgi Bezhanishvili
Trent Frazier
Da’Monte Williams
Kofi Cockburn
Coleman Hawkins
The guys that stayed
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24 Points
8 Assists
5 Rebounds
Broke another Bulls rookie record
Ayo is special
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Come to Illinois and become a legend wherever your from. This mural is amazing for
@kxng_alpha
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There should be absolutely no ill will towards Kofi. He committed to a program that lost to FAU on the weekend he visited. Led us to the most Big Ten wins in the last two seasons. All love for the big man.
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Kofi was so good he tricked us into thinking TJD was overrated
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First 4 star of the Bret Bielema era.
He chose Illinois over Notre Dame, Michigan, Wisconsin, Miami, and Iowa.
Hopefully we’ll be talking about Kaden Feagin for a long time
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