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Transfer portal team needs, Version 3.0. A jam-packed look at what each top team is trying to snag after a flurry of portal moves.
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The West is loaded next season with Dynamic Duos.
Clippers: Paul George & Kawhi
Lakers: LeBron & Anthony Davis
Portland: Lillard & McCollum
Warriors: Steph & Klay
Rockets: Harden & Westbrook
Denver: Jokic & Murray
Mavs: Doncic & Porzingis
Jazz: Mitchell & Conley
The Oklahoma City Thunder have agreed to trade Russell Westbrook to the Houston Rockets for Chris Paul, first-round picks in 2024 and 2026, pick swaps in 2021 and 2025, league sources tell ESPN.
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#Illini
guard Andres Feliz raised over $7,000 for homeless, starving families in the Dominican Republic. He and his wife, Lisa, are handing out food left and right today.
What a man.
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Illinois' path to an elusive Sweet 16 is Morehead State and Duquesne.
There is no excuse.
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Ayo Dosunmu is the best closer in the Big Ten and it’s not close. Good lord what a shot.
First place in the Big Ten
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#Illini
legend Mike Dudek: “This means everything. This is what we needed. Illinois is back.”
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Trayce Jackson-Davis compared five-star guard Jalen Hood-Schifino to Illini legend Ayo Dosunmu.
I asked Indiana's Mike Woodson about that Ayo-Jalen comp: "I don't know who that is."
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Won’t be the last time RJ Melendez wins a Big Ten Championship.
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Most high-major bench minutes this year:
1. Auburn (terrifying)
2. West Virginia (out)
3. Vanderbilt (out)
4. LSU (out)
5. Arkansas (out)
6. Rutgers (out)
7. USC (out)
8. Cincinnati (out)
9. Oklahoma State (out)
10. Florida State (out)
Bruce Pearl is a major outlier.
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I've watched Kansas play hundreds of nip-and-tuck games in my life and Bill Self, somehow, wins 'em like 96% of the time. It's unbelievable.
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31-point underdogs to Wisconsin
10-point underdogs to Purdue
14-point underdogs to Michigan State.
#Illini
won all three. The Lovie Smith statue might be erected by the time this team gets back to Champaign.
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Trent Frazier announcing his return: multiple hinted Instagram stories, lots of family noise & a super cool hype video.
Da’Monte Williams announcing his return: Just showing up to Ubben on the first day of practice surprising the entire coaching staff.
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The dude on the left was the second-best freshman in the Big Ten.
The dude on the right is the best player in college basketball
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Giorgi Bezhanishvili poses with Deon Thomas after breaking Thomas’ record for most points (35) scored in a game by an
#Illini
freshman.
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#Illini
Ayo Dosunmu dropping “flopper” Brad Davison and hitting the game’s biggest shot is so perfect.
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Illinois' idea of an ideal roster is pretty clear. Andre Curbelo + elite big man + a billion tall, long guys who can shoot the heck out of it.
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That is the gutsiest effort I’ve seen from Illinois football ever. Period.
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Donovan Clingan allowed five buckets on post-ups all year long, per Synergy. Zach Edey had four post-up buckets in the first eight minutes.
He’s just different.
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— Ayo Dosunmu
— Trent Frazier
— Tevian Jones
— Giorgi Bezhanishvili
— Kofi Cockburn
#Illini
basketball could be real fun in 2019.
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Luke Goode goes nuts and helps you grind out a win over Michigan State.
Brandin Podziemski and RJ Melendez play huge minutes late to grind out a road victory over Northwestern.
These freshmen are gonna be gooooood
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Life update: I asked the woman of my dreams the biggest question.
She cried and she didn’t say no :)
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Really cannot get over one of UNC’s best lineups (RJ Davis, Cormac Ryan, Seth Trimble, Harrison Ingram and Armando Bacot) only playing 49 seconds together yesterday.
Just a stunning rotation decision.
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No. 1 offense UConn: Elite Eight
No. 2 offense Illinois: Elite Eight
No. 3 offense Purdue: One win away from the Elite Eight
No. 4 offense Alabama: Elite Eight
No. 5 offense Duke: One win away from the Elite Eight
In a year where scoring ballooned, it’s fitting.
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Bill Walton unprompted on Ayo Dosunmu: “How did he slip to No. 37 in the NBA Draft? I have no idea. We need a new poster, ‘I AM OBLIVIOUS, ‘I HAVE NO IDEA.’ Truer words never spoken on this air.”
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Iowa State allows the lowest percentage of shots at the rim in the country. Illinois gets to the rim a ton and is highly efficient.
A phenomenal Sweet 16 is on tap.
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Leroy-Ostrander’s Brody Larson spent his whole high school career as a team manager. He lives with Hurler Syndrome.
Until tonight. He scored a touchdown on Senior Night. What a moment.
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Hoops fans to the Coronavirus after the news that Doris Burke tested positive.
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One time he yelled “f*** you” to me after I homered off him.
We were 14...
(Still happy a Champaign kid is ballin’ on the big stage.)
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AYO MY GOODNESS.
He’s hurt. He comes back six days later. He hits a monster floater to seal a win at No. 9 Penn State.
This is stuff of legends. He’s an
#Illini
legend.
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Johnny Davis scoring 37 points against the third-place Big Ten team was held in higher regard than Kofi Cockburn scoring 37 points against the co-Big Ten champions.
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Cory Patterson and three of the best players in Trinity Catholic history are in Champaign.
#Illini
hosting electric Texas commit Mookie Cooper for a visit. Illinois commits Shammond Cooper and Isaiah Williams also made the trip.
Program-changing talent.
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Ahhh the dreaded Notes paragraph.
As long as I don’t flunk any of my finals, I will be taking a new job as a sports reporter at the Post-Bulletin in Rochester, Minnesota.
I will get a chance to cover high school sports, the Minnesota Timberwolves & the Minnesota Vikings.
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Bobby Roundtree's timeline
May 2019: Devastating spinal cord injury
Oct. 2019: GoFundMe Created ($124,000 raised)
Nov. 2019: Visits Champaign for Senior Day
Jan. 2020: Released from the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab and will be back at Illinois to continue his education.
Remarkable.
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Transfers
#Illini
have landed this offseason:
1. WR Jeff Thomas (top-50 recruit)
2. TE Luke Ford (top-50 recruit)
3. OL Richie Petitbon (top-70 recruit)
4. WR A.D. Miller from Oklahoma
Lovie Smith and his staff are on a mission to make a bowl game in 2019.
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Illinois is going bowling! What a comeback. What a team
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March Madness is back in three weeks and I can’t wait.
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A month ago, Coleman Hawkins played two minutes against Wisconsin. Tonight, he helped Illinois win a B1G Title win thanks to some ridiculous defense on Keegan Murray.
Murray with Coleman Hawkins defending: 2-for-13, 6 points
Murray with anyone else defending: 5-for-9, 16 points
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Isaiah Williams, Shammond Cooper and the rest of the “The Movement” has made it to
#Littyville
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Robbie Hummel's broadcasting schedule this week is absurd.
Tuesday: Michigan State @ Maryland
Wisconsin: Wisconsin @ Illinois
Thursday: Bulls @ Raptors
Friday: Bulls @ Pacers
Saturday: Illinois @ Indiana
Sunday: Minnesota @ Iowa
Best in the business and it's not close.
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Illinois pays their head coach over $4 million.
Losing 30-10 to Minnesota after a bye week in Year Four is just not acceptable.
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Marquez Beason is shifty, and Isaiah Williams throws dimes. The top two
#Illini
commits of the last decade hook up for a TD at the Friday Night Lights camp.
@Ezmoneyquez
@i_williams11
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BREAKING: Top-100 PG Andre Curbelo picks the
#Illini
over Miami and Oregon.
Absolutely massive W for Brad Underwood. Many believe he’s the best facilitating PG in the country.
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#Illini
Giorgi Bezhanishvili announces on Instagram that he is leaving Illinois basketball...
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Nobody:
Literally nobody:
Me: Dee Brown, Deron Williams and Luther Head are the best trio of guards in college basketball history.
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Guys that won't play a down for
#Illini
this year:
– Marquez Beason (best recruit in a decade)
– Luke Ford (one of the best transfers Illinois has ever got)
– Mike Epstein (Illinois' most complete all-around RB)
– Bobby Roundtree (best defensive end)
Just unbelievably tough
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Adam Miller stays home.
#Illini
land the Chicago Morgan Park star guard. Brad Underwood has put together one of the best classes in the country.
Think of this 2020 lineup:
Adam Miller
Andre Curbelo
Trent Frazier
Giorgi Bezhanishvili
Kofi Cockburn
🔥🔥🔥
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#Illini
junior center Doug Kramer wasn’t on scholarship early in his career.
Kramer was voted a team captain today.
“I knew that I didn’t get recruited. I knew that not everybody wanted me to be here. I put everything in my head, bottled it up and put it towards working hard.”
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Big Ten basketball is better when teams don’t like each other.
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Zach Edey making the All-Big Ten Defensive team was interesting.
- Points per shot when Edey was the closest defender: 0.95
- Points per shot when Coleman Hawkins was the closest defender: 0.82
- Opponents' EFG% against Edey: 47.6%
- Opponents' EFG% against Hawkins: 41.2%
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RJ Melendez really needs to stop making shots or I'm simply going to be required to write a 4,000-word essay about how he's the future.
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Ayo Dosunmu: "Early in the season, we took a lot of punches. Now, it's time for us to throw punches."
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I've done about 85 brackets already, and shockingly, Illinois has somehow won every single one of them.
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Updated predicted Big Ten hoops standings. Probably 7 ranked teams and four top-10 teams
1. Illinois
2. Iowa
3. Michigan State
4. Wisconsin
5. Rutgers
6. Michigan
7. Indiana
8. Ohio State
9. Maryland
10. Penn State
11. Minnesota
12. Purdue
13. Northwestern
14. Nebraska
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Kansas should send a Thank You card to Arkansas for saving it from getting absolutely smoked by UConn.
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Cleaning out my phone and came across this. Not deleting it.
Since we probably won’t get a graduation ceremony, my most memorable moment of college will be the time I covered/watched a 31-point underdog pull off a season-changing upset.
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Nothing better than going into Hoosier country and stealing a white boy who will drain 5 triples per game
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October has been a tough month for the
#Illini
beyond just three blowout Big Ten losses.
The ultimate pro, Nick Allegretti addressed players leaving the program and Lere Oladipo’s arrest.
“Disappointed with myself, not being able to mentor these guys in the way I should have.”
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Illinois averaged 1.386 points per possession against Mizzou tonight. That's the highest mark against a high-major team in the Brad Underwood era.
Underwood: "Everybody seems to be worried about (no point guard) except me."
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Lovie Smith just hired two more black coaches. Illinois now has 8 black coaches. That’s No. 1 in the country.
But 51 of the 65 Power Five schools have four or fewer black coaches on their payroll.
Black coaches aren’t getting equal opportunities. It isn’t just a NFL problem.
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Chase McLaughlin has drilled all three field goals tonight for the 49ers. The former
#Illini
is proving he’s one of the best 32 kickers in the game. He deserves a permanent starting job
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Kansas’ potential starting lineup:
Dajuan Harris: 77 career starts
Nick Timberlake: 90 career starts
Kevin McCullar: 82 career starts
KJ Adams: 37 career starts
Hunter Dickinson: 89 career starts
Super old team
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So if the
#Illini
makes one more bucket against Miami and get one more stop late against Maryland, they're like No. 12 in the country right?
College hoops is somethin' else.
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The play that was the final straw of the Mark Dantonio era at Michigan State
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Theo John (four fouls, 11 minutes) now knows what James Augustine felt like against North Carolina in a big NCAA Tournament game...
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When Iowa comes back to Champaign, Illinois is gonna destroy them.
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Saw a lot of emotion out of
#Illini
Athletic Director Josh Whitman after the 24-6 victory today for the second week in a row. Whitman gave Lovie Smith a massive hug. Also congratulated a ton of the players.
The tide could be turning.
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Cannot wait to watch absolutely zero of Duke/North Carolina no matter how much ESPN wants me to watch it.
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Monday News Dump: This is my last week at the Post Bulletin.
I’ll be joining the remarkable
@247Sports
/
@CBSSports
team as a staff writer on the national sports desk covering college football, basketball & recruiting. I couldn’t be more excited to get started on Aug. 9. Cheers🥂
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Andre Curbelo is going to be an All-American one day.
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Reggie Corbin has decided to return the
#Illini
instead of declaring for the NFL draft. Corbin exploded for 1,085 rushing yards and 9 touchdowns last season. Corbin led the Big Ten in yards per carry (8.5).
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BREAKING: Josh Rosen is now putting his name in the transfer portal after the Arizona Cardinals select Kyler Murray No. 1.
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Andy Katz screaming, "I told America" after a big Keegan Murray 3-pointer is certainly a choice when he didn't have Murray as a top-20 player in the Big Ten in the preseason.
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But Bruce Pearl just told everyone on draft night how much character matters?
Breaking: Auburn is out of the 2021 postseason entirely, per school announcement.
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Man, how cool is this. “We love Giorgi” chants break out from the
@TheOrangeKrush
as Giorgi hugs Deon Thomas after dropping 35 points.
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Under absolutely zero circumstances should the Scheduling Gods allow Illinois and Andre Curbelo to face off in a big NCAA Tournament game.
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Imagine not liking basketball. First day of the NCAA Tournament is better than Christmas.
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#Illini
Lovie Smith: "For some programs, getting to a bowl game may not be a big deal. For our program, we needed to cross this hurdle to make an even bigger step."
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Jayden Epps, Sencire Harris and Ty Rodgers aren't going to back down from anybody. Chester Frazier and Underwood won't have to beg for toughness out of any of 'em.
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“So North Carolina’s players were taking fake classes, and Roy Williams payed the refs so that they’d foul out James Augustine after just nine minutes of playing time, so the
#Illini
were really the 2005 National Champions.”
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Eight-year-old Isaac after Illinois-North Carolina in the 2005 National Championship game
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Connor McCaffrey is a pretty big dude but messing with Damonte Williams is a baaaaad idea.
That man is from Peoria and he’d carve him up in a heartbeat.
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Just six days after landing 4-star stud Marquez Beason,
#Illini
hosting 5-star Trinity Catholic QB Isaiah Williams at spring practice this morning 👀
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James McCourt: game winner. Lovie Smith with the biggest win of his
#Illini
career. No. 6 Wisconsin falls
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Thought today was the biggest
#Illini
game for Lovie Smith.
Illinois came out and absolutely dominated Purdue from start to finish. Illinois is .500 heading into November. What a turnaround.
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Big Ten big men who are likely gone next season:
- Daniel Oturu, Minnesota
- Kaleb Wesson, Ohio State
- Matt Haarms, Purdue
- Mike Watkins, PSU
- Xavier Tillman, MSU
- Jalen Smith, Maryland
- Jon Teske, Michigan
Kofi Cockburn and Luka Garza are going to put up absurd numbers
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Former
#Illini
QB MJ Rivers delivers a powerful message on Instagram about his battles with depression.
”Five is the number of times I’ve came to the edge of taking my life.”
“You are important and have purpose in the world.”
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If Luke Ford and Jeff Thomas both get waivers to play right away, Rod Smith’s 2019
#Illini
offense would have two top-50 recruits, an All-Big Ten running back and an offensive line with 83 combined starts.
Oh, and only two seniors.
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