Ryan Denato

@MLBBruceLevine Brown needs to be optioned and kept there

Give Cubs front office and coaching staff credit for being ready with competent big league pitchers to step into rotation slots.Assad and Brown with options to the minors will continue to help create depth when Steele returns in June.Most versatile pitcher in NL is Colin Rea.

@WatchMarquee And Ben Brown will not be there?

Craig Counsell announced that Seiya Suzuki will rejoin the team in Chicago on Friday.

@WatchMarquee Good image for the outcome

FInal.

@TheConnorPils They literally shot the same FG percentage. There was a lot of iso ball at the end. UConn made them work on every offensive possession.

“Underwood just got out-coached tonight” Have you considered Illinois just…missed shots they normally make? Hurley is a great coach but let’s not act like if even half of these go down UConn doesn’t go home. Sometimes the shots just don’t fall.

@JWerner247 UConn shot 1% better in FG%. Hurley out coached Underwood and the players out played Illinois. No one is hating on Underwood or the year. It is what it is. But if you tell me UConn’s offense didn’t look better in the 1/2 court than Illinois I don’t know what to say.

@JWerner247 They played like they did during their bad stretch. Out played and out coached. Good year.

FINAL: UConn 71, Illini 62 Heck of a season. Just couldn’t make shots tonight.

@SRQcon @dvdmtmbn @BarstoolILL UConn’s offense was so much more fluid that game. Both didn’t make a ton of shots

@SRQcon @dvdmtmbn @BarstoolILL lol no one blamed the coach, dick head.

The Illini season comes to a close in the Final Four. What a ride it has been. Thank you to Brad Underwood and co. for this roster and the work you put in to bring us here. It’ll never be forgotten in Champaign. We’ll be back next year 🔶🔷

@JWerner247 Make your layups

#illini 8-0 run, six points off free throws, to cut it to a two-possession game (57-51) with UConn on a 2:44 scoring drought. Tomislav Ivisic now with a game-high 16 points (6-6 FT).

@JWerner247 Been awful

Kylan Boswell 1-for-6 FG, including 1-for-5 from two.

@theblockspot Tell the higher seeds to win next time.

Illinois… Path to the Final Four: • 14-seed Penn • 11-seed VCU • 2-seed Houston • 9-seed Iowa 1 of the easiest paths we have ever seen.

@theblockspot As it is for all the teams. So based on that, it’s still on the lower end.

@DenatoRyan Tough to actually win it all though

If Illinois wins the National Championship… where would it rank all-time in surprising teams to win it all in Men’s College Basketball?

@CBSSportsCBB @JonRothstein Clear path with the #1 offense in the country in their way. Sports media is so bad.

"Houston had a clear path to go back to the Final Four ... you just don't get opportunities like this." @JonRothstein reacts to Houston's loss to Illinois in the Sweet 16.

@thelukeparticle @blakecowellx Fair

@DenatoRyan @blakecowellx He is going to be the white flag/inning eater for when Boyd and Shota get blown up early

Not the Opening Day we expected from Matt Boyd Didn’t want to see “Ben Brown” game 1 Sheesh .

@Cubs @marychastain @ARizzo44 Better than Brown

File under things that make our heart happy. #OpeningDay // @ARizzo44

@TheOskeePowWow James Augustine then Chester Frazier

Who is 1 former Illini that you’d put on this current roster? Mine, TSJ. Add another wing-shooting threat/downhill driver and transition demon to this team for a national title.

@Champaign_Room 1st thing should be how to play like a big man in college basketball

Wisconsin will get another crack at Michigan. Illinois will have a lot of questions to answer over the next 6-7 days.