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@ILLBoardRoom Stojakovic blocking Christian Anderson to win the game

To pass the time, everyone comment a unique moment from the season

@gknuter711 @ILLBoardRoom That’s when I knew he was gonna be my favorite!

@ILLBoardRoom Mirk’s full-court underhanded pass.

@wischlist Great question! D Williams vs. Keaton, who ya got? Both 2nd Team AA’s, both lottery picks, similar games. Surprisingly, Keaton is 3” taller, but Deron was stronger. I’ll take Dee Brown, Keaton, Mirk, Anderson, Tomi

Pick your own Starting 5 from among the starters for each of the 1989, 2005, and 2026 Illini Final Four teams: GUARDS: Bardo, Gill, Brown, Williams, Head, Wagler, Boswell FORWARDS: Battle, Anderson, Powell, Mirkovic, Davis CENTERS: Hamilton, Augustine, T. Ivisic

@nickbateman33 I would give Illinois a 50-50 chance of going to the title game. But I would personally have them as a 10 point underdog to either Michigan or Arizona. Then again, if they can defend like they have been during the tournament and have a hot shooting night, they could pull it off.

THE FINAL 4 IS OFFICIALLY SET cbbanalytics.com data goes back to 2019, and since then every single Final 4 team has been in the top right quadrant of The Very Important Graph™️ Iowa was *barely* top right all tournament long, but they lost the REB+TO differential battle 40-26 against Illinois and fell just below the line UConn over Duke was surprising given Duke's dominance in this metric all year, but then again so was Iowa over Florida + this is March + UConn is still comfortably top right Illinois has a very real shot at winning the whole thing and nobody is giving them a chance right now This is the last time I'll be posting the graph until next season, good luck to the remaining fanbases 🤝

@ILLBoardRoom Plus 16 against Iowa!!

Second Half Team +25 against Penn +14 against VCU +8 against Houston Second Half Team

@ILLBoardRoom @TomFornelli Thank you Dain

Thank you Ayo Thank you Trent Thank you Kofi Thank you Terrence Thank you Marcus Thank you Coleman Thank you to all the Illini who helped turn this program around We’re going to the Final Four

@TheFieldOf68 @BetMGM My heart says IL but my brain says AZ. They are 6-0 against the other S16 teams.

🏆 NATIONAL TITLE ODDS @BetMGM 🏆 Only 16 teams left… who’s cutting down the nets? 🤔⬇️

@Bederowlaw Totally agree but it also seems like Bradl should have addressed it with the judge sooner. He may have dropped the ball a bit on this one.

The Essex DA clearly is in "control" of the investigation conducted and ordered by the NAPD. Even worse, the DA, who says they do not control the statements, essentially is claiming they have zero interest in what the key witnesses said. Remarkable. Do they have no interest in actually knowing what happened?

@haslametrics IL 4th best odds to win a title at this point. They get past Houston somehow, they are Iowa or Nebraska. Would be heavily favored to make the F4!

The Sweet Sixteen has been set. Here are the updated Haslametrics.com analytical probabilities of teams making it to each round -- for each of the four regions in the 2026 NCAA Tournament:

@801bracketology Illinois

🏀Ranking the Madness🏀 I have ranked every one of the 32 Thursday & Friday games by watchability, upset probability, star players, Comment any number 1-32 to get that ranking or comment your team to get their game ranking👇

@NestoHoops It’s pretty wild that most of the gyms that seat under 1000 are in Chicago. I figured the smallest gems would be rural in the biggest ones would be in Chicago area.

🏀⛪️ Top 100 Favorite Gymnasiums ⛪️🏀

@NoisyHuevos KP: IL-5, KS-19. Torvik: IL-6, KS-19

Illinois resume: 5 NET, 13 SOS, 8-6 Q1, 6 Q1a W, 10 WAB Kansas resme: 20 NET, 1 SOS, 8-8 Q1, 6 Q1a W, 16 WAB NET/WAB and accumulation of losses the differences. Illinois has a No. 2 profile. Kansas borders on a No. 3/No. 4 this year.

@haslametrics And never mind I just saw the cheat sheet

Haslametrics.com Top-15 Offensive Efficiency (points per 100 possessions) going into the week of 3/9/2026. Efficiencies displayed are for possessions where game outcome is still in doubt (i.e. an #AnalyticallyFinal has not yet been achieved).

@haslametrics How does your system determine an analytical final? Win probability and time left in the game? Or is it more complex than that?

@factsdontlie10 Wow! I hope Kayley reads this and realizes she’s been duped!

Trooper DiCicco interviewed John O’Keefe’s niece, Kayley, at home the very next day after he died on January 30, 2022 (before Jen McCabe had the chance to influence her memory) Key takeaways from this interview: -Kayley told DiCicco that Karen woke her up at 4:30am and said “John did not come home” ( ↪️nothing about “John’s dead” “I hit him” or “he was hit by a plow” - Kayley had a text from John O’Keefe “at about midnight” asking her if she was okay ↪️ I would love to know the exact time this text was sent 👀 -Kayley did not know John’s iPhone password but did provide DiCicco with 2 potential passwords to John’s Ring account #KarenRead

@Sam_Vecenie Despite his lack of strength? You mean because he doesn’t look jacked like Kylan Boswell? He has proven time and time again over the season that strength is one thing he doesn’t lack.

Just some truly absurd shotmaking from Keaton Wagler tonight. What impresses me most about him, though, is his ability to carve his way to the rim despite his lack of strength. Just seems to always find his way there in halfcourt settings. But then is also an elite shooter lol.

@RyLiberty @RepThomasMassie Don’t leave out Eva Dubin!

Dear @RepThomasMassie after Wexner subpoena Leon Black, Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff, Adriana Ross, Nadia Marcinkova and Nicolas Tartaglione. Then Bannon, Boris Nikolic, Jes Staley, Glenn Dubin, and Arnold Prosperi. Come to me for a full list and what we already know

@EvanMiya @NYKrant

@NYKrant "Kill Shot" means 10-0 run.

Wayyyyyyyyyyyy too early for this talk. Fuckin 12min left lol.

@IlliniMBB Good on Collins, mad respect.

A leader is never truly sidelined.  Listen to Kylan mic'd up during our 84-44 win against Northwestern!

@JWerner247 I have confidence that he and the staff will solve it. They seem to have an answer for everything!

Northwestern blitzing Keaton Wagler to get the ball out of the star #illini guard's hands immediately. It's working early. Illini 1-4 FG and Wagler with a rare turnover.