Bradley or Illinois

[Murph]

Neutral court, who would win this battle of the bads....

[MacabreMob]

I think the Marching band of the Illini would kill our band.


Oh... you said "bad".

--(digging for coin)--

Heads the home team wins, tails the road team loses.

(I don't have a 3 headed coin for N courts)

[Murph]

I think the Marching band of the Illini would kill our band.


Oh... you said "bad".

--(digging for coin)--

Heads the home team wins, tails the road team loses.

(I don't have a 3 headed coin for N courts)

HaHa, great politician like answer....

[BradleyBrave]

Bradley would win, likely by double-digits. I don't care how much they pound the glass, Illinois is one of the most offensively-challenged teams I have ever seen. They lost to an awful Maryland team, and they've lost AT HOME to Miami-OH and Tennessee St. Tennessee 'freaking STATE! At least all of BU's 7 losses have been to quality or semi-quality teams.

[Bravesfan]

Agreed. Bradley wins this, but it would be pretty close.

[bert notorius]

Hey, at least IL can rebound. That's about it though.

[longtimelistener]

Bradley losses:
at UIC
vs Vanderbilt (N)
vs Michigan St.
at Butler
vs VCU
vs. UNI
at Missouri St.


Illinois losses:
vs Duke (N)
at Maryland
vs Arizona (at Chicago, but considered a home game by NCAA)
vs Miami, Ohio
vs Tennessee State
vs Ohio State


This would be an ugly game. Not sure I'd wanna watch at this point.

[MacabreMob]

Illinois losses:
vs Arizona (N, Chicago)

Just an FYI... the NCAA is calculating the UIUC/AZ game in Chicago as a HOME game for UIUC in the RPI so it will be viewed as a HOME loss.

[longtimelistener]

Just an FYI... the NCAA is calculating the UIUC/AZ game in Chicago as a HOME game for UIUC in the RPI so it will be viewed as a HOME loss.

Gracias. Fixed it.

[MacabreMob]

Gracias. Fixed it.

Well, I always KNEW it was a HOME game for UIUC in Chicago but UIUC fans said it was Neutral. (but when UIUC played Arkansas in Little Rock, that's a ROAD game and not Neutral - go figure)

[MacabreMob]

Bradley losses:
#9 RPI (neutral)
10 (home)
@12
75 (home)
@96
109 (home)
@140


Illinois losses:
3 (home)
15 (home)
22 (neutral)
33 (home)
183 (home)
@184

[squirrel]

Bradley:

OE: 149
AdjOE: 146
DE: 154
AdjDE: 142


Illinois:

OE: 165
AdjOE: 103
DE: 59
AdjDE: 17

Based on efficiency alone, Illinois should have little trouble with Bradley. While Illinois' OE is lower than Bradley, their AdjOE is significantly higher, meaning its probably better than what has been seen so far. But their defense should also be more than enough to keep the Braves at bay.

[BUBraves06]

We can't rebound, they rebound pretty well. I think we'd lose close unfortunately.

[BradleyBrave]

We can't rebound, they rebound pretty well. I think we'd lose close unfortunately.

We can foul though, and we have a lot of big bodies to waste fouls. With them being one of the worst FT shooting teams in America, we could foul out Singh, Collins, Austin, and Egolf and still win the game. I think BU wins a close one in Champaign, and by double-digits on a neutral and in Peoria.

[squirrel]

We can foul though, and we have a lot of big bodies to waste fouls. With them being one of the worst FT shooting teams in America, we could foul out Singh, Collins, Austin, and Egolf and still win the game. I think BU wins a close one in Champaign, and by double-digits on a neutral and in Peoria.

You're assuming Les actually uses all those guys