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Bradley or Illinois

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)
 
MacabreMob said:
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)
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HaHa, great politician like answer....:confused:
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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
 
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 said:
We can't rebound, they rebound pretty well. I think we'd lose close unfortunately.
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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.
 
BradleyBrave said:
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.
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You're assuming Les actually uses all those guys
 
As bad as Illinois has looked the past two games, I still think they're clearly better than Bradley this year, especially without Ruffin. Now if we're talking ISU vs Illinois, we'd have a serious debate...
 
If the game were tonight, BU loses by 5 on a neutral court, by 8 on the road and by a last second put-back by the Illini in Carver...just following the theme of poor defensive rebounding by BU.

If the game was before the Mich St. game, BU reverses all of the above scenarios. Outside of a nice win at WSU, we've gone backwards ever since that great game.
 
Buddy Lee said:
If the game were tonight, BU loses by 5 on a neutral court, by 8 on the road and by a last second put-back by the Illini in Carver...just following the theme of poor defensive rebounding by BU.

If the game was before the Mich St. game, BU reverses all of the above scenarios. Outside of a nice win at WSU, we've gone backwards ever since that great game.
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Yo Buddy Lee!

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As I've said before, RPI isn't especially meaningful at this point in the season, so let's look at wins and losses using Pomeroy's ratings (RPI should end up getting closer and closer to Pomeroy's ratings as the season goes on):

Bradley losses...Illinois losses
13 (home)............2 (neutral)
29 (away)..........16 (semi-home)
64 (neutral)........28 (home)
71 (home)..........70 (away)
96 (home)..........75 (home)
112 (away).......195 (home)
132 (away)

Bradley wins.......Illinois wins
123 (away)..........26 (neutral)
124 (home)..........33 (neutral)
138 (neutral)........63 (neutral)
272 (away).........170 (away)
277 (home).........172 (home)
279 (home).........186 (home)
338 (home).........254 (home)
........................288 (home)

Illinois has a tougher schedule, a better record, and 3 wins against top 63 teams on neutral courts. I don't think there's much question that Illinois has had a better season than Bradley so far, but it's not like that is something to brag about. :cry:
 
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