If a glutton for punishment...watch #6 Illini come back & give Nebraska 26th straight B1G loss

Submitted by BlueinKyiv on February 12th, 2021 at 10:45 PM

If you opened this post, you only have yourself to blame for even thinking its even possible that Nebraska can hold on to win despite leading with under 10 minutes to go in Lincoln.

Streetchemist

February 12th, 2021 at 11:19 PM ^

As a neutral fan, watching what Ayo gets away with is infuriating. Dude literally drives out of control half the time and gets bailed out by bullshit fouls. Then on that last possession he clear as day fouls the Nebraska player and then nothing. 

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buddhafrog

February 12th, 2021 at 11:25 PM ^

Do you all remember how fun it is to watch UM basketball this year? They play so hard, so well, so focused, so consistent, so fun and energetic. This ugly game looks nothing like what we've been gifted with this year.

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B-Nut-GoBlue

February 12th, 2021 at 11:44 PM ^

They were the last!  I went with an interesting strategy for 3 nights in a row and I've won all of them.  This is all for chump change, don't get me wrong, but it makes for some fun.  I took the moneyline on the biggest favorites of the day/night and didn't mess around with spreads.  Today I took 6 of them (Murray St., Wright St., Western Kentucky, Liberty, Marshall, and Illinois...the lowest odds being a -625 and highest -2000) and got down to -159 for the parlay.  Previous nights were the same concept but I was able to get to +120s on those odds with the group of teams I chose.

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jcouz

February 13th, 2021 at 9:54 AM ^

I had to reply to this.  I did exactly the same thing except I had a 7-team parlay with Utah Valley, in addition to the 6 teams you had.  I did the same thing on Thursday and won as well.  I’m betting very small amounts of $ but that Illinois game had me sweating it out.  I thought Illinois winning on the ML was the easiest pick of the night going in too.

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B-Nut-GoBlue

February 13th, 2021 at 12:07 PM ^

Seriously, how did Illinois be the closest finish!?  I will say, I did this Wednesday with Wisconsin and Nebraska and although WI pulled away Nebraska kept it close for a while.  I think they're improving, honestly, as a team.  Still the basement of the conference but I'm not sure Illinois should have had -1430 @ Nebraksa odds.

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njvictor

February 12th, 2021 at 11:40 PM ^

Holy shit, Nebraska is so bad. Absolutely choked this game away in regulation with a solid lead going into 2 minutes. Hoiberg is not a good coach and we need to stop treating him like he is for his fluke years at ISU

Illinois' whole team is literally Ayo and Kofi. When they leave, Illinois is going to be back to a pedestrian B1G team

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