Michigan Illinois game thread

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No Dickinson...... We gonna die!!!!!

wait until diabate picks up his second foul. oh boy. cofi gonna go off.

Diabate at the 5 is going well so far

Oh, my. No Dickinson.

I have watched about one half total worth of Michigan bball this season.  Judging by the posts on this here site, I’ll succumb to wifey picking a movie for tonight. This is not at all the way I anticipated this season going.  Guess we always have the football win against OSU. That sure helps!

Diabate with 2 fouls already. The first was questionable but the second was an unnecessary over the back foul 

and there is diabate's 2nd foul. this could get ugly quickly unless eli goes off big time.

What really sucks is that shot looked good.  Bad 2nd foul.

We don’t have any other big other than Faulds 

both teams ice cold from 3

Let’s see if they get out in transition more this game

Faulds doing the most with his minutes…2offensive boards already

Looked like a goaltend

Well, we should get a high draft pick next year.

Kofi is getting kid glove treatment. Weak fouls.

See here’s the frustrating thing for me. Illinois had a few somewhat weak calls go against them but just a foul here and there for their starters. But the boos start coming out and the ref show tries to balance that by giving diabate a 2nd foul when we’re already paper thin. That’s not balancing it out, that’s altering the game in the first 5 minutes 

Refreshing to see Houstan struggle once again from 3, just great.

Defense has looked much sharper tonight.  And that's minus you know who.  Not sure if that means anything...but.

Didn’t have high expectations…but at least the guys are playing with a little more juice! Faulds/Jace have actually looked decent in their minutes at the 5

It'll be nice if Michigan's 3s start dropping.

Worst play in sports

Ruined the game.  In what world is that real defense and why is it rewarded.

10-10!

Feet set as they are sliding 

"Mountain of a man" twice so far.

Okay Jace settle down

I don’t think our best offense is Jace going against Kofi on the inside

we're shooting at a scintillating 25%

both teams are 0-for-3 pointers, a combined 0-12, evenly split.  muy bad. 

These fucking officials are bailing Illinois out 

Wrestling crushed Ohio State tonight, so maybe some of that juju will rub off on the boys.

Edit:  unless the refs continue ripping it away

11 minutes elapsed time, 9 michigan fouls

update:  12 minutes elapsed, 11 michigan fouls

Man Howard has had some good takes but he's trying to finish strong and it's throwing his "shot" off

Sloppy as hell but they are hanging around

Beginning of the night if you told me that it would be a 2 point game after the 8 minute timeout I would’ve taken it. Now I probably would’ve hoped we had more than 13 points though.

Already depleted roster and the officials are doubling us up on fouls 

We’re not making shots but honestly this is the most fluid I’ve seen Michigan look in quite a few games. They’re playing loose and being pretty aggressive which is all you can ask for in this game with this lineup

My wife just asked "I hope this isn't a stupid question but is this a high school game?". And she was being serious .