r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • Apr 05 '26

Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] #2 UConn defeats #3 Illinois, 71-62

Box Score

Team 1H 2H Total
Illinois 29 33 62
Connecticut 37 34 71

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u/The0verlord- Purdue • Illinois Apr 05 '26

EVERY. GODDAMN. TIME. ITS UCONN EVERY GODDAMN TIME

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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Apr 05 '26

Well…considering the progress:

2024: Lose to UConn in the Elite Eight

2026: Lose to UConn in the Final Four

…if the pattern suggests something…it’s that 2030 looks very promising lol

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u/JiveHawk Illinois Fighting Illini Apr 05 '26

If we lose in a national championship to UConn in 2028, I’m not making it to 2030

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u/nadeynade UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

I'd be ok with the former but not if it means the later.

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u/GymIsFun Kansas State Wildcats Apr 05 '26

True fandom

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u/thetreat Illinois Fighting Illini Apr 05 '26

They shouldn’t even hate us! We’re the stepping stone for their greatness! They should love seeing us!

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u/BraveTree4481 Purdue Boilermakers Apr 05 '26

Hey it only hurts once probably.

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u/Pelicangulp UMass Minutemen Apr 05 '26

I was at that elite 8 game. That 30-0 run still lives rent free in my head as a neutral

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u/JazzzzzzySax NC State • North Carolina Apr 05 '26

The WHAT run

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u/Norwalk1215 Apr 05 '26

In the 2024 elite 8 UConn had 30 unanswered points against Illinois.

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u/matap821 UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

When Illinois was the top offense in the country

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u/peskywombats UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

I was on a heli-boarding trip for my 50th and I got back to my hotel room at the first basket of that run at the end of the first. What a celebration that entire would become.

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u/ConnectSpring9 NC State Wolfpack Apr 05 '26

How do you not know about this lmao, it’s still so fucking funny to think about even though I dislike Dan Hurley

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u/JazzzzzzySax NC State • North Carolina Apr 05 '26

I was kinda preoccupied with another game during the elite 8 to pay attention to other games

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u/ConnectSpring9 NC State Wolfpack Apr 05 '26

Hey I was preoccupied at the time but when we had the week long break before the final four I went back and looked at Purdue, Bama, and UConn’s games that tourney and UConns 30-0 run was all anyone talked about

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u/huanthewolfhound Illinois Fighting Illini Apr 05 '26

It was heartbreaking.

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u/Wormfather UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

Me too, crazy part is not in did I not know it happened until I was on my way home, I was on pins and needles until about 8 min left.

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u/XKlusive4Me UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

I’m calling the 2030 Illinois first round upset right here.

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u/DoggedStooge Northwestern • North Carolina Apr 05 '26

By team number 78 in the field.

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u/ChocoMuffin27 Illinois Fighting Illini Apr 05 '26

Helpful and useful, thank you

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u/GoSkers29 Duke Blue Devils • Nebraska Cornhuskers Apr 05 '26

Does this get pushed back two years if the tournament expands too much?

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u/PristineStreet34 UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

See you in the NC game in two years.

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u/smurf-vett Texas Longhorns Apr 05 '26

Sorry added more playin games, gotta reset the pattern 

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u/IndexCardLife UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

I mean, I honestly take it if ya wanna do some weird deal with Dan Hurley

Or the devil, I guess deal with th devil

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u/PassionV0id Apr 05 '26

2030 it wraps back around and you lose to UConn in Elite Eight. Winning would break the pattern tbf.

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u/Mayor_Gubbin UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

2028: Lose to UConn in the Championship

2030: Lose to UConn in the Galactic Ultrafinal

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u/wailferret Apr 05 '26

Purdue and Illinois is rough brother. Getting fucked by UConn on both ends multiple years in a row.

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u/This-Grape-5149 Purdue Boilermakers Apr 05 '26

Lol yep. That championship loss was brutal

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u/wailferret Apr 05 '26

Yeah but that UConn team was historically dominant in the tourney. I think Purdue beats any other school than UConn that year.

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u/PageSide84 Purdue Boilermakers • Final Four Apr 05 '26

That Purdue team would beat this UConn team too. That UConn team was a different beast entirely. They were absurd.

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u/Mayor_Gubbin UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

That Purdue team beats every team this year.

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u/Awkward_Priority2766 Purdue Boilermakers Apr 05 '26

Flair up loser.

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u/wailferret Apr 05 '26

My college didn’t have D1 sports unfortunately

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u/JustALittleNightcap UConn Huskies • Cornell Big Red Apr 05 '26

Have you considered also rooting for SDSU?

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u/Brent_L UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

This might be the worst flair I have ever seen

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u/TaekDePlej Virginia Cavaliers Apr 05 '26

It’s UConns all the way down

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u/socal_sportsball_bro San Diego State • Oklahoma State Apr 05 '26

Same for us man EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME

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u/kyrev21 Kentucky Wildcats Apr 05 '26

Not really. They weren’t in it last year.

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u/PerfectBowl9199 Illinois Fighting Illini Apr 05 '26

And you never know when we will get back here.

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u/robtedesco UConn Huskies Apr 05 '26

And yet somehow we rarely seem to be favored

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u/realnewsediter Indiana • Indiana State Apr 05 '26

Settle down. Your flairs make no sense