Blocking Chargecast: P/Reviewing Northwestern, Illinois, and Maryland

A wild MNWildcat appears to wince at his own team, mostly just talk about Illinois’ names, and speculate if even Mark Turgeon can’t screw up this much talent

By Green Akers Nov 5, 2019, 10:00am CST

NCAA Basketball: Michigan State at Illinois — The look of a man who might not have to play 44 minutes per night

Prelude

1:00 No, MY football team is worse

Northwestern

2:40 Wha happen?
4:45 At least Collins isn’t getting poached now?
8:00 Turns out a 17-year-old, non-lottery-pick-type PG was a problem
10:30 BTN ended up saddled with what seemed like an unfair number of Northwestern games

Illinois

24:15 This season is exciting, but was bought with a great pain
29:30 GET TO THE NAMES ALREADY
34:00 Eyeballing the schedule
39:00 Tournament’s got to be the result or we got a real problem here

Maryland

45:30 Best roster from a talent perspective in the conference, bar none
49:45 If there’s a problem, it’s that for all the carryover, this team is still crazy young
51:45 Not, uh...not much in the noncon here
55:00 Conference schedule is steeply backloaded, presumably an advantage for a young team that should get better

Special Notes

52:30 Special message for Holy Cross basketball