Margins

It's the same thing every year. We play a terrible team. Everyone's inclination is to say "you can't learn a single thing from this game." And then margins raise their hand and whisper "I can maybe inform you of a few things?" Listen to the margins.

Look, I'm not about to tell you that we learned everything we need to know from playing KenPom #341 FDU. We're obviously not going to dominate Duke like this. Without Mirk and now Jake Davis, we might lose to Duke by 20. But there's still information we can learn here. There's always things you can learn.

We'll start here. Three possessions in the second half across 65 seconds - two for Illinois, one for FDU. Here's every single play from those three possessions: