Illinois Basketball Scoring Ranks

When I see something like that, I get curious. So I looked up Illinois's scoring stats since I started going there. Stats from here


2001–2005 (Bill Self/Bruce Weber)
77.4 (51st of 321)
74.6 (66th of 325)
72.8 (88th of 326)
77.0 (21st of 326)

Not surprisingly, the year that we went to the title game is our best complete year in scoring rank. Though we actually scored more points my freshman year.

2005–2012 (Bruce Weber)

70.0 (136th of 326)
64.1 (258th of 325)
63.6 (263rd of 328)
64.8 (236th of 330)
70.8 (121st of 334)
71.0 (109th of 345)
65.6 (225th of 344)

Not great. Many people remember the 33-38 loss to Penn State during this era. In fairness, in terms of raw points, it's not a huge departure from the previous era.

2012–2015 (John Groce)

68.5 (147th of 347)
64.2 (314th of 351)
100.3 (3rd of 351)

In his first two years, Groce hasn't lit the scoring up yet. Obviously 100 points per game is not sustainable, but could it be the high 70's this year, get into the top 50 in the country again...maybe.