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97 Minutes: NCAA Tournament Expansion

97 Minutes: NCAA Tournament Expansion

As part of my efforts to retrain my brain to write shorter articles (not EVERYTHING has to be 3,000 words), I've been doing this "97 minutes" thing. Instead of taking all day to write an article, why not set a timer for 97 minutes and

88 Illini: #56-#53

88 Illini: #56-#53

56 days until the season. That's crazy. 56 days until the season with the highest expectations since the fall of 1990 when I was a senior in high school. I've written "the month I got my acceptance letter to Illinois we were #5 in the

PMP25: Seat Spacing

PMP25: Seat Spacing

This one should be a fairly straightforward PMP (Pick My Post). I don't know the exact specifics, so I can just generally talk about the subject and use some photos from my camera roll to back up what I'm saying. One of those "it happened

88 Illini: #60-#57

88 Illini: #60-#57

I get on an elevator this morning. Actually, I didn't get on the elevator at first. There were six people getting on the elevator in front of my wife and I, and they were spread out pretty good, and I gave them the "we'll just

Two Question Mailbag - Media Roundtable

Two Question Mailbag - Media Roundtable

I’ve done a lot of One Question Mailbag posts here. Those are where I’ll take a question from Twitter (or from our IlliniBoard Slack channel) and answer the question with a full article. This one will be a Two Question Mailbag. There are two questions that were asked

88 Illini: #64-#61

88 Illini: #64-#61

I just went through the folder of the photos Holly took at the Purdue game. I don't use those photos as much as the other games because when people see photos of the Purdue game they have this unavoidable "we almost lost to Purdue!" reaction and

PMP25: Downstate Basketball

PMP25: Downstate Basketball

I can't tell you how big that photo was at the time. For you youngins, this photo elicited similar feelings to, say, that video of Ayo and Kofi walking off the court after a postgame interview where we beat some team during the Covid season. It meant that