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2024 Three Deep - January Update

2024 Three Deep - January Update

I like to make depth charts (or three-deeps) around… seven times per year? Maybe I should start here with a list of all the updates I generally make throughout the year. I have this tradition where I'll do a depth chart for next year's team during

Where Do We Stand? January 16th

Where Do We Stand? January 16th

From the moment I started writing these, we've been climbing. I put together the first basketball I-N-I in my New Jersey hotel room the morning of the FAU game as a way to say "when you combine all of these numbers, we're actually the 19th-best

Like Old Times

Like Old Times

I've watched a lot of games in this building. Starting in the 1980's. So that would be… five decades where I've watched Illini basketball games in the State Farm Center (nee Assembly Hall)? I can recall games in this building from all different phases

Nerves

Nerves

I'm trying to just stick to pure basketball right now. I've never been more uncomfortable with the public speculation around an Illini topic as I've been over the last few days and I don't want to write about it until we know

Where Do We Stand? January 9th

Where Do We Stand? January 9th

Here's the plan: I'll call these Where Do We Stand so they're easily searched in the archive. I'll publish them on Monday or Tuesday each week. I'll put together the Illini NERDstat Index (the I-N-I) and I'll take

Football Words

Football Words

I've barely written any football words since the end of the season (more than six weeks ago). This time of year is almost always "ROBERT, stop writing about football and get to the basketball stuff." But at the moment, I can't find any football

Fit

Fit