Tyler

With around 10 minutes left in the second half tonight I got this text from my wife: “Wow - stressful game huh?” First off you gotta love wholly out of context sports texts from your well intentioned, but adorably under informed wife. Secondly, she could not have been more wrong.

Brad Underwood put it very succinctly last night after his team’s first round NCAA Tournament win over Xavier. He had just watched his team get 44 points from freshmen Will Riley (22) , Kasparas Jakucionis (16), and Morez Johnson (6). He got another 20 points from Tomislav Ivisic who is

I’m going to nip this in the bud straight away. If you are reading this and hoping to celebrate an airing of the grievances then you are in the wrong place. I’m not here to dismiss any of your feelings of woe and despair, but I’m certainly

Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more.  Big Ten Tournament Thursday is here again.  It’s my favorite day of the entire basketball season. Because of my familiarity with the league as someone who at least somewhat covered basketball in this conference for the better part of the

Today started off in grand fashion for me. As I exited off of I-57 on my way into Champaign I ran over some form of sharp metal object and punctured a tire. It was 11:27 AM - just 33 minutes until the start of Illinois vs Ohio State when