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3. That’s the Magic Number

3. That’s the Magic Number

Our recent lot in NCAA Tournament life is pretty simple. If we make the tourney we live in the top half (seeds 1, 4, 5, 8,9, 12, 13, and 16) of the bracket. Dating back to the Flying Illini, in our last 21 NCAA appearances we’ve been in

Don’t Disturb This Groove

Don’t Disturb This Groove

There has been a lot of talk about the Illinois offense over the past few weeks. So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to talk a lot about the Illinois offense.

Flipping the Script

Flipping the Script

On the day after Thanksgiving, Illinois beat Western Illinois 84-52. Noted college basketball expert Tyler Cottingham - known also to IlliniBoard.com subscribers as “Walkon” - was covering the game and published a post-game article titled “Lockdown Squad”. That article included several extremely prescient words. A sampling:

Nightmare Fuel

Nightmare Fuel

Moments - Indiana

Moments - Indiana

I was dead wrong about this game. Leading up to it I was telling anyone who would listen to me (which is admittedly a small number) that this one had all the makings of a proper Illini blow out. A Saturday home game against a decidedly average Indiana team (12-8

Depth Charges

Depth Charges

It’s pretty late and I’m pretty tired - so I’m going “SOC” style with this post-gamer. I’m just going to ramble for a while until I start falling asleep here at my desk. So yeah, that was a great college basketball game. The only problem is

Trampled By Turtles

Trampled By Turtles

I started out this morning with a bit of a shock. I was compiling my pre-game thoughts and going over some statistics when I came across Robert's tweet from yesterday which was basically a snapshot from the Illinois media guide of the results of the last 11 games