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
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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
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
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
88 Illini: #68~#65
I took a little trip over the weekend (well, extended weekend). So for the first time, I'm officially behind on the 88 Illini by two days. But one post today and one post on Thursday and I'll be caught back up. This format makes for easy
2025 Four-Deep
I want to show you something. I want to show you what depth looks like. I want to show you the result of a team that has 18 bowl starters returning + balanced recruiting at every position + filling out the new "roster limit" well above the old scholarship limit.
88 Illini: #72-#69
That's it, I'm calling it. This is the hardest 90 Illini list (er, 88 Illini list) I've ever assembled. 22 freshmen + 19 transfers added to a team that only lost nine scholarship seniors? Absolutely impossible to rank the players from 1 to 88.
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