They Were Merely Freshmen Ooh, what's THIS? It feels really good. Oh yeah. It's called a WINNING STREAK. And we're on one. My previous article was two weeks ago, after a home loss vs. USC put a damper on the "sell out" home crowd. That loss
Win Big, Lose Small Doing this is so much fun when we win big. Doing this is so torturous when we lose small. When we win big like Wednesday night I can hardly contain my excitement. When we lose small like tonight I ponder why I put myself through this. I was there, in
Century City This was a Quad 1 win. USC will drop, but they were #47 in NET this morning and would have to drop to #75 by the end of the season for this to fall into Quad 2, so this will stay on our resume as a Quad 1 win all
Where Do We Stand - February 18th Michigan winning at Purdue last night flipped my focus a little bit. Their Big Ten title is starting to look inevitable no matter what happens on February 27th, and so my brain has made a shift away from hanging a banner and more towards our NCAA seed (and where we
High Five: Indiana Greetings from sunny Florida! I unlocked a new Illinois basketball game viewing achievement award on Sunday: watching the game on my phone while in line for the Hagrid’s Motorbike Adventure ride at Universal Orlando. When I saw the wait time listed for the most popular ride across all three
Like Old Times That's just a fuzzy photo I took with my phone – I didn't even clean the lens so you're looking through some handprints there – at the start of the second half. I took it during Tomi's free throws to show that Indiana hadn&
Low Five: Wisconsin I was planning to join Robert in Champaign on Tuesday, but ultimately I decided to stay home in order to get things squared away for an upcoming vacation. Actually, my wife would argue otherwise. On press row, my emotions would have been held mostly in check. At home - it was