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Coming Up Who: Washington Huskies When: 2:30 pm – Saturday, October 25, 2025 Where: Husky Stadium, Seattle, Washington How: BTN Opponent Primer: Head Coach: Jedd Fisch Jedd Fisch’s LinkedIn profile is lengthy. It could be summarized as Jedd Fisch, Mercenary Coach to the Stars and Frequent Flier Miles Enthusiast.

There are few downsides to rooting for a college basketball program which is now once again legitimately relevant in the national landscape year in and year out.  I can think of just two.  One is hyper-excessive expectations from the fringe, but I find it quite easy to disengage from that

Bye week thought I was pondering this morning: what if we had an afternoon or evening game scheduled yesterday? It basically hasn't rained in Champaign since July. A few spot showers here and there (and by "here and there" I mean "rain a few weeks

I took a little bye week vacation on Monday and Tuesday. Instead of poring over NERDstats all day (the next NERDstats post won't go up until next week so that I can add this weekend's data), I went and watched some golf in Ohio. Even though

When I was getting married in early 2013, I decided to center my bachelor party around an Illini game. I’m not sure why – I guess I wanted to ensure that I saw a win – but I chose the Charleston Southern game in mid-September of 2012. We did win, my

I'm in a weird place, man. I got to my seats to find four Ohio State fans had snatched up the tickets across the aisle. Then I watched my team make mistake after mistake – the complete opposite of footballing – in a 34-16 loss while the Ohio State fans