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My mind is still right there. I'm in Boston looking up at a scoreboard that says "Sweet Sixteen" and I'm in Orlando looking at the "I". You don't have to worry - this won't be a football post.

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.

I will now tell you the Illini NCAA history that you don't know. You know Austin Peay in 1987 and you know Loyola in 2021 and you know Arizona in 2005 and you know Syracuse in 1989. You might even know Kentucky in 1984 because it was the

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

The best part of being a Nervous Game Watcher is that when the victory is secured, there's an emotional rush like you wouldn't believe. The "I no longer need to be nervous and I can just let it all out" moment is so, so

I'm sitting in the hotel lobby. This is maybe my fifth location in the last 15 hours where I've sat attempting to write about the game tomorrow (well, now it's today). It's 7:00 am and I did have the lobby to

When the Game Notes email arrives (it's sent to the media the day before every game), I always pull up the PDF to look over at least the front page. There's additional information on the other pages but the front page hits all of the highlights.