So What If... There's a part of all of this I don't think I explained very well last week. And by "all of this" I mean this season-long "how I use these NERDstats to evaluate where we are/where we might be going" topic I&
One Question Mailbag: Then & Now With the bye week, the weekly NERDstats article is delayed. And now I'm delaying it an extra day because I'm taking a question sent to me on Twitter and using it as a One Question Mailbag question. I'll try to not get too long-winded
Debuts It's funny how Will Riley's game tonight snuck up on everyone. With maybe 12 minutes to go in the game, the story was still "DGL can be instant offense for this team - he has 21 points already." And then maybe 15 minutes later
Your Inaugural 2024-25 Illini Power Rankings In the first 18 years of my life, I hugged my father exactly twice. The second time was when I graduated from high school—it was quick and awkward for both of us. The first time was on a March afternoon, when I was 13 years old, after Jay Edwards
Commiserating This is gonna be one of those "stay with me" articles. So stay with me here. It might not make sense at first, but... stay with me. There have been six absolutely gorgeous fall Saturdays for our six home games. I can hardly believe our luck. The gales
From The Stands - Minnesota 2024 I realized today that my uploading problems for From The Stands aren't related to the cell phone signal issues in Champaign on gameday. It's that I can't upload from my phone. I did that for the first two games, but this latest iPhone update
SOC - Minnesota 2024 This is one of those SOCs where I still don't know what my prediction will be at the end. I've gone back and forth on this game all week. It's been helpful, I think that I've been working on the basketball preview