Boatraced "We'll live-blog this one!", we said. Tyler from media row behind the scorers table, me from up in the media seats in the 200-level. He'd share what things are like down there, I'd share what things are like up here, and then
Illini Power Rankings: What Makes All This Special Is Us Since leaving Champaign as a proud graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 1997, I have lived in Los Angeles, California; St. Louis, Missouri; New York, New York and, now and for the last 13 years, in Athens, Georgia. When I left Champaign, I did not know
Lucky, Clutch, Baseline, Choke, Unlucky Here's how this usually goes. I figure out a way to frame something. You're tired of hearing about the subject, but I can't not say more because I think that I've figured out a way to better explain it. 64% of you
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