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Flipping the Script

Flipping the Script

On the day after Thanksgiving, Illinois beat Western Illinois 84-52. Noted college basketball expert Tyler Cottingham - known also to IlliniBoard.com subscribers as “Walkon” - was covering the game and published a post-game article titled “Lockdown Squad”. That article included several extremely prescient words. A sampling:

Nightmare Fuel

Nightmare Fuel

Moments - Indiana

Moments - Indiana

I was dead wrong about this game. Leading up to it I was telling anyone who would listen to me (which is admittedly a small number) that this one had all the makings of a proper Illini blow out. A Saturday home game against a decidedly average Indiana team (12-8

Depth Charges

Depth Charges

It’s pretty late and I’m pretty tired - so I’m going “SOC” style with this post-gamer. I’m just going to ramble for a while until I start falling asleep here at my desk. So yeah, that was a great college basketball game. The only problem is

Trampled By Turtles

Trampled By Turtles

I started out this morning with a bit of a shock. I was compiling my pre-game thoughts and going over some statistics when I came across Robert's tweet from yesterday which was basically a snapshot from the Illinois media guide of the results of the last 11 games

Rafter-y

Rafter-y

This one is going to be pretty straight forward folks. This is going to be a Terrence Shannon, Jr. appreciation post. I will, of course, acknowledge the delightful beat down of Mizzou in what was essentially a parallel universe outcome from last season. Last year, the Tigers raced out to

Chemistry Final

Chemistry Final