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Not gonna lie - my immediate post game mood was pretty dark. Three consecutive losses here at Welsh-Ryan Arena - including the last two in overtime - will get you there pretty quick. I was ready to attack my keyboard with all manner of rage and fury as I contemplated

Alabama. Arkansas. Tennessee. Missouri. Duke. Five top-50 (ish) non conference opponents. I wrote in the schedule post section of our pre-season preview that I thought these five games represented the toughest group of power conference opponents we’ve seen on the schedule in Brad Underwood’s eight year tenure at

Today was truly one for the 17. It was a day in which the biggest cheer at an Illini basketball team - was for the Illini football team. Pat Bryant’s game winning touchdown catch and run against Rutgers was played on the SFC jumbotron at the under 16 media

Lithuania and Croatia are both members of the European union - but lie on the continent separated by a good 1000 miles or so. However, freshman guard Kasparas Jakucionis (“KJ”) from Lithuania and sophomore center Tomislav Ivisic from Croatia now reside in the closest of proximity - both wearing the

As the collective consciousness of Illini fans swung back southeast a good 2300 miles or so on Sunday morning, I feel like the general consensus surrounding this fast approaching hoops season (it TOTALLY snuck up on me) has been something along the lines of “oh, Elite Eight last year...well,