Don’t Disturb This Groove
There has been a lot of talk about the Illinois offense over the past few weeks. So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to talk a lot about the Illinois offense.
Tyler
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
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
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
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
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