King Of The Hill Nothing better when you're a kid, right? It's a snow day, your mom wants you out of the house, so you call your friends and all meet at the local grocery store parking lot to play King Of The Hill on the giant mound of snow
2024 Three Deep - January Update I like to make depth charts (or three-deeps) around… seven times per year? Maybe I should start here with a list of all the updates I generally make throughout the year. I have this tradition where I'll do a depth chart for next year's team during
Where Do We Stand? January 16th From the moment I started writing these, we've been climbing. I put together the first basketball I-N-I in my New Jersey hotel room the morning of the FAU game as a way to say "when you combine all of these numbers, we're actually the 19th-best
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
Like Old Times I've watched a lot of games in this building. Starting in the 1980's. So that would be… five decades where I've watched Illini basketball games in the State Farm Center (nee Assembly Hall)? I can recall games in this building from all different phases
Nerves I'm trying to just stick to pure basketball right now. I've never been more uncomfortable with the public speculation around an Illini topic as I've been over the last few days and I don't want to write about it until we know
Where Do We Stand? January 9th Here's the plan: I'll call these Where Do We Stand so they're easily searched in the archive. I'll publish them on Monday or Tuesday each week. I'll put together the Illini NERDstat Index (the I-N-I) and I'll take