Ever since I discovered the site in 1999, RSCI has been my go-to recruit ranking site.  The idea is simplistically brilliant – take all of the college basketball recruit rankings, combine them together, assign each a point total, and get a fairly precise ranking of the top 100 high school seniors.  The mysterious Jeff C. [...]

So I got a speeding ticket today.  I blame Ron Guenther. Seriously.  After I signed the ticket and the cop walked away, I was solely focused on the failures of Illini basketball and Illini football as the reason.  I think about it while driving, I zone out into the land of tipped 2-point conversions caught [...]

So Illinois picked up a basketball recruit last week.  I wanted to write something at the time, but a little birdie had told me that Rivals and Scout would be updating their rankings this week.  And given that Mychael Henry was unranked by either service at the time, I wanted to wait until those rankings [...]

If you ask me right now, it wasn’t worth it.  I’m exhausted.  I told myself I wouldn’t care about the NIT, and then I let myself set this tiny goal of “well, let’s just get to New York and have some fun.”  So tonight, I’m depressed again. We were out-hustled.  We were out-coached.  We were [...]

As the final seconds ticked off yet another Missouri NCAA Tournament failure, extending their tournament-appearances-without-a-Final-Four streak to a nice round 25, tying them once again with BYU for the Choke Trophy, I found myself popping metaphorical champagne.  When the Tournament comes around, I usually set the majority of my in-conference hatred aside and cheer for [...]