‘Illini Basketball’ Archive

Random Stuff And Things January 23, 2012 11 Comments

I decided to do another Random post. I should dedicate an entire post to the basketball game yesterday, but I don’t want to. It would simply be the same old story – boy meets basketball team, boy loses basketball team, boy wonders aloud why basketball coach calls a timeout after we gain momentum. So, random [...]

Why Not Try Something Different? January 20, 2012 54 Comments

I’ve mentioned this before, but I want to talk it out again.  I kind of don’t get the Weber debate. We all want to win, right?  We’re somewhere between the 12th and 14th most successful college basketball program in history, depending on which metric you use.  And we consider ourselves a basketball school, so I [...]

Which Is It? January 19, 2012 5 Comments

Tyler Brown’s three pointer with a one second left falls for Illinois State. Julian Welch makes both free throws with 14 seconds left to give Minnesota a two possesion lead.  Meyers Leonard doesn’t block Drew Crawford’s shot and Northwestern wins at the buzzer.  Just those three things – three times the ball is hanging on [...]

Tape Delay January 11, 2012 12 Comments

I didn’t watch the Arizona game live.  There, I said it. Yes, THAT game.  Here’s why. Because of some scheduling conflict, the big Easter dinner/celebrate my mother-in-law’s birthday deal got moved to Saturday, March 26, 2005.  I remember praying for a Friday-Sunday Sweet 16 bracket, but when that didn’t happen, I knew what I had [...]

One Hoops Thought, One Football Thought January 9, 2012 15 Comments

I’ve been doing that thing again where I type some stuff for a blog post, read through it a few hours later, realize that it’s not up to the standard I set for this site, and delete it.  Whenever I get to these points, and they’re usually precipitated by some strange belief in my head [...]