Also, I took a trip down memory lane, and it looks like I am 6-5 all-time seeing the Illini in Iowa City (as a reminder, I lived there, lol...):
2003: Iowa 68, #8 Illinois 61 ... my first Illini game ever, was a huge bummer. I remember some fat Iowa fan behind me screaming "WE NEVER TRAILED!" as the buzzer sounded.
2004: #23 Illinois 78, Iowa 59 ... Krush invaded and we whooped 'em!
2005: d#1 Illinois 75, Iowa 65 ... was close for a while, but we pulled away in spectacularly exciting fashion late. Krush invaded again AND over 5k to 6k other Illini fans made it a neutral court. Krush did a conga line around the top concourse after the win.
One of my best sports memories!
2006: Iowa 63, #6 Illinois 48 ... this was my true "back to Earth" moment after the 2005 season ... we got embarrassed and looked like crap.
2008: Illinois 58, Iowa 47 ... I remember thinking it was hilarious that we won at Iowa, given how bad we were this year. Small silver lining of bragging rights with my friends!
2010: Illinois 57, Iowa 49 ... absolute DEPTHS of the Lickliter years, and the Krush sat DIRECTLY behind one of the hoops because it was so empty.
There are some videos of this on YouTube, FYI.
2011: #23 Illinois 87, Iowa 77 ... this was just before the New Year, and IIRC we lit it up shooting. I actually was still really high on this team (ended up a 9-seed...) at this point, and it was fun watching this one in front of what was once again a good Illini showing (probably 2k to 3k).
2013: Iowa 63, Illinois 55 ... I remember this being SO frustrating. It kind of killed our late season momentum we had gotten from beating #1 Indiana.
2015: Iowa 68, Illinois 60 ... yet another Krush roadtrip, but we lost this one in truce Groceball fashion.
2017: Illinois 70, Iowa 66 ... don't remember much from this one other than Malcom Hill icing it with some late free throws!
2019: #23 Iowa 83, Illinois 62 ... this one felt worse than the score. Utterly destroyed.
Hoping to get back in the W column tomorrow!