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First look at the fresh new whites for this season#Illini x#NikeBasketballpic.twitter.com/Me2eLe8b2a
12:48 PM - 20 Sep 2018
Awful. These look just thrown together with little thought or effort. They look like the unofficial sort of knock-off "uniforms" you can buy for a discount. Can we get some Syracuse hand-me-downs still?
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I preferred the zig zags... these are awful. Here's hoping it's one season stop gap.At least... no more zig zags?
Actually, no, that's not even quite it.
This is actually Peak Rebrand, in that it utilizes the "columns" striping from the initial rebrand football uniforms in a way that would have made a lot of sense at the time. But we've entirely ditched that element with the new football uniforms, and as far as I know it's nowhere else in any of the other sports either.
And all the other sports have been ditching the two-tone lettering over the past year too.
I'll tell you what this is: it's a b-side castoff idea from like 2015 that we're bringing into the light of day just for the hell of it, probably because they just ran out of time to do it properly for this year. Which, y'know, whatever. But just know that this Nike template with white-on-white piping looks terrible on actual players:
Here's hoping it's one season stop gap.
If the big changes are coming next year, as tweeted out by Werner, then this is Nike putting us in the new cut that they have all Nike Elite schools wearing. And that is it.
RedWing - these are not what you saw, correct? You had mentioned no more two-tone lettering...
At least the era of Fat Lightning is over.