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While Busey is by no stretch of the imagination a nationwide brand, it is not exactly a local Champaign/Urbana area bank anymore. It operates in Illinois, including the Chicagoland area (I have seen billboard ads for it here), Indiana, and parts of Florida. I suspect it is trying to become a...

Responding to my own post (which, I think, is a penalty box violation), LvilleILL1 just yesterday posted this about Vaaks: Better than expected. He's not going to be elite on that end, but he is passable. Effort has been good. So, first, I guess it depends on what “passable” means or will mean...

Oh, no. Now he is going to transfer to UCLA? Something else for us to worry about. /s

About a month or so ago, didn’t one of the insiders say they (presumably the coaches) think Vaaks looks better defensively than they thought he would? Or something like that. Or was I just hallucinating again?

Ben Humrichous redux?

I was just perusing this thread and some of the links in order to find a picture of the new scoreboard to send to a friend (and fellow alumnus) and ran across this. I am just posting it fyi. I am not advocating this, nor not advocating this. I am fairly neutral to the whole Memorial Stadium...

Agree. Pure speculation because I don’t know much about these FIBA games. But it appears that Vaaks and Estonia (and the other Euro teams) are done for the time being. So, I assume Vaaks is back or will be soon. The FIBA European qualifying games restart at the end of August for about 5 days...

I didn’t see this posted anywhere. If someone did, my apologies for duplicating. In case anyone wants to follow in depth. This is just the European division. Turkey seems to be doing very well. There is also an Americas division as well. FIBA World Cup European Division

Good choice.😅

Well, first, I don not think the writer was talking about facilitation skills and experience he gained at Illinois. You do know that he was a very well-respected PG in whatever Euro League he was in, yes? He was even considered for the MVP award for that league. Averaged 12 points a game. And do...

Again, I think it comes down to playing time. When I watched the early games in which he played decent minutes, at first, he looked lost on defense, but each game he got better. In one of the latter games, he kept in front of his man most of the time. And, he could have gotten better. AS was not...

Only addressing the MP question/comments. I posted an article here on IL (which, for some reason, I can’t find now) written around the beginning of May written by someone who, apparently, writes for Gonzaga in some capacity. Here is the link, but I will only copy and paste the part that...

Not everyone here accepted that opinion. There were a few posters (at least 2 that I can remember) who kept posting that MP was unplayable or similar words. One even said he could not play in the Big Ten. I kept pushing back on those posts. Even though there are no Big Ten teams on this list, I...

I’ve always wondered what took so long to figure out how much easier it would have been to cut the bottom out of the basket. According to AI James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, first used peach baskets in 1891. And they started to cut the bottoms in 1906. It took 15 years to figure out...

He has a brother and sister, I believe, so I would assume they were there. In fact, I think in the video posted somewhere on IL, I think the second person to hug him was his brother.