Recent content by Illinir1

Exactly. And glad to see it happen to them. Against scUM they shot 31% from the floor and 27% on 3's. Our game against them we shot 34% from the floor and 23% on 3's. In our game vs. UConn they shot 36% on 3's. If we had matched their 36% 3-point shooting percentage it would have been a...

The one, the only, LOU!

Wouldn't a 1989 payback be sweet? "As of the 2025 tournament, No. 3 seeds have won the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament four times. The teams that accomplished this feat are Michigan (1989), Arizona (1997), Syracuse (2003), and Connecticut (2011)."

Brian Barnhart and Deon Thomas streamed and synced using the Varsity Network app is a much better listening experience.

Or a Wisconsin.

Maybe this will be the year the NCAA makes a new basketball rule because Houston got hosed by the refs in their tornament loss to Illinois. We can hope.

Fickell on the hot seat but much easier schedule for Bucky in 2026 https://www.si.com/college/wisconsin/football/uw-athletic-board-doesn-t-extend-wisconsin-football-coach-luke-fickell-s-contract

Tennessee AG says he's glad he won legal ruling allowing unlimited player portal transfers while also saying the impact on the portal has made it a disaster. College football transfer portal is 'train wreck.' Ask man who ignited it USA Today article

This post drives a mostly accurate view but it didn't totally hold up when I fact checked it. Alabama had 193 yds today vs. IU. The Illini had 161 yds when IU beat us. I guess we could say Illinois football is close to Alabama football. ☹️

As other have said, we were kicking into the wind, but I have a lot of questions maybe others can help answer. When I saw the in-game replay of the kick-off returned for a TD, I noticed it wasn't David Olano kicking off. It was #27 Lucas Osada. I haven't watched a replay of the game yet, but...

Haha. Through the wonders of the internet, at our Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, game watch we synced Brian Barnhart and team, on WDWS, to the game. I heard several Wyffels Hybrids seed commercials, which I don't think I would have heard on ESPN commercial breaks.

Below is the pre-game preview of Tennessee on FightingIllini.com. Talk about flipping the script (no helmet pun intended), the Illini defense held the #7 scoring team in the nation (40.8 points/game), that averaged 287 passing yards per game to 28 points and 121 yards passing/278 yards total...

Unfortunately, as we've seen in the past when Illinois has called for an "Orange Out" at Memorial Stadium during cooler weather, you won't get a common color look when people are wearing jackets that, mostly, aren't Illini colors. With the projected high temperature of 36 DegF in Nashville on...

Illini 5.5 pt. underdog with 61.5 pt over/under. Not going to be a defensive slugfest.