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    Illinois at Maryland, Saturday, October 31st, 11:00am CT, FS1

    Yeah, this seems like a half-hearted "Keep 'em guessing" move that's technically justifiabale because Houser is at least making a few throws in practice. I think UCLA is the earliest we'll see him.
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    College Sports (Basketball)

    Former LSU coach Dale Brown dies at 90. Memorable two-game series that started with the Flying Illini beating them 127-100 (with only eight threes!) down there. We ran over them so badly, at one point Brown asked, "Which damn one of them was that dunking on us now?!" When we won two years later...
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    Coaching Carousel (Football)

    When Malik Washington, who was the latest big DC-area recruit that Locksley is known for getting, essentially gave an Ivan Drago-esque "If he's fired, he's fired" reaction when the subject was raised after the Rutgers loss, you knew he was in trouble.
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Cincinnati (Exhibition)

    Halftime. 54-49 Illini. Stojakovic with 16, Vaaks with 12
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Cincinnati (Exhibition)

    45-39 Illini. Under 4 minute time out in the first half.
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Cincinnati (Exhibition)

    One Cincy announcer when Andrej goes to the FT line: "I thought Stojakovic wasn't playing." Other Cincy announcer: "No, that's Mirkovic."
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Cincinnati (Exhibition)

    Coming out of the second media timeout, we have Tomi, Coleman, Andrej, Zens and Landon Davis on the floor
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Cincinnati (Exhibition)

    You can access the live stats on fightingillini.com, which are actually ahead of the audio.
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Cincinnati (Exhibition)

    Cincy announcer: "You're not playing Ohio State who can't shoot. This was the most efficient offense in the nation last year." Also: "How did a team that made the Final Four last year finish #5 in the nation? Make it make sense."
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    Week 5 Games

    You wanted to be Iowa State? Congratulations. You're Iowa State.
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    Week 5 Games

    Figured Penn State would fill the seats per usual for bigtime opponents, but that ain't happening on Friday night.
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    Week 5 Games

    According to this setlist site, Brian Setzer closed his Farm Aid set with "Rock this Town." That's a pretty cool one, with the "You look at me once/you look at me twice/you look at me again and there's a-gonna be a fight..." and all...
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    Illini Volleyball 2026

    About a year ago, Mary Eggers (Tendler) retired after about two decades as coach at Elon.
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    Ohio State 42, Illinois 19 Postgame

    "These cornball antics may play in the sticks, but this is Capital City." https://comb.io/RsgmX4
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    College Sports (Basketball)

    Sad news. Some ups and downs on the court the last few years, but I've always liked Pikiell going to back to when he coached Stony Brook against us in the NIT.
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