2025-26 Illini Bingo Card

RabidDawgClassic said:

He IS obsessed with those.

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Though, I think understandabley and justifiably so.

socalini said:

I think it was both, according to what I'm finding online.

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I was there when Mabel's first opened as some sort of Jazz/Bohemian environment where everybody sat around on pillows. A lot of my female friends thought it was cool. A buddy of mine I went one night. After being accustomed to Panama Red's, The Alley Kat, Red Lion, etc., I said, "This isn't going fly". Tremendous and fast transformation. I don't even know what Trito's Uptown was . I do remember Trito's Greek pizza and grinders!

RabidDawgClassic said:

What are some of the topics that announcers will repeat ad nauseam — some adding their own clever twists — throughout the season that would appear on a mythical Illini Bingo card? I’ll start with a few and, assuming Dan approves this post, we can add more as the topics present themselves.

2025-26 Illini Basketball Bingo Card

1. Petrovic wears 77 a’la Red Grange
2. Tomi got his tonsils removed
3. Humrichous got engaged in the offseason
4. The Balkan pipeline
5. Brad Underwood’s track suit
6. Morez Johnson split for Michigan
7. Ty Rodgers injured/redshirted the year before
8. Ivisic brothers each say they’re the better player
9. Stojakovic’s injury — is he fully recovered?
10. Kylan Boswell is only 20 years old

Any others? Of course there are. This is just scratching the surface.

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11. "KK Mega Superbet of the Adriatic League"
12. Zone defense is a new thing for Brad Underwood
13. Big Z added 25 pounds of muscle thanks to Adam Fletcher
14. Pizza Hut Parking Lot
15. Stojakovic's Dad
16. Stojakovic's Mom

WeWillWhen said:

11. "KK Mega Superbet of the Adriatic League"
12. Zone defense is a new thing for Brad Underwood
13. Big Z added 25 pounds of muscle thanks to Adam Fletcher
14. Pizza Hut Parking Lot
15. Stojakovic's Dad
16. Stojakovic's Mom

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Andrej's identity hidden for his protection

Bbuck21 said:

I was long gone from UofI by then, But, I did see Talking Heads at the Auditorium.

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REM during HS & Undergrad
24 September 1982 - George Huff Gymnasium, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
support: The B Lovers
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / We Walk / Wolves, Lower / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / West Of The Fields / Moral Kiosk / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Perfect Circle / White Tornado / Ages Of You / Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars)
encore 2: That Beat / Ska
and

7 November 1987 - Assembly Hall, University Of Illinois At Champaign-Urbana, Champaign, IL
support: The dB's
set: Finest Worksong / These Days / Welcome To The Occupation / Fall On Me / Disturbance At The Heron House / Exhuming McCarthy / Orange Crush / Feeling Gravitys Pull / King Of Birds / Cuyahoga / Tired Of Singing Trouble / I Believe / Driver 8 / Superman / Pretty Persuasion / Oddfellows Local 151 / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) / Begin The Begin
encore 1: Strange / We Walk / Underneath The Bunker / Pop Song 89 / Auctioneer (Another Engine)
encore 2: Harpers / Wolves, Lower / Ghost Rider
encore 3: The One I Love / Crazy / After H

New adds:

Jake’s dandruff
Fagbemi is the greatest athlete Brad’s ever coached.

jamarvelous31 said:

Andrej's identity hidden for his protection

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Yeah, um, is Andrej's mom coming to games?