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Pregame: Illinois at Penn State, Wednesday, February 21st, 5:30pm CT, BTN
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OrangeBlue98
- Des Moines, IA
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
Make it a redhead with boxing gloves and you ain't far off
chiefini
- Rockford, Illinois
From a fellow feisty redhead…Make it a redhead with boxing gloves and you ain't far off
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Winged Warrior
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
Tag team then?
From a fellow feisty redhead…
Was in Jr high when Spoon played, saw him in person a few times. This must be the old timers section
Is his last name Self?
TheFlyingIllini1317
- Chicago, IL
LALALA I can't hear you
blackdog
- Champaign
Browsing the reddit college sports pages you run into some really interesting ones like the one who posts semi-regularly in the CBB subreddit who has a Purdue/IU flair....Just why?
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
I've heard there exist marriages in Indiana between IU and PU partisans that actually don't end up in court within a decade. I've heard this. Whether I believe it...
(Also, props on the deployment of "flair." It's a grind of a Tuesday and I wouldn't exactly say I've been missing work, Bob. It's just as well that we no longer have a fax machine in the office. It's now a scanner incorporated in a giant copier that I can't easily move to a vacant lot after hours.)
Anyone hoping for a half empty arena at Rec Hall, my Penn State Source With Connections said they are completely full for the game. And I don’t know how they knew, but apparently they’re able to share it out people wearing Orange. But then again, too, there are Penn state people who can’t get in either.
The guys are just gonna have to feed off the energy the crowd will bring.
The guys are just gonna have to feed off the energy the crowd will bring.
Domask in B10 right now
hooraybeer
- Pittsburgh, PA
I agree completely. I was a freshman in 1970 and remember Spoon but didn't pay any attention to the BB team way back then, then ran out of money. After 4 years in the Navy I returned to UIUC on the GI Bill and got hooked on Lou's early teams. The one with Neil as an undersized center was the one that really got me going. They weren't very good but they were easy to cheer for. Been a big Illini BB fan ever since
I hope we beat PSU tomorrow to keep this fun ride going!
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lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Was there ever a replay that showed the play where it happened? I know they reviewed it and said basketball play but i was too lazy to go back and try to find it myself.
Not disagreeing with you or your source, but no one will truly know until the bodies go through the turnstiles. This is such an unusual situation of people wanting to sell tickets but not being able to. I fully expect the place to be packed, but I have to think there will be an unusual amount of unused tickets.
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The interesting thing is that a few years back, the B10 put an initiative to specifically focus on shots to the head. In how they called that season and the one following it, a player was deemed to be in need of controlling their body parts, i.e. if you inadvertently hit someone directly in the head, it was a flagrant 1. Plain. Simple. Easy. There were plenty of flagrant called those 2 years, some of which were on some truly miniscule contact. Well here we are a few years later, and it seems that if you clothesline someone or hit someone in the face after wildly swinging for a ball and missing by about 2 feet, so long as it's viewed by the refs as inadvertent, it's considered a basketball play. Players are being rocked in the face this year and it's just not getting called. Hell, even in the rough and wild 90s and early 00s, they'd at least call it a common albeit rough foul. It's pretty ludicrous what is being allowed this year. Wouldn't be surprised if the B10 reasserted this initiative in a couple years, especially after the Pac10 teams join.
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