Respectfully beg to differ. The disdain Michiganders (using that term in honor of Honest Abe) outside the metro area have for all things De-twah easily rivals the Chicago/rest of the state divisiveness. And Ann Arbor is held in a pretty dim light outside their little terrarium.
If nothing else not having them on floor together would cut down some of Hawkins’ terrible passes trying to get Dain the ball. Of late he seems to make at least one such I’ll-advised pass a game leading to a turnover.
That makes sense. People in densely populated urban areas have different needs and wants than those in rural areas. It's even different in the suburbs and exurbs. That is likely going to be just as true in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio as it is in Illinois. We tend to overlook our mutual interdependence.
One of my best sports memories! There are some videos of this on YouTube, FYI.
Titus and Tate have a pretty funny take on the Krush ticket situation. Starts at 1:30:45
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will be dressed tomorrow in Iowa City
I hope they wear orange. Morons
Has your colleague apologized to you yet?
I have been told it is a stripe the stadium game (black / gold / black), so I'm not sure the above is correct. And I am hoping to be a bright orange pimple on Iowa's !!! tomorrow.
I mean, he did go to Iowa, so take it with a boulder of salt
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I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but Iowa has not sold a game out all year ... and they really only came close for their game vs. Iowa State. Considering it's a Saturday (easy for out of town travel) and the elevated prices of this game (similar to NU's ONE expensive game being vs. Illinois), I think there will be a pretty good chunk of orange in that arena. Given the last few years we have had and the fact that we were pretty hyped early on in the season, I am guessing a ton of Illini fans in the Quad Cities area and places like that bought these tickets as soon as they went on sale.
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As a side note, they are doing a hilariously bad job of marketing this. Zero posts on Iowa's social media pages about it at 3:00 pm on the Friday before the game, haha."The game is sold out..Fans are encouraged to wear black or gold clothing for Saturday’s annual “Black & Gold Spirit Game.”."
MBB Game Notes: vs Illinois
Feel like we've had Bardo for like 4 games in a rowFOX (Jason Benetti & Stephen Bardo)
Illini take on Hawkeyes Saturday in Iowa City - University of Illinois Athletics
Winners of three straight games and seven of its last eight, Illinois next plays Saturday afternoon at Iowa, who has won six of its last eight (1:30 p.m. CT, FOX).
Also, I took a trip down memory lane, and it looks like I am 6-5 all-time seeing the Illini in Iowa City (as a reminder, I lived there, lol...):
2003: Iowa 68, #8 Illinois 61 ... my first Illini game ever, was a huge bummer. I remember some fat Iowa fan behind me screaming "WE NEVER TRAILED!" as the buzzer sounded.
2004: #23 Illinois 78, Iowa 59 ... Krush invaded and we whooped 'em!
2005: d#1 Illinois 75, Iowa 65 ... was close for a while, but we pulled away in spectacularly exciting fashion late. Krush invaded again AND over 5k to 6k other Illini fans made it a neutral court. Krush did a conga line around the top concourse after the win.
2006: Iowa 63, #6 Illinois 48 ... this was my true "back to Earth" moment after the 2005 season ... we got embarrassed and looked like crap.
2008: Illinois 58, Iowa 47 ... I remember thinking it was hilarious that we won at Iowa, given how bad we were this year. Small silver lining of bragging rights with my friends!
2010: Illinois 57, Iowa 49 ... absolute DEPTHS of the Lickliter years, and the Krush sat DIRECTLY behind one of the hoops because it was so empty.
2011: #23 Illinois 87, Iowa 77 ... this was just before the New Year, and IIRC we lit it up shooting. I actually was still really high on this team (ended up a 9-seed...) at this point, and it was fun watching this one in front of what was once again a good Illini showing (probably 2k to 3k).
2013: Iowa 63, Illinois 55 ... I remember this being SO frustrating. It kind of killed our late season momentum we had gotten from beating #1 Indiana.
2015: Iowa 68, Illinois 60 ... yet another Krush roadtrip, but we lost this one in truce Groceball fashion.
2017: Illinois 70, Iowa 66 ... don't remember much from this one other than Malcom Hill icing it with some late free throws!
2019: #23 Iowa 83, Illinois 62 ... this one felt worse than the score. Utterly destroyed.
Hoping to get back in the W column tomorrow!
wasn't the 2006 loss to Iowa out "back to earth moment?"Also, I took a trip down memory lane, and it looks like I am 6-5 all-time seeing the Illini in Iowa City (as a reminder, I lived there, lol...):
2003: Iowa 68, #8 Illinois 61 ... my first Illini game ever, was a huge bummer. I remember some fat Iowa fan behind me screaming "WE NEVER TRAILED!" as the buzzer sounded.
2004: #23 Illinois 78, Iowa 59 ... Krush invaded and we whooped 'em!
2005: d#1 Illinois 75, Iowa 65 ... was close for a while, but we pulled away in spectacularly exciting fashion late. Krush invaded again AND over 5k to 6k other Illini fans made it a neutral court. Krush did a conga line around the top concourse after the win.
2006: Iowa 63, #6 Illinois 48 ... this was my true "back to Earth" moment after the 2005 season ... we got embarrassed and looked like crap.
2008: Illinois 58, Iowa 47 ... I remember thinking it was hilarious that we won at Iowa, given how bad we were this year. Small silver lining of bragging rights with my friends!
2010: Illinois 57, Iowa 49 ... absolute DEPTHS of the Lickliter years, and the Krush sat DIRECTLY behind one of the hoops because it was so empty.
2011: #23 Illinois 87, Iowa 77 ... this was just before the New Year, and IIRC we lit it up shooting. I actually was still really high on this team (ended up a 9-seed...) at this point, and it was fun watching this one in front of what was once again a good Illini showing (probably 2k to 3k).
2013: Iowa 63, Illinois 55 ... I remember this being SO frustrating. It kind of killed our late season momentum we had gotten from beating #1 Indiana.
2015: Iowa 68, Illinois 60 ... yet another Krush roadtrip, but we lost this one in truce Groceball fashion.
2017: Illinois 70, Iowa 66 ... don't remember much from this one other than Malcom Hill icing it with some late free throws!
2019: #23 Iowa 83, Illinois 62 ... this one felt worse than the score. Utterly destroyed.
Hoping to get back in the W column tomorrow!
I know, haha, I was in Iowa City but did not attend. Watched it at a bar with my friends, and the ENTIRE place went silent when he hit that shot ... except for me, of course!
Yes, we were 15-0, ranked #6 and had just handily beaten #7 Michigan State at home a few days before. I believe at that point we had won 64 of our last 67 games, including 28 of our last 30 Big Ten games. We were LITERALLY on top of the world. I recall seeing a TV special where Iowa said it fired them up that (1) last year there were thousands of Illini fans and the Krush in their arena and (2) Dee Brown led our guys in a "Our House on 3. 1-2-3, OUR HOUSE!" coming out of the tunnel this year. We got taken to school.
Has anyone been in the new Kams? I'm sure it smells better, but part of the vibe of the Daniels street Kams was knowing that one was part of a living, breathing macro-organism that had been alive since the 1970's.
