This got me so jacked I had to stand and walk around a bit.
Come out playing strong and we have a good chance. Come out slow and this thing will be over by halftime.
SkinsWhat color jersey's are we wearing tonight?
Hallelujah brother! Amen. Amen.Since it doesn’t cost anything and we won’t suffer any personal consequences... here’s a prediction:
Illini wins in a BLOWOUT.
Illini get off to a 22-1 lead over U-Conn. U-Conn looks dazed and confused and they start to play ball looking like a Led Zeppelin. They begin to argue with each other on the court and the U-Conn coach loses all control of his team.
Even the TBS announcers are stunned and don’t know what to make of it. They begin to fear viewers will drift away and their ad revenue will suffer. So they start to tell stories about the good ‘ole days before the Transfer Portal.
At halftime... Illini lead 54-19. U-Conn stays extra long in the locker room in trying to decide whether to even go out for the second half. Coach and AD remind them that if they want to protect their NIL money and the school not face NCAA penalties... they had better get their rears out there. And so – reluctantly – they do. But their faces are frozen with fear and confusion.
They close to within 66-46. But in doing so they become exhausted. Their spirit is already broken and they begin to fall behind again.
By this time... Shannon is waving his arms with glee like he’s going to take off and Hawkins keeps raising his index finger to his lips as he stares at the U-Conn faithful. Many of them already have gone since halftime and its only the parents and significant others of the players who are left in the stands.
Coach Underwood doesn’t want to embarrass U-Conn any further and he clears his bench. Shannon leaves with 45 points and a wide grin. Hawkins takes a seat behind the Illini bench... pulls out a tenor sax... and begins to play ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’ to the giddy Illini throng who are going crazy.
Illini win... 106 to 58.
And the Orange & Blue get ready to play on as the Great Prairie State Dream continues...
The UMass rivalry felt like it only lasted a minute. UMass wasn't good long enough for UConn fans to consider them a true rival. Calipari was just so easy to hate.Or perhaps that Massachusetts is as to Connecticut as Iowa and Indiana are to Illinois (and vice versa)
Since it doesn’t cost anything and we won’t suffer any personal consequences... here’s a prediction:
Illini wins in a BLOWOUT.
Illini get off to a 22-1 lead over U-Conn. U-Conn looks dazed and confused and they start to play ball looking like a Led Zeppelin. They begin to argue with each other on the court and the U-Conn coach loses all control of his team.
Even the TBS announcers are stunned and don’t know what to make of it. They begin to fear viewers will drift away and their ad revenue will suffer. So they start to tell stories about the good ‘ole days before the Transfer Portal.
At halftime... Illini lead 54-19. U-Conn stays extra long in the locker room in trying to decide whether to even go out for the second half. Coach and AD remind them that if they want to protect their NIL money and the school not face NCAA penalties... they had better get their rears out there. And so – reluctantly – they do. But their faces are frozen with fear and confusion.
They close to within 66-46. But in doing so they become exhausted. Their spirit is already broken and they begin to fall behind again.
By this time... Shannon is waving his arms with glee like he’s going to take off and Hawkins keeps raising his index finger to his lips as he stares at the U-Conn faithful. Many of them already have gone since halftime and its only the parents and significant others of the players who are left in the stands.
Coach Underwood doesn’t want to embarrass U-Conn any further and he clears his bench. Shannon leaves with 45 points and a wide grin. Hawkins takes a seat behind the Illini bench... pulls out a tenor sax... and begins to play ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’ to the giddy Illini throng who are going crazy.
Illini win... 106 to 58.
And the Orange & Blue get ready to play on as the Great Prairie State Dream continues...