Category: Sports - U of I
Sports - U of I
The Bruce Weber era is over at Illinois.
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During and after the embarrassing performance at Nebraska, there were players crying on the bench and in the locker room. You can cry when your grandmother dies. You don't f#$%ing cry when you lose a basketball game.
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The Illinois basketball team is in a bit of a tailspin. They have lost 6 of their last 7 including 2 losses at home. Illini fans are not used to watching the team lose at home and may not accept another loss to a rebuilding Purdue team that easily handled them earlier in the year. The team then goes on the road for 2 games which we should probably expect to lose. That would make for a 6 game losing streak. Would the team just give up at that point? The flipside is that they could win easily, save Bruces job, get a couple road wins and make a run in the tournament.
It certainly adds some drama and pressure to what would be a fairly humdrum game.
7:30 on the Big Ten Network
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Did anyone attend the Illinois vs Gonzaga basketball game on Saturday? I did. What did I see at halftime?
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Seriously. Any shed. Anywhere. Any time.
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"Everybody on our team. Everybody in the stands. The cheerleaders. Everybody in this whole organization is gonna have to be at their best on Saturday"
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An interesting look at college athletic finances and what the UofI takes in and spends on athletics.
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Pushed out or not willing to fight?
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On a naked bootleg play Nathan Scheelhaase scampered 55 yards down the sideline to an unmolested score. Nobody threw a block. Nobody needed to. The Baylor defense did not know he had the ball. It was the final nail securing the lid on the coffin of Baylor’s bowl hopes. That one play typified the way the ball game went. From Baylor’s bungled lateral pass on its first possession to the Gatorade shower loosed on Ron Zook the breaks all went to the Illini. Zook’s second winning season at Illinois is now in the record books and he is looking forward to next year.
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