I've maintained Illinois is a basketball school. It helps explain away the limo wreck in football.
The 1989 loss was and has been a personal hell. A forward who goes on to play more than a decade in the NBA misses a box out and we subsequently lose to my most hated team. Scar tissue formed.
Roll into 2005. Illinois gets rolling. Get to play in their own back yard. Three future draft picks. Neither matter as one of the most corrupt titles is given to UNC. For the first time ever, a player gets five fouls in eight minutes playing against a team that was academically inelligible. More scar tissue.
2015. Wisconsin, where they care more about hockey, is playing in the national final. JFG has successfully avoided that tournament for the second straight year. Shaka Smart chooses a school which cares less about basketball than even tOSU.
I can't imagine a world in which Wisconsin wins a national title in men's basketball. How in the hell did Illini fans get so damned?
The 1989 loss was and has been a personal hell. A forward who goes on to play more than a decade in the NBA misses a box out and we subsequently lose to my most hated team. Scar tissue formed.
Roll into 2005. Illinois gets rolling. Get to play in their own back yard. Three future draft picks. Neither matter as one of the most corrupt titles is given to UNC. For the first time ever, a player gets five fouls in eight minutes playing against a team that was academically inelligible. More scar tissue.
2015. Wisconsin, where they care more about hockey, is playing in the national final. JFG has successfully avoided that tournament for the second straight year. Shaka Smart chooses a school which cares less about basketball than even tOSU.
I can't imagine a world in which Wisconsin wins a national title in men's basketball. How in the hell did Illini fans get so damned?
