A look at three plays from Indiana’s big win over Illinois — a Jeremiah Rivers defensive stand; a Jordan Hulls three; a Will Sheehey dunk — in the latest edition of Film Session: NO. 1: RIVERS HOUNDS MCCAMEY After Christian Watford ...
Thoughts on a 52-49 win over the Illini: These kids have been criticized for their lack of mental toughness. Lambasted for sagging energy and effort. Their coach occasionally derided for his substitution patterns and schemes. But on this snowy late January evening, ...
Illinois vs. Indiana
Perhaps the best way to describe this year’s incarnation of the Illini is Ohio State-lite. They’re athletic. They have playmakers. They boast senior leadership in Demetri McCamey, Mike Davis and Mike Tisdale, while Jereme Richmond and Brandon Paul are youngsters ...
Rules are here, for those unfamiliar. Pool for Iowa: All players eligible to be picked. Picks are due by 8:45 PM ET on Thursday evening. A few reminders: + State the name of the player (not a nickname) that you’re ...
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It’s time for Inside the Hall’s team-by-team breakdown of the Big Ten Conference. Today: The Illinois Fighting Illini. First thing that sticks out about Brucey’s boys? They’re a team with strong seniors and talented underclassmen — a recipe for success. ...
Back in the dark ages of journalism, (18 months ago) to find out if a promising prep basketball player had say, received an offer from a prominent in-state school, one needed to use archaic means, such as telephones and e-mail, ...
I should probably take a solid two hours, calm down, maybe do some Yoga or some breathing exercises or go get a massage … because I’m worried this will be an expletive-laden tirade about how angry and upset I am ...
A little over one year ago, I piled into a car with Matt Dollinger and Tom Kirby and headed west to Spaceship Assembly Hall for IU’s first post-Eric Gordon trip to Urbana-Champaign. Less than nine minutes later, Dollinger was begging ...
Indiana at Illinois
You know the drill by now, right? Picks are due by 1:45 ET on Saturday. Standings will be updated in the next few days.
NCAA Basketball Obviously, the one factor that stands out among the rest and is also dominating the postgame discussion – free throws. The free throw rate of 84.8 percent for Illinois was the defining number when you dig into the ...
THE GOOD: CONSISTENCY, EXECUTION, AGGRESSION. The Good Hoosiers showed up tonight in Bloomington. After the Bad Hoosiers lacked any sense of urgency in Columbus earlier this week, IU was a completely different squad this evening. They played like they wanted ...
Illinois at Indiana
We’ve reached out to Paul Klee, the Illinois basketball beat writer for The Champaign News-Gazette, to answer five questions for the Illinois edition of Know Thy Opponent. You can follow Paul on Twitter here. The transcript of our Q & ...