All Posts Tagged With: "Illini"

Illini Need More Free Throws

by Joshua • Jan 17th, 2009 at 9:08 pm • 9 comments

My grandfather observed a truth about Bobby Knight’s Indiana teams, they typically made more free throws than their opponents attempted.  Our Illini, at least in big games, tend to shoot fewer free throws than their opponents make. Read more…

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Recruits on display

by Joshua • Dec 15th, 2008 at 10:02 pm • 5 comments

Fighting Illini Basketball fans should check out this feature at Illinois Loyalty, it shows photos and videos of some of our incoming recruits and a few other players we’re targeting.

Some of these guys are coming in 09, but the two most impressive seem to be Crandall Head (Luther Head’s little brother, and yes his name really is Crandall) and Jereme Richmond, both should arrive on campus in two years.

Check out the video of Jereme Richmond.  One of his dunks is spectacular.  It’s like something from an arcade game.  It reminded me of me dunking on Billy Joe Mills on a kiddie hoop.  (Click here to see a sequence of photos depicting the Joshua-over-Billy-Joe-esque dunk).  And with Crandall Head coming to Illinois, we can once again have fantastic headlines like “Illinois fans really love Head.”  Oskee Wow Wow Illinois!

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