All Posts Tagged With: "Illinois Basketball"
Illini Need More Free Throws
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…
We were wrong about Chester
We all love human interest stories during the holidays, and we have a great one playing out on the floor of the Assembly Hall this year. Read more…
Illinois upsets Purdue 71-67 in overtime
Did anyone else watch the Illini upset Purdue? What an exciting game. Tisdale was huge, Mike Davis was fantastic. We overcame a huge disadvantage in free throw attempts by taking great care of the ball. Chester Frasier had 7 rebounds and I think 7 assists with one turnover. The team played fantastic defense, and it seems like McCamey may have learned a tough lesson from riding the pine. And the Bruce coached his butt off.
This should be our stepping stone into the top 25.
Recruits on display
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!
