Happy Sunday, Illinois Land!
The toothpaste is out of the tube. There’s no going back now.
Before I unpack why this is Brad Underwood’s best team since arriving in Champaign seven years ago, let’s take a look at the absolute beatdown of Rutgers in Piscataway to open Big Ten play with a road victory for the second time since 2011.
Noah Cowell has the particulars on that comprehensive ass kicking in Piscataway.
It’s worth mentioning that this would have been embarrassingly non-competitive if the Big Ten officials assigned to Saturday’s contest didn’t take matters into their own hands the last eight minutes of the first half.