It's time to squeeze into that vintage "Lou Can Do" T-shirt, try to remember where you put that "Battle for Seattle" banner and stick a pin or two in your Bobby Knight voodoo doll.
Twenty-nine years, 10 months and 22 days after throwing down their last dunks, the Flyin' Illini are back in town for a turn-back-the-clock celebration today at State Farm Center.
In the throwback spirit, here are 30 things a then-going-on-30 News-Gazette Illini beat writer learned about Lou Henson's beloved bunch during a 27-part, 120-interview, 10th-anniversary series that ran on these pages during an otherwise dreary 1998-99 basketball season.