CHAMPAIGN — Well wishes poured in from Fisher once word broke that former Bunnies standout Zach Griffith was joining the Illinois men's basketball team as a walk-on. Several of Griffith's former teammates wanted to remind him about a particular promise their seventh-grade basketball coach Matthew Jokisch made when they played for him.
"He told us one day if any of us played any role on a Division I team that he would eat his shoe," Griffith said with a laugh. "A couple of my buddies from that team were asking me when he's going to have the ceremony and he's going to eat his shoe.