Happy Sunday, Illini Nation!
Inexplicably, Brad Underwood and the Illinois Fighting Illini basketball team has been able to squeeze my 40 years of Illini fandom into the three months that have comprised the 2022-23 season.
Emphatic victories over nationally relevant teams like UCLA (Vegas) and Texas (Madison Square Garden), sandwiched between compellingly awful beatdowns by Mizzou (by 22 in STL) and dual 15-point beatdowns at home to Penn State and Indiana...all three losses to unranked opponents.
The most recent swelling of momentum was a four-game winning streak in the Big Ten, all by double figures.
Okay.