262 days later after The Block, we made it.
No longer do we have to bask in the glory of Kofi’s last-second stuff of Luka Garza to secure a win over Iowa and push the Illini into the conference’s top-four seeds and a double-bye in the Big Ten Tournament.
No, we made it. We get new highlights, new stories, and new chances at a NCAA Tournament.
The drought lives on, mostly with an asterisk after COVID-19 canceled this year’s March Madness.
But we’re back. The season is now underway, and it’s time to win.
We’ve wrote this article before on this site for the Illini, but it’s always been far fetched.