TCR Contributor CJ Jackson is a former member of the Illinois Basketball team, playing for the Illini from 2005-09.
Now that the dust has settled from the No. 25 ranked Illini’s Sunday night’s win over No. 1 Kansas, can we now begin to get excited about this upcoming season? Exhibition games are interesting, are they not?
On one side, a big school plays against a local DIII school and blows them out 110-40…nobody bats an eye.