Growing up a Texas Longhorns fan and watching every UT football game with my ‘Horns alumnus father, I was captivated by what I saw on TV when Texas would play Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl: A neutral site game with fans literally split down the middle of the bleachers. This is what it looks like, and it wasn’t until I enrolled at the University of Illinois in 2007 did I realize the Illini matched that visual on the basketball court when they played Missouri in St. Louis.
Illinois head coach Brad Underwood agrees, reflecting on his 1-0 record against Missouri in his post-ETSU press conference last week:
"It was great because we won.